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Inverness Royal Academy
Secondary · Maintained · Inverness
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Road to aids
The school is terrible the most zesty school ever I have aids after this school the only good things there are little uwu pink chairs cheese and julia laszewicz🧀
A new building that’s already dated
It has no AC and Heating so the temperature is always too hot or too cold, the teachers are useless at stopping bullying and the guidance teachers don’t help at all. The canteen is far too small and I mean tiny, 150 seats for 1300 students, they are preventing us from going on the first floor too which means we have even less room . The head teachers are all horrible and so are most of the teachers that work there
Honestly quite decent
accepting of me being trans, most teachers are ok
Good, but underlying problems
Pros:
Most of the teachers are friendly.
Great range of subjects.
School priorities S4-6.
Have recently (as of 2022) increased the amount of seating.
Amazing facilities such as gym.
You are free to leave the school at lunch.
Andrew at the scotbake van is really chill and sells nice food at better value than the school food.
5 weeks of study leave for S4-6.
School always promoting equality!
Loads of clubs to attend.
Study sessions for S4-6.
Cons:
Annoying S1’s running around the school.
Avoid toilets at all costs.
Wayyyyy too many students for the size of school.
Nicotine products are easy to get and the school doesn’t really care (could be seen as a pro depending on if you use it).
Canteen staff can be dicks from time to time.
Most of the teachers are friendly.
Great range of subjects.
School priorities S4-6.
Have recently (as of 2022) increased the amount of seating.
Amazing facilities such as gym.
You are free to leave the school at lunch.
Andrew at the scotbake van is really chill and sells nice food at better value than the school food.
5 weeks of study leave for S4-6.
School always promoting equality!
Loads of clubs to attend.
Study sessions for S4-6.
Cons:
Annoying S1’s running around the school.
Avoid toilets at all costs.
Wayyyyy too many students for the size of school.
Nicotine products are easy to get and the school doesn’t really care (could be seen as a pro depending on if you use it).
Canteen staff can be dicks from time to time.
Mental health
Absolutely awful school with no regard to mental health issues.
After being absent from school for a few weeks due to being in hospital upon coming back there was absolutely nothing in place to help with my return.
The work load was piled onto me from the weeks I’d missed and I was extremely overwhelmed. Half of the teachers didn’t even remember who I was and the other half didn’t even notice I had been absent from classes and had no clue what was going on.
Due to being in the hospital and coming back to constant pressure from the school I developed bad anxiety problems and started to avoid attending school. I ended up getting referred to a therapist.
The school started to notice my absence and my mother and I were called in for meetings I was basically told to “get over it and I needed to attend school” my therapist ended up working closely with the school and tried to explain to them what would work in helping and what wouldn’t - they didn’t care to listen much to her.
The school had their own social worker woman they assigned to try to help me. She would meet with me outside of school and try to talk about ways of helping me get over my anxiety - as more time was passing by the worse my anxiety got about attending and in the end she even admitted to my mother “I’m so sorry I don’t know how to help”
I ended up leaving this school at 15 years old after 3 whole years of struggling with them. They would tell me to attend - I’d try - get about a week in and would then start avoiding again. They would put things in place to try to help me such as assigning me a constant seat so I would know where I was sitting in classes. I would go in the next day and someone else would be sitting there. The school were not consistent with these things and this would heighten my anxiety.
The day I told my guidance counsellor I was leaving he basically stared at his computer and said “okay”
I asked him if I needed to fill in a form but all he said was no. So I walked out of those doors and haven’t set foot in them since.
I had 0 grades to my name so decided to try giving college a shot. Compared to this high school the UHI is so refreshing - they are HUGE on mental health. It’s amazing. I couldn’t get through one week of this high school because I had 0 support for my mental health issues but I got through a whole year of college because of how understanding and caring all of the lecturers are of mental health. I ended up leaving college with exams and now have a great job. If I ever needed to I would 100% go back to the UHI without any second thoughts.
I don’t think I would even be able to set foot through the IRA doors ever again without having a panic attack.
They have 0 consideration for mental health issues - in their eyes - they have one mould that every student MUST fit into. If not then they don’t know how to deal with you.
To be fair it has been a few years since I left and maybe now they have a better plan in place for students that struggle with their mental health - but judging how this school made me feel years ago - I doubt it.
After being absent from school for a few weeks due to being in hospital upon coming back there was absolutely nothing in place to help with my return.
The work load was piled onto me from the weeks I’d missed and I was extremely overwhelmed. Half of the teachers didn’t even remember who I was and the other half didn’t even notice I had been absent from classes and had no clue what was going on.
Due to being in the hospital and coming back to constant pressure from the school I developed bad anxiety problems and started to avoid attending school. I ended up getting referred to a therapist.
The school started to notice my absence and my mother and I were called in for meetings I was basically told to “get over it and I needed to attend school” my therapist ended up working closely with the school and tried to explain to them what would work in helping and what wouldn’t - they didn’t care to listen much to her.
The school had their own social worker woman they assigned to try to help me. She would meet with me outside of school and try to talk about ways of helping me get over my anxiety - as more time was passing by the worse my anxiety got about attending and in the end she even admitted to my mother “I’m so sorry I don’t know how to help”
I ended up leaving this school at 15 years old after 3 whole years of struggling with them. They would tell me to attend - I’d try - get about a week in and would then start avoiding again. They would put things in place to try to help me such as assigning me a constant seat so I would know where I was sitting in classes. I would go in the next day and someone else would be sitting there. The school were not consistent with these things and this would heighten my anxiety.
