Queen Katharine Academy

As a former student, I can confidently say to never attend this academy, the only good thing about it are the caf chocolate cookies. I left QKA 3 years ago and still have traumas from that place. I was relentlessly bullied and no help was offered, once a girl slapped me in the face in front of about 20 people, she was about half my height so I didn’t hit back and everyone saw this including our PE teacher,
I was passing a water bottle back to a friend that she’d forgot in the PE hall and this girl and her friend refused to move out of the way of the changing rooms, I’m a girl myself so she had no reason to do this and I asked twice politely for her to move, she did not. I then called my friend to come out to get her bottle and reached over the top of this girl to give it to her, and that’s when the horrid little ogre slapped me, her and her little mate run to head of years office but before the office there’s a staircase with a blind spot underneath it, they’d gone under there and this girl got her mate to hit her and make a red mark on her face before going to the head of year, I got there about ten minutes after them explained everything and got accused of lying until they had the camera evidence, and when they got the evidence that I’d not done anything wrong, they then said I was being antagonistic by reaching over her and she felt threatened and like she had to defend herself and still expelled me for a week.

This is just one of thousands of personal stories I have about this school, let alone close friends and their friends even.

Even a few teachers quit because of the conditions of that place, the good ones who didn’t deserve the treatment of some of the students and authoritative staff, it’s absolutely stunning to me how that place is even allowed to run and stay open. The conditions are horrendous for every student and staff member involved.

As I said the only good thing about that place is the chocolate cookies.

Racist Teachers, sexist teachers, the kids here made a hierarchy system, smart kids are bullied to hell and back, people are treated by religion here, plus the food is awful and teachers don't care about bullying, lunch table system is horrible, let's send this school out of business together. don't send your kids here it's like prison

This is the worse school I have come across, bullying is their hallmark, and when students report they do nothing about it, you will write report and they woll say we are investigating and thats the end of it but they make youthe student their target, give unnecessary behaviour points to students and very poor communication in the school, they have no regard for black parents, hatred and racism from teachers and students is their hallmark I will never recommend this school, especially black children.

The entire Year 7 my friend was bullied and then he got into fights. My friend was given 3-day isolation while the bullies got 10-minute detention during lunch. WHAT??? Yesterday, my friend got into a fight because a special needs kid was bullying him as my friend didn't have a phone. The special needs kid was given a talk while my friend got 1-day suspension. Also the teachers don't care about racism. We were reading a book and (I am a Pakistani) and it had the word 'paki' in it. This british kid said it and the teacher said nothing. Not even a "You should have the said the 'p-word' nothing. Also for PE we have to wear the school's trousers but there very expensive so I wore some plain black PE trousers. The teachers gave 30-min detention also a call home. Also some teachers are nice like my tutor but other teachers like the 2 teachers in the Year 8 office are so biased. Like once at the end of the day this kid who is supposedly kind told me to go back to my country and i told him to f*ck off. The teachers brought me in for a chat with the kid. The kid told him his side of his story and that was it they didnt even listen to my side. I got 1hr detention. This happened in Year 7. Also the teachers can't even pronounce bullying. They say ballying. This is coming from a student who has been there from 2022-???. NEVER BRING YOUR CHILDREN HERE.

No good very bad haha

To be honest, I don't have anything to complain about this school. The teachers (at least the ones I've been taught by) are polite, they are always trying to help their students and are attentive and polite. I also wished the PE lessons were more varied and not so forceful. A student gym would be wonderful! Other activities such as swimming (for example) would be great too.

Some of the lessons/subjects are really boring and not helpful at all. For example, Drama, it was a total waste of my time (due to student behaviour also). I also chose it to learn how to act, and actually learn about this area, but the lessons were so disapointing and lame!

I just wish some of the rules were banned as they do not help at all (useless) but only annoy students. Talking about students, some of them are annoying and disruptive, I also wish they would just get expelled already. Very disrecpetful.

They could also get better with their food - it's expensive for the quality of it. But I can see they're trying to get this right too, they're always trying to improve and create a better environment for students!

This is part of the reason that I chose to stay for Sixth Form this year (2022). I'm very excited to start this new phase of my life! I also love how they are always trying to explore diversity, and represent every culture.

It is a great school with wonderful teachers. They care about students a lot and ate just amazing.