The Deepings School

I am an ex-student, graduating in 2023 from the sixth form.
Within the sixth form, my experience was generally more positive than at the secondary school. The sixth form is modern, and has sufficient facilities. There was issues with space especially when I moved up to Y13, which is understandable because there were a greater number of Y12s joining this year.
My biggest complaint is guidance, which to be fair I put down to the multiple changes in headteacher during just the 2022/2023 academic year. However, I believe the inconsistency is affecting the younger students, sparking a general sense of indifference towards authority and even a student riot in February 2023, which came about, allegedly, due to younger students being unhappy with the conditions of the school. Personally, I felt that the methods used to punish those involved in the riot and the aftermath, whilst pragmatic, was not harsh enough, which led to plans for further riots which thankfully came of nothing.
At the time of leaving the school, in June 2023, many if not all of the secondary school toilets were vandalised, with locks missing, and being quite unclean. The sixth form toilets were in much better condition, but this is oftentimes irrelevant because most sixth form classes are on the main site, meaning access to secondary school toilets.
In my experience, many students have consistently expressed a concern for their safety at school. Personally, I felt that mental health was taken seriously with my experience with receiving help, although this seemed to be taken more seriously within sixth form. My estimation as to why some students may feel unsafe is because a lot of the measures of punishment for students seem insufficient - for medium to serious offences, students are sent to BIC (Behavioural Improvement Centre) in which students are made to sit in silence or keep up with schoolwork. As you can imagine, this had little effect, because the consequences of the student’s actions are not addressed in a way that the student can learn from and understand.
Personally, I would not necessarily recommend the secondary school, but I would be more inclined to recommend the sixth form, though be wary that some academic subjects such as law do not run at the sixth form, and due to oversubscription and/or lack of funding for courses, many experience lack of guidance and lack of basic resources.
I know that some students have recently brought up the issue of sexual harassment, which is something that I experience twice within the secondary school. I was groped both times; first in year 8 and secondly in year 10. The first time, this was dealt with very well, and I felt like I had been taken seriously and validated, although I was never kept up to date about the progress of reporting the person who had done it. The second time was not dealt with well - the incident was reported but the member of staff who handled it merely described the person as an ‘idiot’ and tried to encourage me to not take it any further because the student would be leaving school the following year. The student in question was notorious for bad behaviour and repeatedly caused alarming issues, and was intermittently excluded, though seemingly never for longer than a term at most. The furthest I got with seeking validation the second time was pursuing a restorative justice meeting, though the member of staff who handled it never scheduled it. There is a lot of information about sexual harassment, mainly geared towards women but in some respects geared towards men too, which is good, but I have personally seen a couple of minor instances of it which people seem to accept as ‘banter’ or normal. Again, my guess is because the younger students in particular can’t seem to respect the senior members of staff as authority, which has a knock on effect with other students who may not feel confident or comfortable with coming to school. This is an issue which I feel needs to be addressed. There is an element of the school trying to come across in a certain way for Ofsted, and I can testify that most of the structures they put in place in time for Ofsted are temporary and rarely see it through to the end of the year. Ofsted demonstrations are seemingly to show what the school COULD be, and is not a representation of its current standard.

its horrid. im autistic, i wanted some help and i got told i was just over reacting.

doesn’t teach you anything. useless

I am a student at the deepings and I would not recommend this school to anyone. Most of the teachers do not care about your mental health, physical health and privacy. Some of the toilets get shut and some of the cubicles do not have locks on them and a few don’t have doors on them. Until recently, no one was allowed to go to the toilet, which is a basic human right. The school has an unnecessarily strict uniform policy which includes students not being allowed to wear skinny trousers, jewellery, fake eyelashes, socks that aren’t black, painted nails or trainers yet a lot of the female teachers have painted nails and they wear jewellery. One day in October 2022, 50+ students got put into BIC (isolation) for incorrect uniform. This information made it into news articles. You can search up “alun ebenezer uniform” and you will find the articles there. These rules didn’t change when the current headteacher came to the school. Students found the rules unfair and decided to protest. Over the last few weeks before the Easter holidays, there were loads of fights. Apparently there were 10 fights in one day and Apparently, a student brought a knife into the school. Students feel unsafe and they are terrified to come to school because of this The teachers aren’t doing anything to protect the students. Some students have poor attendance because of how shocking the school is and if they genuinely feel unwell at school and they go to their year base, they don’t get sent home because of their poor attendance. The school put on an act for ofsted and the trust. They also care more about how they present themselves for ofsted and the trust than students wellbeing. If you want your child to become mentally ill then you’re more than welcome to send your child to the deepings school where they will have suicidal thoughts and they will be scared to go to school everyday.

