Sacred Heart Catholic High School

This school has no idea how to deal with physical health conditions.
The senco does anything she can to avoid doing her actual job, meaning girls with disabilities are left with no support that they are entitled to.
It was very common to see girls crying in the corridors, usually over bullying which has been reported yet ignored. The schools response to this is they ‘don’t want to get involved in arguments’, basically meaning they can’t be bothered to deal with it.
The senior leadership team were absolutely useless, I was treated like a problem rather than an actual person.
There is also a massive accessibility issue, which the school claim they are not responsible for, as it’s an old building. Yet, they won’t make any reasonable adjustments (such as moving classrooms), so I spent most lessons in a small room on my own.
A substitute teacher made a ‘joke’ about my disability, we reported it but never received an apology from the teacher.
I had no personal emergency evacuation plan, so (unknown to us at the time) I had no way of getting out if there was a fire (thankfully there was not).
Racism is a massive problem for most students, yet ignored as the school seem too scared to deal with it correctly.
An English teacher refused to let me leave lessons early (I had a pass for a medical condition) and made me feel embarrassed about my condition in front of a class. The same teacher refused to send me any English work for a year when I wasn’t well enough to attend school, so I was left massively behind in lessons. She then gave me a very low grade at the end of the year, despite not sending me any work or even letting me sit the assessment.
I have been left traumatised from the way I was treated there, and am glad to have finally left.
I really hope sacred heart improve, as I don’t want anyone to go through what I did. No student should be made to feel like an outcast for having a disability they cannot control.

It is ok but sometimes the teachers abuse their power and it isn’t as nice as it looks all the time.

this school gives off a spooky feeling. it could be the girl as they are all wrong in the head.
a lot of them are pregnant or have had too many sausage rolls at Greggs.
please improve your food cause it makes me feel ill.
I don't like the fact everyone here haven't been in the shower.
also they don't give any shits on bulling.
lastly I saw ants in one girls ants so please make that your top priopoirity or i will not be able to sleep tonight.
awful school

They don't care about mental health all they care about is how your uniform looks, your attendance, your behaviour and your grades.

They dont deal with bullying at all!

Don't trust the teachers with anything you tell them they will pass it on to your parents even if you ask them not to.

And last but certainly not least the ofsted inspections they will do absolutely anything to make sure they get the best on the inspection they once threatened to exclude me if i was seen in the corridors during the inspections.

Oh and also the teachers are HORRIBLE.

Most of the teachers are racist. Because today I have been told to take of my MASK, when I didn't felt like doing it. And told me and my Friends to not go on the grass while white students were walking on the grass. Most of the teachers DID NOT even CARE about our education but what we wore in school like some people chose to Wear a mask .

Avoid this school. It gas gone downhill so badly. Not at all like it used to be. My daughter is a good girl, happy enjoyed school at primary then went to this school and has been so badly bullied by teachers, i now struggle to get her to school

Trans boys sharing toilets and changing area with girls, teachers asking students to refer to trans boys as he him in all girls school

Teachers bully students high rate of trans boys in the school

I remember there was a girl who brought a knife in and didn’t get expelled what is this school bae

This school is awful. I don’t know why I didn’t leave sooner to be honest, I have pretty severe bpd and the school did not help whatsoever. I had psychosis and I got screamed at by the head of pastoral for not being in my lesson LOLLL. Go to UTC it’s so much more fun. All I learned from sacred heart is...

Do your mathswatch on time or you’ll get pure rinsed, and if your skirt is not below your knee you will be burned at the stake.

Also side note the Sixth Form is wayyyyyy better they actually treat you like a human there.

Some teachers are alright but overall it’s bad. They do nothing to support your mental health and do nothing about bullying. My sister was bullied and nothing happened, I suffered with mental health I got sent to the counsellor for a bit and after the summer holidays they have no support. The only thing they care about is your grades and don’t recognise the effort you put in. Don’t go to this school if you value your mental health!

