Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School

I attended bishops from 2011-2016 and I can tell you from personal experiences that if you send your child to this school they will leave feeling traumatised and emotionally damaged, not only do the students commit bullying but the teachers also especially if students learning difficulties or chronic illnesses, from the ages of 12-16 I was a victim of extreme bullying from both students and teachers, I was friends with a group of girls who took advantage of me everyday and would physically assault me, one girl pushed me into the school pond and would call me ‘gay’ or ‘Demisexual’ because she thought I was In love with her, she knows who she is so if she reads this, f**k you and I see you working at the garden centre, you where wrong about everything and I have PTSD because of you, you deserve the life you have now, I know what you’ve done and Karmas a b***h isn’t it? Also she would hit me and would constantly make fun of me for being autistic, furthermore she would send out my personal details to boys online that she knew and would force me to hook up with them which became a huge safeguarding risk and the teachers did NOTHING to sort it the bullying it got so bad that I had to move form groups and lead me to having a suicide attempt in 2016, also I know that that headteacher and deputy head may read this and I just want to say…the way you treated my sister was absolutely abhorrent you knew she is diabetic and that she was struggling and so was my mum but yet to make it worse YOU THREATEN TO TAKE HER TO COURT WHILST MY SISTER WAS RECOVERING IN HOSPITAL FROM AN OPERATION HOW F**KING DARE YOU!, mark my words if this ever gets out in the local news I’m going to make it my upmost goal to shut bishops down for good, you let bullying run rife you do not care about the students, you let your staff bully students and take medical equipment off them, you deserve to burn down to the ground and when you do I will dance on the ashes of that school, so parents reading this spare your child the emotional trauma and send them somewhere else, don’t send them here whatever you do…there are better schools in the county I promise you! Please listen to a past student who experience horrific trauma there.

Best school the teachers are really nice and helpful

It sucks. I find the school quite stressing and a lot of people so far have left (our year group alone) to go to other schools.
I have heard if fights going on multiple times too.

The food isnt that good, usually there are the same options. I dont really know what else to say

At first glance this school looks great with its outstanding poster outside and shiny new building. Strip this away and what your really faced with is a school that is an absolute disgrace. The focus is on appearances and only the high achievers. They dont listen to parents concerns at all, and any issues raised by parents are dismissed and it is the parents fault. The office staff are awful with one woman inparticular who seems to be running the school, rude, condescening and treats the students like dirt, she also seems to be a qualified nurse refusing to send sick students home as “you dont look very ill to me”. My daughter was so ill she was off school for a week but when she went to the office she was shouted at! This woman is loud mouthed and way above her station but If parents do decide to complain expect a stupid letter from the head accusing the parent of all kinds of vile lies. If only the head was as quick to sort out and address concerns as he is to send out his ridiculous warning letters, Its always the parents fault, the staff can do no wrong. It seems the heads main concern is to look a hero in front of his staff and doesnt care about the truth of the matter or who he offends, he doesnt listen and doesnt care at all, how he is head of a school is beyond me, totally incompetent and nasty. Bullying is rife and not addressed, stolen property is also not addressed and the student and parent ignored. The staff are dismissive, rude and unprofessional. Do not send your daughter here. It really is a horrible school.

I cannot put into words about how bad this school actually is. Just be sure to know that if you send your child to this school, they will be traumatised for the rest of their lives. Linking onto this statement, teachers seem to think it is ok to use racist slurs towards students. They clearly need to be educated on what is right and what is wrong. Another thing that someone I know has experienced is that a male teacher admitted to creeping on girls in the school toilets, this is outrageous behaviour, I would have thought in todays society that especially male teachers in an all girls school would never ever even say or actually do things like this. The teachers in this school are so rude they seem to think it's okay to treat innocent children in the way that they do it's absolutely shocking. I would have thought that going to this school would be great, and give me the best opportunities possible, but I can strongly say it has been the worst years of my life. Racism and homophobia tackling has been shocking, the teachers at this school clearly cannot handle any problems properly. I have now come to the conclusion that I don't bother telling the teachers my problems because they all seem to just say "there's nothing we can do about it." Furthermore, another thing that is also very disgraceful is that the teachers find a way of making the problems the students fault. I feel like teachers at this school just seem to always jump to conclusions, if you tell them a problem they just suspect the easiest option which is mostly ending the problem quickly, instead of investigating the problem. I have also heard from other students that a girl got sent home because of her braids, this is absolutely disgusting, I have never heard anything so scandalous in my life. At this school the teachers seem to only care for themselves and their tea and coffee. Most of the teachers are quite grumpy, I understand that it is 8am, but I do expect to get at least a smile back from a teacher, they seem to not be very down to earth, genuine people and its very sad to experience this at a school which could be wonderful but it's not. I feel like the teachers at this school also lie to get themselves out of situations, I would rather them be honest instead of lie to the majority of students. I generally would have thought by now that it would start to get better for me being a student at this school but it seems to just keep going downhill. I think that this school needs major improving on how the students may be feeling considering the amount of pressure the teachers put on them for having good grades.

Racist, homophobic, xenophobic since last year things have gone worse, constant harassment of pupils, food isn’t good. Bullying is let off all the time. I really don’t like it I’ve joined September 2019 as a first year and they I’ve had a bad vibe since then

The school is blatantly racist. I had to leave, black students are treated like animals, told to not group together, get told to remove their braids. When students are racist, teachers do not give any punishment to the racist student. Bullying is not dealt with, it has damaged me to this day and has been part of the reason as to why I now suffer with mental health conditions. The teachers are not assisting, infact there has been cases where teachers have said racist comments. If you want to go through hell, no matter your skin colour, come to this school.

Seems alright.
Everyone's very friendly and supportive staff. Lots of activities and extracurriculars to get the students involved. Teaching is good.
Very modern and diverse as well, and has a welcoming feel to it.
Honestly the only thing that bugs me are the bitchy girls, but it's an all-girls school so what do you expect?

Would recommend unless you don't want to deal with girl drama and bitchiness then this isn't the place for you.

Also, don't eat the canteen food, it tastes like paper.