Ivybridge Community College

Im a Year 9 student
I hate it
Cresswel is weird
My friend who just joined the school and has problems with her digestive system pooed herself cuz they wouldn’t let her go to the toilet
Ps. They don’t even have the sausage rolls anymore

Absolutely horrendous as a student who recently attended ivybridge and has left this year from my experience throughout the years the school gradually got worse as in year 7 the school had a different head teacher but unfortunately they left and that resulted in miss Hutchinson becoming head of the school. With this decision she gradually brought in rules that negatively effected all students ages 11-16 (year 7 to 11) with these new rules there was a heighten in mental health issues (with me myself struggling with them due to the school) to those who prior to attending the school didn't struggle with. Though throughout my years at ivybridge they gradually got worse i would say that my most crucial years were most effected due to the extent of control the school wants to have over every student, theres no way for anyone to represent their personality or individuality when in school. Another aspect of the school that negatively effects it would be how hypocritical they are with rules, one major rule would be skirts rolled, yes i understand that some people got over the top with skirt rolling but the majority dont, how they are hypocritical about this qould be if i had an unrolled skirt but my friend had a rolled skirt the same length as mine it would be unacceptable despite mine being the exact same length. The school preaches about mental health from the outside and flonts it but in reality within its horrendous often wirh teachers who don't actually care and just do things for the record another thing with with mental health is teachers favoritism for students within send in an environment that students are meant to go to feel safe we are often ignored compared to others who are favoured over others by specific staff members within. one MAJOR negative point about the school would be the volume of students within and not enough room to pass in the corridors ITS TOO SMALL FOR THE AMOUNT OF CHILDREN THERE. My year 11 experience was shocking like in most schools we get given a tutor in year 7 that stays with us till the end of year 11, this is so we can form a positive friendship with a trusted adult thay we are comfortable to go to if needed but instead of keeping us with these trusted adults throughout our most stressful year that stripped us of that and threw us into new tutors with new teachers and people and made us do extra studying despite us doing a partition with over a 100 students signing and tutors included and yes i will say with this they give us monday and friday with our tutors but both monday and friday are taken up by other things like assembly and rolecall so we are unable to communicate with them anyway. Another thing the school has done was moving critical places around like pastoral leaders and send, send is a critical thing for students who struggle with mental health and have underlining conditions like adhd and autism etc and as someone who has with send for one of these underlining conditions the result of them moving it and NOT TELLING US as send students was outrageous.Overall the school cares more about grades and how well the schools preforming over your childs health and well-being if you want to keep your child's mental health intact DO NOT and i repeat DO NOT send your child to this school.

If I could give this place 0 stars trust me I would. I was student here at ivy for 5 years and the whole time here I was treated very unfairly. I have learning difficulties now to be know as ADHD Autism and now thanks to this school anxiety from when being bullied which the school did nothing abt may I comment. But we don’t stop there nooo because of my undiagnosed learning disability’s that my primary informed ivybridge that there was something there so insted of helping me, ivybridge decided to put me in bottom set where I did not learn anything so when asked to move up in classes I was refused. Because of this they ruined all my GCSEs but maths. Because maths I was a set higher in, would you look at that when I moved up in classes I would learn and pass my GCSE’s.
Talk abt not being able to show of your true ability if was a parent I would never send my kid here trust me from all the trauma this place has caused me don’t make the same mistake of sending your kid to school here this place should be investigated then after that shutdown.

I am seriously concerned about the childrens mental health in this school. The teachers are more concerned with uniform and image than safeguarding children.
The rules and regulations enforced on the children put them under immense pressure and breaches in uniform or being 30 seconds late to a lesson result in punishment. Yet bullying isn’t dealt with. The expectations of children as young as 11, are detrimental to their mental health. This school has had a large number of children suffering with mental health issues and unfortunately children that have taken their own lives in quite a short space of time. Safeguarding our children is more important than a shirt untucked.
The children are not treated as individuals, just numbers. As one of the biggest schools in the south west , I do believe they are unable to deliver a positive experience to our children. Their last cqc rating was in 2020, with very low reviews since then. Yet claim they have a 9/10 review rate. Please do not send your children to this school. It is deeply concerning

I have autistic spectrum disorder and this school says they help students with autism(like me) but i NEVER recieve that help

This school is terrible and the rules are even worse my daughter got sent home 2 hours in to the new tearm because of there tie

The schools fake chicken gave me a throat infection and the paninis ooze with fat from the amount of cheese they put in it. Highly recommend if you want to be ill.

Even though I'm in my ninth year and am academically successful and gifted, I despise my school. I feel like a complete target of bullying and a trophy. There are other students here who need support and assistance but never get it, despite the school's claims that it has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying. When I have kids, I will avoid this school like the plague when it comes to safety measures because they are ineffective and will only encourage the bullying there.

Do not send your children here. Teacher's profile and make assumptions of students based on 1 incident. Anti-bullying pledge is a marketing ploy... very little gets done with bullying and victims often get punished for sticking up for themselves. There is a general toxic culture and very little teachers will allow you to go to the toilet... A supply teacher denied a girl permission to go to the toilet to the point where she was openly state she was on here period and they still didnt let her go! Teachers are extremely hypocritical.... constantly walking round on phones and most of the time on Facebook yet they will go up to someone, phone in hand, and confiscate a students phone. I myself haven't experienced a sanction since the beginning but I am safe to say that I have witnessed several cases of unfair judgement and sanctions in my time so far. Lesson quality is alright but often disrupted by late teachers. Most recent incident at the college being a student setting fire to the toilets.

The school never deals with problems appropriately when it comes down to it, and when it concerns a parent they would actually do something to stop or prevent a situation form occurring or deal with someone who is causing problems. Mr Clemow is the only Top G teacher.

Horrid feels like hell does not care about ur mental health just pretends to pays more attention to skirt length and shirt tucked in than anything so much homework 0/10