Cams Hill School

Our experience of cams was nothing more than unfair trwatment of children bullying bu staff over controlled kids are there to learn an education not life skills of teachers views and ways would never send my worst enemy there best thing i did was pull my child from the school

Absolute horrible school and has ruined my child education

New head teacher is horrible and has changed a lot of rules do not come here as it offers a bad education

This is stupid because they put me into a isolation because I said a word that isn't offensive DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL

Not amazing. All they care about it uniform and nothing else. While I was harming myself they did practically nothing about it and i was left to fend for myself. When it gets to being in year 11 they give hardly any good information whatsoever like exam results day, when they start or been things like prom, they’d rather do assemblies about kindness in YEAR11 rather than give out good essential info. awful school

My son said mr Morrisons shouts at kids way to much he need to be fired.

Cams is a ok school but they only care about the uniform and not the actual school work and they have silly rules such as having your shirt tucked in, not being able to use your phone on important occasions

Current year 10 pupil, cams likes to act like a huge advocate for mental health but from my experience and friends', this just simply isnt the case, with my anxiety the school does absolutely nothing to help me unless I beg, suffering anxiety attacks, they let you sit out of lesson for 10 minutes, no more and the SLT team can be very insensitive and disregarding, other than this most teachers are fabulous at what they do and try to help where and when they can with the obvious exception of a few.

this is coming from a student who was enrolled here for the full 5 years
this school is horrible when it comes to actually treating students like students. the uniform policy is incredibly strict; even seeing girls being reprimanded for their trousers being too short when theyre hardly above ankle? and lets not forget piercings either. i understand thoroughly that you don't need to look 'good' at school, but what harm are piercings going to do? having more than one pair of earrings in? going to ruin your education for life, neither is it going to actually distract anyone.
another problem with the uniform they seemed to have was skirt length. they used to freak out over school skirts being too short, when the pe skirts are as short as can be, and they were PICKED by the school. and keep in mind when i talk about skirt length, most of the people actually wearing skirts only had them inbetween knee length and mid thigh.
the higher ups in the school care more about the reputation than actually employing decent teachers who are qualified to teach. goodness me, there was even an article about cams employing teachers off the street!
i even had a teacher in one of my years who singled me out just because i didnt understand, neither did i get any help. just got shouted at and embarassed infront of the whole class because i didnt know an answer. not only that but the same teacher used to make many passive agressive comments towards me once i actually did well in class, which honestly just made me feel horrible. i really cannot understand how they pride themselves on being an amazing school when even they know some of their teachers aren't fit for the job!
moving on, their 'help' with mental health is horrific. you're depressed? just go to class. we cant help you- is the basic attitude they have unless your parents actually contact them, which doesn't even help that much either.
i have a lot of criticism for this school but i also can say they do have some very lovely teachers, and that is the only lovely part about the school.
cams hill school really does need a reality check.

They accused my child of telling somebody to kill themselves on a whatsapp group a few months after she joined, i went through her phone and found nothing. The school doesn’t care about mental wellbeing and only pretends to after a student sadly passed a year ago. Every time you have a day off, they send you a letter saying how poor your childs attendance is and that their GCSEs are going to be very badly effected. I got 4 letters of them threatening to pass on the “case” to the attendance board. Please do not send your kids to this school.

During my time at cams I witnessed and was myself a victim of many bullying incidents that due to lack of interest from the school staff and redirecting of the blame, these incidents continued until police involvement. Not only students were bullies, but some teachers took it upon themselves to encourage unkind comments and create their own insults. Teachers would accuse innocent students of cheating and reward the troubled students. Students that interrupted lessons, broke school rules, smoked and drank alcohol on school site(which staff were aware of) and many other unthinkable behaviours, would be treated as teachers pets, whiles all outstanding students would be lucky to be acknowledged by teachers. There are a few teachers at the school who do not deserve to be teachers according to the schools three strike rule, which in many cases has been exceeded. In particular one of these ‘teachers’ was known for his pervy reputation and his child predictor like behaviour, which caused all students to feel extreme fear of being in his class and feel threatened by his presence. In class the praise and rewards was lacking, often teachers would bribe students with sugary confections and junk food to complete work, which is completely unnecessary. Dispute this there were teachers who were so exceptional and were worthy of more than the school had to offer, these staff always offered lunchtime support and after school sessions. I believe there is a staffing issue in the school especially in the Modern Foreign Language department as almost every other term my teacher would be replaced after staff suddenly leaving without communication with their classes, leading to inconsistencies in teaching standards and gaps in pupil knowledge of the curriculum.