Pilton Community College

Firstly, this school doesn't let you unleash your skibidi potential and forces you to jelq. Sigma students are forced to suppress their knowledge, creativity and rizz. It's not very cool or fannum tax and they force you to edge. Also there is mold in the lockers, the building itself is falling apart and the B.O levels are intense. I don't know whether I want them to use their budget to fix/replace their rubbish equipment or to issue deodorant to certain students and breath mints to certain teachers.

"Share your experience at the school" Okay.
I despise this school. I truly do not like it. I'm not going to get into this story too much because it's not really the place to write it but I will give a short overview. Long story very short, I was SA'd by another student who was in my classes and tutor in one of the school bathrooms. The day it happened was the worst day of my life. I couldn't tell anyone, I mean, how can you tell someone about that? I then had to spend two whole years sitting in the same classroom and tutor as this boy. I spent two years with that day going over and over in my head. Until one day I couldn't take it anymore. I remember this day quite well, I was in English and my English teacher asked if I was doing okay, I snapped and burst into tears, crying and telling her the story while the boy that did it was sat his chair like a metre away. The only good thing about this story was my English teacher, she helped me so much and I am so grateful for her. She called the front desk of the school and they came up and I told my story again and they took a few notes. A few days after the lesson I spoke with some police officers, I told my story again. I then spoke with a "mental health worker" at the school and she told me that I didn't have to wear my uniform as It happened in my uniform. This was good, apart from every teacher telling me to change into uniform again. I mean even when I let the teachers know that I didn't have to, they still made me. The police then opened up a proper case about my story and was about to bring the boy in for questioning. Then the school dropped the case. The school told the police to end the case. Hearing that hit me like a truck. I don't want to drag her into this but my friend also went through similar experiences with the same boy, and it was her dad that opened up the case again. The boy was then moved from one of the three lessons I had him in. They said "You're fine in the other lessons". I very much was not. Then the police took the boy to court. While he was there, he admitted to what he did to me. He told the court that he did what I said he did to me. The court let him go. The school let him back. It was like nothing happened. He is still out there today. He was still in my lessons. Do you understand how absolutely disgusting it is to have someone that has done that to you, admitted to it and still allowed to be sat a few tables from you. This was all going on at the end of year 11 aswell so I had exams on my back too. Exams which he was still allowed to do. How can someone that has done that, to two people, be allowed to take exams? And also, the school would tell me "come to us when you skip lessons and we will help" no. No because I came to you and you sent be straight back to the lesson. I'm now in college and I still think about him to this day. There is never a day that goes by where I don't think of him doing that do me. He has ruined my brain. I'm getting better though, but it would of been nice if I had a school that is labeled as a "safe space" to help me. Now I have to fight this alone. I'm sorry but this school has failed me. Failed my friend. And failed so many others. This school is truly not the place it seems on the outside. If you are a parent reading this, please, please trust me and don't send your child here. No one was there for me so let me be here for your child. Please don't send them here, it will ruin them. I mean, if you do send your child here, make sure they only go to their English lessons. The English teachers were banging. Oh and the food was gross. Only go here if you want to be mentally ill.

Its bad they make us freeze to death and make us take are coat of when teachers are literally wearing a coat they dont care about are wellbeing just want us to be happy it feels like school is effecting are mental health more if you ask any other student it would be the same

It's an alright school I'm only just now going into year 9 but I have made friends but I understand that's not relevant to the schools. Lunch. The food is alright for me as I only ever buy ham sandwiches made by another company but the sittings... year 7 first one week then year 8 first the next week is ridiculous because you get kicked out of your tutor room halfway through lunch so by the time you're done on average you can sit in tutor for 3 minutes. The people that go here are also horrid. There's a girl who ditches every group to talk badly about them a boy who mocks people for any reason eg. Being gay being trans being overweight being underweight being short being tall being disabled and most importantly a racist. He is a complete racist and this does not apply to only my year. He has said horrid stuff to years 7 8 9 10 and 11 without major consequences. We have also only ever had 3 good teachers and one of them has left school because of a higher up teacher barrading her for following a more fun curriculum for set 1 even though it was required and that poor teacher had to deal with a student having a severe panic attack which caused her to become so drained that after the teacher saying that she decided she had had enough and was going to quit. I hate to see the only nice staff leave. P.E is also sorted horrifically. My sets were sorted by playing a made up ball game and just splitting us down the middle meaning our skill didn't matter it was where we decided to stand. The p.e teacher for bottom set also prefers top set in such an obvious manner it's horrible I feel like I'm going to cry every time she critiques us because she always compares us to top set constantly. Thank you to the 2 remaining nice teachers that I've had and I'm praying for 3 more of the ones I've heard good things about.

