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Comberton Village College
Secondary · Academy · Cambridge
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Worst s
Maths
Good education
The children is disobedient and the food is expensive other than that it's alright, I would recommend if you are looking for a good education for your children, home lunches are nice but not necessary. The canteen is available to everyone for a slightly high price
School review
Alright not that bad of a school but the uniform thing is weird
Worst college.
No pastoral care whatsoever. Extremely harsh environment, teachers provide detentions, stickers and isolation for the littlest of things like asking to go to the toilet during lessons. School preaches about individuality and yet you get detentions for wearing makeup jewellery, having haircuts or styling uniform to suit your own body. Facilities are terrible, toilets mouldy and out of action for most of the time. Not enough staff- Many different teachers teaching many different subjects that they are completely unaware of. Difficult to not get bullied and no support or help from teachers when asked for it. Would not recommend it to anyone unless it is an absolute last resort.
Left with good grades but awful mental health
Came out with good grades but that's about it. School was a grades factory with little care regarding student wellbeing.
I was bullied Horrifically the entire time I attended and very little was done about it. It is not an exaggeration that these were the worst years of my life and I'm now in trauma counseling as a result. The school cared more about arbitrary rules about uniform, the length of your skirt or the colour of your hair was a far bigger deal than the abuse you received from other students. Some of the teachers were nice but overall the school was pretty indifferent to wellbeing.
All in all I left with good grades but very poor mental health. I hope that the school is better now than back then but I think that this experience shows there's more to a good school than being rated outstanding by ofsted.
I was bullied Horrifically the entire time I attended and very little was done about it. It is not an exaggeration that these were the worst years of my life and I'm now in trauma counseling as a result. The school cared more about arbitrary rules about uniform, the length of your skirt or the colour of your hair was a far bigger deal than the abuse you received from other students. Some of the teachers were nice but overall the school was pretty indifferent to wellbeing.
All in all I left with good grades but very poor mental health. I hope that the school is better now than back then but I think that this experience shows there's more to a good school than being rated outstanding by ofsted.
Good grades and thats about it
Came out with good grades but thats it. School prioritised grades above all else, to the detriment of student wellbeing. Was bullied really badly most of my time there (and am currently going to trauma counseling as a result) and this was handled very poorly and indifferently though some of the teachers were nice.
Whilst the school did absolutely nothing about bullying it was very strict on arbitrary rules about things like uniform etc
This school may look good but its essentially a grades factory that cares more about its external image than anything else. Hope its a better place now but honestly hated my time there.
Whilst the school did absolutely nothing about bullying it was very strict on arbitrary rules about things like uniform etc
This school may look good but its essentially a grades factory that cares more about its external image than anything else. Hope its a better place now but honestly hated my time there.
Combertonvc
A little bit shit as all schools are but overall a good school with great facilities and decent support for most schools. A good selection of gcse options and mostly good quality teaching
Street lamp abuse
So basically I’m from these endz and I am a street lamp and I’m fuming one of there students stuck gum to my brother and kicked him one also said that I was a massive cock sucking street sign so I got annoyed and shagged his mum (the ugly dog: business over pleasure)
So basically what I’m getting at is that this school is not nice to street lamps 0 stars
🔴🟠🟢 b2 street lamp
So basically what I’m getting at is that this school is not nice to street lamps 0 stars
🔴🟠🟢 b2 street lamp
Ghetto reviews
This school is a zero in my books a student texted my son quote “hello bbg
Do you want my bbc text back if” appauled don’t send your kids here it’s a ghetto (might get inappropriately fiddled with)
Live from concerned mother of 7
Do you want my bbc text back if” appauled don’t send your kids here it’s a ghetto (might get inappropriately fiddled with)
Live from concerned mother of 7
A full assessment of my school experience.
I was in a group for neurodivergent students; I felt welcome at first, but going into my third year I found the staff there uncaring, appearing to value their reputation over kids’ wellbeing. I also felt increasingly stifled and lonely in there, and longed to get out.
A couple of the teachers were of a similar vein: prioritising learning over the kids’ mental wellbeing. However, most of the teachers talked to their pupils, helping ease the learning process and making their lessons enjoyable, interactive and interesting. This was a privilege few other schools might have offered.
Bullying, mental and physical, was a problem that the teachers seemed unwilling to address as long as it didn’t interrupt learning.This is a problem I hope will be resolved soon. As a side point, they also didn’t seem to notice if homework was handed in or done sufficiently.
One more point; I saw very few student of religious and minority groups during my time there, though this might be due to demographics.
On a positive note, however, the library, art department and religion, philosophy and religion and history departments were well-resourced, and given as much care as the subjects other schools would deem more important, such as maths and science.
I will therefore leave this school with a 3/5 score, as I think it has much to improve, and, with the right use of resources and management, it can still do so.
A couple of the teachers were of a similar vein: prioritising learning over the kids’ mental wellbeing. However, most of the teachers talked to their pupils, helping ease the learning process and making their lessons enjoyable, interactive and interesting. This was a privilege few other schools might have offered.
Bullying, mental and physical, was a problem that the teachers seemed unwilling to address as long as it didn’t interrupt learning.This is a problem I hope will be resolved soon. As a side point, they also didn’t seem to notice if homework was handed in or done sufficiently.
One more point; I saw very few student of religious and minority groups during my time there, though this might be due to demographics.
On a positive note, however, the library, art department and religion, philosophy and religion and history departments were well-resourced, and given as much care as the subjects other schools would deem more important, such as maths and science.
I will therefore leave this school with a 3/5 score, as I think it has much to improve, and, with the right use of resources and management, it can still do so.
Not good but also not bad
Even though they are ofsted outstanding it’s not a good school coming from a students point of view. I have been to many schools in my life and comberton wasn’t the best or the worst to be fair. Some of the teachers care about students some don’t. Also they do not handle bullying well. They say they do but they really don’t abs it’s a real shame tbh. Oh forgot to mention the hot desserts are banging and that’s the only reason I give the school 3 stars
It’s okay
The mental health caring team is bad, they really don’t care about you and they just snitch to parents all the time. Classes are okay- teachers do seem to care a little bit and do try and help educate students! Facilities like toilets are really bad, they spent 1Million pounds on a small pointless corridor when they could have improved toilets/music rooms/food/etc
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I also hate bacon rolls.