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St Aidan's Catholic Academy
Secondary · Academy · Sunderland
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St Aidan's 6th Form
St aidans
This school is bad in summary anything done slightly against the ‘core values’ aka the main scapegoat of every detention will result in a 30 minute detention any question of the detention will result in another 30 minute detention after 3 you are put in the iss and have an 1 hour detention in the iss the teachers can give more detentions resulting in upwards of 1 30 detentions
Overrated
Teachers scream at anything you do and give pointless detentions the headteacher who nobody likes btw screamed at y9 and 10 students after school for not walking on the right side of a coridoor which made people late for the bus and had 0 sympathy off it all the slt crew also obey him and are slaves for him in isolation or basecamp which is what them call it you also need to put ya phone in a safe which doesn’t sound very legal
love maths
my maths teacher is absolutely banging
Despicable behavior of staff
This school is literally torture.the teachers all have superiority complexes and enjoy giving students detentions for existing. The head teacher **** ********* has made it so you can not ask why you have been given sanctions until after it is too late to do anything to take the sanctions off after they have been put on.this school is nit worth the hype it has gained and the teachers don't know how to control a class room or even have common decency with students. I have seen several teachers say things such as " you have issues" or "are you disabled " to students behavior which is completely unacceptable.
Best Sunderland school
Amazing and friendly
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There are many good teachers at St Aidan's and St Anthony's Sixth Form and as a kid with special needs many have gone above and beyond to try and help me within their limitations and I will always be grateful for that.
The thing I found hardest at St Aidan's a St Anthony's was the lack of extra classroom help. I really struggled. Then there were the lack of online lessons during covid and my exam year in spite of promises of great things and newsletters which made out that we'd had great online learning during covid. It's like the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes". Just because you tell a lie lots of times, it doesn't eventually make it true.
The worst thing is that St Aidan's worship at the altar of academic success and vanity and anyone who doesn't match up to this is left to their own devices. Careers advice non existent. We were palmed off with an Art Teacher who gave us zero help. At least the Head Of Sixth Form helped me with my UCAS Statement.
Btecs are rubbish. Please don't believe them when they give you all the Schtick about how great they are. You may, like me, go to a Uni Open Day at Sunderland, mention Btecs, and the invisible wall comes down immediately and they say "Oh.........Btecs". And there is the faint sound of another door closing somewhere. Plus I nearly got mugged by a druggie chav near the Uni Metro when I left for the day. A man walked up to me and unzipped my rucksack and started rummaging through it. Don't expect any help. The students here walk right past you even though you have a disability lanyard on. I hit him with my physics book and ran.
The teachers in the main are good people who will be great if you are academically minded. If you are average, forget it. The outdoor environment is nice enough. Can't comment on the food as I took my own lunch but put it this way the students have a tiny common room with a kettle and micro and the Teachers have a huge, posh room at The Briary with a vending machine. Some of the students had to sit on each others knees as there weren't enough chairs.
In terms of keeping you safe they were consistently excellent and my Mum had lots of praise for St Aidan's in that regard. I'm sure the activities were good but I never wanted to join in so can't comment.