St Mary's School

As a former student (after being asked to leave) I was treated with extreme prejudice. They are big on mental health and caring for each 'individual student' when in reality they sweep people aside when they become even a slight problem -do not put your children in this school; your money will be better spent somewhere else

People struggled with self harm and the school doesn’t do anything.
And the boarding house doesn’t let you go out anymore.
As a student my self I’ve never ever experienced teacher as bad as this school.
You don’t even learn anything, when you struggle on something they get mad at you saying you didn’t pay attention during class but really they don’t teacher anything

teaching is horrible and students have to put in 3x the effort to learn anything, there is also a secondary school branch to this school - where it has strict GCSE limitations, teachers who can’t teach and a pastoral department full of people who didn’t believe someone when they opened up about being sexually assaulted. both schools are also incredibly homophobic and transphobic, giving students who are a part of the lgbt+ community less attention, privileges, and telling parents that their child is friends with the ‘gay group’ and should be warned about dangerous behaviour. it is unacceptable. there was a case where they emailed parents of a group of children saying that their children should not have any contact with eachother, be put to at home learning and their phones taken permanently and searched. all because 2 of the children in the group struggled with self harm, and one did not identify as a female. if you care about your child - do not send them to this school. the teachers know their subjects but do not know how to teach them - resulting in a 30% less A* average in GCSE’s than in an average village college. As a student at St Marys Senior school, Cambridge, i have had to fought to be valued the same as my classmates - and although there have been a couple of lovely teachers, they were working with me on their own accord. not under advisory of the so called ‘pastoral care department’.