I've 3 kids that have been through this school and it's got so much better. The head has been there for a while now and seems to be making changes for the good. The kids are all pretty rough and tumble but a good bunch overall.
Avoid if your kid is a wet lettuce
The teachers don’t even care about mental health and they’re so annoying and selfish. Also they do random bag searches if you take too long in the toilet.
Awful school terrible leadership team. Some very good teachers but a lot that dont care about childs education. No support for children who struggle with exam pressure. Headteacher is rude and is trying to turn school into the same as a privare school.
The ofsted rating for this school isn’t the greatest but it’s actually good academically. When I was there, I was getting As, A*s & A**s. The critical content books they supply are so helpful to the students in exams. Wish every school would do that. In terms of bullying, things aren’t handled very well and a lot of people from the school have resorted to self harm which isn’t good. When I was there with and I had an abusive father, they didn’t handle it very well when I told them. They brought him in and told him I’d said what was going on and of course he denied it and there was no further investigation as they didn’t believe me and I just got a beating that night. The teachers are good though and everything else is fine really. There’s a lot of gum under tables and writing on the walls but it’s not a distraction as such. The school is great all apart from safeguarding really.
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