Just no entire experience was horrible i would not go back

Hello! So I’m a student at this school and this is my opinion first problem: teachers: my teachers for a good half of my subjects are absolutely horrible and mean to us my friend once got told of and gave a detention for drinking a sparkling water that the school literally sells. Like what the hell. The only good teachers I’ve met are from the music department and the RS department. Next up rules. Get ready for this one folks! No phones at all if it is found by any teachers then it gets confiscated for either till the end of a week or if it’s on a Thursday or Friday bad luck for you because you have to wait a full on week to get your phone back! Also teachers sexualise all student by there being a rule that all skirts have to be over the knee and can never be rolled up not even once or else one hour slt detention for you! This school encourages being yourself but does the exact opposite by not letting you have any fashion sense at all bracelet? Detention and confiscation. Next up mental health: my mental health and confidence has been plummeting to the ground ever since the start of this year. I have had several panic attacks but the learning centre will help which is the only good thing unless if you don’t have access to it. Next up Classes: oho so I’m in a medium low set meaning that we are seen as dumb and get bullied all the time for being brain dead and etc. the school does nothing about this and carries on as if nothing happened but you not having an unnoticeable badge on your blazer is more important. Never ever send your child to this school, you will certainly regret it, oh yeah one last thing heh if you have claustrophobia then don’t even think about it because you can’t fit a full 3 sets of student in a hallway and sometimes the lunch line reaches to the very top off the school it’s absolutely ridiculous how there are 12 years and 6 form but they can’t fit 3 sets in the same hallway together also the stair are a big problem as I fall down them all the time when students cluster and try to get some Lunch until there isn’t any left for anyone. And the top sets are bombarded with homework and high expectations I don’t get how this school is even still open for business as I’m pretty sure this list must violate a guideline. Also the lockers are absolutely tiny like just a tiny square box in a form class or hallway. Overall 0/10 school don’t recommend to anyone.

Everyone thinks this places is amazing and the place to send your kids but in reality sacred heart catholic high school is shit they do not deal with bullying properly they do not care for mental health and the food ment to be amazing but they dont even cook the food right the place is absolutely shit do not recommend

I go to that school a womann called miss Lewis is rasisy

This school is the type of school for students who want a good outcome. If you are willing to learn and willing to go far then this school has everything for you. Even if students don't want to learn or bother the teachers will still try to encourage you to do your best. In total, the behavior is better than other schools. There is very little bullying and because the school is smaller in size there is less space for students to hide and bully eachother. Girls who go on to sixth form manage to get into very good universities and have a range of opportunities. For students with learning difficulties and poor mental health, they are supported by staff one to one in the learning centre. This is one of the schools which want you to go far. The teachers want their students to get high grades because they care.

i haven’t even started doing my gcse’s yet and this school has already been the most awful experience ever, i honestly don’t even know where to begin.
i will start by talking about the staff there, there are a few departments in the school who are actually kind to their students, like the music, RS and IT departments, who are really helpful and understanding towards their students. however, most of the staff departments are unfriendly to their students and treat them like robots, only the students who achieve really high grades and are in top set get any attention, but they are also completely overwhelmed with work and stress put onto them by the teachers which leads to poor mental health and no social life due to the amount of homework they get. the lower sets are constantly reminded that they are not clever enough to be in top set and are picked on and told off for the simplest of things, anyone in between with average grades is just ignored. the work and lessons are overall honestly really boring and tiring so they are not memorable at all for exams. all students are expected to behave in the exact same way and are not allowed any individuality although the school preaches the message of “being yourself” but continues to ban any self expression like wearing any makeup, or having your hair in a different style etc, they also sexualise young girl’s bodies as soon as they start school there by creating a strict rule of them having their skirts knee length at all times and giving them literal detentions if they dare to roll them up even once which is a complete waste of time and makes no sense. also, the school preaches about having good mental health but students often have panic attacks in school and the teachers completely ignore it, there is a school counsellor who is really unhelpful and ignores and pushes aside any worrying behaviour from the students who seek advice from her. there is also a massive problem with bullying, racism and homophobia in the school but the staff are more bothered about the length of the student’s skirts or whether your phone is switched off than those major issues which happen everyday inside the school. there is also a weird rule where no one is allowed to go to the toilet during lessons and get told off just for asking to go, this doesn’t make any sense as it is an all girls school so they literally expect you to bleed through onto the chair if you are on your period in class. also, because the school is all girls none of the students there now know how to interact and socialise with boys which is not helpful for when they go to college, university or the working environment where there is a mixture of males and females. basically all the school cares about is their reputation so anything bad that happens it is always covered up, which is probably why everyone seems to think it is such an amazing school, but from my own and many other students experiences, it is clear that it is not. the school does not have a happy atmosphere and i really do not recommend that you go to it.

