Carnoustie High School

School is shocking, kids vaping and smoking weed in school. Bullying is horrendous. If you want you kid to have the worse experience of high school. Send them to carnoustie high. Teachers do nothing about it.

Graduated from here 5 years ago and I see it hasn’t changed AT ALL!

The head teacher was an absolute joke like seriously, he cared about everything except the pupils, especially uniform… i think that tells you everything about what kind of person he is.

As for teachers, I can name about 3 I genuinely think would listen to me and care about me, the rest could not of given a damn!

If you can avoid this school, i 100% would, this school does NOT care about their pupils and their well-being, they just care about the reputation and image… which has REALLY backfired on them lol

Ableist Maths Teacher openly singles out students with learning difficulties and autism before the class to purposefully embarrass them. Refuses to allow them to have special consideration such as extra time when undertaking tests which breaks the disability rights act of 2012.

When taken to the headteacher, she refused to address the situation by playing down the seriousness of the accusations despite being from multiple pupils. Additionally, all toilets access within the school is denied apart from a few disabled toilets with a minimum of one of each floor of the school. This has caused several issues, in-particular the affect it is having on teenage girls starting their periods. There are several complains been made to the pupil council and various department heads throughout the school of girls being denied access to a bathroom (due to them all being locked) for a private space within which to change sanitary products and instead forcing them to wait in the corridor in a large queue for one of the 8 toilets available. It should be made aware that the school has at present (Aug 2022) 821 pupils, more than half of whom are girls!!

Due to the determination of the pupil council these issues have been brought to light on several occasions, with them having scheduled meetings with the principle teacher (Mrs Susan Moffatt). However, nothing has been done about the situation as the head refuses to take it further stating that toilets are available for use throughout the school and that if the pupils (teenage girls) were to openly ask for permission to use one of the emergency toilets then access would be granted. Thus denying culpability and swiftly placing the blame on the pupils themselves, essentially claiming that it is their responsibility to seek toilets when needed (such as changing sanitary products) despite the fact that it was the school who made the choice to lock the male and female bathrooms throughout the school day.

I am an extremely concerned older brother who graduated from the school 3 years ago. I worry about my two younger siblings in the school whom both suffer learning difficulties (autism and dyslexia) and one of whom faces battling an eating disorder on a daily basis. The lack of support in the school now compared to when I was there is APPALLING! Of the many issues within the school (only two of which have been mentioned), the ones that are in my opinion (and the opinion of the general community) the most serious, are the ones which are seemingly impossible to put right. This being due to the way the school is run starting with the new head and her turn-the-other-cheek way of 'resolving' issues. A sweep-it-under-the-rug mentality.

Wouldn’t send your kids here, it’s full of Bully’s and the head teacher is aware of it and does nothing! He makes the victims think they are the bully’s!!!

Absolute shambles of a school, always has been, teachers are bullies, well most are anyway, never get the help you need when asked, the place is an absolute dive! Sometimes feel sorry for the cleaners with half the mess they have to deal with, students pretty much are same as teachers & are very disrespectful & the language coming out their mouths is appalling! Place is just one big joke..
It will never change, head teacher thinks she's something special, but shes not, can't even do her job & gets her minions to fuck up her jobs for her! Place needs demolished & kids need sent to a proper school, with proper education..
100% worst school within the whole of the UK - hands down!!

New head teacher is an absolute write off, doesn’t know the first thing about running a school

Never send your children to this school! The teachers in this school tried to force me to stay on when I didn’t want to by not letting me sit my exams, leaving me now with no qualifications now. The teachers are nothing but bullies. My whole time at this school I was bullied horribly and they never done a thing calling me dramatic. They also allowed a homophobic pastor in the school even though he banned all LGBT students from his assembly’s. I’m surprised this school hasn’t been shut down yet.

Horrible. Go somewhere else. Bew head teacher is satting rukes that dont make sense. Toilets are locked and you need to wait in a huge line to go to the toilet. Teachers dont care about pupils and only care about getting their job done. Even teachers that care just hand your problems to another teacher. If you go to the teacher about mental health they lie on your report and say things you havent even said. School needs help. Lots of it.

most horrible school, horrible teachers, i could name only ONE teacher who was actually respectful to me and helped me always, every single teacher chooses popular kids over ones with not so much friends, treat pupils like they’re worthless, the school genuinely does not care for their pupils as the headteacher does say a lot that they care more about the schools reputation and grades, not gonna get much good reputation and grades when all your pupils are leaving, are stressed, fights, bullying which i can say and everyone else can even court cases, they’re never ever dealt with and more than likely to take the bully’s side. staff are horrible, shout at you, treat you horribly, make you feel worthless. had a teacher who was wearing a mesh mask?? hahaha and she shouted at me for not wearing one. odd. i left cause they treated me horribly and never ever helped me, they single people out or they pick and choose the popular ones. i would never ever recommend this school, would rather die than go back and stay a day at that school.

A quote coming from the head this week (paraphrasing obviously) “I care more about the school’s reputation and name rather than the students”. If you’re shy and at this school, don’t bother trying to come out your shell as they just treat it as “aggressive and unacceptable behaviour”. No study leave granted to the senior students this year for no reason whatsoever. Not sure if other schools do tracking reports but here does and makes you feel dreadful about exams if you’re not getting it even though they give them out every month of the year essentially. Been at the school a fair while now and they claim to be a positive school that moves with the times but really they inflict far too much stress on every, single pupil. One more cherry on the cake, they assign a teacher which has evidently never even heard of football nevermind watched it to “manage” the football team. They set up trials just for the team to already be decided before said trials and the “manager” left the trials after 5 minutes in after seeing who’s fast and who can do a step over the cleanest. However you use this review, whether you’re moving into this area for example, steer clear, steer very very clear, go to monifieth, go to Arbroath, that’s how awful this place is, I’d leave in a heartbeat if it wasn’t for the social aspect of school in general.

I'd rather live in Iraq tbh. The headteacher uses nazi - like rules which as you can imagine isn't good. ** ***** please come back.

Love from the pupils of Carnoustie High School x

Just why does this exist, like 10% of teachers are actually nice and teach you, whole system is a joke.

its alright tbh wouldn't be my first choice

Teaching staff are mostly nice but some teachers can be very sexist and rude. PCS staff can be helpful sometimes but if you come to them with any sort of mental health problem, they will send you to a professional straight away without getting any insight from yourself about your problem/issues. Bullying and fights happen a lot in Carnoustie High School as well and those aren’t dealt with well at all. Overall it is an alright school but really needs improvement in a lot of areas in the long run.

I enjoy the teaching environment, however bullying isn’t dealt with effectively

TEACHERS ARE TOO CARING ABOUT UNIFORM RATHER THAN OUR EDUCATION. THEY CARE MORE ABOUT THE SCHOOL REPUTATION AND ADD YOU INTO CLASSES YOU DIDNT PICK AND DONT WANT TO PICK SO THAT IT WOULD MAKE THE SCHOOL SEEM BETTER

Teachers are bad, there is a very poor quality of learning and they care little about their students only about their reputation. Bullying is rampant and nothing is done about it, kids get battered and all you’ll get for it is a detention.