Macmillan Academy

I Wouldn’t recommend this school if it was the last option absolutely awful. I still go here now and every time I enter I feel like putting a bullet through my brain The teachers speak to you like you are slow and don’t care what is going on in ur life they only care about how they look to offsted they all lack maturity and majority should be fired, mr smith and mr ball in particular they are very childish and do not listen to what you have to say and don’t care about any of the students in school. The school is full of rats and mice. Don’t get me wrong some teachers are fantastic and do truly care such as mrs driffill and most mfl department but the rest of them need to grow up and stop arguing with kids, they never let you go to the toilet and at lunch time you aren’t even allowed inside the building to be able to go to the toilet.

..This is a best school love it..

Most horrible school out there, teachers put everything under the rug although parents come in all the time. They try getting rid of the kids that talk out loud about their problems to not give the school a bad view although everyone knows this school is horrendous and no child should have to go through the fear, worries, nights of not eating or not sleeping because the teachers cannot do their jobs!!!

Horrible school been there for 5 years and it’s been the worst. Don’t get me started on the teachers all horrible egotistical people who don’t give one damn about mental health all they care about is looking good for ofsted. Don’t even get me started on the slt team absolutely horrible blamed me for retaliating on someone who has caused me multiple problems but when I got my parents included they wanna act all lovey dovey towards me 😭😭 yeah right horrible school feel so sorry for anyone going there this September good luck

It’s a hoot but there are some bitchy teachers alright

students get fed poorly (especially in the gym )

I went here and it was absolutely disgraceful. Like stated in prior reviews, the support with mental health issues such as anxiety is non existent.

The teachers seem to be stuck thinking that they’re 16 and preferred making friends with bullies rather than doing their jobs to put an end to bullying.

There was a lot of victim blaming in this school regarding bullying and students with particularly difficult home lives.

Mrs Scott gets a special mention ( well done hun☺️) for telling me that I was ‘nothing but a problem to her’ on my last day. I’d never had a detention or been a bad student. The ‘problem’ she was referring to , was my struggles with anxiety and bullying that she did nothing to resolve. Funnily enough, I’d like her to know that she herself is nothing but a nuisance to almost every student in there.

Of course I didn’t leave with the best grades, but like I predicted, when I went to a new college my grades shot up from 3’s (d’s) to A*’s within one year of being there. I’m now in a great position in life. ( no thanks to macmillan , who even tried to ignore my continuous requests for a reference and almost cost me an amazing position with a great apprenticeship, due to their pettiness).

In hindsight they were probably embarrassed that I did actually succeed in life ( which they said I’d never achieve ).

Avoid this school, the teachers lack maturity and training and are utterly contemptuous. Just thinking about walking in the entrance used to give me nausea.

I consider myself to be a fair and just person , and will mention that not everyone in that school is bad. The departments I’d particularly recommend are the IT, Math and English departments. All the teachers are lovely, hardworking and deserve more recognition for this.

As for the heads of year, head teachers and PE department. Grow up. 😂

The school has went downhill over the 5 years I attended . First off , there is a total lack of care for the students overall , while I was in year 10 learning my GCSE material I had 5 different science teachers over the course of the year , each one progressively got worse and worse . We would be lectured on the smallest things that happened , talking about “ wasting our time “ but would then rant for half an hour then wasting more of our time for something as silly as loosing a glue stick . Let’s not even get started on the mental health facilities , because there are none . Some individual teachers were excellent when it came to needing help in all aspects , but the school as a whole needs some serious training on how to handle mental health issues . They would also hire younger teachers who didn’t have much experience and give them to the year 11s who were about to sit 2 weeks of exams . Aswell as this , a lot of the staff seem to have power trips , especially the PE department who apparently believe they run the whole school. I’m so glad I’ve left and went to a different college , because what I’ve heard from multiple friends who still go is that the college is no better and they’ve handled covid so badly that at one point nearly half the sixth form was off and had to isolate . Although they go on about growing up and acting like adults , they still treat you like children and I’m positive they make up rules as they go along . They also tried to get a ban put on skirts but ultimately failed as I think they might have realised how silly of a rule it would have been . I’ve had family members attend the college and leave after the first year because of how bad it really is . There’s some teachers that make attending school better , but the majority of them are miserable and give out detentions like they are going out of season . There’s so much favouritism , especially with the boys in sports . The boys got special mentions in assembly’s all the time for their sports achievements but I’ve only heard one announcement about the girls in all the time I’ve been there . They have limited seating in and outside the school , and you get shouted at for sitting inside and then are expected to go stand in the cold at lunch as certain years are only aloud in certain times . The teachers could save themselves so much hassle if they dealt with situations correctly . They seem to be spending their money in all the wrong places . It’s average as a school over all but I’m not surprised how bad the ratings have gotten over the years . Lockdown and leaving that school early really was a blessing in disguise because I’ve gained so much more confidence and taught myself to stand up for myself aswell and learning real life lessons .They need to start treating their students like secondary students and not toddlers .

it’s average. as a secondary school, it has good support in terms of academics but they don’t do much in terms of bullying and harassment. the teachers will do whatever they can to get you the good grades. as a college, it’s a bit iffy. they didn’t take into account the covid pandemic when doing christmas stuff and tried to get the whole year group in one room without masks. from an education stand point, the teachers yet again give good support and there are mental health services. harassment isn’t tolerated either which is good. the site is good but lots of litter