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George Spencer Academy and Technology College
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New 'headteacher' required ASAP
'Headteacher' unfit for purpose
If there was a way to leave minus stars, I would.
The staff are put under immense pressure from a so called 'head teacher' who pressurises and bullies staff, leaving them in tears by the end of each day. She bleats on about 'excellence' and 'targets', but demonstrates no compassion or empathy. She is problem-focussed and destroying staff morale. In my opinion, she needs suspending pending an investigation for bullying and harassment. I am speaking as a spouse of someone that has worked there, who used to come home in tears because of that abhorrent thing. I would not send my child to that school, because of low staff morale, subsequent frequent staff sickness, and a dictator making a hash of trying to run a school. She needs to go ASAP!
The staff are put under immense pressure from a so called 'head teacher' who pressurises and bullies staff, leaving them in tears by the end of each day. She bleats on about 'excellence' and 'targets', but demonstrates no compassion or empathy. She is problem-focussed and destroying staff morale. In my opinion, she needs suspending pending an investigation for bullying and harassment. I am speaking as a spouse of someone that has worked there, who used to come home in tears because of that abhorrent thing. I would not send my child to that school, because of low staff morale, subsequent frequent staff sickness, and a dictator making a hash of trying to run a school. She needs to go ASAP!
horrible school
I am student here and in my fod tech room there was a rat and instead of killing it my teacher picked it up and put itin a different room and did not wash her hands after , then she started coking without washing her hands!! -3 hygeine
GCSE's
Protected a Teacher who made Racial Slurs.
The Construction Teacher made racial slurs to my son, there was an independent witness, but, the school chose to believe the teacher. Some of the teachers are bullies and I wonder why they are in this profession. My son got detention for having the corner of his shirt out after playing football at lunch time. Rather than mentioning this to him, they gave him detention. Ridiculous!! English/Maths Teachers are great!
DONT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE
This school is very bad I can’t believe how bad it is the senior leadership team don’t care about you they have more interest on Facebook marketplace on their phone than a kid lying on the floor screaming in agony this happened once and the teachers didn’t care till the last minute of break just to come up to him and say you have to go to your lesson now rather than helping him or calling first aid they apparently have no money when they re painted the lines and do stupid stuff that no one asks for also they have no disabled toilet I have never seen a disabled toilet in this school. They don’t care about your mental health and just want to shove worksheets in your face. There’s so much homework that you can’t even take a walk to a shop there’s never been a week where we haven’t had a single piece of homework. The teacher shout at you for the stupidest reasons like you haven’t put a full stop or a comma or why are you looking down and someone got a 20 minute detention for asking a question. In the maths block you get a SLT detention (a hour) for going down the wrong stairs even though the teachers go down it themselves. The pupils support centre somehow get payed for “helping “ students when they are sick or getting bullied I vomited outside it and they said “walk it off and drink some water “ very good help isn’t it psa. All the teachers target people every lesson when they are literally not doing anything but the work but people are talking around them but the teacher tells them off obviously because they have no clue what’s going on and that’s why teachers never finished school because there still in it after the 3867 years of teaching and being in school at this point just live there WARNING DO NOT SEND YOU CHILD HERE (from a year 7 student)
DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE!!!!!!!!!
shit school dont send your child here if you want them to be happy.
dk what to put here
this school is horrible. its more like prison than a school. the staff are horrible, multiple times have gotten yelled at and called an attention seeker while having a panic attack. they never do anything about bullying they just make it worse. psa dont do shit.
Consider carefully to send your kids here
The one star is only for some nice subject teachers who try their best to help. The staff run the school, make the rules are awful. Please do not send your children in this school if your kids are not super behaved and no issues at all in the school. Otherwise, they would become the prisoners and no respect to them at all. When your kids make mistakes, no matter big or small, they just punish you by throwing you into the isolation/detention room. They do not care about students education, they just want to have a easy life and blame on students for everything. No wonder it is not only a 'good' school not 'outstanding' anymore although I still doubt about 'good'.
George spencer academy
People get bullied alot and school does nothing
Awful, squeaky clean on the out side - no heart and cold inside.
