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Spires Academy
Secondary · Academy · Canterbury
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Bad school
If you send your child here you will regret it your child will get bullied The teachers do not care about your kids all they care about is making the school look good but don't care about the students they're more worried about the length of their skirts than there education and I understand if they have a uniform policy but it's taking it a bit far if they're more worried about their skirts and socks than their education I don't even know why they're looking at my child skirt anyway its a bit weird but don't send your child here they don't do anything about bullying at all isolation and exclusion don't do nothing.
Everything
Bad worst school ever
My experience is really bad you get blamed for stuff you don’t do and the teachers shout at you and one of them even called me an idiot than they say we should show them respect but we won’t until the teachers show respect to us
Bad bad bad
This school is horrendous
Worst school I’ve ever attended
I currently attend spires academy. I have only been here for 2 years and it is a terrible school. It has affected my mental health and made it worse than it already was. I do not feel safe attending this school as they will let just about anyone do anything. Kids run riot in the class rooms and teachers have no control over the students. I would do better learning sat in isolation than I would in the classrooms.
I have been in 2 fights and both times the teachers did not intervene. The teachers here are “two-faced” and do not care about the well-being of the students. I am dreading returning in September as I know as soon as I go back nothing will be sorted out. The school only cares about “making itself look good”. The school doesnt handle bullying and I’ve had a teacher tell me “it’s all for attention”. When dealing with bullying the student will be sent to detention, isolation or given a warning and just let off and continue to do it. During my time at spires I’ve been harassed by students and I have told multiple teachers about it including the head teacher. And still nothing was done. How this school got a “good” rating from ofsted is beyond me
Terrible school please do not send your children here as it will effect them badly mentally and physically.
I have been in 2 fights and both times the teachers did not intervene. The teachers here are “two-faced” and do not care about the well-being of the students. I am dreading returning in September as I know as soon as I go back nothing will be sorted out. The school only cares about “making itself look good”. The school doesnt handle bullying and I’ve had a teacher tell me “it’s all for attention”. When dealing with bullying the student will be sent to detention, isolation or given a warning and just let off and continue to do it. During my time at spires I’ve been harassed by students and I have told multiple teachers about it including the head teacher. And still nothing was done. How this school got a “good” rating from ofsted is beyond me
Terrible school please do not send your children here as it will effect them badly mentally and physically.
Don’t send your kids here
Terrible school. Untrained medical lady too. 12 year old girl scouts have more medical experience than her. Don’t send your children here if you want them to be safe
Spires academy
My experience at spires academy was absolutely horrible, the teachers there did nothing to help anybody out, they didn’t care about your mental health and some of the teachers had pushed other students to leaving the school, if you didn’t understand a question and asked for them to repeat it they embarrassed you in front of the class and made you feel stupid for asking, causing a few students to not bother asking for help
An Ok school I guess
Always got bullied and it was NEVER dealt with! Some of the teachers were nice and I appreciate all they did for me however if you were picked on or bullied it was never dealt with properly. They never cared about ur mental health, specific teachers did and I like those teachers but most teachers would say “get on with your life”
Do not go to this school
Well where shall I start, BULLYING is rife and believe me it won't get dealt with.my daughter started in September and I took her out by march as she couldn't cope with the bullying and more my little girl lost her spark and was ever so unhappy. Spoke to a teacher a few times to get it sorted but guess what it never got sorted, one lesson the whole class started on my daughter and her friend but my daughter was the one who got shouted out for actually asking if her friend was ok as was in tears, totally unacceptable yet another crap teacher. My daughter then went to see the teacher who was actually supposed to be dealing with the bullies and she basically told my daughter to go away as it was the third time she'd been up to see her that day. That was it for me so that day I decided to take my daughter out that awful school. This isn't the first time I've had problems with this place my eldest daughter now 21 went there and also got bullied day in day out nothing was ever done even the head teacher was rubbish. I should have listened to other parents warning me about this school and some the young girls I work with all went to spires and all had an awful time there not one nice thing to say tbh. Once again another bully got away with it and the victim had to leave and left mentally scared. Avoid at all costs......
Best. School. Ever!
