Oakmoor School

Allowed a transphobic teacher to help run LGBTQ+ club. Said teacher’s views are publicly available on Twitter, proving background checks on employees are either minimal or they do not care for the wellbeing of transgender students. (2022) Support with mental health is appalling, I was made to return to lessons multiple times despite being in the middle of panic attacks and hyperventilating. Would have done the work elsewhere, explained many times that I just did not thrive in loud classroom situations. Had never skived a lesson or even had a detention, giving them no reason to think that i actually would have misbehaved. (2024) Teachers who were supposed to help with pastoral support would often mock special needs students in front of other students (saying ‘nobody likes [student]’ while they were stood outside the door or comparing them cartoon characters) (2023) Students reported witnesses of student on student sexual assault and said student received no repercussions (2021-22) I reported being bullied to the school (by same student as previous statement) and again, he faced no repercussions other than being told not to. (and i know i wasn’t the only person to report him - was caught saying racist things on multiple occasions) (2021) Teachers having very skewed priorities (incorrect uniform > bullying/mental health). Often told uniform creates a sense of community (personally i think it just restricted individuality, and how can you thrive when you’re not being authentically yourself?), or was to prevent poorer students from feeling bad about not being able to afford things, but that was happening with uniform anyway (if it didn’t fit because they couldn’t afford to buy a new one, or if they had cheap bag/shoes or unironed clothes) and teachers could wear expensive things so it’s not like we weren’t being exposed to it. I am transgender, and frankly only about three of my teachers ever bothered with the correct pronouns, despite it being a known fact that all of them knew about. I was asked invasive questions about my plans for surgeries by teachers (oddly enough didn’t want to talk to teachers about genitalia?) and tried to argue with me that we didn’t need the term ‘cisgender’ because they’re just ‘normal’. Had teachers who didn’t want me getting changed separately for PE, and apparently when one of my friends explained this to them (“[my name] isn’t a girl so he’s not going to be in the girls changing rooms”) they responded with “well if she’s not a girl then why is her name on the girl’s register” (2024) Staff retention in certain departments was horrific, in my last three years there, I had more than ten science teachers, one of which we reported to the head of department on multiple occasions to explain that none of us understood her teaching, (which resulted in students predicted top marks failing mocks), so then when other teachers were trying to build on that knowledge after she left and we didn’t understand anything, we were told off for not trying hard enough because the school didn’t listen for the seven months that she taught us nothing. Countless teachers had glaringly obvious favouritism, and would hold students to completely different standards, making you feel unsupported and unheard, and it genuinely felt like there was a hierarchy amongst students. (allowed to wear incorrect uniform daily while one of my friends was threatened with suspension because of it, allowed to make snarky comments and not attend lessons) Had a few teachers who I really questioned their qualification. One teacher (who i was informed has left now) went over the same powerpoint four lessons in a row (not adding anything on, just reading out the same slides every lesson) and then decided to only teach us a component of the course the day before our actual exam, and it was only because we had all seen something about it on social media, and asked her about it because she’d never brought it up once. Had teachers teach us things that were just completely wrong, and then wouldn’t accept anyone challenging it, despite our actual specification saying the complete opposite. Teachers refuse to let you go to the toilet during lessons, and when we inquired about if people who were menstruating were allowed to go to the toilet, one teacher just said ‘rules are rules’ and wouldn’t excuse it. One of my friends was given a detention because they asked to go to the toilet and was told no, and they went anyway because she didn’t want to bleed all over herself in a classroom? In fairness, had some absolutely amazing teachers who I love dearly and made some amazing friends, but frankly it’s just impossible to overlook how regularly people were mistreated and uncared for.

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The school of terror, short, stubby, fat maths teacher said to my little girl she was a disgrace to the school and told her to take off her shoes give them to her and walk out her classroom barefoot. The vaping is a massive issue, so many Oakmoor pupils be vaping and it’s inflicted on my little girl, she goes through a 600 puffs pineapple ice within a day, she is just a child, I can’t stop due to she’s now addicted as all the pressure pupils put on her to start vaping. The headteacher (Nigel Wright) told my girl that if she’s seen out of lessons one more time he was going to get a machete and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine, he also said to her “widen your pussy lips”

Absolutely horrific school, staff are horrid, students are nasty. My daughter (y9) who attends Oakmoor currently has had a rough time ever since she has started (I’m unfortunately unable to swap her schools now as her GCSEs are creeping up) her experience has been horrible. The staff are nasty they don’t care about there pupils at all, they dish out detentions like hot meals, teachers sitting in toilets etc* bullying is a horrible problem at that school

Great teachers big school reccomend Ed

My son, Harry has been attending Oakmoor for 3 years now and I have heard of numerous occasions such as my boy walked into the lads laboratory to do his business and 12 year 10 gentlemen jumped out off the doors and started rapping “two man step” and then they whipped out a machete. They threatened to shove it down his boxers if he didn’t take a puff of their e-cigarettes. He was mortified. On another note, mr Darryl nash locked my son in his tech classroom and made him sniff his boxers (grey Calvin klein) until he passed out. The last thing I would like to mention is a student sophie dyke? Not sure on the name but this young lady (not slim built, short brown hair, blue eyes, larger lady) jumped on my son and hit him with a Radnor splash water bottle. I don’t recommend sending children to Oakmoor

Bullying policy is bad

very bad school got harrassed in boys toilet bye a group of young girls. cut off my weiner with a compass and put in the shower :(

Teachers dont care about anything but themselves, they are extremely sensitive over the littlest things and the school is like a dictatorship

extremely bad teachers swear

Bullying policy that’s all I can say most off the teacher always say ignore it.

Not a good school at all in my experience do not know what they are doing half the time.

Bit harsh, no Covid safety and launched a legal team against a young student who had an account with pictures of teachers on it but otherwise some good teachers and a variety of lessons