Child well fair not considered. Needs not met. School have progressively made things worse - now my child will not attend at all. I get the blame as it’s the parents responsibility for their child to attend school! I’m sure this is how they get rid of the “weaker/difficult/ ones with needs”!! Communication with school is slow, disappointing, negative. Do not send your child here, unless they are text book perfect!
worst school in nottingham
This school is more like a prison then a school
teachers are awful
The amount of times my child has called me crying in the toilets is disgusting and it’s because of the idiots running the school. If you want your child to have an actual education, and not just be thrown in isolation for everything then this isn’t the place for you. I also think that getting screamed at and told to shut up for talking in lesson is disgusting and inappropriate, along with teachers telling literal children that they don’t have any respect for themselves for having their skirt rolled up (it’s grown men that are saying this to our kids). If your child suffers with mental health it will just be disregarded and the head of well-being will continue to scream in your child’s face whilst they’re having a panic attack due to their shouting (i was on the phone to her on mute and heard everything, it’s disgusting and hurtful to hear the way they speak to your children). Children are told to respect the teachers, even though the teachers have absolutely no respect for them. This school gives out detentions for absolutely anything. Half of the teachers, like Dr Jones don’t deserve a job at the school as they don’t even teach properly, they just tell you to figure it out and don’t explain the work given to the students, and then be-little them and make them feel stupid when they don’t get full marks on tests, and tell them that they won’t go anywhere in life without being a chemist. Any sense of individuality is not allowed, no piercings, no dyed hair and everything about students has to be the same. Don’t get me wrong, teachers like Miss Billig, Miss Wilson and Mr Ratcliffe have been really supportive and really helpful towards my daughter and it’s teachers like them that deserve a job at this school. Not teachers that make students feel worthless. Sorry for the rant, and i hope the school sort these issues out before more kid’s mental health is destroyed.
student
Draining school
as a student at this school i see first hand how terrible the school is,the most disgusting part is the teachers, I have been grabbed by a pshyco of a science teacher he is vile to students there has been many reports about him,I tried to tell a teacher about what he did but as always got ignored.the only thing this school cares about is money and uniform,it isn’t right.students are made to feel like they’re nothing and no one and that if u don’t have 6 stripes on your tie you won’t succeed in life.They shout in your face and tell you you shouldn’t eat takeaways if you want clear skin.The school has treated me and everyone I know in the most disgusting ways,I was so good in primary this school changes people for the worst.don’t send ur child here if you want them to be happy.the food is so expensive and undercooked they don’t cater towards those with different food allergies.The school is discriminative and it shouldn’t be running,Some teachers are so nice and see how vile the other ones can be but overall 90 percent of them are vile.They have no care in the world towards young peoples mental health who have problems at home.They shove you in isolation for 7 and a half hours for the smallest reasons like losing your report or walking away from someone when your crying.they have no intention to help any student.The head of well-being is supposed to be there for students right? Well he is not he is one of the worst people there,He followed me round the school screaming horrible things at me and many other students he has done the same too,It’s like they take their problems out on us.They act all nice for ofsted but believe me it’s all fake.This school could be so much better and a nicer environment for students if some of the teachers left.