Best. School. Ever. I left my all girls' grammar school to go here, and it certainly hasn't been a disappointment. I haven't seen any fights, no bullying, and made friends very quickly and easily in different classes within my year group. Teachers are frequently impressed with my work and are kind and friendly to all students, really taking me under their wing in my mid-year transition. When given the option to stay or go back to my old school, I almost automatically said I would stay. Some students can be harsh towards me, but I don't really mind! There are rumours about fights from last year, but I haven't seen any in my year, though there was a close occasion last week. This school is so underrated and it's fantastic!
Don't come to this school.
Gonna copy and paste from my Google review.
"Overall, not a great school. I've been to this school for 4 years and seen everything - inside and out. From the fights that happened almost weekly to all the roughness happening outside of the school grounds, you had it all here. Not to mention the atrocious lack of being able to deal with bullying - most kids just got off with a warning or a detention and then were allowed back out to wreak havoc. Not to mention the amount of teachers that keep leaving, this should surely indicate a problem. Not sure how this school has an OFSTED "Good" rating when they have a severe inability to deal with bullying and thus are unable to ensure student safety on and off school grounds.
There have been multiple occasions in which a fight will take place and teachers are seen physically wrestling some students to the floor - take Mr Bell as an example. This school simply cannot deal with fights and/or bullies. They have made this very apparent and have yet to do anything about this. The most they have offered students is the ability to leave early - which, let's face it, if they're not getting on a Lehane bus and they're catching the Stagecoach, more times than not they're more likely to still get picked on by bullies as a result of inconsistent Stagecoach buses in the area around that time!
There's a consistent problem where students constantly interrupt the teacher and do not listen, and this leads to students becoming unfocused and thus missing out on education because of a few spoiled brats who can't be bothered to get an actual education. Disgusting how long it takes for these students to be removed.
If you're a parent wondering where to send your child for school, I'd say anywhere but here. It's certainly not worth your time dealing with their lack of competence to deal with bullying and other such behaviours. I would strongly suggest looking in to other schools such as Archbishop's or St Anselm's - anywhere but here.
Adding on to this, I, myself, have been a victim of direct targeting by multiple teachers around the school. The reasons for such were not for any disobedient behaviour, but rather down to my physical abilities. I'm not going to go in to more detail as I do not want to be identified in this review by any teachers.
While some teachers here are nice, others seem to be "two-faced," if you will, meaning that on some days they can be kind and helpful, and other days they don't want to help anyone and just make everyone get on with it.
That's it for my review for this school. Thanks.
- Anon"
"Overall, not a great school. I've been to this school for 4 years and seen everything - inside and out. From the fights that happened almost weekly to all the roughness happening outside of the school grounds, you had it all here. Not to mention the atrocious lack of being able to deal with bullying - most kids just got off with a warning or a detention and then were allowed back out to wreak havoc. Not to mention the amount of teachers that keep leaving, this should surely indicate a problem. Not sure how this school has an OFSTED "Good" rating when they have a severe inability to deal with bullying and thus are unable to ensure student safety on and off school grounds.
There have been multiple occasions in which a fight will take place and teachers are seen physically wrestling some students to the floor - take Mr Bell as an example. This school simply cannot deal with fights and/or bullies. They have made this very apparent and have yet to do anything about this. The most they have offered students is the ability to leave early - which, let's face it, if they're not getting on a Lehane bus and they're catching the Stagecoach, more times than not they're more likely to still get picked on by bullies as a result of inconsistent Stagecoach buses in the area around that time!
There's a consistent problem where students constantly interrupt the teacher and do not listen, and this leads to students becoming unfocused and thus missing out on education because of a few spoiled brats who can't be bothered to get an actual education. Disgusting how long it takes for these students to be removed.
If you're a parent wondering where to send your child for school, I'd say anywhere but here. It's certainly not worth your time dealing with their lack of competence to deal with bullying and other such behaviours. I would strongly suggest looking in to other schools such as Archbishop's or St Anselm's - anywhere but here.
Adding on to this, I, myself, have been a victim of direct targeting by multiple teachers around the school. The reasons for such were not for any disobedient behaviour, but rather down to my physical abilities. I'm not going to go in to more detail as I do not want to be identified in this review by any teachers.
While some teachers here are nice, others seem to be "two-faced," if you will, meaning that on some days they can be kind and helpful, and other days they don't want to help anyone and just make everyone get on with it.
That's it for my review for this school. Thanks.
- Anon"
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