Lady Lumley's School

Say they deal with bullying and bullying is envitable but it still continues with no change and when a student does something about it ex. telling them to stop or in cases of pyshical bullying fight back. The bullied is punished more then the bully. The teacher don't care about mental heath as it being a small concern to them. Alot of cases of racism, homophobia and all kinds of discrimination every day. Learning is normal depending on the teacher, some are nice and supportive but some can be awful. Whereas for safety, a year ago they put a big 6ft fence around the school making it look like a prison and making the environment sluggish looking, they say its to keep people out which is half the reason but mainly to keep people in. As in my experience, no one has gone on property but lots have escaped. Inside is dirty which isn't mainly the staffs fault but the carpet is dusty and old (I understand this can't be helped with 800+ students with shoes) but toilets are trashed with locks smashed in. Outdoors, disregarding the fence the field is often cut and fresh and tennis court and AstroTurf are nice for PE and Games lessons. Food is expensive and poor quality and with flaws such as a raw chip or cold food. Activities are OK only practical lessons are fun and the rest is course work.

Doesn’t handle bullying, sexual assault or kids with bad anxiety well.

I personally found that little support was given by both teachers and pastoral staff and very pressing issues such as homophobia and sexual/physical assault were not dealt with and often ignored. Teachers display favouritism very often and single out specific students to have more challenging work and often leave equally capable students without. From personal experience, I reached out to pastoral on multiple occasions after struggling with depression and panic attacks and a physically abusive friendship that was witnessed by teachers and due to that particular person being fostered nothing was done. I was also sexually assaulted on school grounds by an older student and after reporting this to multiple teachers nothing was done and the student remained near me in after school commitments such as drama rehearsals. Teachers often spend more time talking and sending students out of lessons than teaching the curriculum and during my GCSE years multiple topics on the papers were not taught in lessons and students had to seek outside sources to learn this (nor was it set as home learning). The male teachers often make inappropriate advances towards female students and comment on skirt lengths in a very inappropriate manner with no consequences. In hindsight certain teachers were fantastic at their job and I thoroughly enjoyed certain lessons, however this does not outweigh the other prominent issues especially regarding the pastoral team that refuse to help most students.

School tries best but the masks aren’t enforced and pastoral staff are useless. Rules are good but not enforced equally. Expectations of catching work up after isolation is bang out of order. The assistant head is nice and staff try their best. The campaigns are every week and is too overwhelming. Exams are pressured onto students in the lesson before the exam. The expectation and grade system works unless you have Greater Depth in all of your SATS. Then you get a minus and 2 all of the time. Mr Cleary is nice and he is welcoming. Tutors don’t do the equipment check.

Have one way system and split breaks but no enforcement of the system and only masks in hallways

People in bottom set maths but doing higher paper can not move up to top set and are not being taught the higher corse