hate this school
i’m in year 9 at gsa. there’s not a single day where i don’t cry to my parents about not going to school. first off i’d like to adress how people treat you and make you feel, you only fit in if your pretty or popular. no one cares who you are if you don’t fit into their special categories. i’m not one of them people. the kids make you feel lonely and different. they’re so horrible and the amount of bullying and judging at that school is horrendous. also the mental health team isn’t great. i was sent in to one of the link buildings about my depressive state and my unsafe way of dealing with my problems. i had one talk with her and she never brought me back into her office again. i was in a really bad state too. there was no checkups, nothing. being at this school is a straight up prison, you can’t wear any jellwery and have specific hair styles and colours. the students can’t express themselfes in the ways they want to. they just have to act like robots and copies of each other to impress the community and offsted. the teaching is so poor too. they don’t care about the knowledge you receive they just want their pay. the subs just sit there and do nothing so the class will miss behave all lesson. the uniform and pe kit is well expensive too. especially if you have more than one child, your not allowed to buy cheap skirts or jumpers. it has to be all branded and boys can’t wear shorts. that’s ridiculous in the summer. overall this school makes me want to die. nothing about it is good. it’s a literal nightmare. please don’t send your child to this school unless you want them to feel the same way i do
Terrible
I have had 4 children go through this school (one still there) and would not recommend it to any other parents. The school has an ethos of bullying from pupils and teachers to pupils. They seem to care more about their image than the pupils, especially children with neurodiversity. They have a ‘our way or no way’ attitude and will never admit getting anything wrong. The budgeting goes to ridiculous new ‘traditions’ rather than the pupils and the SEND provision is non-existent. Ethos of bullying and disrespect. If your child is shy, anxious or different they will not cope in the environment the staff provide. Children are shoved and hit on the bridge over the A52 and despite many parents complaints it is still not supervised and teachers outside stand looking at their mobiles looking bored, or screaming at kids for the ‘wrong shoes’. A renect work experience teacher was heard on their phone outside the school saying ‘don’t ever work here they treat the pupil’s disgusting’. I echo this sadly as a parent.
Dont go here
Bad school dont go here they are mean
Abousolutaley shocking
Teachers treat you like prisoners and don't let you go to the toilet even when you are desperate. Don't let you go inside when it's raining so everyone croud under the tinniest bit of shelter. Teachers also don't let you have your own opinion and say you are being rude if you try to say something. Also the food is so overly price it's £2.30 for a horrible tasting burger and some water. Also having mold on the buns of the burgers.
Shat school dont go here whatever you do parents
This school is so bad It doesn't help anyone it puts you on report for having 5 warnings in 1-week school dinners are overpriced and mouldy i had a raw chicken burger its £2.30 for burger with water Teachers dont help you for big things I wasn't allowed to go to First aid (which is poor) When my head was bleeding, I've been threatened with having a 2 week suspension for not calling a teacher sir. I constantly get detentions for shaking my knee when i can't help it. Bulling is so frequent Like people hate this school its not safe at all there isdealing all the time. 2 students in late 2021 got expelled for having knives on them there is always fights
Appalling
Students don’t feel safe the children act appallingly and are out of control. Staff scream and shout and do not help the new year 7’s adjust. They are just abandoned, there are other more caring schools on the area. Good luck actually speaking to someone. Lack of communication. I work in education and this really is a poor education for your kids not world class as it states
Bad school
Bc they don't deal with mental health and bulling and they don't have proper meals
Not great
They do not handle situations well.
George Spencer Academy traumatized me
This school is treacherous. The last time I attended GSA i was absolutely battered on my first day just because I took a piss on the lawn. The teachers made comments on my bunda and called me butters to my face. The bathrooms are the pits and smelled of horse droppings and the uniforms are like prison uniforms. I came in naked on a non-uniform day and was expelled for no reason. 0/10 would not recommend
student
Worst School Ever
They do not help with bullying at all and don't work with kids to talk it out they just make them write.
Worst school
Very bad school, absolutely horrible mental health management and absolutely no action against bullying from students or teachers, yes the teachers treated students with no respect either. I only left 2 stars for the poor nice teachers who were trying their best to keep us mentally stable and happy at school and trying to make a difference and talk some sense into the higher powers of the school. I had to endure so much bullying throughout years 7 all the way up to 11 and it's left me with severe anxiety and many more issues, and my own little brother hated that school so much that he became heavily unwell mentally and started hurting himself. Please do not send your kids here.
