Q3 Academy Tipton

I NEED YOUR HELP
I'm an exchange student who'll study at Q3 Tipton academy and reading all these reviews is really scaring me. Since I'll basically be an immigrant all these comments about racism are pretty concerning and even the ones about teachers not giving a f*ck about anyone stress me out cause I'll need a huge amount of documents from the school to come back in my country and I can't just be ghosted.
I'm please begging if one of the local students could tell me if other exchange students have experienced bullying before? Has the class interacted with them or were they just left alone? AND THEN WTF DOES IT MEAN THAT I CAN'T TAKE MY COAT INSIDE? My rating is obvsly random cause I still haven't studied at Q3

An absolute disgrace of a school. I sent my child to Q3 for 3 years (up until year 9) before having to change the school. My child got bullied countless of times and had complained to the teachers many times with them doing nothing at all. My daughter used to tell me about the cases of S*xual assault that has happened within the school and about the teachers swearing at students and causing them to have problems with their mental health. I had a meeting with one of the teachers, about the bullying and they did absolutely nothing. There is always police outside the school and fights nearly everyday.

DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE. EVEN YOUR LOCAL DUMPING GROUND WILL GIVE UR CHILD A BETTER EXPERIENCE⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

This school is genuinely the worst

Toilet situations: they have locked every single toilet and the entire school has to share 3 cubicles for the girls and 3 cubicles for the boys, and dependent on where you are you have to travel half the school just to go to the toilet

This school also says they are super inclusive but when homophobia is presented they do NOTHING about it.

No accommodation for mental health problems

Canteen food is inedible 99% of the time and tastes like crap

1/10 School really bad and its so corrupt, affecting real life mentally and physically

I am scared about the safeguarding issue about my child, as one assistant headteacher is a bully. She even favours another assistant headteachers daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend as the two teachers are friends. The teacher’s children getting privileges is morally wrong and unfair. These teachers making the school look like third world country’s school. Just recently one of the assistant headteachers demoralised the students. Please can anybody give me advise on how to take legal action against the school as their complaint protocols are not transparent and the teachers are biased covering each other’s back.

This would have got zero stars but I couldn’t leave a review otherwise

Really unethical school from teacher and pupil views

When I was in year ten last year there was one student who called another student big black bastard and the girl is always very naughty but she gets away with it because she is white. When the head of year was told about this she said she did not care as it happened off the school grounds but I know if it was a white pupil she would have cared and done something about it. She did absolutely nothing. Sickening

Children get crushed in corridors frequently.
There is favouritism amongst staff and pupils
If your face doesn’t fit don’t expect to be treated fairly there
There are much better schools around to send your children to. Avoid like the plague

Teachers are abused by not being paid properly even though they work very hard they are denied what is rightfully theirs

Teachers are expected to give their unpaid time to help students and are not rewarded for it
Head teacher is a bully and shouts at staff and bullies them to tears 😭
That’s why all good hardworking staff leave and all good hardworking pupils leav or their parents don’t know what is going on so they stay and suffer and underachieve because the teacher that are left can’t teach because behaviour is appalling

Loathe some school this is.

I’m a student and when I got home I got told that I was apparently sick at 11:45. My mother rushed over to the school from work. My guardian had to rush in a taxi to the house to so called let me in. The taxi cost him a fiver and with inflation at an high that 5 pounds could have helped and possibly take us far. My mom was near the school and got told it was the wrong student and only got sorry. This is a safeguarding issue. This school is ok but it’s only bads are this litter and horrible teachers and a bit off bullying

Spent my entire school years miserable was dealing with mental health issues that I received no support for.
I was bullied all through my time here as did many people I know and it was never dealt with, the teachers were often nicer to these bullies and nasty people within the school and since we are speaking about the teachers the whole maths department has no clue what they are doing. The teaching in general is very poor and its up to you to teach yourself if you don't wanna fail. Students are violent and harras people from outside the school constantly. In general the school is very ableist racist and homophones (I was punished for scribbling out graffiti that depicted hate symbols and words even though I explained)