You'll get the grades that you need, but it'll crush your work ethic. Students in higher bands are overworked to the point of severely poor mental health, students in lower bands are pushed aside and have crisis cover called on them for something as simple as throwing a pen to a friend across the classroom. It's like an awful microcosm for society, somehow.

Mental health is constantly preached but students frequently have panic attacks in the corridors and have to be comforted by the poor RS teachers over the workload they have to take on, picked on by teachers that don't understand them or told off for ridiculous uniform rules. It's not uncommon for students with an anxiety disorder given to them by this absolute circus to feel dread long after being taught here when a phone notification goes off because of the unnecessarily strict rules on phone usage. Some departments like the art department and RS department are downright underfunded and teachers are pressured to buy student's supplies themselves. Some teachers are incredibly supportive, understand what students have gone through and are aware of how to help. Unfortunately they're just working in a school that doesn't seem to care unless you can achieve high grades. Which, by the way, has an added kick in the gut after GCSEs because if you even dare to achieve a 5 in a set of 9 and 8s on your results you aren't shown on their 'special recognition' for students that achieved well. Such a great message.

Uniform rules are ridiculous and crush individuality, students have to create specific ways to skirt around the rules to feel a little bit less like the robot that you're made to be. Only gets better if you move up to Sixth Form which hilariously has far better student happiness outside of the still awful amount of work you are given. Perhaps it's because of the relieved pressure on students to follow rules that don't make sense?

All in all, not great at all for anything outside of academic achievement. Send your kids to a different mixed school so that you don't screw up their ability to interact with men, because none of us can. At least the outside of the school is pretty, but it's a shame that you're not even allowed to touch the grass a majority of the time.

How this school manages to escape Ofsted every inspection I have no idea. The teachers are rubbish and the school has a massive bullying and mental health problem, the maths department is a complete failure and the counsellor either isn't fully trained or she's just completely incompetent. The amount of academic stress is ridiculous and it's not uncommon for there to be girls having panic attacks in the corridors, especially during March (GCSE Mock week takes place then) and May-June when the exams are. Bullying is never taken seriously and I have had friends be victims of sexual harassment from other students and the teachers just brushed it off. The music and art departments are the only two who are actually capable of being nice to their students, and the RS department has repeatedly traumatised me, other girls in my class, and many girls throughout the years due to using extremely gory and sexually violent case studies as part of the Ethics course in Year 12. High-achieving students are pushed beyond their limits and low-achieving students are constantly berated for their poor grades, while anyone in between is ignored. The dress code is supposed to make the school seem professional, but instead it sexualises the existence of girls as young as 11, as the students are expected to have their skirts no higher than their knee, while teachers can prance about wearing whatever they'd like, including short dresses with no tights Underneath. There is also the ridiculous restriction of students not being allowed to go to the toilet during lessons, which is entirely detrimental to their wellbeing considering this is a girl's school. You are literally expected to bleed through your skirt and onto the seat if you start your period in class. The school has a terrible phone policy that is turned into a complete double standard as the teachers are allowed to use their phones in class, but even having your phone go off or be seen in a pocket on the school grounds will result in it being confiscated until the end of the week, or if confiscated on a Thursday or Friday it will be kept until the next Friday. The school evidently has no consideration for its students who live far away or who have anxiety, autism, ADHD etc. as if they did, they would allow the use of phones in order to help these students regulate themselves and aid themselves in getting through their day.
Do yourselves a favour, find a different school for your daughters. St Mary's is actually competent and provides socialisation with both boys and girls, which this school does not, which is a major disadvantage when the students leave and go to university or enter into the world of work.