King James's School

My experiences at king James have been alright so far. The amount of sexist, racist jokes in the classroom that just get passed off as banter is unbelievable. A plus is that the cookies are nice. As a sporty student, I feel like I have a good opportunity for sports but there aren’t many opportunities for other people. The instagram is sexist. All that’s posted on it is that fact that the boys football team has won a match whereas there are many girls who competed in national finals/or are playing at a very high level who don’t get any recognition at all. All the teachers care about is girls uniforms and boys football (or at least what I think they care about as a sporty girl). By forcing students not to express themselves by their jewellery, uniform ect. many students feel the need to ‘rebel’ against the teachers which doesn’t create a good learning environment. The teachers say that they want a good relationship with the students but this whole ordeal about school uniform is breaking all good relationships. If you ask me, I would say that the school went downhill when the new head started. There is a lot of stress in exams. My year 7 friend said that she was getting bullied by a year 10 for how she looks. This is not acceptable. One of our teachers were assaulted by a student from another school who entered the premises before 3:15. A knife from DT was stolen and the school security increased massively (they found it). It’s an alright school but needs to be improved. All of my friends agree

If your child struggles with mental health, do not send them here. Staff that deal with mental health stuff including head of years did not know what they were doing whatsoever. No help given at all regarding it.

This school is horrific dealing with mental health problems, if your child deals with any mental health problems do not send them here. Also bad experiences with teachers and head of years.

This is a school that needs to seriously review how it handles its own policies.
From what should be simple, e.g., the dress code to the more complicated e.g., Anit-bullying.

King James's school fails spectacularly on almost all of its policies, at worst leaving its pupils open to ongoing abuse.

school is full of prejudiced students. very common to hear homophobic and racist things said directly towards other students, in the presence of teachers and yet nothing gets done. all the school cares about is academics, sports and funding. there is no extra curricular activities unless you are good at sport, students with other interests get left behind. sixth form is awful as well. don’t be fooled by the new building it’s tiny as the school just cram as many students as they can for funding. the toilets are bad too as locks never work and it never gets fixed. also had many instances of sexual assault. don’t send your children here.

The teachers do not care about all the outright gross jokes made in classrooms, prejudice from students is seen as a “just get over it” moment, and they do NOT care about any bullying, but the cookies are nice. We have a good reputation but our average grades aren’t great.

I used to go to this school and left in year 9 in 2017 because I got bullied so much ending up in hospital each time my pastoral officer didn’t want anything to do with it so he took me to a room with no one around and said “if you don’t like it here then just leave” I’m still upset about the situation till this day. If you want your child to have a bright future then please take elsewhere!!!

Awful. Teachers aren’t helpful at all. The education is bad. The pupils run the school, and there’s so so much bullying there it’s ridiculous.