Samuel Ryder Academy

This school is full of bullies. They do nothing about it apart from brush it under the table. Do not send your child to this school!

This school has abused my son twice in front of me refuse me to speak to school governors , forcing my son to sit through lgbtq lessons which goes against our beliefs telling me I have no rights as a parent to ask him to go libary for such lessons after a boy sexually asulted another child in year 7 after lgbtq history week was pushed on them two weeks into joining the school, my child was told he had no right telling me about whst happened as school was dealing with it, also there is all sorts of lgbtq content on walls and flags around the school so I presented a straight gay affinity flag for the school to include all sexualities this was given back to my year 8 child and was told they do not support such content, making him feel not included for wanting to be a heterosexual male . I was in the car park when this happened, my child run out to me feeling vulnerable and frightened, I asked why they did not call me in to return the flags as this again is clear abuse. And again requested an appointment with govonors and still been refused. I see this one as grooming my child to keep secrets and two causing harm to him and making him feel excluded as he doesn't want to sit and watch video on how transitioning operations are done or sit listening to such content, not one lesson since he started on man woman love just lgbtq stuff pushed on them. I have never know a year 7 child try and sexually asult another boy in all the years my children have been going to school, this all happened after lgbtq lessons were pushed on them two weeks into year 7 . I feel thus is nothing more than child abuse and been told no other provisions would be put in place for him to sit in libary abd me removing him from the lessons which iam will be seen as unauthorised absence, going against the equality act 2010 our beliefs as a family and our spiritual beliefs as a family.

i used to be a student here and it was one of the WORST times of my life, i was bullied physically and emotionally here by my whole entire class and my teachers never did anything about it. the only time the teachers reacted was when i fought back and defended myself against one of my bullies and i was the one who got in trouble for it. ive been humiliated and made fun of by my own teachers, whenever i asked a genuine question that was ‘stupid’ my teacher wouldve prompted the whole class to laugh at me and they wouldve called me stupid. the school also doesnt know how to deal with mental health issues and theyre god awful at it, they didnt know how to deal with my temper tantrums from being overstimulated or my selective mutism. the school in general is just really horrible for people like me, the things my bullies did to me were genuinely horrific and scarring and no matter how much i complained about it nothing changed. PLEASE PLEASE do not bring your child here especially if they have special needs like me

this school is absolutely terrible, i have been at this school for 3 years and teachers care more about how you look than your mental health, good ofsted reports mean nothing when the teachers and students are made to act a certain way when ofsted come to the school. i have time after time been put into a little room with a desk next to windows seeing into people having fun outside, also next to a door being told i am not allowed to leave and have my phone and school ipad taken off me. i have had multiple sanctions for simply having panic attacks and the teachers don’t know how to deal with struggling teenagers. they don’t care about bullying all they care about is if they hear you swear or fight back to the bullies. they put me on a 1-6 from the start of summer term 2nd part to the next year because i kept failing it, it wasn’t my fault when i had panic attacks they did in fact ignore me and when i told them i was claustrophobic and i couldn’t be in that room they didn’t care. why should the students care when the teachers don’t?

1-6 is coming in to school at 1pm and finishing at 6pm, this should be illegal. they take your phone and school ipad off you and place you in a small room with only a desk and chair , sometimes with windows sometimes without and they don’t take you on walks every hour like they say they will, don’t know how they expect students to obey them when they have stupid rules like the size of earrings.

Samuel Ryder Academy has shocking levels of bullying, by both students and staff! The head is also the deputy director of the entire academy trust, and the director for Links while actively encouraging a culture of covering up. Logs are not made of allegations of bullying from staff and peers while also not investigated as in line Keeping Children Safe in Education, threatening behaviour such as a pupil being told to kill herself is “normal teenage friendship issues”. SEND support is shockingly bad. As the head is deputy director of the trust, they are answerable to NOBODY! Do not send your children here! Students are constantly fighting around the school, the SENCO thinks it’s appropriate at lesson time to force students against their will to play kiss marry kill while naming who in the geography department he would kiss, marry or kill while not providing VI support to VI pupils. The family support worker has been named in multiple statements as bullying, harassing and intimidating students. Multiple parents have had to remove their children due to SRA having a detrimental affect on their children's mental health! The safeguarding governor hasn’t even bothered to go to the school in years.