Charlton School

rating charlton a 1 star out of 5 is a push there should’ve been a 0 star option. Honestly charlton is the worst school ive ever been to. throughout my 5 years at charlton I’ve dealt with many different issues with students and staff and the staff have done absolutely nothing to help me with them, teachers get involved with drama and continue to spread around rumours about other students even when they are called up on it. the teachers have lied to my face and to my parents about how they’ve dealt with these issues when they know full well that they’ve done nothing to help me. Miss millar is the worst pastoral manager out of the lot and she is not capable of doing the job, she gets involved with drama and makes minor issues into big things. Miss millar was told a rumour about me which I spoke to her privately and explained the backstory of it all and she continued to spread this rumour to other members of staff and to the students in my year. The school as a whole care more about what we look like (hair colour, jewellery, etc) more than they care about our mental health. Mrs Byrne told me at the start of year 11 that I couldn’t wear the school trousers I was wearing because they showed my thighs too much and I tried to explain to her that it’s the only pair I can find in my size and they were £40 and her response was disgusting, she told me that I can’t use my weight as an excuse because there are also other fat girls in the school and it’s not an issue for them! Hearing a teacher body shame me really hurt, I already heard stuff like that enough from students and then hearing a member of staff say that to a 15 year old was appalling!! Miss millar recently told me that I’m a child and I can’t struggle with my own issues as I don’t know what it’s like to struggle and I have an easy life and she told me that anything bad that’s happened to me in my life I deserved it all and I ask for bad things to happen to me. School think all issues revolve around group chats on social media and blame every issue on group chats, miss millar would blame me for incidents that happened between other students even when they had absolutely nothing to do with me, meaning I would get into trouble for absolutely no reason at all! Miss millar is supposed to help students when they are struggling but instead she told me that I make my anxiety ruin everything for me and complained daily about the type of person I am. Im not the type of student who misbehaves, I get on with my day at school and stick to myself in lessons but she constantly dragged me into unnecessary drama distracting me from my education! Though out my 5 years at charlton I’ve spent more time speaking to miss millar and miss Byrne about issues that are completely irrelevant than I have in my lessons learning to help me pass my exams. as my GCSEs were coming closer my mental health was declining even more and I refused to go to school for months due to how the school as a whole made me feel and current situations that was constantly happening: school didn’t even check up on me or do anything to help me come back for 4 months. A week before my exams started multiple teachers made up lies about how I’ve refused to listen to there help knowing they’ve done nothing to help me. When I started charlton school in year 7 I was expected grades 8 and 9 in all subjects, I had so much potential and now in year 11 my GCSEs start In 4 days and I’m hardly even expecting to pass my subjects due to the lack of support the staff have offered me (educational support and mental support) i do not recommend sending your child to charlton school for many reasons. I strongly believe that if I didn’t go to charlton I would have a much better future ahead of me! My exams begin in 4 days and I have no plan for my next journey when I leave charlton school due to the lack of support and opportunities the school have allowed me to have. I always dreamed of going to university and continuing with education after high school ended and my experience at charlton has put me of that dream and I’m not even going to college anymore! Please don’t send you child to charlton school I don’t recommend it at all!

if i could give this school 0 stars, I would. I went to charlton school for 5 years straight and i can confidently say i got no support. The most they ever did was put me in school therapy but kicked me out after a couple weeks because my problems “weren’t important” compared to other peoples on the waiting list. Due to the teachers never taking me seriously my mental health and grades declined massively. If the teachers would of listened to me i would of done better in exams but i failed majority of them because of the lack of support. You only get support at this school if you misbehave. Exams can be redone; a person can’t. If things would of been done differently when i was at school i probably would of succeeded a lot more. DO NOT EVER send your child here.

Overall decent in terms of getting good grades if you try, but horrible with mental health support and handling bullying

very bad school, doesn’t handle racism or bullying well and all teachers are horrific and treat students like prison inmates. In my opinion Charlton is somewhere you would send you children if you want them to be destroyed.

Well where do I start this school is utterly disgusting never helped with any bullying I had while I was their so we got the police involved and finally I moved I have special needs and needed extra support that was never there as I got to year 10 my problems grew worse as I was still working at a year 6 level this school is terrible and glad I left

RACIST SCHOOL.

If you want your child to be bullied and beaten up by racists, send your children here.

Sort it out.

***UPDATE, blocking us on social media will not stop us from raising this issue.***

Only made a statement when everyone posted it all over social media.