Glan-y-Mor School

I was a pupil in glan y mor, the problem is if you’re not a popular kid the young teachers won’t acknowledge you, or even respect you. and if you’re not smart then a majority of the other teachers also tend to dislike you. I was in between all of that, i spoke to everyone yet wasn’t friends with any of the “important” people, i wasn’t smart but i knew the bits i needed to know. Also, in my experience, they’ve always favoured the bullies. I would get into trouble for chatting to my friends in class but the boys and girls who’d have outbursts all the time would be treated like blue eyed boys and golden girls. it never made sense in my head and often angered me, however i never said anything because if you have a complaint about glan y mor they will choose to ignore it. It’s worse if you’re a pupil speaking your mind, because if they don’t like you it’s easy for them to just twist your words to the parents and make you look disrespectful. I can recall parents evenings too where they’d make themselves seem great, kind, caring. That’s about the only time some of them even smiled at me, when my mum was there to see it. Some of those teachers made me really and truly hate myself, and when my metal health took a decline in my last year of school i really struggled. The head of year mr davies seemed to care at first, but after the first time i spoke about how i felt he’d start to roll his eyes as if i was being dramatic, or as if he thought i was just trying to get out of my lessons, i don’t know what he was actually thinking, but i do know that as a teacher you should never make a child feel like their feelings aren’t valid. I really wouldn’t send your child here, i didn’t realise how bad it was there until i left.

I’d like to add that I wasn’t a badly behaved pupil, I would never lash out or disrespect anyone. Just incase anyone out there reads this and thinks “well they must’ve been disrespectful to some extent to be disliked” no. The worst thing I did in that school was wear a jumper that wasn’t their uniform. Part of me wishes that I was disrespectful, because i didn’t deserve to be treated like that without a reason.

In my last year of school, they brought in a rule where if they saw your phone in a lesson, they would take it and it would stay in the office until a parent came to collect it. This was hard for my parents as they worked. 9-5 and 8-4:30, the school office closes at around 5. Don’t get me wrong, I should’ve just kept my phone in my bag at all times, but I didn’t. I would listen to music so i’d keep my phone under my seat incase i needed to quickly skip a song, and i take responsibility for that, i knew the risks and i take fault. Anyway, this one time I was caught checking the time and had to give my phone in, i tried to explain that it was impossible for someone to get to the school in time to collect it and said that i would put it in my bag and wouldn’t look at it again. Obviously that didn’t work, my stepdad had to try and make it to the school after work just before they closed. It was an after school detention day so there were still pupils and staff in the school. When he got to the school the doors were wide open. He spent ages walking around the school just looking for someone to retrieve my phone from, but that’s not the point. There is no real security in that school. Sure, a majority of the pupils had left and there were no lessons to teach, but what if that was your child in detention, and it wasn’t my stepdad, but a psycho with a gun? The doors were wide open and there wasn’t a single person in the front office. Not only do they disrespect you, they don’t even care about your safety.

Bullies make kids lives hell.
My child had been assaulted and harassed daily which began affecting him quite badly. Headmaster gave me no confidence the situation would be resolved by his actions. School buses are unmonitored so the kids can bully at will.

Full of bullies my child has had to leave due to being assaulted twice in one week and ending up in a+e the 2nd time with a concussion that lasted more than 5 days! The offending child is still in the school!

The school tries really hard with the pupils but I found it really hard to be there. Some teachers you will hate and some you will love just like every school. No matter way they dont give up on someone's future and they try had to make you the best you can be.

Teachers can make a difference. One teacher made a difference in my life which helped me out loads.