Ash Manor School

Both my children went to Ash Manor School in the last 7 years and I highly recommend this school. They liked the teachers very much and in my opinion the headteacher is the most committed and dedicated professional I ever came across. I cannot thank them enough for everything they did to my children.

Ash manor is one of the worst schools I've ever known. The teachers get paid overtime/half for every hour detention and unsurprisingly they have over 50 students in 1 of 3 rooms each night.

They have cameras in the toilets which is Shorley against any kind of law and they give 1 hour detentions if a student forgets a pen. That is non negotiable and if they forget a pen in detention they will then fail that detention and have to do a 2 hour detention the day after. They lie about having this regiem/ideology in there rules section and also do not make any concessions for children with special needs.

This school needs to be shut down and in my opinion investigated the highest level.

If I could give This school -1 rating I would. The school and headteacher are incredibly racist. White kids can call their black peers niggers and get away with it. If the Black pupil reacts they get all the punishment. It’s ridiculous it’s 2023 and this is the message that the school teaches

They, for one, used my mental health as an excuse to give me more work 'to distract me'

honestly they dont care about you its whether ur late or not you could be being bullied, racially profiled, experiencing homophobia they dont care they say they dont tolerate it but they dont they turn a blind eye one guy called me the N word n got nothing when i reported and u get sanctions for evening havjng the slightest but of social life u could be playing fighting w your friends and they give detentions even if u explain to them also the favoritism with autistic kids i understand how autism can affect people differently and why they may need extra chances or breaks out side trips to SEN but the blatant rudeness and disrespect that wouldnt be tolerated were it anyone else get overlooked or just a "verbal warning" not that it does anything

Horrible school, one teacher tried to encourage girls to m*sterb*te on their periods and have s*x (keyword girls, we were young and shouldn't've be egged on to do these stuff by an adult, its gr**ming) same teacher said the n-word and said that the people coming down the stairs sounded like Africans. They allow other kids to bully eachother, one girl had to leave because she was harassed every day and the school didnt care nor punish the bullys, one girl was jumped by 5 other girls and instead of them being in trouble, the VICTIM was excluded for intimidation and harassment... They allow staff with bad pasts to work there aswell and teachers are constantly making dirty jokes with the children.

Throughout the years I attended Ash Manor, I received very little support regarding my anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. On the rare occasions that I would need to leave the site because I was so overwhelmed, I’d be told that I wasn’t allowed to leave because of my attendance, while other’s with higher attendance could. This not only took place when I was experiencing anxiety, but even during COVID 19. I explained to reception that I had been in contact with someone experiencing symptoms and they refused to let me leave, despite sending home other students who simply claimed to have a cough. I was also rudely confronted on multiple occasions about my self harming and pressured to show my cuts to staff members even though I’d vocalised multiple times how uncomfortable it made me feel. I received little support to work from home on days when I was struggling, and the school completely refused to send me my work. It felt as though I was being punished for something I couldn’t control. The school’s behaviour became so out of control that CAMHS became involved and multiple meetings took place in which the school continued arguing with CAMHS about allowing me to submit work from home for a mere two weeks.
I also feel that the quality of education I received was poor. Although certain teachers valued their students and put all of their effort into each lesson, others failed to effectively communicate with students, and didn’t try to meet our needs. I have experienced a teacher throwing a book at my head unprovoked, staff excessively swearing during lessons, a teacher who repeatedly called our class “special needs” as an insult, and more. During a year 9 English class, white students were also permitted and even encouraged to speak the N word and other racial slurs whilst reading Of Mice and Men. On one occasion whilst I read out loud to the class, I reached the N word and explained to the class assistant that I didn’t feel comfortable reading it. She continued encouraging me and eventually allowed me to skip it, but complained to my English teacher about how “disrespectful” I had been, which resulted in me being punished.
Ash Manor School continues to stand by outdated values and everyone I know who attended has negative experiences.