Q3 Academy Langley

Boy do I wish I found this page back in January last year! This school is honestly an awful establishment. My son has been threatened with being stabbed and he has been accosted in the playground by groups. When he has defended himself he has been thrown to other schools to deal with. I have tried to resolve the bullying issue, but the school’s response has been to harshly punish my son for even the most ridiculous of reasons including not finding his glue stick fast enough while doing nothing about the children that attacked my child first. Instead of resolving their obviously toxic and broken culture, they have opted to make it impossible to attend work at all forcing me to find alternative arrangements for my son’s schooling. Although, my grammar could use work my math and science knowledge is quite advanced so homeschooling is not off the table. If you like your child at all I would encourage you to find an alternative school because this one is far worse than the school that preceded it. Many locals remember Langley high school, this one is far worse they don’t even try to hide the off rolling. However, they do have great after school activities where you child might not get stabbed or beaten up… maybe.

Excellent school and brilliant staff

Absolutely appauling school. Head teacher is obsessed with being 'top of the pyramid', and cares more about how the school looks than the students that attend it. Attendance overall is good, but only because the Attendance team Harrass students - they won't accept any reason for being away from school except if hospital trip is needed or they have the corona virus, they show up to student's houses to make sure that they can't be in school and often forced students to go into school, despite being sick, even if it put other students at risk. Mental health is totally ignored unless the student is mentally challenged in a visible way. The PE team Is the worst for ignoring mental health, will often yell at students and force them to do things, only can a doctors note get them out of the class. Staff often run their classrooms on fear, cold calling is the main form of 'helping students learn', and shaming them or yelling at them if they get a question wrong instead of being understanding and helping the student. Students aren't allowed to use the bathroom when eating lunch or in class unless they cry or have a 'toilet pass' which have to be redone every year, sometimes less, leaving some students without one when they need one, which has resulted in students having accidents in the past. Students made to stand outside no matter what, even in the cold, not allowed to have hoods up despite crowds of birds around, and once stood in line to go inside can wait for around 5 minutes each time and is not allowed to move, it was common for students to be defacated on, this often led to the bullying of that student. Students often bullies, aggressive and even more commonly racist and sexist, yet this is taken less seriously than a student have the wrong coloured hair tie. Many serious fights have taken place, yet in my 5 years there, I only ever knew one student who got expelled for wiping food on other students, i am not sure about other year groups, but in mine this was certainly the case. The food was absolutely disgusting, the amount of times I and others found rotten or undercooked food and hairs in those tiny boxes they gave us was atrocious, me and multiple others students chose to starve all day instead of eating the repulsive chunky slop that they called food. A few meals were okay, such as pizza, but that's extremely hard to mess up. There were a large group of staff that were miserable and unenthusiastic, which is understandable, but they took and anger out on students. Again this was only a selection of staff, there were a few that were lovely, and I miss a lot. No electronic devices allowed, which is fine, but the phones collected in the 'phone box' were collected by students, and in my tutor, the role to collect them was given to a horrible, racist, sexist, bully who often didn't even bother giving people their phones back, and whenever he was in right path (isolation), the role went to a nicer person, but he was extremely clumsy and often dropped the phones, luckily none ever broke. People dying their hair too red or in any way an unnatural colour, or even cutting their hair too short or odd was punished harsher than racism, sexism, bulling, fighting ect. I had a friend who was put in right path (isolation) for two weeks whilst their hair grew out, whilst a someone who was racist, and their racism resulted in a fight was only in right path (isolation) for one day. No sprays were allowed, and once taken off were never given back despite being told that they would be, lack of spray, especially after PE often led to bullying. Back onto the topic of PE, staff were rude and forced students to take part, even if they were sick or their uniform was too small and close to ripping (based on personal experience), I, myself, despite being an active person hated the sports that they made us do, most commonly rounders or cricket, had mental breakdowns almost every lesson because I was afraid of making a fool of myself, or just because I really didn't want to do it, yet the staff would just yell at me and tell me to take part, dismissing anything that I said. When the students who did like the sports given yelled at me or other students for not being good enough, the teachers would either ignore it or encourage them. Occasionally, another member of staff that was not apart of the PE team would cover and the lesson would improve vastly, in terms of support for students who, like me, did not like cricket or rounders. The idea of school uniform all being the same including coats and bags is understandable, it definitely made an impact on bullying, I just wish there was a summer uniform and winter uniform because it was always far too cold in the winter, even inside. Only drink allowed was water, which I don't really understand because staff were allowed any drink they wanted, but to be fair this rule wasn't often enforced so didn't make much of a difference. Even now, when I walk past this school to pick up my younger brother from school, the crowds of children, who ignore the fact that they are in public, or next to two primary schools is revolting. The students have no manners, they block the path and force people and young children to walk in the road. They also block the roads, making the traffic abysmal, the parents parking is just as bad, they block the road, block people's driveways. The students on these paths kick things around, fight each other, yell swears and racist/sexist things and the teachers do absolutely nothing except stand there and stare. They take random selfies or videos, often capturing children or passers by in the background, if you say excuse me or even attempt to walk through the crowds they yell at you or look at you as if you are dirt on their shoe. I have honestly never met such rude teenagers, even Oldbury and Bristnall aren't this bad, despite having a bad reputation, and the teachers, when it comes to controlling these students or teaching them manners are absolutely useless. Many students walk through the primary schools to get home, and they are still disruptive, rude, arrogant, i could go on. Honestly, I could type for days about how awful this school is, but I feel like I have written enough for one review, if I have one piece of advice that I could give anyone it would be to not send your children to this military camp.

