Eggar's School

Horrible school. My daughter has been told by other children to ‘ slit her wrist’ and to ‘ kill herself’ to which I have tried multiple times to get help to stop this by ringing up the office and asking for meetings with the head teacher of the school Ms Sarah Holman and have been refused or been told that they will call me back to discuss having a meeting and haven’t heard anything been weeks, months and still nothing how can a school allow this to happen.

Worst school ever my son got fly kicked

I'm a student at eggars school in year 7, and there are some really bad things happening in the toilets. for example i saw 5 older girls going into a disabled toilet all together and laughing and saying "im so excited to do this" and grabbing something out of their pockets. i was getting bullied at the start of the year, im not giving any names but the were really mean and rude abut my family.umm just to say there is this annoying girl called tabby tompkinson who has bullied me and my bestie since the beggining of school she cried in primary and was told not to come to school she was barley ever there like she was a ghost . she literally called my friend eva a fat pig and "she needs to loose weight and she was a fat little piggy" has no friends the some picks up on her atitude she goes running and crying to mummmmy because she works at the school her mum really needs to teach her some maturity and to be respectful and nice she is a bully who needs to grow up and stop being disrespectful . we need too stop bullying becaus either most of the time it becomes suicidel and wrong.and taby needs to have a tast of her own medicine and wake up becaue she is a big loser and she needs to stop beening woke and she makes pepole upset and bestie just want to hang out and not having to deal whith bratty taby she is the most evil girl ive ever met she needs to get lost or be a ghost forever .

Eggars school is crap they don’t even teach properly and they always send students out and they always random search you

Very poor communication with families. Very poor pastoral care. Headmaster does not engage and dies not reply to emails with concerns.

Excellent school with fantastic resources

I am a year 8 student who is a student at eggars school. When I joined eggars in year 7 I was promised many things that have yet to be ticked off. The racist, homophobic, vile and sexual comments that are made by students on a daily basis is “normal” and is no shocker. I have report multiple time my concerns about the comments and I was reassured that “punishments” were happening and nothing happened. In year 7 I was extremely bullied and picked on for multiple reasons and when I reported my concerns they did nothing. This impacted my behaviour and soon they realised and called home about it. When they don’t see something right, instead of sitting with u and talking to you they phone home with no warning. The teachers there are rude, inconsiderate and stuck up around the school. It seems like they are always in a bad mood and they impact it on you. They degrade you and make you feel low no matter what you do. Now in year 8, I have sorted my friendship groups and my behaviour yet somehow I still am not the “best” because no one is to them. The education is alright apart from the after school clubs they call “eggars experience.” They practically force you to go and when you don’t, they contact home. 90% of the time when they contact home it’s usually very exaggerated to what either happened or said. Most teachers take what their power is to advantage use this towards your education. Over all eggars isn’t a nice school and I wouldn’t recommend it for someone who wants to be a happy, educated person.

Teachers are unfortunately incompetent and communicatively challenged, they lose important work, grade unfairly and if they dont like you they will make your life miserable. You can email them multiple times for support and get no response whatsoever. The office staff also tend to be heavily unreliable, often ‘losing’ important documents when it suits them.

If i could rate safety and security 0 i would. The school is an extremely unsafe environment with students with dangerous tendencies being allowed to freely wander the school simply because theyre on sports teams. I felt like my life was in danger multiple times on their grounds and yet, even after informing people multiple times, they proceeded to continually put me in potentially dangerous situations with these students.

Pastoral support is useless. If you value your time and energy then dont go to them for anything.

Equal rights are also awful, students are sexist, homophobic, transphobic, even racist, and teachers support this ideology because ‘everyone has the right to an opinion’ even when these opinions are being weaponized to make their peers feel unsafe and intimidated.

Basically if you arent liked by the faculty here you may as well just give up and go to a different school. All of the teachers could have a degree in favoritism if they so wished.

The only personal development this school gave me is now being afraid to leave the house and anxiety and ptsd symptoms that now completely dominate my life. Thanks.

Dont send your kids here. Especially not if theyre part of a minority group.

It will take years of therapy to undo the damage this place has given me.

Eggar's has some of the best teachers in the state school system. They are kind, passionate and want to help students achieve. However after my 5 years experience there, I have found the leadership to be underwhelming. It lqcks any real leadership from the head and whilst it boasts it's science department, it does not set any classes until year 10 - leaving some (me) to catch up on a year's worth of learning. As for covid they are hypocritical in asking students to wear masks by pulling their mask down to instruct. Recently I asked for a reference from college and gave them 6 weeks to write one only to find out that the day before my interview that they had left it and it only arrived to the college two days later. They let students freeze in the school hall in mock exams to give them an "authentic feel". As I said the teachers are great and you will do well if you want to.