Bilton School

Dire, truly dire.

After failing Ofsted in 2016, and being moved to a multi-academy trust, the response by senior teachers and the head has been brutality authoritarian.

The list of disciplinary offences range from being late, to an askew tie, not having the time table on desk during lessons, non-verbal misbehaviour (sighing, rolling eyes), talking back which includes just asking for clarification from a teacher.

Our daughter is high functioning autistic, we made the school aware before she started. Nothing was put in place, no safeguarding whatsoever. We had to get her moved form due to Bilton not reading advice of who not (bullies basically) to place her in class with by Cawston Grange Primary.

The bullying problem persisted, we had her moved again, the school admitting that she wasn't safe in that part if the school.

There was a single incident with a peer (one which they resolved between themselves), but the head of year and head moved our daughter BACK into a form in a part of the school they had already declared a safeguarding danger.

If you try to put in a formal complaint using Stowe Valley Academy (in writing email acceptable), the school stonewall you and the head blocks your email address. The academy itself is no better.

We had to beg Warwickshire LEA to get her moved due to the safeguarding risk, thankfully, even though they have no authority over Bilton, they managed to move her as an emergency.

If your child has SEND needs, do not send them to Bilton. The school will class them as a problem and not put any safeguarding in place, preferring to build up disciplinarian over the slightest issue until they can expelled them (thankfully we got our daughter out after half a term of hell).

If I could put 0 stars I would

Bilton is the shortest place I have ever been and it genuinely makes me want to kill myself. The teachers give absolute no support for any issues after being emailed by students and parents multiple times. The school fights are absolutely wild is is the only form of entertainment there yet they decide to take peoples water bottles off them that they have paid for cuz some little kid snitched. The toilets are constantly locked so what happens when someone has undiagnosed bowel issues or they need to throw up or a girl is on her period? If you ask to go to the toilet the teachers have to email which takes about 3 lessons for on-call to show up and then if you have no toilet card you are still denied access and have to piss yourself or you get a left lesson without permission which will give you an after school, even tho all wanted was a wee. #freetopee. The uniform rules are ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. The amount of kids stealing others ties and throwing them away is unacceptable and would like it to be sorted. These kids then get punished for the however long untill their parents go to Webb Ellis, being the ONE and ONLY shop you can get bilton ties from, for £6.90. The school shoes fall apart after a week of wearing them and there you buy like 30 pairs over 5 years which I believe is a serious waste of my money. The teachers do not teach and they stand there and yap about shit the kids don’t even do in their exams.
There is more to add but I do not have time for that.

Please get a fat grip on your bastard arses, grow up, and sort your schools shit out.

I haven't had a great time here. Staff are bad at communicating with each other and either don't care or simply don't know how to deal with bullying seeing as how they always ignore it. The teaching isn't terrible but I'd say it's pretty 'aggressive' so if you aren't a particularly academic learner who's good at self study, like most of us, then it's tougher to deal with. Because their communication is poor if you've got two teachers for the same lesson you'll probably cover the same thing for 5 weeks and then be blamed for not learning all the material. Some teachers will spend 45 minutes on the starter whilst others won't let you leave until you finish the essay they gave you 5 minutes before the end (actually these can both happen in the same lesson, the time management isn't great) but some teachers have great lesson plans - though I have yet to meet one that supplys can understand. Help isn't easy to get but it's there if you really search for it, though it might not do exactly what you want.

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