Bishop Milner Catholic College

Boring. It is not the best school. I feel like im being forced to pray catholic and if your free school meals you get like a two pound budget for food and lunch is 40 mins long. You cant use ur phone basically at all they have roofs that stop your data from working so you cant call your dad except if your in reception. GENERALLY: the school is NOT recommended just go st james

this school is absolutely horrible. do not send ur kids to here its basically a living hell.. the only entertainment is the fights most days at break & lunch🌚 they tel us to be good for ofset (we litteraly had a whole ahh asembly to say to be on your best behaviour acting like there wasnt a massive fight the day b4 and the teachers had to litterally floor the kids🤣)and they litterally favorite the special kids and do not give a flying flip on your emotions

talk about loving us and catholic values but they dont
bullying is bad most teacher dont care

The schools Garbage don't send anyone here

Writing this from the perspective of someone who doesn't get involved in politics and keeps their nose out of people's business: the equal rights at this school just...don't exist. This school is rife with racism, sexism, and homophobia, not just from students but with occasional jabs from the teachers too! There's at least 2 fights per month, and while they're entertainment for the students who are bored to death in the freezing cold outside with no indoor or outdoor shelter, they're a representation of how bad this school's really gotten. The education - AQA for GCSE in all departments except humanities, which are Edexcel - is okay, but half the teachers just do not care anymore. I had to relearn half my subjects due to this lax behaviour and it's made my GCSEs insufferable. The rules around dress code and behaviour have gotten unreasonably strict now too. 1) Instead of being equal and letting the boys wear studs last year, they decide to abolish ALL piercings whatsoever. (Only earlobes were allowed in the first place!) 2) They currently have a green, amber, and red card system - but literally anything from showing up over 3 minutes late to a lesson leads to a half-hour detention after school, with there being absolutely no warning card in place (if your child is prone to talking or messing up in class, this school is not the right place for them to go - positive reinforcement does not exist here, and they'll be spending half their days in detention instead of learning anyway). 3) Phones, even to contact parents, are not welcome on the property whatsoever. This is more just a heads-up rather than a complaint, but it's a key piece of information. 4) Challenging teachers - even for a legitimate reason (biggest example I can think of is when a teacher put someone in isolation for a breach of school rules that they didn't even commit and the person that DID commit it ended up walking away with a slap on the wrist) - will lead to an amber or red. 5) Budget is constantly spent on some brand new, irrelevant, school renovation (this year it was windows that look, frankly, really out of place) when there's literally kids who can no longer afford school meals, computers running on 10 year-old hard drives and MICE infestations in the 'library room' (there is literally three bookshelves and you can no longer take books out due to COVID) - plus a 'minor' fly infestation in the girl's bathroom.

There is no fairness here. There's no justice system for the children, and there's no reason for engaging learning except one or two teachers that really sparked my interest. I'm just really glad I didn't go to sixth form here.