St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester

This school is a horrible place and the teachers are practically bullies for the students. Teachers don't even listen to the student when something very important and unsafe has occurred. If you're a parent reading this, please, do Not send your child to this school.

It deserves less than one star. This is an horrendous school with even worse teachers. You get glared at, looked up and down if there’s even something slightly ‘wrong’ with your uniform or hair, i find this quite sexist as boys seem to get away with a lot more than the girls. The female teachers stand in the toilets at break which made everyone slightly uncomfortable and i don’t think this should be allowed, to be shouted at to hurry up and have somebody waiting for you to leave the toilet. Some days i didn’t even go to the toilet because i was afraid that a teacher would ‘have a go’ at me for anything they could find to shout at, i think they’re all power hungry at this school and they make school an even harder place to be than it already is. One day i was in the toilet with one other girl, as you would outside of school when you’re out with your friends, but one teacher saw this as a “safeguarding issue” and called it “sinister”please, someone explain to me how that would be a safety issue and how it’s sinister when nobody was messing around or doing absolutely anything wrong. I have been made to cry in front of my whole year group by 2 teachers who then both let me cry and walked away without offering any help and when 2 of my friends came towards me and tried to offer support, they got shouted at and told to “go away” and leave me alone. There’s so much more disturbingly wrong with this school and hopefully soon it'll start to show to parents and students. I wouldn’t wish this experience i’ve had at this school on anybody ever. I would warn everyone to choose another school if they wish to avoid extreme mental health issues (which it gave me), and severe distress everyday on-top of how stressful school already is.

To start, i had a slight remainder of very light, washed out pink in my hair after summer that was pretty much out, and within my first 10 minutes of being there i had one of the harshest teachers drag me out of my form, just to look me up and down and tell me “you have pink hair get it out” and it was even suggested to me to tie my hair up which i think isn’t really suitable. There’s so much more to complain about, there’s some horrendous teachers who cannot teach a lesson or handle a class, some teachers bullied me to the point of crying then left me there in front of everyone without any help being provided and when friends asked me student if i was okay they got shouted at to leave me alone. This school is shocking and i don’t know how it’s still open at this point, I would warn everyone to choose another school if they want to avoid being given extreme mental health issues and being in distress daily.

I hate school, it’s really strict however the education is really good and through lockdown the home learning was really good but the school does not allow girls to wear socks and the the girls in sixth form are allowed to wear skirts but the boys aren’t allowed to wear shorts. Doesn’t really make sense!

Horrible school teachers lack basic skills and students run the asylum