John Taylor Free School

Worst school In the Uk , do not send your kids here! Teachers will pick on you for no reason at all if they don’t like you , making us wear blazers in 28 almost 30 degrees while I have asthma quite bad and there shouting at us in there summer dresses and short tops?! Not aloud a tiny nose stud while they have them in no makeup or nothing while they’re sat there in 10 layers. Do not come here

My child has experienced a lot with this school, to say the least. Although, the school tends to be a lot better than many within this area, there are still many flaws.

The school's layout is big and well-organised. Classrooms are labelled specifically and can be easily found. However, the hallways still experience a lot of bustling, despite the tape informing student where to go. My child did say that the hallways are often blocked. This causes many issues when you need to go somewhere important. Even if you have permission to go somewhere, you will always be turned back.

The teachers tend to be very biased and pick favourites. This has caused a lot of gaps in my child's learning when a teacher has gone into very little detail for obvious reasons. I can't say the quality of the education is great either. My child often experiences boredom due to already understanding this. She states the classes are practically useless and she'd be better teaching herself.

Bullying and the other students' behaviour are a huge problem within the school. The school's bullying problem has caused my child to feel overwhelmed within the environment. She often feels ill just thinking of school. She's been made fun of for countless things and nothing has been done. When she's gone to wellbeing, they've mainly turned her around. If she does manage to get in the office, they let her cry in there for about five minutes and turn her back to class, regardless of whether she's ready or not. I know this is not the first time a pupil has been felt like this which honestly makes it worst.

As a member of this school, i agree that the students get treated terribly here. All the staff care about is the way you present your self (appearance) instead of education. I am constantly getting told to put my blazer on, take bracelets off, take jewellery out, tuck shirt in, take makeup off and loads more. Normally, kids are meant to enjoy to go to school but every morning i wake up dreading it as all i do is get told off about the way i look. That is none of their business whatsoever. The way i do my hair, the jewellery i wear doesn’t affect them in any shape or form. The rules are honestly just way too strict here. You can’t even show your ankles!! This school couldn’t give two shits about your mental health. I spent half of year 8 feeling alone and scared to talk to the teachers about the way i felt because they don’t deal with things correctly. This school treats kids so unfairly and try and suspend kids at the most pathetic reasons. I once got suspended for not taking my makeup off, so the teachers would rather me miss my education that could benefit me in the future all for some concealer and blush. Things in this school need to change immediately. Their are only a few good staff members there including Miss Lucien, Miss Rodgers and Miss Trubshaw. That’s literally it. This school is a jail. Think twice before sending your kids to this school, you will regret it.

The beginning of the year is a challenging experience for both parents (especially for parents of kids in year 7) and staff. Even if Diamond bus did not anticipate their needs very well, the staff of JTFS was great. I really appreciate their involvement in solving the transport issues. The fact that one member of the staff was always present at the bus station really helped my daughter to gain a little bit of confidence. Great job!

worst school you will ever go to , make you wear blazers in 28 degrees weather , not aloud the smallest piercings , teachers aren’t nice here.

This school is the definition of harassment and racism. teachers let white children go to the toilets and turn a blind eye to the dark skinned students. They care more about your shirt tucked in than they care about people bringing vapes into the school. Not only this but some of the teachers are disgraceful and feel they can belittle and humiliate students in front of the class, creating low self esteem and insecurity. This 'Turn up work hard be nice' is literal irony, considering the fact that the teachers have the nerve to come 10 mins late to lesson but scold kids who show up two minutes late due to being told to tuck their shirt in. Pathetic.

There was a GCSE result day yesterday and it became very clear that Head teacher has failed to achieve the result she wanted to achieve only because of her negative approache and attitude.
Student were heart broken after seeing the results. Parents needs to be mindful when choosing John Taylor Free school it is only a pretty building.

This schools gets worse. Total disregard for children's well-being. They treated my child so badly once a really confident child is now a shadow of their former self and this was not other pupils doing but certain teachers that the head let bully and my belittle my child.

worst school ever not aloud to be yourself go mental about a tiny piercing , hair colour , jewellery when teachers wear it themselves. You will get treated unfairly and when 20 degrees or more you are still made to wear blazer or you will get a punishment when they can walk around in tank tops.

Not a very good school overall. They don’t deal with bullying very well and they are not very good in the SEN dept neither.

Turn up work hard be nice. That’s a joke. Perhaps some of the teachers should take note of this. The way some of them shout at pupils is disgusting. The head especially.

This school cares more about the uniform than education.

My daughter was bullied relentlessly. And nothing was done about it.drugs and weapons are brought into school and the kids get a 1 to 2 day suspension. What the hell is going on at this school?

Head teacher Mrs plant is bully if she doesn’t like your child she will everything including lie to remove them. Wish I’d never sent my child to this school. Massive gang culture, which their to scared to deal with.

During lunch time students are not allowed to travel in the building unless eating and this shows as I’d they don’t trust students and even like primary school behaviour as this what happened at primary school as well. Even in winter months when it was snowy and icy all students had to stay outside

Another problem I found with the school is the reward and punishment system in which 45 minute detentions where handed out all over the place and positive points meant virtually nothing.

Another thing they do is split everyone up into houses which created a quite hostile and aggressive system of trying to beat everyone else and make people who didn’t win feel bad.

Terrible, the teachers do not care about mental health, there are fights every day and bullying is terrible in the school, teachers do nothing about any of this.
Need improvement immediately