Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School

As a former employee this is not a school I would ever send my own children too.

Whilst some aspects of the school are positive - for example the catholic ethos (including the chapel and whole school masses), other aspects are disappointing.

As an educator, attempting to teach classes where significant proportions of children do not want to learn, whilst the systems do little to promote positive behaviour is frustrating. Behaviour is a huge issue, and senior leadership seem powerless to move this in the right direction.

The lack of afterschool clubs or opportunities for students is equally disappointing, there is so much that could be done to engage the community and make the school a more positive place for its young people.

This school quite literally licks the arse cracks of the kids who lack complete common sense, whilst babying them as they disturb the well-being’s of other students. When you go and explain your problems to the useless brain dead team they call pastoral, all they do is turn a blind eye and go back to gossiping about everyone who’s ever stepped foot in the school. And DON’T get me started on the head teacher. All that man knows how to is eat, stamp books and hibernate in his office doing nothing about things like obvious bulling going on with other students. In addition to this, the mental health leader is probably the biggest joke I’ve ever come across.. or should I say the skinniest as she’s quite literally built like a peperami stick. Honestly thought that witch was Satan in disguise with the way she treats students. Absolutely appalling staff. Idk if they found these teachers outside Tesco but they all need to look for different carrier paths as students cannot handle the absolute tomfoolery which is presented in this hell hole. For the sake of your child’s mental health DO NOT send them here as they’ll probably end their lives before even reaching half term.

An absolute joke of disciplinary system. Teachers babying those that are a menace to the whole school. Isolation? More like nursery. The assistant head teacher, who ironically is also meant to be a mental health lead, is probably the biggest bully amongst all the useless staff. School rules? They don’t exist when she’s there. She’s the overlord who makes the rules for her convenience when it suits her. Now, she doesn’t only inflict her hell on the pupils, other members of staff absolutely despise this lord of the underworld. The only person she will bow down to is the headmaster, another useless man. He’s more of a ghost than a head teacher, as he’s never present to have conversations with anybody about any problems a child might be going through. Another thing is the current head of English, who ALSO ironically does multiple charity donations on her Facebook, yet is the most disgusting and hypocritical person you will ever come across. She has a worrying tendency to favour the worst boys in her class, and treat the girls like a Handmaid. So much for reading books, that it seems she got all her inspiration from the handmaid’s tale. Another interesting persona is the power-hungry, egocentric beast in the PE department… Last time I checked, the noun ‘bullying’ existed in the dictionary. Well, this institution doesn’t think so. Oh, and this is far from being a faith school. The only Christian thing they have is the school name.

I didn't get a chance to actually begin the school propally I think it was is a good school but it can improve a little bit with staff and children but in general good these reviews downs there they are not true

My child is in 7or in and ppl are vondtlay bullied because of stupidest reasons and all the teachers are rude to students and give out detentions for no reason some of the teachers can't even speak English teachers are rude for no reason like they ecpact our children to be nice to them but that are not nice to the children that go there and it is supposedly a Catholic school well that attitude of that students there don't show that if it was hi school uniform day which there isn't you would have thought it was a ghetto gang school people sagging making out teachers have relationships with students younger than them it is not a good school you look at one person and they wanna kill you and the teachers is rascist as a white person say can I go to the toilet they say yes a black person no even know you have a toilet pass. People with special needs don't get help but people with no special needs get special treatment some fake disabilities and get away with it you can't speak to the head teachers and heads of years always make up excuses to get you child in trouble it is not worth sending your child or teenegar there matter a fact don't work there staff are rude and racist to each other nothing help with this school that school don't teach anything they are only good for shouting at your child or teenager or cussing some teachers use swear words at children AGAIN IT IS NOT WORTH IT. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD THERE IF YOU DO YOUR CRUEL ME AS A PARENT I CAN TELL THE TEACHERS AND SUPPOSRY FOR YOUR CHILD IS NOT WORTH IT BECAUSE YOU DO NOT GET THE SUPPORT YOU NEED IF YOU HAVE SPECAIL NEEDD YOU DON'T GET HELPED PEOPLE WITH NO SPECIAL NEEDS GET NO HELP