All Hallows Catholic School

Everyone saying this school just had a 'little discipline' are widely misinformed and ignorant of the abuse the previous head teacher Elizabeth Lutzier inflicted upon HUNDREDS of students. Bullying was brushed under the carpet, children, literal CHILDREN were persecuted and singled out for grieving and needing support, not 'discipline'. There were multiple self harm and suicide episodes from struggling students at the school. Headteacher instructed every leaflet, booklet and resource on mental health including CAMHS to be ripped up and thrown away. Children were treated as nothing more than walking, talking, credits for the school, if you weren't an A* target in every subject, forget ever being given room to progress and grow in the classroom, you were sat at the very back and left to it. There was a literal case of sexual assault from students against other students, which Lutzier covered up and ignored. She also allowed a CONVICTED paedophile to work under her roof for several years despite flags being raised by many students and parents (google All Hallows RE teacher arrested). I could say so much more. Lutzier was homophobic, transphobic, discriminatory towards the mentally ill. She went out of her way to disrupt the education of students by banning them from attending classes and forcing them into BBC (better behaviour centre) Yes, it absolutely was as Nazism as it sounds or prep (After school detention centre) where children were forced to stay for over 3 hours EVERY DAY after school for TWO WEEKS where they were not allowed on the computers and were then expected to travel/walk home in the dark without being allowed a phone for emergency reasons. Lutzier even confiscated every single mirror in the girls bathroom because they (again, literal children) were being 'vain' - bear in mine, this was never done to the boys.

Please never send your children to this school. This school and it's values are backward, insane and archaic. Elizabeth Lutzier was evil. She told a grieving 14 year old child to just 'move on' from her fathers death less than a month after it happened AND told her mum that 'all hallows just isn't a very hug-y school' in response to being asked why no compassion or empathy was shown to her daughter during this time. I genuinely cannot stress enough how damaging this school was to generations of students. Don't be fooled by the Ofsted 'Outstanding' banner either. Ofsted themselves have admitted that their system leaves very little room for spotting and addressing flaws in schools such as how they respond (or better yet, don't respond) to issues of bullying, harassment, discrimination, and the lack of mental health support available to students. Ofsted are currently in the process of designing a new inspection system that will scrutinise schools on these crucial issues and schools failing to progress their views, will NOT receive outstanding marks anymore, as they once did despite having major shortcomings in these areas.

To Elizabeth Lutzier. You attacked and terrorised innocent, defenceless and hurting children. You took their trust in you as the headteacher of their school and created a vile establishment to punish, humiliate and exert power over them. You were never and will never be fit to be anywhere near children and I am immensely glad you are no longer able to do anymore damage than you've already done. The day I learn of your death, I, along with many ex-students of All Hallows will be singing 'ding dong the witch is dead'.

Horrible I got eaten by a cow several times not to mention the evil rat haunting me

Ok. The school is good, but there is some ups and downs. The school used to have a headteacher who was very corrupt, he made most of the nicest teachers leave the school, from personal experiences, he was quite nice, but he didn’t know how to do his job correct, he suspended me for a day because I asked my teacher if I could have a second chance because he was going to send me out the class, so I think that’s a very dumb reason to suspend someone.

Also the COVID crisis could have been handled, instead of doing the canteen up you guys could have tried to create a support system slit quicker, because during the lockdown(s) i fell behind on quite a lot of subjects, and now have to work 5x harder. This is not part of the school values, and my intelectual curiosity has been deeply effected, I’m very sad :(

Its okay. There are both positives and negatives about this school. The old headteacher bullied some of the best teachers into leaving so many ideas that they came up with got scrapped (including gender neutral toilets). The new head teacher encourages improvement but there is a huge amount of stress put onto the studentes from year 7 with predicted grades. There still stands a subtle shielding element where we were never educated adequately on real life situations, especially not if they went against catholic teachings.
They have coped moderately well with Covid, obviously they cannot socially distance everyone with such short notice. However Some teachers do get a lot closer than they’re supposed to, one even came in after having a test.
There was a recent renovation on the canteen- making it look a lot better and a new place to get food outside too. Although these things look nice I think the money would have been better spent on making students feel safer in the school with the addition on some gender neutral toilets or an available therapist for students to go to when they need some help.
Overall I would say that they seem to care more about upholding high grades than the mental health of their students, as a lot of pressure gets put upon us, and with higher graded students getting more attention from teachers than the ones struggling

Throughout my 5 years at All Hallows, leaving in 2019, I could not wait to leave. The arrogance and complacency of the whole institution was covered in a facade of outstanding grades. Grades which were declining ever since the school’s head who joined when I was in year 9 started his reign, and grades which the school gained by making year 7’s paranoid that if they do not get their target grade in every subject (including the compulsory subjects such as a language you are given randomly out of German or French) they will fail in life. Don’t get me wrong here, a little stress can be motivating, but the extent this school did that to not just me but my entire cohort just resulted in burnout by Year 11, when the results actually counted.
Why did I not give it a 1 star then? Maybe it’s hope, maybe it is some of the lingering indoctrination of the school that said they was constantly improving (when in reality many of the high quality teachers left resulting in endless study hall periods). The facilities are good, with a new canteen which took 6 years to finally get built after advertising it at my year 6 open day as being imminent, and from what I have heard from friends who stayed at the sixth form, there is a new fitness suite.I’m not sure, but from what I have heard, the head has been replaced with the old deputy head who I had for a year before I left which is promising. He went to the school in it’s better years, before the dogma and hypocrisy kicked in in the past few years, so hopefully, at least for the sake of the good teachers left and the students, that it becomes a more pleasant experience where the next day isn’t constantly dreaded.