All Saints Church of England Academy

school only cares about apperance not learning

I would have given it two stars but ni gave it three because the support teachers and most of the staff were so great and helpful. I loved the school when I started, but when i left i was thankful I wasnt staying another year, because by the time I left it felt like a prison. In the morning, you had to walk up to the tennis thing place and hold your "knowledge organisers" (which were BS if I might add) in your right hand (you got told off if you did it in your left) on a whistle and then put it down on a another whistle. There were lines drawn on the floor to indicate which direction you should be going, even tho it was too crowded to work (since you had to also line up outside your class), with your shirt tucked in. In the first three years, you were allowed to go to the MASSIVE field down the bottom which made lunch a lot less crowded, but then they said you couldn't even in the summer because "they said so". I was made to miss PE (my favourite lesson) to do extra English because they thought I needed help. Fiar enough it did help, but even when I got good at it they still made me go. And they CANCELLED PE during the exam time so we all had to go do extra work. They didnt even let us have study break, we got there weeks and had to fight like hell, just to get that. Not to mention they CANCELLED SPORTS DAY!!! we appealed and complained (especially since it was the last year) and all they gave us was the things no one likes to do, like athletics. So not many people signed up and they cancelled again. ( Just for background sports day were the best, the whole day was different activities, one main thing that you choose, climbing street surfing, swimming and loads more, then in afternoon stuff like races and tug of war and things like that. So it was AMAZING until management changed and everything went to literal s**t). Its no question that the principle and vice/acting head woman was to blame for it all going t*ts up.
They even cancelled the computer science course i was two years through, yes canceled two years into a course, and MADE everyone switch to a different designing course. WE.HAD.NO.CHOICE. WITH ANYTHING, AND TO "MAKE UP FOR THE TIME LOST" WE HAD TO SPEND A WEEK OUT OF NORMAL LESSON TO WATCH CRAP VIDOES OF PHOTOSHOP AND STUFF SO WE KNEW WHAT WE WERE DOING READY FOR THE EXAM AND ASSIGNMENT IN 1 YEAR. And why did they do it? Because they said it was "too hard" and we wouldnt be able to pass, even though nearly everyone had above half marks in every single test. So not only did they not let us have the option of choosing a different subject (for our future), they also called us stupid as well.
The SEN department was BRILLIANT and I cant stress that enough. They helped me through some really hard times and i would always go there at lunch, without a doubt. They were always there if I needed them, either to talk to or just to have a little cry and a hug. Most of the teachers were amazing as well, really supportive but the SEN people were by far my favourite and the best help I could ever have.
I don't know how many of the originals are still there, from when I went, because just as i left, they started going because they weren't being listened to.
About half the enitire school teachers left because they were being treated badly by management and management wasnt taking sen children's needs into account or the actual teachers needs. That was obvious just by looking at the teachers and being at the school.
But the teachers were so nice and I could hardly fault them.
I did love that school but too much changed and it felt like I wasnt at the school I had picked anymore 😔😭

As I have just started year seven I think that this school is more about uniforms then pushing u in lesions also ur not aloud to got to the toilet during lesions also they have just cut off the morning break and u only get 5 minutes to eat ur lunch before year 8 and 9s come down and they ask u to leave and eat outside.

awful school don’t go there