St Edward's Church of England Academy

Dear Parents/ Future students,

STAY AWAY.
I know it seems abit strange, stay away, but I mean this in the literal sense. This school will set you up to fail miserably, to the parents who may want to bring their child here, it may seem all nice and dandy from the book cover, but take it from someone who read the book, this school is from top to bottom the absolute most disgusting and terrible schools I could have ever had the choice of going to.
I have been bullied repeatedly, and the teachers idly stand by, giving me sweet words of confidence that they’d do something, only to find myself living the same hell. I then finally defend myself from these situations, and I find myself in detention while bullies walk free.
But this is not the only problem we have here, this only scrapes the problems with this ‘school’
The headteacher is incompetent.
She had never interacted with students unless it was for the eyes of the parents.
The school is inherently racist and homophobic when they oh so claim to be an open and loving community.
The teachers are terribly mean.
Honestly the list goes on.
I suffer from depression and trauma due to my school life here. The only thing that was even remotely good about this place, was the end of the day.
If you were to say this to their face, they would have absolutely nothing to say because they know it’s all true.
If anyone reads this thinking about working/ sending their child here? Don’t. You will be setting yourself/your child up for future therapy/trauma/depression and a lasting question, ‘why?’

It's a good school. I can understand why people disliked steds before but man its not too bad anymore. It only matters about the people you surround yourself with. Thw workload isn't too much. I'd say the teachers (for the most part) are alright. Friends really make the experience so hang out with people that hang out with you.

Chaiiii this school was a sh*T skl my experience was absolutely deaddddd 5 years at this knacks school I only enjoyed a small portion of it because of the people in my year. The head department were practically useless then a certain teacher came in yr 9 and it went downhill from there they even had the audacity to make him deputy and head of year. Just thinking about steds gives me a headache.Good luck to all the future students who attend that joke of a school.

If I could give this school no stars, I'd do it in a heartbeat. This school's leadership team is corrupt and downright repulsive. The abuse of power is evident, they exclude students for no reason and snatch maybe life-changing opportunities away from students at the blink of an eye. This school is so eager to disadvantage their black students and cherry pick the same 10 students- mostly all white to receive awards and opportunities that they may not always deserve. Although they are incredible students, if this school claims to be inclusive and family-like, they could make the effort to look beyond their white washed horizons.

To say that some of the school's staff members need psychological evaluation would be an understatement *** ******* ***** *** ** ******,** *****,** *****,** ***** *** **** *****

Racism, homophobia and downright ignorance is normalized culture at this school. For claiming to be such a loving community, this school should be shut down or at the very least reformed completely from the ground up. Point Blank Period.

Many teachers have been given the sack for standing up for their students when they have been discriminated against and others have left as it was just a terrible environment to work in.

Its laughable really. For a school that sets itself around such Christian values, its is a mockery of a faith school. Its a mockery of a school Infact.

I think the leadership team would find better employment in prisons, they would definitely be able to reform some criminals and make them not want to ever step foot in prison again.

Being a student here for 5 years and having finally left in 2021, we have been robbed of a good education, been subject to abuse and forms assault not only by teachers but by fellow students too. Told to keep quiet and behave when staff members are openly racist and rude with of course NO REPERCUSSIONS. We've been dictated on how to style our hair as a black girls because of course black hair is, unprofessional. Personally, I've even been told to cut my hair by teachers so that my straight haired, presentable students wont be distracted. Yes. That happened.

Oh yes. Due to this schools incompetence to perform and do the bare minimum, the entire year group had to teach themselves most of their subjects with the only motivation to succeed being to not have to re-enrol in this school for sixth form. This will 100% continue to happen for the foreseeable future I predict so, if you want your child to get somewhere in life academically don't send them here.

This school refuses to acknowledge their faults and continuously puts themselves on a high pedestal claiming to be the best non-private, co-ed school. This is a downright lie. Infact ABOMINABLE. They continue to blame their students. Or should I say their POC STUDENTS, for the bad that happens at this school and ignore the clear faults in their line of leadership. Of course, there are always going to be a few bad apples but the privilege some of these 'bad apple' students are given despite being bad is downright insane considering they cause some of the problems at this school.

Could you imagine being a student that is always behaved well and deserving of opportunities being stripped of those rights by students who didn't get excluded in a week therefore making them deserving of utmost praise. Yeah. That's St Edwards for you. That will be your reality.

The only thing that kept me and many of my friends sane in this school was the euphoric dream of finally leaving this school, I dare say.

The grass is definitely GREENER on the OTHER SIDE.

This school left me needing to UNFAILINGLY seek therapy in the foreseeable future. Don't let that be you.

Good gcse course bad sixth form