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St Peter's Catholic High School
Secondary · Maintained · Wigan
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Class tbf, but also 5 years is too long in a place like this.
Never send your kid here unless you want them to suffer
School food: Whilst it being vegan is a positive for it, it smells and tastes like cr@p. Burgers smell like dog poop, cakes are always raw, morning food is burnt, dry, bacon would be undercooked and the only good food at lunch is the chips, jacket potatoes and pizza, everything else is sickly.
Staff behaviour: Disgustingly unprofessional with neurodivergent kids, suspected neurodivergent kids, kids with invisible disabilities, or a child with any issues towards learning and clearly needs support. If a neurodivergent child misbehaves in a way that is given due to their neurodivergent condition, teachers will well and punish them, and in the future will target this child and make the children feel unsafe just because of mistakes they can't always control.
If children behave in ways that aren't severe and the teachers personally don't like or see the child as in the way they will unreasonably grab, push, corner or punish them.
Head teacher and staff have a history of being ableist, staff making insults towards neurodivergent children, children with down syndrome, head teacher refusing a pupil with a physical illness the right to freely check their phone to monitor their condition just because they were in the hallway, and believed the child would cause issues if people saw different rules applied to her, "we can't have people thinking different rules apply to you and not them," the girl was diabetic and she was incredibly low.
Mental Health management: Horrible. Near nonexistent due to how they don't actually help in the slightest. What's that? You're not in because you have severe mental health issues such as anxiety and depression as well as possibly many more, and struggle with thoughts of suicide? That doesn't matter, it's all about the grades, they're obsessed over attendance because the information of how low their attendance scores are are out for the world to see within just a few google searches.
Education: It's good until your child is suffering from bullying or mental health problems, this school WILL ruin your child and make them feel unloveable.
Security: Barely and doors locked, easy access for strangers, a student was r-worded and the teachers defended the offender.
Indoor Environment: The classrooms are literally falling apart, holes in the fake ceiling, cracked walls, destroyed toilets, science classrooms stink, gum infested desks and all they're focused on is implementing a new computer room, how cute!
Outdoor environment: Dirty.
Staff behaviour: Disgustingly unprofessional with neurodivergent kids, suspected neurodivergent kids, kids with invisible disabilities, or a child with any issues towards learning and clearly needs support. If a neurodivergent child misbehaves in a way that is given due to their neurodivergent condition, teachers will well and punish them, and in the future will target this child and make the children feel unsafe just because of mistakes they can't always control.
If children behave in ways that aren't severe and the teachers personally don't like or see the child as in the way they will unreasonably grab, push, corner or punish them.
Head teacher and staff have a history of being ableist, staff making insults towards neurodivergent children, children with down syndrome, head teacher refusing a pupil with a physical illness the right to freely check their phone to monitor their condition just because they were in the hallway, and believed the child would cause issues if people saw different rules applied to her, "we can't have people thinking different rules apply to you and not them," the girl was diabetic and she was incredibly low.
Mental Health management: Horrible. Near nonexistent due to how they don't actually help in the slightest. What's that? You're not in because you have severe mental health issues such as anxiety and depression as well as possibly many more, and struggle with thoughts of suicide? That doesn't matter, it's all about the grades, they're obsessed over attendance because the information of how low their attendance scores are are out for the world to see within just a few google searches.
Education: It's good until your child is suffering from bullying or mental health problems, this school WILL ruin your child and make them feel unloveable.
Security: Barely and doors locked, easy access for strangers, a student was r-worded and the teachers defended the offender.
Indoor Environment: The classrooms are literally falling apart, holes in the fake ceiling, cracked walls, destroyed toilets, science classrooms stink, gum infested desks and all they're focused on is implementing a new computer room, how cute!
Outdoor environment: Dirty.
Dreadful place
The school love students who are gifted and talented and have no interest in any others. If your child has special needs this is the wrong school. There is a culture of nastiness among the SENCO team and the management team cover it up. Bullies have free reign. Facilities are worthy of a 1970s comprehensive. Dreadful place that tries to cling on to its past reputation of excellence under the previous head’s leadership.
