St Mary's Catholic School

Im a student that went to this school, and it was absolutly horrible. They might brainwash you into thinking its a good school with the "were all a catholic community", but trust me its is so bad. The teachers are rude, especially thsi one PE teacher, shes liek the head of year 7 and oh my god she has so much attitude, like my friend asks for a shoe pass from the teacher because u get them passes from her. By the way her shoes were ripped she was legit walking on the floor with no shoes, so she aks for a shoe pass. And this discombobulated woman is like "No, this is ridiculous we have less than 2 weeks left of school,go get a new pair, so no" Ok well ye your right we do have 2 weeks left of school and there is absolutly no point getting a new pair. Well im sorry then what the flip flop a shoe pass even for then. I have this teacher for PE and oh my god, oh MY GOD, iam not even gonna start with her lessons. This was around the start of the year where we did cross country, and me and my friend always came last because we couldnt run very fast, and she had the AUDACITY to call us unfit, she even asked if we were this slow our whole life. LIKE HONESTLY WTF! This teacher doesnt even do the PE and shes caling us unfit, and having to work on our diet when i see her devouring a whole big bag of cookies, haribos and chocolates. LIKE HOENSTLY HOW DID SHE QUALIFY TO BECOME A TEACHER? She legit makes people run 800m no matter there problems whether its that u get out of breathe easily, asthma, or even low iron. Oh and were not even goign to start with the unifrom theyre skirts are so long i atleast see 1 person each day trip up on them, and the short skirts that theyve got arent even short they have to be right below your knee; like in this case you might aswell just wear a long skirt. Thyre also banning skorts for PE because they think were rolling them up too much, im sorry but soemtimes the teachers skorts look like a flipping belt, likeee who you trying to impress. Also this school is racist, rude, especially the year 8s, like just because theyre one year older doesnt make them better. Like some are good, but the rest im sorry but no. The food is not hygienic, they dont wear nets most of the time, some dont even wear the gloves, and some peo;le have found hair many time in them. I honestly have more to say, BUT JS TO SUMMARISE WHAT IM SAYING, THIS SCHOOL IS RACIST,SEXIST,A LOT OF BULLIES,AND UNHYGIENIC.

This school is absolutely shite at managing student's mental health, and the subjects are terrible. My friend once went to pastoral having a mental breakdown but was refused help and told to go back to class. The canteen has no hygiene quality- food is overly greasy and contains hair because hairnets aren't always worn by the staff, nobody wears gloves. Students overall have incredibly poor manners and sanctions given out do not attempt to correct behaviour.
The students who are given support have to beg for it through ridiculous processes and the help isn't very helpful. Many kids with bad grades often ignored, but if you do have good grades they blame your mental health on stress and support to cope with it is given out in crumbs of poorly-assessed advice.

if you can afford to send your kid wherever else, regardless of what you've heard about other schools or this one, PLEASE DO!!! THIS SCHOOL WILL NOT GIVE YOUR CHILD A BENEFICIAL EDUCATION.

GCSE students are not given support; many teachers missing from classes because of being suspended or fired and not having adequate replacements.

LGBTQIA is represented as sinful and there is not a lot of support for students questioning their identity- there are options for students to wear different uniforms but staff is not accepting of change, trans students do not have the facilities to properly and socially transition because the staff and students are hostile; being gay is mocked and religious studies teach that it is wrong. many students feel ashamed or scared to come out due to constant harassment.

the new rewards and consequences system is rubbish because it allows teachers to give detentions for the most stupidest reasons such as having an earring the the top of an ear (helix piercing). how does an earring distracting students learning?? Students no longer get warning, but straight detentions (yes times have been reduced for them but being late leads to an after school- the consequences outweigh the rewards). The consequences are given out for the stupidest reasons, and you have to work 5x as hard to get a reward... from somebody who has been with all of the worst changes this school has made, I have always wanted to transfer but my urge has never been stronger than before (however I have to stay here for my GCSE's).


Nobody here is given the basic human respect that they deserve.

I have attended St Mary’s for 6 years now, and I can honestly say that this school are the least considerate when it comes to mental health. They honestly do not care. Of course they run meaningless assemblies where the teachers claim to sympathise with anyone who might be struggling but you know they really don’t. The school therapist is the loveliest and kindest woman on the planet but I’m not sure the school utilise her correctly because she deserves 10x better. Teachers are good at their “teaching job” but overall are rude, condescending and disrespectful- a few specific teachers give an impression that they were bullies themselves at school they way they make their remark but can easily get away with it once reported.