This school is like Alcatraz prison
DO NOT JOIN THIS PRISON OF A SCHOOL, and when I say PRISON I’m not joking, I’m being serious, this school treats you like an inmate in jail. U wil get mire isolations than detentions and if you dont know what an isolation is, it is where u sit in a claustrophobic little booth type thing doing nothing and not moving for 6 & a half hours and u have to stay after school for another 1 hour, in total 7 hours and 30 minutes sat in a little booth with no movement is awful for the body and health and a teacher monitors u for the whole 7 hours like a prison guard. Its torture and I normally get isolations just for not wearing a tie, having the correct school shoes on because I dont have any or because I forgot to wear my lanyard which is now ANOTHER key thing you have to wear in this ridiculous, pathetic, uncultured school. They just pretend to be good infront of offsted then treat you so disrespectfully its unreal. One of the worst schools I have ever attended in my life, I have to suffer with bullying for 5 years there without any teacher doing anything to the bullys even though I told them and mentioned everything 1 million times from the past 5 years. Worst school, do NOT attend if u want ur kid to be happy in there life
student
School needs to change !!!
Where do I start with this school, teachers… the teachers in this school are not nice at all, my friend once cried because a teacher called her rude, no teacher should make a child cry, my other friend got yelled at and screamed at in the face because she said oh my God. I’m convinced that the teachers at the school just wanna feel the higher than everybody else and make ridiculous rules that don’t even make sense just because they wanna feel in control of their life and a feel like they have power. I could make a list of all the pedophiles and perverts at my school, for example one teacher followed my friend into the bathroom and listened to her pee, One of the teachers at our school was on the sex offenders list but they still were allowed to teach young girls, One teacher made my friend go into his office because apparently the leggings she was wearing for PE were not allowed and insisted that she turned around to see the back of her trousers when the female teacher next to him said that it was fine he insisted on seeing behind of her, On non-uniform day girls are not allowed to have ripped jeans because it would be distracting to the male teachers, if there are teachers in our school that are distracted by kneecaps, they shouldn’t be teaching, they are also strict about girls showing their ankles when they’re wearing trousers ! There’s also a lot of sexism in the school, My friend had started their period and they wanted two of their friends to come with her to get a pad and the teachers told them off and gave them A detention because They went with her and said that it was not his problem if they started their period and That she doesn’t need all of her friends, may I remind you that this was a male teacher. School teachers also make comments about children’s weight and acne, One of my friends was told that she needs to eat less McDonald’s if she wants less acne, One of my other friends was asked if she was gaining weight because her trousers were “tight”. The sad thing is that none of the teachers do anything about this and all the issues that are in the school, they have a well-being phone line acting as if they care about pupils mental health but then actually they don’t care at all And don’t give us the time of day for our opinions and to express our feelings, also the main reason is that people would call their well-being line is for about abuse from teachers and teachers making them feel down (also about students but with that they don’t even care at all). Kids that are favouritised and lot of the time its the students that actually do wrong things but nobody cares what they do and they only care for the students that aren’t following there strict rules in particular, for example me and my friends were all sitting on the table eating our lunch and one student who is way more less behaved than loads of other students, asked one of our teachers to Move us of a table and the teacher actually did it and all of us had to move for that one student to sit down. my friend was grabbed by her bag and the teacher would not let go, and afterwards she was shaking cause she was so scared and she tried to complain about it to the school and they did not do anything, the teachers upset my friend so much that she goes home and cries about a certain teacher who is always rude to her and makes her doubt herself. The school make it seem like they’re so perfect and they make themselves an ethos of excellence and make it as though the teachers always follow And the students need to learn from it, one of the ethos of excellence is respecting individuality but then the school doesn’t let you have two earring piercings in your lobe, wear any bracelets, necklaces, you’re not allowed to dye your hair and more… because it’s “distracting” in lessons and if a student tries to express their opinion they are shut down and told that they are being rude. There is racism and all kinds of bullying in the school but all they care about is the length of a tie! One Of the ethos of excellence is being polite fair and honest but yet the teachers speak to the students in such rude ways and scream and spit at their faces and don’t let the students go to the toilet after a two hour lesson, refusing a basic human need. They don’t allow you to go to the toilet at lesson time but then we had to go to toilet at break you have to lineup for it and if you’ve been too many times in the past week they claim you are always going in there for and