Hall Park Academy

The school is terrible. They constantly tell you that they don't tolerate bullying yet nothing is ever done about it. During break and lunch, you can see multiple examples of this happening, yet nothing is done about it. Again, they claim to care about students' mental health but from my experience never really felt like they did. The teachers were terrible and if we ever did have a good teacher they always seemed to leave at the end of the school year and join another school which is no surprise considering how bad the school is. Certain teachers seemed to target certain students in lessons that you had to sympathise with the student because they were constantly targeted for no reason at all. Again during lessons when students were in trouble, the teachers always exaggerated what had happened in the lesson to SLT members. When that student would try and defend themselves the student was shut down straight away with the response always being 'So Miss/Mr is lying then'. Students had no ground to stand on when everyone in the lesson knew that what the teacher said to the SLT members never actually happened. Again I've known students to use racial and homophobic slurs in school yet them students were never excluded for this, they just got away with it. Whenever there was a fight the student who retaliated was always excluded yet the person who started it was never excluded. In lessons SEND students were clearly struggling yet teachers never seemed to help them and the students were then in trouble because they didn't get help, it just doesn't make sense. Whenever a student needed help in lessons and put their hand up to get help, the majority of teachers seemed to always say 'Ask the person next to you' Why aren't the teacher doing the job they're paid for and helping the students that need help. Certain teachers did help students when they needed it and again no surprise that in these lessons these teachers had classes that got top grades constantly. The food at lunchtime, majority of the time was decent food but there were times when the food was cold or burnt and in some cases the chicken was pink. The school has their priorities all wrong, they care more about students' uniform than they do solving bullying, mental health and helping SEND students. It's a disgrace of a school and if I were a parent I would look at other options before deciding to make your child join here.

I was being bullied all the way through secondary and they all told me it's in my head and they wasn't gonna do anything about it.
They was always physical fights and both of us would get excluded. They didn't care about our mental health they more care about Ofsted and see it more as a company then a school. I spoke to one of the teachers about how I felt in general. I told her I couldn't do this anymore and I wanted everything just to stop. They put me in this lunch club with younger students at break and lunch. I didn't have a choice I had to go. I hated it might as well put me in detention. That increased the bullying they called it the 'special room' anyone who goes in there has something wrong with them practically labeling us. Ended up writing a suicide note about school. I had no friends I was being bullied and they was telling me it's all in my head. Its a terrible school and I know I'm not the only one feeling this way. Please check up on your children ask them about school, social life, how they feel in general you never know what a person is feeling it might shock you. To this day I still get reminded how I was treated there. Never knew how much something can impact the rest of your life. I remember a girl in our year locked herself in the P.E cubicle she left a trail of blood as the P.E staff took her out the room. We spoke to her after and she told us the same thing it's all just in our heads.

Not able to tackle bullying and refuses to help people with learning disabilities. The food there is ok other then the pink chicken you get served.

Some aspects are good such as the odd few excellent teachers but for the most part the school is terrible at dealing with issues and have bad priorities; they prioritise punishing students for minor violations of the dress code but ignore evidence of racism and assault.