This school is good with the education however, some of the teachers are rude, they go on about school safety when some teachers are saying if you don't want to be here you can leave which has caused students to run down the corridor also teachers wouldn't let me explain why I couldn't hand in my homework that I missed when I was badly ill. This school is also bad with bullying, my friend got bullied badly and beaten up the teachers were just watching. Some teachers have been badly injured because of other students starting fights outside of school, one of the teachers got hit in the jaw. Also the meals can be cold when you have first lunch, one of my friends asked for a pudding they didn't ask if he wanted custard and they just putted it on he couldn't eat it because he couldn't have dairy.

So the shcool is cool but some teachers are racist or sexist to me and some of them are too rude but the pe teacher drama teachers are calm they tech us real things but the bullieing in this school is massive the teachers are weak they can't even stop a fight like last time 2 year seven gangs were fighting a teacher got punched and they cant stop water fights wich is very disappointing the bad this overall is the racist and sexist teachers and the bullieing u would have give the school a grate but they got to improve and I get bullied a lot

Awful school. Some staff care but not many. Racism and bullying is shocking. Staff turn around shocking especially in English and Maths. English director is awful but thinks she's best teacher there and they everyone loves her. Ofsted need to inspect. School is filthy and so unhygienic.

This school is so shit the headteacher kez looks like a fat lesbo with her dumb collection of doc martens. She looks like she should be working in a prison with offfenders not young children.
She is so unprofessional with her pink hair and stripey pants she looks like she could be cast in the joker remake.
The whole school is fucked. Mrs clegg looks like a zombie bride with that awful makeup. Miss McDonald’s dresses are so tight they’re practically holding on for dear life. She has her ass bent over every desk and at every opportunity. Miss Hylton looks like Ursula from the little mermaid. Excuse me miss are you looking at me orrr…
She’s so scary with those big fat cockeyed eyes. Handing out negatives like we don’t have anything better to do then to to be attending her detentions for shrugging your shoulders.
Miss jones body is so distorted. She is disformed. With her big boobs and fat jiggly belly. She looks scrunched and what’s with the screw face. Relax b.
Over all the school is shit the teachers are shittt and they are racist towards Asians!!!
If you’re brown your fucked

Dont allow your children to join this 💩 shower, this school has proven its worth by singling out a child who is exempt from having to wear "the mask" making her sit in a room alone, discriminating against her and in turn breaking the law
This is a good example of a bully who has gotten to big for there boots and now there gona get what they deserve

Let me start with all the positives about the school because their genuinely is a lot of good in a lot of the bad. Some of the teachers clearly care about helping students achieve, they show they support them and will stand by their side. They’re easy to talk to and kind natured. The school provides plenty of enrichment clubs including ones that are not Just sport centred.

Now onto the bad. The school does not care about students mental health enough as it should. Using shouting as a way of discipline when In fact they’re feeding a child’s anxiety and stressing those out near by. If you control students by fear then you shouldn’t be allowed near children. Also an assembly about suicide is not going to solve everyone’s problems, you’re triggering so many people unintentionally.

The school does not give out the correct punishments for things such as homophobia and sexism, but when it comes to topics such as being late or dying their hair then they’re suspended.

The school clearly cares more about test results then helping students. Students are labelled as being in “bottom set.” By their own teachers.

Students are unable to express themselves as apparently things such as un natural hair colours, piercings and makeup ( a thing proven to boost teenagers self confidence and self image ) are not “academy standard.” Further proving its reputation > everything else.

Also giving a student a late mark without helping them not be late or giving support is not the correct thing to do. If they’re constantly late then maybe that’s the time to make an effort to help them and not just blame them.

Overall I’d have to say, there’s a lot of redeemable qualities there but they’re too focused on outdated behavioural techniques.

