Lymm High School

I got good grades (9/8s). Not that getting anything more than a pass in Maths or English was actually important. I finished in the first year of COVID, and that was handled terribly.
Anyway, I hated it, and got out as soon as I could; I hear it hasn't improved. Bullying was rampant, they never got punished - I saw teachers stood watching four students whale on someone. Pressure to do well was mental, pressure to choose useless GCSE options too (and lacking a variety of A-Level choices). Just stay quiet and out of the way. Better hope you're not diverse in any way - leadership won't do anything about taking care of the rich white kids. I have some awful memories of stuff that particularly happened in music - kids getting absolutely throttled in the practice rooms, useless teachers, gave me a fear for a subject that should be fun. Same with art, awful, spiteful teachers. Creativity obviously didn't matter to the school, just grades.

Unfortunately, I heard Bridgewater is much much worse, so wish your kids good luck! They'll do well and have memories to last them a lifetime - just not good ones!

I really really hope something changes in the school to address the tolerance for bad behaviour.

Bonus points for the IT admins being so useless that you could have a great time running rings around them.

Lymm High’s reputation has changed over the last 15 years and not for the best. This review is written through experience and research.

If you are concerned about your child’s welfare and mental health, this school is not the best place.

The handful of wonderful staff that will support your child is overwhelmed by some staff who do not respect what children have to face outside of school and only encourages their own type of force making a child’s life miserable and unbearable and is supported by the person responsible for the school.

Complaints by parents are not dealt with in a manner to prevent situations reoccurring. Those who continue to complain, find their child is then targeted and disciplined for standing up for themselves whilst instigators receive the same or a lesser punishment.

If you value your child’s eduction and well being home schooling may be the way to go as many parents have opted for this now, despite Lymm High fighting against their choices.

I found Lymm High, very difficult to work with.

Coming from a place of honesty : the education it’s self is not the problem, it’s the delivery of care to the students that lacks incredibly. Students overall achieve good grades as the teachers and staff make it prominent to children that they will get nowhere without them, no encouragement of creativity , of personality, expect perhaps in the music/ preforming arts faculty.

The “student services” faculty is perhaps the most poorly articulated branches of social care i have ever known. So concerned about uniform and appearance, leading them to care more about weather a girl had eyelash extensions on than weather or not she was being maliciously bullied. I do not recall a single occasion where the student services team genuinely helped me or any of my friends with a problem , all they seemed to do was cause more distress and anxiety. I will name names because i can and i have so much dislike towards the team i will call them out, staff like Mrs ball, Mrs clark, Mrs mogey. All of them so prestige and bored with their jobs that they get students into trouble for minute and pointless things for no reason.

The isolation system is immoral and wrong. Children as young as 11 left in isolated cubicles for 6 consecutive hours, no interactions with others apart from supervised walks at break and lunch time. Sounds almost as if they’re being stripped of their human rights and treated like cattle. Sometimes for the most pathetic of reasons too. Mental health problems arise in students from fractured parental relationships caused by frequent incidents of isolation in school or “behaviour points” which only rekindles the cycle of further bad behaviour. The system is very damaged, it needs to be changed.

Overall Lymm highschool are consumed by image , reputation and validation. An ironic quality considering they continue to preach thag students should care less about their appearance and that you should be yourself. “Life Programme” preaches that individuality is beautiful, expression of personal character. But students recieve multiple day long isolations for deciding to have a little fun and put a bit of pink dye in their hair? Ridden of break and lunch times until they remove ALL their makeup in school, something that could denture a lot of students self confidence.

Education itself is of high quality, i won’t lie about that. But it comes at a price. What’s more important? The well-being of literal CHILDREN( not robots, like they’re made out to be) or the grades so you lot and your staff can get paid more? have a think. good night.

Absolutely terrible school, the way naughty students are handled is a joke, they are barely punished, and get away with disrupting lessons consistently. These students are also never properly punished for assaulting other students. The rules in the school are also a joke. Students are punished for the most irrelevant things, while other students get away with much worse. Lymm also has a huge bullying problem, the bullies are never punished and if a student lashes out as a result of the bullying without support, it is that student that is punished, instead of the bullies.

it’s acc rlly good u all just say it’s bad cos you hate doing the work just suck it up lol it’s a good school

Absolutely atrocious worst school I have ever been to do not handle bullying well my friend got punched in a toilet and no one did anything about it my friend got third degree on her back as bully threw hot chocolate all over her and no punishments where given
Another senario was the bullying of the teachers one teacher fell over and was bullied for it and the school did nothing to stop it it was pretty funny though