Burnside College

Poor behaviour, lack of support for students with SEMH, a regime with no grey areas. This headteacher knows how to talk the talk so gets away with things looking good on the surface.

I just started at this school for a month now. Sometimes it's alright, sometimes it's horrible. Most of the teachers are kind and helpful, but some are just straight up too strict and annoying. The students there are an absolute nightmare. They vape, do drugs, and some are even racist. There has been quite a few fights that have happened over the years that I've heard of. If you are put in classes with really loud and immoral students who don't respect their teachers, then it would be impossible for you to get any work done. I barely learn anything in some lessons because the students are so irritable. For just the school, there is a lot of rules. Definitely must be because the students are not following rules appropriately. The toilets are door-less which I find very uncomfortable and unsettling as the teachers could look in, and they judge you openly if you are fixing your hair or whatever in the mirror. The girls take forever in the toilet, so you might not get to use the toilet during break at all. They won't allow toilet breaks after the bell rings. You are not allowed to go to the toilet unless you've got a toilet pass, meaning you need to have a medical condition to go. Phones are not allowed once you enter school gates. You need to keep your phones in bags at all time. If you are caught, your phone will be taken away and your parents will have to come collect it. I don't like most of the rules there. Some I can justify and accept, but most of them is just too strict. In summary, there are better schools out there. If you have the money, send your kids to private school. Burnside is for not so fortunate kids with an acceptable education.

Horrible. Please don’t send your child to this. There’s lots of racism and exclusion and lots of inappropriate behaviour. Even telling a certain adult doesnt solve anything and im talking from a student view myself. There’s lack of choices in the area, like compared to my new school there is ton of different options while its limited here. Teachers don't try hard enough and really it was just a disaster

This school is ran by someone who claims to have students best interests at heart, but who has lost countless excellent staff members through his own ignorance, thoughtlessness and the fact he'd rather spend money on fairy lights for open evenings, new signs and new minibuses that staff. Departments are understaffed, over worked and children have no room to develop their own sense of self and uniqueness due to endless rules about haircuts, nail varnish and a number of other things. He sends others to do his dirty work and most of them aren't much better. They no longer have a designated safeguarding department or school mentors, they can't replace staff and can't even provide enough statutory care for students with SEN because of this. He even cancelled last years school performance of Frozen out of pure spite because the member of staff was leaving at the end of the summer, despite the amount of hard work students had put in. They do however have around 15 members of senior leadership who all have personalised jackets and umbrellas. The absolute key to a good school.

This is a real shame as the young people who attend this school are full of personality, often vulnerable and deserve so much better, as do a lot of the teachers.

this school is absolutely disgusting they hure the most apauling teachers to make sure we have the worst life possible there is also creepy men that hang around the school this was shown the other day because a girl saw a man touching his private telling her to finish him off

There was a cockroach sitting on a turd in the school bathroom.

teach started to whip the black people in our school panashe started to tear up and he soiled his pance and asked for his mothe and the teaher brought out the guillotine justice or panshe blckie lives motor itty bitty panashe will live again!!!!

This js an absolute joke of a school no respect for students send them somewhere else that will be your best option

They don't respect supply teacher they don't have work ethics
It is not a good environment to work

Just go to churchill instead