Jewellery Quarter Academy

The year 11 class of 2023 were treated appallingly! They were told they had an additional weeks worth of life classes which was then revoked and they were all given 15mins to say their goodbyes and leave the premises shortly after one of the last exams! Some teachers had given the students a heads up the week before also. The day before their end of year trip which parents paid for in good faith they were advised it was cancelled and would be re-arranged! (Again some teachers had told students that the school didn’t even book the coach) This was all in June, we are in the last week of school I called to request an update to be casually told it’s been cancelled, I queried why it had not been communicated and was told they didn’t know? I queried how the money will be refunded to which they replied it’ll go back to parent pay - I asked why it would be going back to a system none of the year 11’s would be using again - receptionist response was - good point I’ll check! She came back to advise it’ll go back to that system only then parents can request a refund… I called back today and asked for a update on refunds to be told it’ll be a good few weeks before any refunds are done… The way the year 11’s we’re treated was appalling they completely washed their hands of them as soon as the exams were done, the lack of communication to all year 11 parents regarding the paid trip was appalling and the fact that their is no urgency to refund funds back shows they are not bothered

22/1/25
Unfortunately after my daughter had left, my son still remained! Up until year 9 he did ok, year 10 was challenging for him! It saw temporary safeguarding staff being able to put through a safe guarding referral which was inaccurate and a lot of the information was completely made up which I fought hard to have amended! Them suggesting an Alternative Provision where the kids are frisked and a metal detector used to search them but having concerns of exploitation were willing to expose him further!!! He missed over 6wks of school with over 40+ emails sent and countless calls made the lack of communication was awful! I requested to remove him but they were reluctant to take him off role! I complained to Core trust who requested before I made a decision at least speak to the new head teacher! He didn’t getting in touch expectations of that interaction were not managed and the new school year started without any communication or correspondence from the new head! Finally heard from him and he gave reassurances of the changes he had put in place - a meeting was held with other teachers and although my gut still remained to home school him, he wanted to go back so I let him… The regular catch ups did not happen, after first set of mocks I was still left waiting for areas he needed additional support in! No careers meeting either…

Fast forward to 4/5months before he’s supposed to sit his GCSEs! He was suspended for a week based of ‘probable cause’, and I was requested to attend a meeting at end of his suspension - initially said it would be fine over the phone as I was having an operation, to then be told no it needs to be face to face - bearing in mind the surgery I had 6 days prior was major abdominal surgery with stitches running from one side of my stomach to the other! Even when I advised them of this the response was ‘oh thought you were getting your tonsils out’ nether the less I went and they wanted a permanent exclusion but apparently that would take too long to implement so they suggested they send him to alternative provision! Based of a smell and probable cause, I have pictures of his class charts which shows he’s behaviour from August being around 90% excellent… Red areas are for lateness and being one his phone once… Green areas outweigh the small percentage of red areas… It’s also important to add I had no prior communication or suggestions that his behaviour was cause for concern.

It was suggested to find another mainstream school, his a 16 year old boy, about to finish his education with friends he’s had since year 7, they wanted to up root him and move him somewhere for the last 4/5 months to wash there hands of him because ultimately it boils down to grades and he would impact on theres

They don’t want him back but I’m constantly being hounded by the attendance people to check his ok - where was the checking in 6 weeks ago because this is how long it’s been going on for? Home visits to check if there’s any further support needed???

He’s not an angel but he’s not a bad kid either, what this school did was ruin any chance he had of getting by sort of GCSE’s or even experiencing that… Good luck sending your child here if there face don’t fit they won’t want them there

I’m a year 10 student currently and I will be going into year 11 after the summer holidays and me and my friends just recieved our year 10 mock results and we were so happy to see improvements in our grades however when we opened our papers it was the exact same grades as our year 9 mocks we were shocked it’s so ridiculous all you guys did was just send the same copy of our grades last year to everyone u didn’t even change one grade and you had the audacity to make our teachers lie to our faces about our grades , my business teacher told me I got grade 7 and she told me I did so good and when I got my grades it said grade 4?? Is this a joke why are you changing our grades that’s so wrong these are our grades that will go our colleges in September I could get in business A levels with a grade 7 what will they say when they see grade 4 they will think I don’t even do good in business , please fix this as soon as possible !!!!! We want our real grades !!

I would not even leave a 1 star this school is terrible. If you want uneducated staff working with your children then go for it. The school does not have a clue about safeguarding pupils and no point even asking them about policies, procedures etc as they don’t have a clue. Constant change in teachers says it all for me

They have improved as the new head has implemented new rules but they should bring back 20 minutes detention because if my child dies not do homework he gets 60 minutes of detention which is ridiculous

One of my teachers wouldn't let us take off our blazers in the middle of summer heatwave even though it was boiling. and now there's only going to be 1 hr detentions, lunch detentions and 100 min detentions in September 2022. so if I'm 5 min late I'll get a 60 min detention no matter the reason