School is awful go anywhere

this school is the worst by far the teachers don't care abt ur mental health they only care abt Ofsted and the people in higher sets and isolation is just pointless because its not gonna do anything and they expect us to carry 6 books around sometimes it used to be 3 lessons a day but now its 6 there is no point its so pointless i wish i never came here if ur having a breakdown they just send u to lesson they literally do not care abt students mental health so if u think abt sending ur child here think twice cus ur child will just become suicidal cus of this school and they mental health will decline alot so please for ur childs sake DO NOT send them here

Decent introduction to Y7 but terrible care of pupils after Y7 ends, current headteacher (Alun Ebenezer) is very restrictive in uniform such as a complete ban of jewellery and certain hairstyles, no know reason why he has became the newest head teacher, left the Fulham boys school in London for unknown reasons, only a certain number of staff are caring, most of which have left the school as of September 2022 for negative reasons. Go to Bourne Grammer.

I am a parent of a year 11 student at the deepings school my daughter was in her lesson and needed the toilet after being given a pass, she had asked her teacher for the toilet repeatedly and shown her pass but the teacher carried on say no i think this is againts her rights and it is disgusting behaviour, this is not allowed and will be reported to offsted

great school good if you are smart and is a loving school


jk this school terrible

School is okay. I’ve known of many incidents in the school and nothing been done about these incidents. Including sexual harassment,racism,mental health problems. The school cares more about uniform and their statistics then the students and their well-being. That being said a few of the teachers there are lovely.

they stole my gender

There are so many students getting bullied but the staff simply don’t care at all, the only thing they care about is how the school looks from Ofsted so they can get a good rating. The teachers are so rude and another thing is the food is disgusting and isn’t cooked properly. There is litter everywhere and the students are uncontrolled. If you want good mental health just don’t go to this school

Students get put into detention at their break and lunch to "give back" the time they wasted in the lesson. If the teachers actually made an effort to make the lessons less boring and keep it under control, the classroom would be quiet and willing to learn. The pupils at this school get isolations which is where you miss lessons and have to sit in a room for a day/half a day/a week doing basically nothing. Teens won't learn if you make them sit in a room quietly, there is no point. Most of the teaching staff can't control the students which leads into bad grades that are blamed on us.

Students get put in isolation and miss a whole day of lessons for things like piercings and dyed hair. There are assemblies about how important it is to attend all your lessons and not even be 5 minutes late because it all adds up yet the assembly runs overtime into period one for 10 minutes.
Students working towards grade 7 or above in sciences were given an extra revision work book to boost their grades even further yet the students struggling were given no extra help. The school just wanted more grade 9s I’m guessing.
After leaving the school in March 2020 (year 11) they acted like we didn’t exist. Still haven’t been able to collect my GCSE certificate “due to covid” yet other schools students have collected their certificates and we were able to collect things like leavers hoodies and pictures. In addition, the students that stayed on for Sixth form at the school received their certificates very quickly which I believe to be extremely unfair.
All in all, the school is a complete joke and don’t care about their students, they only care about how the school looks and how the grades look.

A fair amount of students don't feel safe. Instead of having 6 lessons a day, we are having 3 lessons a day which are 1hr 40min long but we have a week 1 timetable and a week 2 timetable. This is really stressful because it is hard to learn your timetable and certain subjects you absolutely need for your future career will be harder to achieve the right grade u need due to not having it persistently like we used to. For example, you would have that subject you really need for your future career ONCE in week one and TWICE in week 2. They put on a fake act for Ofsted to get a better rating than it should. When Ofsted visit, it's all u ever hear about. Litter was everywhere, classes where uncontrolled but the only time they cared was when Ofsted where there. Really DO NOT recommend this. Oh and the teacher pressure you so much. For example, I know someone who absolutely struggles with mfl and they made her take it for gcse, she didnt get a choice and now shes always stressing over it, being told she isn't going to pass ext. That isn't right. Absolutely awful school. Also, with this covid, they only let pupils inside when it is pouring with rain, and even then, if you leave the classroom your not allowed back in and have to get soaked in the rain because some pupils dont like the indoor area for their specific year.

Should be 0 stars
Where do I even start with this school
I had no physics teacher for 6 months and was then expected to take a mock exam (we all failed) when the teacher came back he said it was our fault we failed
A guy literally locked a supply teacher outside the classroom by barricading the door with tables and got a detention
I didn't have a maths teacher for the whole of year 8- literally had supplies every week-filled half a work book in a year
I spent half my year 11 mocks in a sport hall with primary school students screaming in the pool next door, whole year complained multiple times,I spoke to the head teacher who said he would sort it out. It never happened
In conclusion I spent 5 years there and some of them I learnt more about the unorganized and mess the school is than the syllabus I was supposed to
Dont let your kids go here, please

Got told i wasnt being bullied and i was over reacting.