Colchester High School

Absolutely awful experience. decent education but SEND support entirely underwhelming full of empty promises and the SENCO always forgetting conversations and promises she made because she has two jobs. The school environment encourages an astonishing amount of bigotry among students by not properly dealing with clear and evidenced instances of racism homophobia and sexual harassment. many instances have been reported to higher staff about the severely toxic rape culture at the school that school support staff either minimise or cover up to a shocking extent. i could go into more details about how students are severely failed by the school and how shocked i am that they haven’t been sued for false advertising for claiming to create children prepared for tomorrow’s world when our PSHE lessons supposedly teaching us about tomorrow’s world consisted of an untrained teacher with a free period annoyedly rushing through a ten minute powerpoint that they themselves don’t understand and telling everyone to just do work for fifty minutes. i can recall one PSHE lesson when we were taught about what she wrongly called cognitive brain therapy and about how under 18s cannot be prescribed antidepressants which is categorically wrong and im shocked this hasnt been rectified. we were also shown a video about homophobia and told to watch the end at home as they couldn’t show us at school but much to the horror of me and my classmates the video showed a graphic depiction of a young child ending her own life. this is not the school you want your children and especially not your daughters in if you have any respect for their wellbeing. find a school that cares