Beverley High School

i am currently about to go into year 11 and i have hated almost all of the time i have spent there! majority of teachers have very clear favourites and pick on other students. i would also say a lot of the teachers can not control a more difficult class. the school did terribly handling the lockdown and piled on work which caused a lot of stress for the students as if it was not completed on time they would receive angry emails threatening to contact parents instead of asking if they needed any help with the work or if anything was going on. due to this a lot of the students mental health dropped severely and the school has not been able to manage this when we returned. i also feel that even though year 10 and 11 got more freedom when we returned the teachers put on loads of pressure as it was gcses/exams causing a lot of stress amongst us and no teacher seemed to care what they were doing to us by pushing us so much and piling on work with hours of homework each night not including the revision they were telling us to do. although i do think this is due to the school being all girls the environment is not great as there is lots of homophobia and just overall nastiness and tge wellbeing teach seem to thing the resolution to all problems is to talk it out which often makes things worse. however i do have some good memories and a few departments such as history, dt and pe are very nice and do seem to care about the students and their mental health.

i hate it here🤨🤨🤨1/10 do not recommend

school is emotionally draining at the moment, since we are in lockdown it feels almost as if the work is just piling and piling up. when you don’t complete a peace of work instead of the teachers checking that everything is okay, they send angry emails and messages out. i understand that it is important to do the work we are set but sometimes that it hard to do when your mental health is not good. when we are actually in school we are constantly criticised by teachers around us because ‘our skirts are more than two inches about the knee’ or ‘our bobble is the wrong colour?!’ it confuses me because school encourages us to express our selves in the ways we love, but as soon as we put a peace of jewellery on, or we dye our hair any other colour but brown or blonde it’s seen as ‘informal’ and ‘a bad representation to the school’. many of the teachers are very helpful in ensuring that our mental health comes first, especially in the history, french and well-being part of the school, however some teachers have more of a negative impact on mental health and will get angry at us for doing such a small thing as walking on the wrong side of the stairs, which can make us feel invalid. we where also allowed no privacy when attending school during the pandemic, and it felt like we had a teacher monitoring our every move as we where barley allowed outside and when we where, there would be a teacher watching, which got quite stressful and in some ways emotionally draining as we felt as though we couldn’t talk about the things we wanted to/private things in fear that a teacher would overhear and turn it into something it wasn’t. the school in many ways is good as it provides a variety of learning recourses and is good at preventing bullying/ raising awareness and has a good system of keeping us all safe and ensuring a good working environment, however they do sometimes take behaviour and punishment over the top, i had a teacher last year who would give out behaviour points for writing the date on the wrong side of the page, or have untied shoelaces, which was quite unnecessary in my opinion, but they probably have their reasons. i would rate the school three stars as it is good, but not the best.