Kings Priory School

This school is dehumanising. Do not attend this school without fully reading honest reviews and understanding what you are getting yourself/your child into. I went to this school for 8 years i went from year 5 all the way to year 13 and i am now in university, i still keep in contact with some students in kings as they were the year below me and it seems to me the school is just getting worse and worse, and i thought i'd seen just about everything you possibly could. This school will completely destroy yourself/your child mental health to dangerous extremes. The staff are unbelievable and i do not mean in a good way. All the members off staff care about at this school is social status and money. By social status i mean: social class (if you are middle class you will be favoured, if you are working class you will receive prejudice treatment and will not be given the same opportunities), sports (if you do sports mainly football and rugby (the boys) you will be guaranteed to receive special treatment, if you dont well you often get ignored especially if a female teacher decides she wants to talk to only the football boys for a gossip when they are meant to teach (has happened many times)). Though this school claims they support SEN children they cant, well not properly. Countless amount of SEN students have left this school with bruising, verbal abuse and even told they dont have disabilities. They have a "learning loft" which is meant to be a place for children to go specifically SEN children, it as some twinkly lights and they put you in that room and leave you (they also do this for people having panic attacks which does nothing). They claim they are all inclusive however they only just got their first black teacher about 3 years ago. This is also then the first time ever they had an assembly on lgbtq+ and it was one assembly and that was it, yes there is a diversity group however this was explained to be an educational place for people to learn and understand each other whereas it was more of a morning catch up over the weeks gossip. Mental health is rarely spoken about in this school like i've got more chance of being struck by lightning than this school talking about mental health and putting it first. The way the school treats students is disgraceful, regardless of how low you are this school treats you like dirt, it comes across that they would rather have you in school and d3ad in the bathroom than getting actual mental help just so they can say they get the best grades. Yes kings gets good grades but that is down to the students as majority of the teachers dont teach, and also down to the fact they quite happily push people to such low levels just to say they have good grades. This school belittles its students and seems to believe that life stops just because you're in school and reading a book. A good school in my opinion doesn't need to have full A grades a good school is able to balance education and their students It doesn't disregard everything else that makes those students human. A good school has healthy happy students who want to go there not ones who dont because they are either scared too, wont be taught properly etc. This school can't do that, it is a bad school and damaging. Don't come here and don't send your children here.

There is very few nice teachers, most treat you like you aren't human. Some are the nicest people ever, but the others are just right idiots. Literally, these french/German teachers snogging in class. Teachers targeting you for stupid stuff. I learn nothing from this school. Literally nothing. I beg do not come here, there's tramps. People literally shit in the sink. Cleaners don't actually clean. If someone blames you for something, teachers instantly believe them instead of using actual evidence. Food undercooked. Kids vaping in the toilets. A teacher went in to the girls toilets and nothing gets done about that. Gum everywhere, sticky floors, slurs written on walls and desks. Unfunny kids. Most teachers don't even explain the work, just give you some worksheet. Don't choose this school!

I went too this school as it is the closest school I live too, i remember being bullied right from the start. In the middle school it was an unsafe environment and i would describe it like “get bullied or be the bully” I was the one getting bullied. If you have a disability of any sort this is not the school for you they don’t accommodate it well at all,I have an autistic friend who’s mum got told that she’s not actually autistic and that she’s being manipulative, by the SEN part of school. If I was still going to this school I would be heavily bullied by now even worse than when I was going, on my last day in kings I remember some boys in my year screamed “how many cuts you got on your arm” at me, i know this bullying would have escalated if i still went there. When I walked through the corridor some boys looked at me (I was 11 and they where about 14) and called me a “sex toy”, therefore this is an unsafe environment, one time I was extremely upset after an incident with my bully and I was hiding out in the toilet crying and some girls thought I was skipping lessons so they asked a teacher to open the bathroom door with a key and they open the door to find me (I was around 12) curled up in a ball crying, instead of doing to humane thing which is asking if I’m alright or comforting me, they said to the teacher “oh there’s just some kid crying in there” and locked the bathroom door again, that’s not how a school that cares about its students would manage it and that’s is quite frankly how i would summarise the school itself- dehumanising and an unsafe environment for anyone. I would say their good at teaching they do a good job they are a good school but you can’t get anywhere if in between those successful lessons children are getting pinned against walls and being belittled. Their methods don’t work, the behaviour of other students is terrible but instead of working on making the schools environment more friendly and comfortable and loving, they try to make the school environment more strict and the hierarchy of students and teachers a lot more strong, this dosent work and will never work all it does is make the kids smarter and the teachers more hated therefore harassed more. With school dinners sometimes they ran out of food and had to get sandwiches from the six form block which is unacceptable as they promise actual meals. My brother and me both got bullied and my brother had to involve the police into it because of how hopeless kings was, my solution was to move school.

i mean i guess they're trying?? they accommodate special needs and stuff to some extent but you need a lot of diagnosing and faffing first. good LUCK finding a bathroom to use if you're disabled or genderqueer i have to walk for like eight minutes to find mine and sometimes it's just locked for no reason