This school is not the best teachers have fav students and in maths one teacher will get mad if u don’t put ur hand up but when u do she doesn’t even choose we also have to line up for every lesson and if there’s students still talking we have to stay longer that wastes our lesson time about 15-20 mins of it also bullying is a big thing in this school kids do it in front of teachers and they don’t care teachers don’t even care about learning this school is rubbish they have strict policy’s witch make no sense and we also have C1,C2,C3 etc, (negative points) teachers sometimes give out THEESE for stupid reason our maths teacher came up with a rule if u shout out saying miss u will get a c1 witch is stupid when she is all the way at the back and won’t even pay attention to u i hope this school changes

Honestly this school is absolute rubbish. Kids are constantly bullied and the teachers just couldn't care less, some teachers fail to teach the kids, constant supplies so lower sets learn nothing. Constant name calling and disruption so the kids learn nothing. Bad behaviour and bullying is swapped under the rug. Care more about how they dress then there education.

Because of COVID-19 we have to line up in certain zones before we can go into our classrooms. They make us do this until EVERYONE is quite, even if the students being noisy are in a completely different place we still have to wait until they are silent. This wastes and average of 15 minutes of lesson time.
This is quite ironic as recently they have been doing countless assemblies about attendance and how being late by 1 minute everyday will add up... so they have decided that if you are late to school they will give you a 30 minute detention. However wasting 15 minutes EVERY LESSON is completely fine.


In the lessons themselves students often get bullied/called names etc... and in most lessons the teachers either don't do anything about it or just say "dont make comments" and the same person makes fun of the same kid everyday and nothing is done by teachers.

Recently the teachers have been becoming more and more strict. In the lines that I mentioned before, if you say a single word you are told to get out of the line and they will have a conversation with you after everyone else has gone into the classroom which wastes even more learning time.

Then we have the Lanyard and ID, every morning we line up to go into our tutor session and the teachers perform a uniform inspection with a checklist, if you are caught not having a lanyard they will literally send you back home after making you inform your parents. This is the stupidest thing ever. They say that the ID is for security reasons but they literally have you on the checklist and have pictures of you on the school register then you obviously know that its someone that belongs there. Also, they dont check your ID before letting you in the school, anyone can just walk in. Its just pointless.

And finally, I witnessed a student being told by a member of staff to either put their mask on properly or take it off, why do they care? We dont have to wear masks anymore. The student had his mask under his nose and he was literally being harrassed and forced to either put their mask up or take it off, the member of staff even made comments like: "Do you believe in magic because your mask wont work if its not above your nose".
That is just ridiculous and it must have been so embarrassing for the student for something that they didn't do wrong.

The school is becoming increasingly strict but in a bad way and not were they should be.

I’m not even sure what to say about this school. I really do have mixed emotions. On one hand, I find this school ok. Teachers in certain areas are actually good at teaching us while others let us down which is very hard on us if In yr 11. Some teach us the materials that we need to pass our exams while others waste a lesson due to their bad teaching skills or trying to calm the class down.
While dealing with coronavirus this school should not be praised. I am expected to do my GCSEs at the end of the year. I have already missed 6 months of Material and I want to learn as soon as possible, this doesn’t happen. We are expected to line up in our classes outside in designated areas. We have been told not to mix with other years groups yet they too are lining up next to me. They let classes in one at a time and the youngest years go first. Which put the year 11s at an even more disadvantage as we lose around 10-20 minutes of our lesson.
On another hand the school rules are completely pointless and very biased. You could get into trouble for say trousers ( as they only accept certain ones) while yours are part of the schools rules and you have abided by them you will be sure to find another student wearing the exact same who will not get into trouble. This screams favouritism and this shouldn’t be allowed.
I have been apart of both the ace academy ( former name) and Q3 Tipton. The teachers will tell you they have seen a significant change in every area and that we are the best of the best. No. This isn’t true, personally to me nothing has changed the main thing they wanted to improve was lack of teachers. Has this changed ? Not really. We still get supply teachers and even teachers who quit within the first month.

I really do not recommend going here as its a terrible school. There's not much to say really. In class im an introvert and struggle alot with work and I don't get any assistance. I was and still do get made fun of by other students and the school does f**k all about it.