This school has not been kind to me at all, even when I was in year 7. I’m reading am all the reviews and they are very accurate. My sister and some of the people in her year was called in to a group meeting with their “head of behaviour” and “head of year” because they were all getting in trouble for starting or spreading rumours about the school, those teachers began to shout out them and threatened to call the police to deal with them if they don’t stop “tarnishing the school name”. Most teachers are either racist or pedophiles who like to say weird things to make their students feel uncomfortable. Teachers don’t really care for you unless you’re sporty and academic, they don’t give chances to students who struggle with a particular subject and often brush it of as making it seem that you don’t listen and point the blame on you instead of helping you understand; for example my friend has recently left the school because she is dyslexic and school wouldn’t give her the support and supplies she needs, they would give those supplies and support to children who they prefer or kids who don’t need it and it’s setting us for failure. It really hurts me but there is only a small percentage of teachers that really genuinely care about you, your well-being and how you are coping and would go to great ends even risking getting in trouble just to help you. I had one really good teacher but she wasn’t liked amongst the other staff that much and was often treated like how they teach their students, one lesson I had her and she got asked by one of the members of staff that one of the teachers up in the high position wanted to speak to her; once she left the classroom we never saw her again, we had a substitute for the rest of that lesson. The students in this school are absolutely horrible, there is practically a fight almost everyday, the learning environment is terrible, the verbal and physical abuse that students pass on to one another is appalling. I was personally told that because of a small play fight my friends and I had during lunch wasn’t acceptable I would be moving down sets for my GCSE year which would mean I would have to be sitting foundation, this shows that this school does not care about your learning too, even teachers are talking to the students in their class saying that this school is not what it used to be. The amount of times I have came back home with tears is honestly uncountable, the school doesn’t care about mental health at all and often talk about it in PSHEE lessons like it’s a demon inside your body; a girl that is a year below me tried to kill herself with toilet paper because she couldn’t handle to stress that the teachers and students were giving her, when the school found out about what she tried to do they gave her a detention about it instead of asking and giving her the help that she needs. It also doesn’t help the fact that this schools last ofsted test was more than 5 years ago, and they’re constantly using the fact that they are a “catholic community” to brainwash the parents and some new teachers into giving the school a better reputation. If you’re not a well liked student then being in this school will honestly make like harder for you as you are getting verbally attacked online by people who could be in your year and your teachers. Last year they reinforced a new rule that you can’t go to first aid without SLT permission no matter how serious the injury is, because of this new rule the first aid office is locked, you also can’t go to the toilet without a toilet pass and the teachers often say that you should’ve went during changeover but you’re only given 5 minutes to get to your lesson and there is only 3 toilets for students to use that are around the school because the rest are “under construction” they have been “rebuilding” the toilets for 4 years now! Students also can’t go during lunch or break because the toilets in one of the blocks are locked most of the time with chains because of the state of them, the girls toilets in that block is not blurred out so people can look through the glass, male teachers also like to stand by the toilets to “look out”; another one of the toilets in one the blocks are rarely used because it is right in front of many classrooms so teachers and students and can see who goes in there and to make the matter worst is that they put cameras opposite those toilets so they know who goes in and out of the those toilets at what time so they don’t use them during classes because if they do, they’ll pull you out to question what you were doing in there, the last toilets are never used and is only used as a spot for people to vape because nobody goes in there as it is never cleaned. I am scared for those who will be joining the school later in the future as this school is truly not for the weak. I hope that I make it out of there safely and the others

Today, a PE teacher forced an asthmatic student to run, resulting in an asthma attack, and then forced them to run AGAIN because they took "too long." Another student with a sprained ankle had been pushed to participate in PE by this same teacher, forcing them to stay at home owing to the severity of their injury. Another teacher had made a kid with severe anxiety participate in a ceremony in front of a large audience. These are only a few instances of the teachers' personalities. The food has given one student stomach problems, and others have puked owing to poor sanitation. The kitchen staff does not use hair nets or gloves. Bullying is not effectively handled by the employees. Instead, they punish bullies by having a conversation with them and forcing the victims to continue to suffer. Both the teachers and the students have displayed severe racism. They place far too much emphasis on grades and devote far too little attention to kids' well-being or recognising their efforts. The school only has activities for year 7 and 8, and the rest of the school is excluded. They forbid students from expressing themselves.

If you're looking for a school, look elsewhere. Anywhere is better than here, I guarantee.

Love this school! There’s no bullying or racism or how homaphopia!! At all! The school system is great and supports everyone. I’m joking. A girl in my year was racist and they let her off because she cried, then the girl who she was racist to might be suspended because she called the racist girl her nickname.

terrible, the toilet have poo all over them they stink and have wee all over and the smell of vape the teachers bullyed my 13 year old son they allway gave him low marks and the food has hair in and they refused to take my 12 year old girl because she has ADHD I DO NOT RECOMMED THIS SCHOOL UNLESS YOUR SON WANT TO KNOW HOW PRISON IS. the food is always cold and the history room is like 911 hit it they expelled my son for his hair but it was a grade 3.
they are racism

Me and my sister went to this school back to back (no overlap), so we have 14 years of information about this school. Bullying is atrocious, they tell students its their own fault. Drugs being sold on school property, boy in my year almost died you can google it. The school doesn't help students with mental health problems, girl I knew handed in her suicide note as homework and she got a Detention for it and them got told off and had a meeting with the school counsellor who told her that she wasn't depressed she just had low mood. I had a school bus driver help my bullies attack me with bottles. Multiple sexual harassment problems. Sex Ed not taught just abstinence taught in RS lessons. THEY ACTIVELY TEACH THAT CONDOMS ARE SINFUL! this school is all sorts of backwards and knocked any religion I had out of me. I may be unreligious now but I pray for the poor souls of the students who go there.