What a terrible school. Double standards when it come to who's allowed to use the car park. They only let the white bloke use the car park who has no affiliation with the school. Even the one of the staff admitted this to me.
He was told to lock us asians in the gates. Knew it all along. On top of that they cant control the pupils when a member of public complains about them. Instead they are coached to lie and make false allegations to the police. Coached by a headmaster who is an ex police officer. Just to get me into trouble. Because I've posted his responce to my complaint. He even wants to punish the other school that my son goes to at stated in the letter by not letting them use the playing fields. What kind of human does that. Lol. I have threats made stating "Police are going to talk to me about my conduct towards the school kids and taking photos without their consent. Loooool. No police wont speak to me about that as it's in public and I can record what I see children or not. And I'm recording anti social behaviour along with identifying who they are. Victoria Taylor you are clueless and very unprofessional by making a threat for no reason at all. Plain and simple it should take you over a week to get to grips of your lying anti social teenage children. Thank god my son doesn't behave the way these kids do. Thank god my son is honest. Unlike the children that come here. Absolutely horrible school and standards have dropped significantly over the years especially since this ex pigpolice has taken over. Hides behind his desk. Your own staff told me things about how bad the school is. I live 1 mile away and wont never send my kids here. My son didnt want to go here either. His friends regret being at the school like many others. Also receptionist thi ks she can tell your kids to come into school when they have been vomiting. Bad news travels fast could be here for hours on things I know about this school.

This school is ran as a company, everyone should be respectful slant and clap appreciations. The headteachers ego takes control over children's rights .When saying a staff member is wrong and confronting them, when your in the right, they say that you are 'talking back' and therefore you get consequences like stage 4's.
This school depicts themself as the greatest school in sandwell and better than any other school in langley which is a lie its quite the opposite. They need to start making this school less strict and focus on the students than their own rules.

I worked here for a little bit and it's a very clique place. They only care if you are part of the senior management or if you're family.
Friends interview friends to make sure they get jobs. Staff get spoken down to all of the time as if they are the same as the children. They exclude children who don't fit into their vision. Children don't have a say at all, even if they are in the right. They don't give children time to explain. Children get bullied even though they say it doesn't happen because they push it under the carpet. They make the children do p.e in the freezing cold in the winter outside for 100 minutes
The head teacher is obsessive about how the school looks and doesn't think about the children as individuals.

Some reviewers claim that Q3 Langley is a good school. How can that be, when the standard of English written in these reviews is so poor? Maybe the students were concentrating too hard on obeying all the ridiculous rules - slanting, clapping an appreciation or staying silent - to ask for help when they didn't understand their lessons? My experience of Q3 Langley is from a teaching perspective so I will endeavour to put forward a sincere and candid opinion in order that you can make a judgement based on facts rather than emotions. Although not a teacher myself, I have first-hand experience of the life of a teacher at Q3 Langley. The staff here are under enormous pressure to maintain a draconian regime that is not conducive to developing young minds in a free society. Students behave because they dare not break the rules, not because they want to learn to be better people.
The academy is run like a business, where image is everything and everything must fit the brand. Consequently, students' individuality and creativity is stifled. It is not a happy, vibrant, caring place, as a school should be, instead it is overbearing, extreme and not the best place to send your child.

I left the school about last week dont get me wrong it was a good school i do have good grades but the school was very toxic i yust left like i couldnt be myself and all they seen to care about is coming to school they dont care about your problems all they care about is you coming to school. The head of the school always says his a good boss but is he? As much as the heads of years did made us feel like we cant be ourselves but i do feel bad for them as much i ues to hear mr lee goes mad at them for what yuat because the year 10s are a little early for break or they went the wrong way to go to the toilet like not every is their fault at the end of the day we are humans after all. I remember in year 9 or year 8 i got bullied and my mom came in crying her crys out and mr lee was watching my mom crying he didnt even say are you okay ? He was to busy on his phone he yust looked at us and went of i get it his probably a busy person but not even a are you okay or do you want help. And how they would kick someone out if they bully thats a lie because in lessons their are always a group of people bullying and laughing at a student and what did the teacher do nothing yust stand there and laughed. I cant even say i missed the school cus i yust left like i was being controlled and i left like i was in a toxic school and dont even get me started on of how students was at the bottom and teachers was at the top make that make sense then we are the ones making you money allover bad school!!!

I like the school in many ways, however i’m extremely disappointed with how they deal with situations. The worse the situation, the little the consequence. The little the situation, the worse the consequence.

Year 9 student and I would say it’s quite an amazing school! Even though they are strict... and I would like them to rain it down with the rules, but the learning and the behaviour is outstanding compared to my primary school. Nice School

This is a good school, but it has its flaws in places but this can be covered by the fact the school is still quite new and the buildings aren't done yet.