Chiltern Academy

As a Student, I agree. Seriously why what is this some prison? I had high expectations for them to be crushed immediately on the first day. The Curriculum number 1 doesn't teach you anything about the subject like Religious Education, WHY NOT TEACH TERRORISM, PLASTIC POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE! In Y8, we weren't able to do Business Studies BECAUSE APPARENTLY IT DOESN'T MATTER! So we were forced to do Computer Science which was infinitely worse. What's worse is that I have experience with getting in trouble and the Safeguarding might be the Worse thing I ever seen. It becomes the Tactic of 'Ask Questions to People Involved Separately' which takes FOREVER! Seriously. I got into a fight and it takes 2 days for the issue to be resolved? And what's worse is that it's that the teachers do NOT CARE! Seriously when I say this to you, I am not lying. Imagine this, I'm in my Maths Class, I get called Out of Lesson by my Head of Year. I assume that I did something wrong right? Well I didn't know what I did wrong because seriously what did I do wrong? So I said ‘I don't know what you're talking about’ and my Head of Year said Quote on Quote “Yes, you know what you did”. Now emphasis on the 'YOU'. What does this suggest? That I did something. Then my head of year rambled on about CCTV and then he decided to check it which sounded like a massive lie to make me tell him something. I come back and I get let out 10 minutes early before hometime and I had to go through RECEPTION and then I asked my Parents what happened. So hear this joke of ‘Safety’. My parents wanted to talk to some people who weren't saying nice things to them. So my parents wanted to tell them to stop, they started running and apparently they had it on 'cctv', I got called out of lesson because my parents didn't pick up the phone so obviously I had to do the talk when I had no idea what happened. And they claimed that I knew what happened. Next, Isolation for one day is calm but for another day. It becomes a mental asylum because WHY NOT! We have blue booths (around 20) and you're stuck in there with a Chromebook and 80% of the time there is NO WORK TO DO BECAUSE NO TEACHERS UPLOAD THE SLIDES FOR THE LESSON IN THE CLASSROOM! And what I hate the most in this forsaken school is that they enforce the STUPIDEST things. This year they added 'Uniform Cards' and it sounds like a good idea on paper. Right? But 3 marks = Isolation for the Next 'following' Days. Now I got the 3 Marks immediately but what I found surprising was that teachers weren't giving me the third mark because they didn't want to head to Pastoral to report it. When I got the third mark, My Head of Year was next Door, and my excuse was ‘My Tie fell off’ Which IS SUCH A BAD LIE and they seriously believed it. The School can't enforce things like this and they act like they can! The only teachers who care are the Head of Years and THAT'S IT! No other teacher will try give you Isolation. What's worse? You lose your card? You go to Isolation. Because your Uniform matters so much. 'Your tie will enhance your learning experience to become a true Chiltern Champion'. I would write more but I really don't feel like it and I don't have the time to write 20 more paragraphs why. So sadly or not, this is the end of the review.

Ever since joining this school, my child has become throughly depressed. They often come home crying and talk about how badly some teachers treat them, and how there are a lack of human rights as this school- like going to the toilet. The problem of bullying is not solved as there are numerous accounts online that are cyber bullying people using "mugs" as well as physical and verbal bullying around the school, as well as racist and racially prejudiced comments. Teachers often Teachers often favourite students over others and treat them quite unfairly, often favouriting others due to skin colour or intelligence. The food served is also not of standard and needs many improvements- as well as the water-my child has gotten sick many times due to the water taps.
Please, improve your school.

This school is an absolute joke. They know how to make themselves look good on paper but that’s about it. They don’t like being challenged when issues arise. They offer no support to the kids when needed, ignore emails from parents and the staff lie. Unless your child is a robot then strongly recommend you don’t send your child here.

So bad, dont send your youngling(s) here 😡