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Outwood Academy Shafton
Secondary · Academy · Barnsley
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AWFUL!!
absolutely awful school. i went here for 2+ years and i was bullied terribly to the point i needed 3 counsellors and the teachers NEVER helped at one point i was begging them on my knees crying to do something about it but they never did, no detention no nothing it just got worse and worse but if i ever said anything back to them i would get in trouble and they wouldnt. the teachers there are absolutely awful and never teach their students properly. i moved schools about a year ago and i have learnt everything in year 10 that i was meant to in year 7-9. all the kids are petrified of the headteacher and SLT and they give out detentions and isolations for the smallest things ever. the food is undercooked or overcooked, as in the chicken burgers are pink, the pasta is either so soft you dont even have to chew or it's crunchy no inbetween, the pizza is so greasy you could squeeze it and it would be enough for a deep fat fryer and the jacket potatoes are always burnt to a crisp or hard because of how raw they are. NEVER send your kids there unless you want them to be severely depressed!!
BÚLLYING
there is constant bullying here. the teachers/head of year do nothing about it even when parents report it. Nobody returns calls (when you can actually get through) and we were told that by a member of staff that they couldn't punish the gang who had been bullying because the incident has passed!!what a load of rubbish. I think the principal of this ACADEMY should send her staff on anti- bullying courses and maybe attend one herself as there is a total lack of understanding of the effect on the mental health of the person who is bullied. You should not be expected to have to attend a school when every day you fear that an unruly element are going to assault you.
Pathetic
Sending children home for silly reasons "natural eyelashes" making them miss education and not bothered...people have insecurities within themself and are making rules to embrace them saying no makeup or lashes making children refusing to go to school because they cant be who they are saying its a all rights school...pathetic
Shite
They make your kids confidence drop a lot.staff are way too harsh
Not too fussed
3/10 would not recommend
Wouldn’t come again
Wouldn’t come again
Wank
Wank I hope it burns
This school is shit they don’t do anything when u get bullied either it gets shut down or I burn it down xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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very bad
all of us hate it here
Mental Heath
They only care about you to get into college and get a job when you try to open up to them some teachers think it’s ok to rub it off as nothing most assume about other students just because they’re “loud” or “annoying” when really they’re the sweetest people on the planet some teachers are sound tho but most of them won’t listen about your problems only when a mental Heath support groups contact them about it or when the person speaks up about it when it goes around so they cover it up by doing something.
If you do send any of your kids to this school just remember it will ruin them there mental Heath and communication at home or school it’s honestly sick
I hear from outter year groups that some students don’t show up because of how worse it’s gotten for them so they send out messages for them to come into school acting like everything is ok for them when really they don’t know how badly that person is hurting
If you do send any of your kids to this school just remember it will ruin them there mental Heath and communication at home or school it’s honestly sick
I hear from outter year groups that some students don’t show up because of how worse it’s gotten for them so they send out messages for them to come into school acting like everything is ok for them when really they don’t know how badly that person is hurting
Mental Heath
Once you go into this school it’s ok at first then after like year7 to year8 they stop caring for you in year9 and get more stricter ever since the year11s left it has been awful they don’t do anything about mental Heath and when someone turns up late they don’t care what’s going on until things get worse they act like they know everything about everyone when really all they do is assume about other students now back to the mental Heath they dont do owt until the parent or the person that is looking after the child say something to school and honestly some people I know out of my year group and people in my year group don’t show up to school because of the lack of support for mental Heath I hope they do improve on it
just simple reasons i have no punctuation so don’t mind that
they don’t care about mental health or anything and if you’re a second late they give you a detention with our letting you explain where you was some teachers are alright but some can be really strict, in heatwaves they don’t let you wear your pe kits or minus the tights or something so you’re stuck over heating which isn’t very good as you can’t focus but that’s what they want you to do
TW SA mentionedned
rubbish I go here and if you care about your children I am begging you don't send them here I've been going here for 2 years now and bullying is the worst and when you tell them about it they do nothing, my dad was getting calls in school about his dad who had dies a couple of weeks before the calls, cruel, we told staff and reported it a day later saw them again doing the same thing. my dad was traumatised from his dad's death and my grandads and with all this going on some lousy kids thaight it would be fun. yet they didn't understand and it's more of the fact school knew and still nothing happened. I was also SA in school and multiple people were there and saw and took me out of the room where it was happening those kids stepped forward told the school what had happened and so did I, to this day I still see the kid, still gives me looks tries to hold my hand yet when I defend myself I get put in reflection all this has literally pushed me to the point where I just wanna end it. shit school in general don't waste your time, there's better schools.
Outwood Academy Shafton
Great outdoor facilities, great staff, truinting problem. All round not bad.
Don’t send your child their mental health will be ruined
This school doesn’t care about anything but your attendance and what GCSEs you get as they don’t want it to look bad on themselves. They don’t care about students mental health and when you try to tell them you just get ignored or told “you’ll be fine go back to lesson” or “it’s just because your a teenager”. You aren’t allowed to go to medical even if you’ve been sick as it isn’t allowed in lessons and should have gone at dinner or break, you aren’t allowed to fill your water bottle up as it isn’t allowed in lessons and just get told to wait until end of lesson, you aren’t allowed to the toilet even if you look desperate you just get told “should of gone at break/dinner” or “go after lesson you aren’t allowed in lessons” but at break and dinner they are always locked and there is only around 10 toilets on the bottom floor and you aren’t allowed to go to another floor for the toilet. You aren’t allowed to take your blazer off even if you are too hot.
I don’t really like it here
I thought in school I felt safe but throughout the years bullying has been bad and I’ve seen it happen to other people too, it’s mentally draining me just being there now.
Decent
Nice staff but they have no leverage for students making mistakes and don't wait on struggling students.
This school is absolutely awful
Made up of bullsh*t. Don't let u explain the truth if in trouble they just send u to reflection and gob off at u. Moldy food. Strict teachers. Bullys. Horrible,nasty students. Can't explain more worse abt this school it's f**king sh*t. Honestly do no go to this school u will regret it. The school if awful.
Pretty bad
They do not deal with any problems to do With it’s students but are relentless when it comes to saying they do . The teachers don’t have enough teaching experience so GCSEs are harder than other schools
Outwood Shafton Review
Learning is good, but when it comes to bigger matters like bullying, nothing gets sorted
Unfair
Ist too strict... They dont listen to student pov
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