Great Baddow High School

one of the students was given 3 detentions in one lesson today for no reason all the teacher gang up on the students the clans the students are ganging up on the there is a couple nice teachers. when u try to talk to a teacher about mental heath all the do is tell you to get on with your life and just forget it school is more important

hello! apologies this review is very long haha. i used to be a student at great baddow, but left in year 9 due to my mental health, which was mostly triggered by being at baddow. i joined in 2016 starting in year 7, expecting to have a great experience and an opportunity to become independent and learn lots of new things. unfortunately, it became quite the opposite. the first year was relatively okay, but i didnt realise my mental health beginning to decline. come year 8, it was god awful. the staff did not give a single shit about mental health. i would have countless panic attacks before and during school. when in student admin, the nurses would often tell me "its a hot day" as an excuse, just telling me i was dizzy due to the weather. i had panic attacks IN FRONT of them, and it was still excused. one instance i was sent back to math class after an attack, and almost ended up puking in class due to my anxiety. in fact, many of the teachers did not cater well to people like myself. im also autistic, so i struggled a lot in the environments i was faced in. especially in french class, my teacher was fucking terrible. all she would do is yell, threaten students with detentions for pathetic reasons, and i lost count of the times she made me cry. it got to a point i just couldnt attend any longer. i had so many traumatic experiences and i feel sick at the thought of it. im 17 now, and doing much better, but i will never forget the way it felt to be there. seeing as i havent been there for around 4 years now, i do not know if they are doing more for mental health, autistic folk, etc. i pray to god they are, but i fear it is still incredibly looked past, and i can only hope they do more to help in the future. overall my experience there was dogshit, and while there was some wonderful teachers, majority of them only gave a fuck about grades. (:

Certain Teachers victimise the children and get away with it. More so the ones in power. Ruin children's and parent's lives and just continue to pick and pick and pick on the kids.... there attitude is well leave then and try to push you into their system. It's absolutely disgusting how they treat some of the kids, especially the ones with needs. They don't get on the kids level and understand them just lock/shove them in isolation rooms or exclude them from the school instead of helping them get through. All they care about is the scores with offsted and results of the more intelligent kids. They don't care for anyone with mental health issues. The school is far too strict for this day an age. Those teachers give kids complex issues and mental health problems. I would never recommend this school to anyone. They need to understand that they is life going on outside of the school and sometimes there's more things to worry about, rather than handing out detention slips all day and punishing the kids.

Good sports facilities and pe teachers canteen repetitive food, never changes, dome is cool and quite unique to the school

teachers pick favourites and don’t understand mental health very well but it’s a good school

Meh, if I went into specifics this wouldn't be anonymous but one thing is that they suck at dealing with bullying