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Erdington Academy
Secondary · Academy · Birmingham
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Erdington academy review
I am currently trying to take my child out of this school the teachers are terrible and the children that attend run the school and they can''t be controlled. I think this school needs security in the lessons to protect student's as the teachers are scared. Majority of the children that attend come from bad backgrounds and are bullies.students with red ethos cards have to wait 10mins before they can go and eat in the canteen and they can't go to the toilets without a pass.
GCSE’s
Poor hygiene, aggressive teachers, bad food
Aggressive teachers: A receptionist called Julie Colevile punched her fist into her palm twice when I asked why I couldn’t go inside of school early to revise. When I reported this the school protected her and accused me of lying. Every time I saw her back then I felt uncomfortable and nervous. If I parent did that to a student it would be a safeguarding issue, yet when staff does it it’s fine. Lunch lady refused to serve me food if I didn’t take my coat off.
Hygiene: Water leaks, mice in school, open pads in bathrooms, no doors in cubicles in bathrooms, food in toilets, lack of toilet roll, sometimes no soap, hair in food.
Bad food: inside of chicken was sometimes purple, and the chicken used to be the only meal I enjoyed until I found this out, dry chips, dry everything, pizza with hardly any cheese.
Teaching: In year 7 I had a supply for half of the year for science. Then covid happened and in year 10 and 11 we still had supply teachers. In engineering I had a supply for the whole of year 10. In 3d design I had supply teachers for 2/3s of year 11.
Ridiculous rules: we weren’t allowed to have our coats in inside and had to take them off before we came into a building even if it was freezing cold or raining. I got my ethos card signed for hopping a fence and putting my hood up which ended up giving me a detention, which isn’t fair.
Safety: ambulances in school countless times, weapons and fights outside of school, I saw girls being hit by a grown man with a hammer, fights in school, safeguarding don’t do their jobs since they allowed the receptionist to be aggressive and threatening towards me without punishment.
Indoor environment: school was originally built for 300 students yet over a thousand of us were crammed in hallways with hardly any space.
Outdoor environment: litter everywhere, school needs recycling bins
I have come across these problems while being a well behaved and mannered student in this school. My target grades are high, I had 0 negative points and 2 detentions for the whole 5 years I spent at this school. Please do not bring your kids here.
Thanks for reading
Hygiene: Water leaks, mice in school, open pads in bathrooms, no doors in cubicles in bathrooms, food in toilets, lack of toilet roll, sometimes no soap, hair in food.
Bad food: inside of chicken was sometimes purple, and the chicken used to be the only meal I enjoyed until I found this out, dry chips, dry everything, pizza with hardly any cheese.
Teaching: In year 7 I had a supply for half of the year for science. Then covid happened and in year 10 and 11 we still had supply teachers. In engineering I had a supply for the whole of year 10. In 3d design I had supply teachers for 2/3s of year 11.
Ridiculous rules: we weren’t allowed to have our coats in inside and had to take them off before we came into a building even if it was freezing cold or raining. I got my ethos card signed for hopping a fence and putting my hood up which ended up giving me a detention, which isn’t fair.
Safety: ambulances in school countless times, weapons and fights outside of school, I saw girls being hit by a grown man with a hammer, fights in school, safeguarding don’t do their jobs since they allowed the receptionist to be aggressive and threatening towards me without punishment.
Indoor environment: school was originally built for 300 students yet over a thousand of us were crammed in hallways with hardly any space.
Outdoor environment: litter everywhere, school needs recycling bins
I have come across these problems while being a well behaved and mannered student in this school. My target grades are high, I had 0 negative points and 2 detentions for the whole 5 years I spent at this school. Please do not bring your kids here.
Thanks for reading
WORST SKL
THIS IS THE SHITEST SKL EVER I GO TO THIS AND THEY DONT MAKE ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE ONE ALL THE TEACHERS R USELESS APRT FROM MISS MORRISON SHES A GOOD TEACHER BUT THE REST R REALLY STRICT AND USLESS THEY DONT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR STUDENT TO EAT AND THEY SCAM US FOR FOOD WORST SKL EVERRRRRRRR AND PLUS MIST TEACHERS HAVE FAVOURITE STUDENTS AND R NICER TO OTHERS DONT SEND UR KIDS HERE!!!!!!!!!!
Everything
Please don't ruin your children by bringing them here
Horrible school, the administration is garbage and so are most of the teachers. They don't care about students they just care if we look "smart", they care more how lose is our tie rather than our education. Sexism,misogyny and homophobia is completely ignored and so is bullying. The students making complaints about the teachers being inappropriate are ignored and told we are lying. The school counselor is incompetent and under qualified and untrustworthy, Miss Sharp.
The school completely ignores the mental health of the students and don't care about it, instead of helping the students they break our trust and share private information...again Miss Sharp you are not good at your job.
Then Mr.Dutton another mediocre teacher and way to sensitive and unprofessional to work with a bunch of teenagers.
Miss Cook and other people in the administration handled a sexual assault case in the most outrageous way, taking then too long to do something and even protecting the student acused of sexual assult.
Disgusting...everything about this school is disgusting, but hey it doesn't matter, all it matters for them is that damn overpriced uniform made out of the cheapest polyester they could find so you could be cold in the winter and sweat in the summer.
For the safety and health of your children do not bring them here.
The school completely ignores the mental health of the students and don't care about it, instead of helping the students they break our trust and share private information...again Miss Sharp you are not good at your job.
Then Mr.Dutton another mediocre teacher and way to sensitive and unprofessional to work with a bunch of teenagers.
Miss Cook and other people in the administration handled a sexual assault case in the most outrageous way, taking then too long to do something and even protecting the student acused of sexual assult.
Disgusting...everything about this school is disgusting, but hey it doesn't matter, all it matters for them is that damn overpriced uniform made out of the cheapest polyester they could find so you could be cold in the winter and sweat in the summer.
For the safety and health of your children do not bring them here.
Avoid going to this school
Teachers do not care about your mental health.
Review
Teachers are great but the problem is teachers don’t put much effort into bullying i used to get bullied and when I complained they will bring the bully person and make us apologise and forgive each other but that just made it even worser because once the teachers were not looking the bully will strike back
Good school
Good school. Teachers care and teach good lesson. Bad kids taken out. But some kids and parents don’t care. But school does stop them spoiling it for the rest
Not good... But not bad
Since the previous head teacher got promoted and the new head was assigned, the standards (and food) have been slipping... Almost on the verge of poor, many students fight, do drugs or are just generally rude
The school is alright..
The teachers are alright i guess, but some kids that go to this school just ruin it for the good ones
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