In conclusion, only go here if you don't mind being bullied by people in your own tutor, people manipulating you or teachers devaluing you
-L

I went to this school a little while ago and have a bit to say about it.

The learning support bit was brilliant, I absolutely loved it and it was very accommodating for my disabilities, my tutor and group were amazing, and a lot of the teachers and teaching assistants were so kind and helpful.

However, I had a lot of bullying issues, that never properly got resolved. When I was in year 7, I was harassed by a group of boys and told “boys will be boys”, I was mocked and treated terribly by other students, for having a disability and using a wheelchair, which has caused me to have social anxiety and insecurities to this day.

I remember being told that my dreams and aspirations were unrealistic, which stuck with me for years. I also remember being told off, when I was only 11, for playing an imaginary game with a friend, at break time.

I failed maths because I was put in a class of disruptive kids, who would say really horrible things about me, in front of teacher, so I wasn’t able to learn, despite wanting to.

Mixed bag of school, some good, some bad.

The school doesn't advocate for mental health in the slightest - they aren't concerned for students wellbeing so long as they achieve good grades. If someone was struggling at home, they would be expected to leave these issues outside of the classroom. Having a poor home environment wasn't good enough to allow you to miss homework or self-study no matter how bad the situation may have been.

Students who are less able were barely helped, and were often taken away from their friends and treated poorly with the expectation that it would enable them to achieve more. If you weren't able to concentrate in lessons, you just had to focus. The teachers didn't consider other unresolved issues students may have had.

Students weren't given any individuality - we would often be reprimanded for the smallest of things, such as earrings and nail polish, while the teachers were allowed to dye their hair unnatural colours and wear distracting clothing.

The facilities at the school were underwhelming - tutor rooms were often locked, and if not they would be overrun with students and incredibly messy. The library was hardly available aside from an hour after school, leaving students no place to go and study quietly in their free time. There was never anything to do at breaks and lunchtimes, the canteen was always incredibly messy, and the "nurses" just weren't good at helping people. We were either given painkillers or ice and told to leave. They also blocked off the AstroTurf, which means that students were deprived of a place to have fun.

The toilets were usually locked, didn't have a door, weren't cleaned properly and just overall disgusting. There was a lack of disabled toilets and no gender neutral toilets to speak of. The inclusivity for students questioning their gender identity was horrific. There was also no gender neutral changing room, meaning that trans students had to suffer. We weren't allowed access to the toilets during lessons, which made it incredibly hard for female students and students with issues.

The majority of the teachers were unmotivated, short-tempered, and sometimes just genuinely nasty. Some of them were nice, but a lot of them would make it incredibly clear if they didn't like you and favoured the students who misbehaved often because they were too lazy to deal with it. A lot of them would put pressure on less able students by showing them up. It wasn't uncommon for them to make an example of people who hasn't achieved as much, telling them they needed to do more in front of the class. They had clear favouritism towards certain students, and the others would be basically neglected throughout the lessons. A lot of students were scared to ask for help as a result of this.

It was practically a prison - the students have recently been locked in with huge black spiked gates surrounding the whole premises. This doesn't prevent students leaving, but it really does make them feel trapped there. The school is provided with money to source things for the students such as a break room and fundamentals, and they instead use it to trap us in and buy self-indulgent things for the teachers.

The only good thing about the school is the fact that so many of the teachers don't care, meaning that the students are free to do what they want for the most part. This is good for students who like to slack off, but for those who are hard-working it makes the place hell.

I don't recommend going here at all, unless you really have to. There have been cases of people bringing in knives and doing generally dangerous things, and they just don't care. If you have the option, go elsewhere.

Fabulous school... yes somethings sometimes are not done in the way you want. BUT everyone is safe always and any issues I believe are put right in the correct way and all percussions are in place. All lessons are ok some (depending on teacher) are better than others but NO lesson is dreadfully awful.