that you have to wait longer because you go to the toilet often, They also tell you that you can go in between lessons but when you go in between lessons and you’re slightly late to class they give you a late mark. They Make the school as if it’s a prison and always sees students as causing trouble and never doing as they’re told when they’re just doing normal things that people do. PE kit is also an issue my mum bought me new joggers for PE at the start of the year and then I was told I’d have to get new ones because they were made out of cotton ?! Boys were bullying my friend and all the teacher could say was “boys will be boys”. I find a distinct amount of racism at my school not just by students but also teachers, students are allowed to bring in pride flags and wear pride flag badges on their blazer but when I brought in a Palestinian flag and people were wearing Palestinian flag badges on their blazer we were all immediately told off and told to take it off, this is nothing against members of the LGBTQ community I just find it isn’t fair. The annoying thing is the school never takes anyone’s opinion, students or parent and I bet this review will mean nothing because they will not listen to anyone’s opinion and constructive criticism. The issue is also phones, the new headteacher has banned phones and sometimes My parents messages me or calls me, tried to call me at lunch and break and I got my phone taken off me because of my own mother wanting to contact me, and teachers walk around in high viz jackets and hold walkie talkies and there is lots of cameras in the school, acting as if the students are criminals for silly things, it is a school not a prison !!!!! They also never listen to any students needs or wants, my teacher asked me to stay behind after class but I left because my mum was waiting for me and my teacher came to me the next day and confronted me about it I told him that my mum was waiting for me and he said “that is not my problem”. The way this school make students feel and how this school makes treats the pupils is not okay !! This school needs to change their system and fast because it is messed up !!!
I hate this school
**** ******* is horrible she thinks she’s all that but youre not you just yell at kids all day and she changed the school into a actual prison and the uniform is so ugly like the headteacher
student
student
don’t go to this school please, you will get punished for every little thing you do, i have had more isolations than detentions for silly things such as asking for the toilet and ‘being rude’ when i explained that i was desperate. teachers are seen as more important than students and they don’t want to listen to your problems unless your mum calls up and complains for you. i also find it unfair how strict the uniform is, you have to ask to take off your blazer in the heat, boys aren’t allowed to wear shorts in the heat and top buttons have to be done up when it’s scorching hot or else it’s a detention. you aren’t allowed to express yourself with piercings or hair colour either because that’s not allowed. school is meant to be the best time of your life, but it’s not. bullying is ignored too, i know many people that have had to leave because bully wasn’t taken care of. should be ashamed tbh.
The rules need to be changed
The rules are way to strict, I am a student and multiple times I have been told that on hot days, only the school can decide when it’s hot enough to take off your blazer (at break and lunch). I asked if I could roll up my sleeves instead they smirked and said no. I also believe they are not as supportive as they say they are, my maths teacher told me there is no chance that I could get any higher than a grade 5 and yet couldn’t give me any names of people who could help me when I asked. In pe I am basically forced to buy knew clothes as they have a small logo on it or I will keep getting detentions, I have a perfectly fine red top I have been using for a year and a half and now suddenly it isn’t approved because of a tiny logo. If I ever tell this to a member of staff face to face my problems will just be ignored.
New intakes think twice parents
I would think before sending your child to this school. The rules for the children are petty and icolation is used for every little thing. My child was bullied so much and they punish the child that has bullied as well. Their is more bulling in the school now then their has ever be. Kids are not allowed to talk out term else their in trouble for that. A child unzipping a pencil case got detention how bad is that. You decide which is best for your child and watch their self asteem go down
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The staff are put under immense pressure from a so called 'head teacher' who pressurises and bullies staff, leaving them in tears by the end of each day. She bleats on about 'excellence' and 'targets', but demonstrates no compassion or empathy. She is problem-focussed and destroying staff morale. She appears to get satisfaction from challenging staff in front of their peers to enhance her psychological / emotional abuse and intimidation, just like any worthless bully would, instead of the expected solution-focused professional discussion in a private area, with support where needed. She obviously has issues at home and takes out her frustrations on the staff. In my opinion, she needs suspending pending an investigation for bullying and harassment. I am speaking as a spouse of someone that has worked there, who used to come home in tears because of that abhorrent thing. I would not send my child to that school, because of low staff morale, subsequent frequent staff sickness, and a dictator making a hash of trying to run a school. She needs to go ASAP!