Ashton Park School

IF YOU TAKE ANYTHING FROM THIS REVIEW, PLEASE DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO THIS SCHOOL! I was also continuously bullied from year 7 to the start of year 8. It was so bad that I had to leave the school in the middle of learning.

I was abused by students at the time through all different measures (emotionally abused/threatened, sexually assaulted, harassed every day, cyberbullied, food thrown at me, racial attacks) until I left. As others mentioned, I received little to no support from teachers - even when my own life was at risk and children were threatening me with physical violence. It is a shame because when I pulled these incidents with senior leadership, they responded, " X would never do such a thing!" "This is just a silly argument". All this led me to develop suicidal feelings at AGE ELEVEN!!!!

This was a decade ago, and now I'm currently getting help from my GP to discuss the immense effects these traumatic experiences have had on me - such as difficulty with communication and social anxiety. This would have never happened if I'd received support from the staff.

If anyone is going through anything similar now at that school - please reach out for help. The Samaritans helpline was my lifeline during these dark times - just text SHOUT to 85258

the worst thing about this school is the handling of bullying . I got bullied for 3 years and they did absolutely nothing , I got put as the bad guy as soon as I started standing up for my self . the school wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t let bullies walk around the school without any form of proper punishment. A 1 day exclusion does nothing !!!

Consistently a rubbish school which let down each of our 3 children.

In year 10 and year 9, a male student made sexual advances towards me, tried to touch me sexually and spoke to me sexually even thought I kept saying it made me uncomfortable. All my friends made jokes about it and his girlfriend didn't even care when I asked her to speak to him about it.I was crying everyday and never wanted to go to tutor because I would have to see him. I was ready to move tutors. I spoke to the head of behaviour, she told me they would take it very seriously, they spoke to him and he said he 'had no idea' and was 'very remorseful'. It continued for months after, until I blew up at him. I was also bullied by two girls in my year from year 7-8. I kept reporting it to my teachers and they did nothing, I just had to wait until they got bored of it . A year 9 boy put his hand underneath two y11 girls' skirts and got suspended for one day, another two kids who had a one punch, one push fight got suspended for 3 days.

had a really bad experience here , really disruptive classes , terrible handling of bullying , some teachers are really nice and dedicated tho