The day I told my guidance counsellor I was leaving he basically stared at his computer and said “okay”
I asked him if I needed to fill in a form but all he said was no. So I walked out of those doors and haven’t set foot in them since.
I had 0 grades to my name so decided to try giving college a shot. Compared to this high school the UHI is so refreshing - they are HUGE on mental health. It’s amazing. I couldn’t get through one week of this high school because I had 0 support for my mental health issues but I got through a whole year of college because of how understanding and caring all of the lecturers are of mental health. I ended up leaving college with exams and now have a great job. If I ever needed to I would 100% go back to the UHI without any second thoughts.
I don’t think I would even be able to set foot through the IRA doors ever again without having a panic attack.
They have 0 consideration for mental health issues - in their eyes - they have one mould that every student MUST fit into. If not then they don’t know how to deal with you.
To be fair it has been a few years since I left and maybe now they have a better plan in place for students that struggle with their mental health - but judging how this school made me feel years ago - I doubt it.
Inverness Royal academy review
It’s an alright school ig
Cons:
Druggies. A bunch of them
Teachers can be mean
PE is mandatory till S5 (3 periods a week min)
RMPS is mandatory and one of the RMPS teachers is Homophobic and Transphobic
Really crowded halls and it’s hard to find seating
kinda cliquey like you have the basic kids, the gays/cosplayers/weebs
SMT will prioritise S4-6
bathrooms are manky
foods not the worst but it ain’t healthy
they give us too much work over lockdown
fairly cold
very crowded
Pros:
great range of subjects
Dress code is relatively chilled
Loads of clubs
lots of fundraisers
The one way system is pretty good
you can get music tuition from Highlife via the school
great PE facilities
Free period products available in girls bathroom on the first floor, disabled bathroom in the PE dept and in the nurses office
School captains and stuff are all lovely
one of the few schools with lessons in scottish gaelic
Cons:
Druggies. A bunch of them
Teachers can be mean
PE is mandatory till S5 (3 periods a week min)
RMPS is mandatory and one of the RMPS teachers is Homophobic and Transphobic
Really crowded halls and it’s hard to find seating
kinda cliquey like you have the basic kids, the gays/cosplayers/weebs
SMT will prioritise S4-6
bathrooms are manky
foods not the worst but it ain’t healthy
they give us too much work over lockdown
fairly cold
very crowded
Pros:
great range of subjects
Dress code is relatively chilled
Loads of clubs
lots of fundraisers
The one way system is pretty good
you can get music tuition from Highlife via the school
great PE facilities
Free period products available in girls bathroom on the first floor, disabled bathroom in the PE dept and in the nurses office
School captains and stuff are all lovely
one of the few schools with lessons in scottish gaelic
Eh, but no more pupils we beg you
Cons:
Academic:
School grades compare really badly towards the rest of the country
Building:
Cafeteria way too small for ammount of people in the school (no chairs);thus people have to go outside, where there arent enough benches for the ammount of people outside.
They sell A LOT of unhealthy foods under the lable of healthy bakery or something.
They told us we were one of the best schools in scootland (which we arent... by far) so they feed weird propaganda to kids
Pros:
A lot of the teachers are nice (but in the long run teachers being just nice doesnt always positibely affect your grades)
Great language departments, including french, spanish, german, and scottish gaelic.
Children are let outside to Asda at lunch
Good special needs facilities
Academic:
School grades compare really badly towards the rest of the country
Building:
Cafeteria way too small for ammount of people in the school (no chairs);thus people have to go outside, where there arent enough benches for the ammount of people outside.
They sell A LOT of unhealthy foods under the lable of healthy bakery or something.
They told us we were one of the best schools in scootland (which we arent... by far) so they feed weird propaganda to kids
Pros:
A lot of the teachers are nice (but in the long run teachers being just nice doesnt always positibely affect your grades)
Great language departments, including french, spanish, german, and scottish gaelic.
Children are let outside to Asda at lunch
Good special needs facilities
...no
cons:
wayyy too many students for the size of the building
some teachers are useless and/or mean
the school is very cold most of the time
nowhere to sit outside at break and lunch (and all the tables are full and crowded inside)
they’ve been saying theyll add stuff for years but never have
they sometimes lock the bikesheds and forget to unlock them at hometime for hours
no social distancing
nothing to do at break and lunch,, are there is to do is stand around in the cold, all crowed with loud people and wait for the next mind numbing class
pros:
mr trinder is a god ❤️
lets us go to asda at lunch
the toilets have good doors (so u can hide in them)
dont send your kids here its too crowded we dont need more
P.S. bring back the lgbt club thing at lunchtime, that was the only fun thing but then you removed it because some homophobe got angry on twitter or something
wayyy too many students for the size of the building
some teachers are useless and/or mean
the school is very cold most of the time
nowhere to sit outside at break and lunch (and all the tables are full and crowded inside)
they’ve been saying theyll add stuff for years but never have
they sometimes lock the bikesheds and forget to unlock them at hometime for hours
no social distancing
nothing to do at break and lunch,, are there is to do is stand around in the cold, all crowed with loud people and wait for the next mind numbing class
pros:
mr trinder is a god ❤️
lets us go to asda at lunch
the toilets have good doors (so u can hide in them)
dont send your kids here its too crowded we dont need more
P.S. bring back the lgbt club thing at lunchtime, that was the only fun thing but then you removed it because some homophobe got angry on twitter or something
Review
The school do to much to worry about school uniform rather than caring about people who need help.
Culduthel Road, IV2 6RE, Inverness
01463 222884
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