If you’re a boy, forget it - you don’t matter here
If you’re disabled - make sure you don’t need any support
If you’re a boy, forget it - you don’t matter here
If you’re disabled - make sure you don’t need any support
High School
Awful place
If you’re clever and need no support this is the school for you!
If you need any academic, emotional, or special needs support - please go somewhere else
Food is dreadful - and expensive.
Very cliquey teachers - and the teachers not in the clique do not have the guts to speak out
Old fashioned equipment
Inflexible attitudes
Reception staff rude
Everything is too much trouble
A nasty nasty place wrapped up in a Catholic facade.
If you need any academic, emotional, or special needs support - please go somewhere else
Food is dreadful - and expensive.
Very cliquey teachers - and the teachers not in the clique do not have the guts to speak out
Old fashioned equipment
Inflexible attitudes
Reception staff rude
Everything is too much trouble
A nasty nasty place wrapped up in a Catholic facade.
Don’t go here.
PE is a joke. Given timetables but never followed , boys always do football and girls always do netball. Even then they don’t even split the set groups so the higher sets end up doing everything. The food is awful and queues take forever. All teachers prefer the popular people and don’t do anything about behaviour. They don’t care about mental health either.
Great School
At the end of the day great school. Food was ok and teachers were kind. Wide range of opportunities for all students. Made a great effort with collages. Maths, English and science seemed very difficult for my peers who where not academically gifted. Effort made to help those with mental health problems but mine developed later on and where only touched on once.
Would send my kids there.
Would send my kids there.
Would recommend.
Excellent support academically. However very frustrating dealing with some teachers attitudes as they were worse than the kids. Bullying and mental health was not a priority. Even after leaving it still effects you. Think the overall safety and the teachers priorities need to be addressed. But overall when you look at the school as a whole and what they want to achieve. I’m happy I spent 5 years there. As not every school is perfect and are definitely more under pressure these days. I would send my future children or family there.
Do not send your kid here
Awful for mental health , especially some head teachers . Only care about grades and reputation rather than health or wellbeing of pupils . Some teachers even may get physical when you do not do what they ask ( dragging , pulling , cornering ) Biased towards sporty people and popular girls , extremely sexist views , has had basically a ********* and done hardly anything because teachers did it believe it . Do not lock any doors to the school ( Anyone can get in ) .
The honest truth
Constantly subjected to bullying and harassment. Very anti-neurodivergent attitudes from teachers and student and bad mental health is ignored especially in high achievers and those who are doing 'just fine'. Considerable favouritism towards athletic and sporty people.
SPHS student
Food is meh some days the dinner ladies wip out bangers like the burgers on wedges but now it’s bloody quorn QUORN!!! Seriously someone should tell them not everyone is a feminists and against eating animal’s I just stand there and desperately beg for some real meat but no fake meat.
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Don’t get me wrong, the maths teachers and RE teachers are absolutely class, however the odd teacher here and there seems to have a lot to say about 15 year old girls life styles! Whilst uniform rules are absolutely understandable in a catholic school, to have someone that shames kids for fake tan and makeup, saying that future jobs wouldn’t wanna hire them, is a bit far fetched. And also to isolate students in headteacher offices, and disrupt their learning for mascara or concealer is really taking the mick.
like i said the maths department, RE department and office staff are absolutely made of gold and couldn’t fault them (every department the same but these stand out severely in the school)…
mental health crisis team seems to have improved over the last 5 years, but not improved enough.
bullying is talked about often, but never seems to be punished, or certain teachers even passing it off as “banter” or “being soft”.
sports facilities are class.
if you’re popular.
Sets in PE are often mislead and not accurate to curriculum, think i could perform you 7 just dances, but not tell you a single thing about how to play football.
set 1 PE often do netball, and set 2 did about 5 months of badminton.
and boys do what seems to be football or rugby every lesson, apart from the odd “athletics” where it’s just a bleep test running up n down n left n right.
would send my kids here can’t lie, but mostly just to see if stuff actually gets improved that needs improving.
safety and security is okay, except for the fact i’ve seen multiple students just walk out of school and seen past students stood outside with baseball bats:..
should probably start locking the door near nurture guys!
yuh.