Kingswinford Academy

Do no recemend this school got me fearing some teachers
My friend last year almost got sent to sat beacuse he messed stuff up in music and then was forced to perfrom infront of everyone in the class

As a former student who left this summer, I faced a lot of homophobia and transphobia which was not very well dealt with, as well as general bullying and sexual harassment from other students which was barely sorted. In terms of lessons, most teachers were knowledgeable enough but were too preoccupied with the lengths of girls skirts to deliver a lesson properly without mentioning uniform. Furthermore, toilets are locked during lessons and students are not allowed to go unless they have a medical reason (verified with a doctors note) or beg the teacher. Even then, students have to wait in the office to be given the key and allowed to go and on one occasion, I was asked to hand my phone in before being allowed to leave the office for the toilet. Meals are unhealthy but taste alright despite how ridiculously overpriced they are. In spite of all of this, I worked hard and got good grades in my GCSEs, but not due to their teaching, more my own hard work.

This school does not know how to deal with bullying to save their lives, they don’t care about the students whatsoever as long as they get paid and some of the rules are so petty. Some teachers can’t teach properly and have no respect. Your not aloud to use the bathroom unless you have a medical reason or it’s lunch/break witch you spend most of it queuing meaning you no longer have time to get food, the toilets don’t get cleaned properly and the students there are vile, the teachers constantly pick favourites and use their “teaching powers” to their advantage in every decision they make. Some of the teachers are a-bit creepy and unnecessarily strict. Once u hit year 11 your forced to be in the quad or the hall separating yourself from the rest of the years and not aloud to walk round corridors. The roofs have holes in wich they “can’t afford” to fix but can afford a whole new building.

I was an ex student here I left recently, I would just like to share my experience what I had in this school, so it started on when I fell out with my friends coming to the end of y10 and when I fell out with them they started picking on me in and outside of the school, I cried my eyes out to one of the teachers and I had explained what had happened, she had passed me on to my head of house where then I had to write a statement of what had gone on, so I did and I had got told he will come pick me up outside of lesson, however he did not and I went to the sat team and they said to me go and speak to him, I went to his office where I found him sitting at the desk listening to music so I didn’t even bother going to him, I walked back into the sat team and told them, they even said them selves it wad a joke and that he should support me, eventually 1 weak later he spoke to me n sat me down in a room with one of the girls that had been picking on me, did I get any joy? No i did not but instead he blamed it all on me so till the end of y10 I had to just pull through with it.

When it hit y11 omg it was even worse, the same girls that was picking on me in y10 did it again in y11, this time they was walking passed me and calling me names, I didn’t retaliate back because I thought that I’d just ignore them and they would hopefully stop, did they stop? No do I told my head of house and he had said if it happens again we will sort a stop agreement out, so eventually it had to end in a stop agreement, however the day after the stop agreement was signed by all of us one of the girls broke it and started calling me unkind names again, I went to my head of house again and he had said that I had no proof of them doing anything, but the thing is if there is no proof of what they was doing why was I going home each day crying my eyes up and not going to school each day, so nothing got sorted and I had to isolate myself in a room away from them because I didn’t want to get called names again, 2 weaks later I decided to not sit in that room for my lunch n break and I decided to be around the school and this time I got the voice memos up on my phone and recorded what they was saying to me, and when I had got the proof I went to tell my head of house who then didn’t give any interest to what I was saying so eventually I had given up and I decided to retaliate back to the girls and swear at them each Time they did something towards me, but who was the one getting in trouble for saying stuff? It was me not them, they got away with it all throughout y11.

Because I had been bullied my behaviour changed in a bad way, the deputy head teacher was asking me what’s changed in my behaviour n most of the time I ended up in refocus because of my behaviour,
There’s to much to explain about what happened to me in this school, if I was you I wouldn’t bring your child into this school
It’s more like a prison and not a school.

The amount of violence and bullying within this school is appalling. Bullies seem to target children with SEN. When bullying is reported its not taken seriously and teachers have not followed the schools Anti bullying policy. My son was assaulted by a large group and suffered physical injuries and the school never even bothered to contact me or his father. This is after we have been reporting ongoing bullying for over a year. Students make racist and homophobic comments and seem to go unpunished. Despite numerous requests to see the head, to discuss concerns, he always seems to be too busy. You'd think if a student at his school has been repeatedly assaulted he'd take the time to make contact.

As an Ex-Student who left 4 years ago, this school was the worst years of my life, they did whatever they could to belittle you and never took your disability into consideration, you were brainwashed into thinking that if you made mistakes or you weren't the top A student, you were worthless and a waste of space, your rights were also completely stomped all over with manipulative deputy heads and teachers who convinced you that you would never be any good, they made you fear failure and whenever you were suffering mentally and expressed how you were feeling, you'd be told it wasn't an excuse and to stop acting hard done to.

I was treated as a bad student and they always put me in refocus because they never listened to me and i was overwhelmed everyday of my life by bullies, false accusations, belittling staff and more, they would always do whatever to put you in the wrong even if you were right because you were the "Student" and to them, had no rights to be human, they treated you more like an animal in a cage than a person and whenever you were bullied, they would side with them and criticize you in a non productive way just to make your confidence even lower.

Overall this school is full of narcissistic teachers who discriminate and will do whatever to make you feel like you are a bad person just for simply feeling or not fitting in and avoid responsibility by guilt tripping you into taking the blame.

Schools average, care more about the quality of your uniform and the height of your skirt then mental health, teachers think they can speak to you how ever they want, teachers making up rules about COVID-19. Certain teachers are good and listen to you and help you out as much as they can but most of them don’t care.