Pool Hayes Academy

I’m really impressed with the school my son started late in year 7 after not getting into the school we had selected and I I'm now glad he didn’t he’s settled in so well not had one issue he really enjoys it and is excelling in every lesson! Parent’s evening teachers had nothing but wonderful things to say about my son and fully explained how they plan to move forward with his education to push him which I appreciate

This is by far the worst school I have ever seen I move down from wales to here and my children are getting hurt non stop by member of staff also pupils I do not tolerate it anymore

The only thing I learnt at this school was regret. Regret on spending what should have been the formative years before adulthood at a hell hole with “teachers” (not all) who didn’t give a damn about delivering good education to children that deserved it. Schools and educators should realise the impact of providing poor education especially what it does to the pupils future. I had to redo most of my GCSEs and A levels independently, because the quality of teaching at PH was lacklustre and quite frankly, poor. 1996-2003 was an absolute joke and OFSTED were kind enough to award the school “requires improvement” until recent. Glad to see changes and reports of “good”. On other areas - the exterior is exactly the same as 20 years ago, with some minor changes. The bronze motif on the main block is still there! Dinners were great though - massive respect to the dinner ladies! Weirdly enough I now work in education as a Director but my learning experience at this school was pretty dire. Head of 6th form was a bully by the way - Cut my education maintenance allowance because I was late one day after going to hospital for me dad and found it amusing. In those days, £30 a week went long way (Expletive words!!!)

Did nothing about bullying. Teacher made fun of me in front of everybody. Nothing is done if you complain about teachers no matter how bad of a teacher they are.

this school is terrible honestly, i cant believe it, my son get a c3 for putting a pen down and suspended for walking into the wrong class, also the teachers are very miserable and moody I DO NOT RECCOMEND this school to ANYONE🙂.

I was bullied for the five years i was there. this included physical and emotional abuse from students in my year. i had brought this up with teachers many times and each time i was told to “just ignore them”. i couldn’t. this caused me suicidal thoughts resulting in me attempting suicide 3 times within my time there and i had turned to self harm. i’m in therapy now for ptsd, anxiety, depression and an eating disorder which are all results from being at this school. as well as the bullying some teachers would constantly put me down. i was told several times by the career advisor that i’d never go anywhere in life and that my career goals are unrealistic and i should change my path. one of the science teachers also told me i was stupid and would never get into sixth form because of how dumb i was. the drama department as a whole is pathetic. they play favourites and aren’t discreet about it. they make you feel shit and even if you do have talent if they don’t like you, if you aren’t pretty enough or don’t want to take drama for sixth form, you aren’t respected. i did bring up how unfair it all was with a friend as it was getting to us a lot but nothing was ever resolved and the unfair treatment continued. the dance department also repeatedly told me i was too fat to dance and should just give up. they don’t care about you unless your skinny. i did a dance show and one of the costumes didn’t fit and after bringing this up with the head dance teacher she told me to get rid of my breasts and lose weight. this treatment along with peer bullying led me to develop an eating disorder and i’m still not recovered a couple years later. there was only around 5 teachers in the whole 5 years that actually cared about me but half of these ended leaving before i ended year 11 but even then they just told me to just ignore them. if you aren’t pretty, smart, or fit their standards the school doesn’t care about you. i have so much trauma and mental health issues resulting from me being at this school and even with the teachers knowing nobody did anything. there’s little support both academically and mentally and it has to get better. i know i’m not the only kid who has experienced this type of treatment.

I mean, I would not recommend, in my opinion, there is so much bullying there, somebody I know got bullied there so much to the point they wanted to take their life, and the school did little to nothing about it, the school has slightly improved but my sibling also attended and was bullied to the point of harming themself and again, they did nothing.