The Beacon School

Ted perren and penny have made some sort of political alliance and they keep body slamming me into the year sevens, I'm also being haunted by miss cook in ashcroft, I can hear her grunts and sweats as she waddles through the hallways, I fell like I'm playing hello neighbor and she is trying to hunt me, she has also used William mushens as some sort of robocop and he is patrolling the streets.

I remember this one time..

I was walking into school and I was suddenly grabbed and dragged into the drama room in main and ted had is fist in his hands and he stole my snacks and he was savagely gorging on them infront of me, but in the last bites of the stolen food , ted was struck down by some sort of godlike creature then I took a closer look and I saw nina levitating 3 feet of thr ground and she had put ted into a set 5 induced coma.

After those traumatic events I had to gather my thoughts and go back to my class to teach.

Poor behaviour, teachers who can't control classes.
Dirty environment and unsafe.

Awful school, failed my child, I had to involve the police as my child was physically assaulted twice which was later shared on social media. Think carefully before trusting them with your child's safety.

The teachers don’t control the students

Going to this school has given me nothing but traumatic experiences. Having ADHD, and autism and on top of it all as well as being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, it has been so difficult to go to this school. The staff as well as the other students have been nothing but unkind towards me during my schooling here. Even when I had made complaints against other students bullying me, and when there were staff present during some of these instances of bullying and harassment, nothing was done about it. The staff have been proven to ignore a lot of the students who were in need of genuine help, and many of the instructors didn't quite teach coherently, and they were very impatient especially with me and other kids like me with ADHD. I wish I had never chosen to go to this school but I didn't have much of a choice. Honestly if you're thinking about putting your child in this school I strongly urge you to reconsider, as this school has been proven to absolutely break your mental health and could most likely institutionalize you. I don't know how this school is running, but it should be shut down as soon as humanly possible and reevaluated. thank you

the school I don't recommend its not good my child came home crying when she went to west blocked toilets it said kill yourself on the mirror and she has bpd and she had to go hospital cause of year 10s kept bullying her and threatened to hurt her and people outside of school vaping doing drugs on the A217 is a massive disgrace i am a mother of 3 young kids and this school is full of dealers and even 2 teachers smoking on a private road is disgraceful i have never been so grim like grant duffs hair line that they couldn't deal with this I'm so ashamed that my child is in a bad school and that no one takes bullying serious that people end there life's for this and the beacon is just a bad school

This school did nothing for our child who started in 2022. It was awful and I literally mean awful. There was such lack of support. No follow up meetings. All talk about putting plans in place that did not come to fruition. In fact it was timely as the issues we were facing was around the time the Ofsted report became available and we could almost tick every box to say yes that has happened etc. In the end as we were so let down by the school and its support staff we managed to get a place in another school. I cannot believe how the behaviour is so bad in the Beacon given the area it is located in. My other child who went there did well, but said that the Ofsted report accurately described the goings on of the school. Shocking to think we put our children in the care of a school and they have to encounter the goings on of the Beacon School, Banstead.

My experience of the Beacon school was interesting
- Bullying
Bullying at this school is 100% present. The Ofsted report showed that bullying was attended to, but everybody knows the punishment for poor behaviour when Ofsted inspections are happening is always ramped up so people behave.

I was witness to a boy, who for probably 8 years of his life was bullied every single day, with the teachers turning a blind eye and in some cases laughing. I also was bullied by a number of people, fortunately I came out on top, but I know there's a large majority of students here who will be suffering in silence.

- Fights
Whilst I was at the Beacon fights didn't occur regularly, and if they did they were dealt with promptly by the teachers who were attentive. The ones who cover the lunch periods for the overtime (I know this as a teacher had told me) money more than likely turn a blind eye.

I personally was attacked in a classroom on one occasion by a member of the group of people bullying me, scratches and marks all along my throat. The headteacher (not the current one) at the time of this incident handled it immediately, but the same kid was in the same classes, same form tuition group. During incident, good. Post incident, not great handling.

- Unfair treatment of good, hard working kids
It seems to be a common theme within schools to overly reward the terribly behaved kids when they do one thing good. I know it's an initiative in order to make them work better overall but the optics of every situation are terrible. Good behaving children in the school grounds aren't rewarded, there's no incentive to behave so they will crack on. Poorly behaved kids will go to Isolation once in every while or couple of days, and then they'll go to Thorpe park on a massive trip as there's a government initiative to try and improve them. They all still ended up either in Jail or Pregnant anyway so was utterly pointless.

- Classroom Conditions
Terribly upkept, need major investment. Flaky paint everywhere and chipped paint. Carpets weren't good, wooden floors are in terrible condition. The science and tech block floors were old and horrible - Needs major, major investment


- Canteen or "Bistro" conditions
Food quality on a steady decline, we were told at the time by the staff that they profit share in the bistro - Make of that what you will.

- Teaching
Some really great teachers, some terrible teachers - Like in every school. Terrible teachers, 100% memorable for being pure, pure trash.

I have a year 11 child and a year 8 child. There are some amazing teachers who go the extra mile for the children. There are a small minority who are not so great but I guess you get that in any school. The SEN support is very good and they really do care about the well-being and education of the children with additional needs. Unfortunately there has been a very difficult intake of children last year who have made school miserable for the rest of the children but the new head seems determined and able to either turn their behaviour around or get rid of them so the other children can learn in a safe, calm environment. I really hope he succeeds as it is a great school with a lot of strengths.

My review is bad because as a stub dent there is many physical fights drama and arguments since the start of school there has been many bullying examples which the teacher has not helped there are many students who do self harm have anxiety or autism and not only they not help with that but they don’t even try to at a school I expect it to be calm and peaceful but obviously this school can’t do that but if u are into fights drama and people making others feel bad about themselves this might be the school for you.

The school has seriously deteriorated since my eldest child attended. The new strict policies of detention for the smallest of incidents are laughable! There is no communication between the parents and teachers and when They do it is condescending and demeaning to the child. Would I send my children to this school….Definitely not! Lunch queues are an absolute joke… So most of the week lunch is missed??? How can children possibly concentrate on empty stomachs? Seriously need to think of their procedures…Escorting them to use the bathroom? Prison or school?
Recommend not at all!!!!

This is bad as the hygiene is trash

What even is the school
It’s the worst school I have ever seen . Absolutely no hygiene behavior is ridiculous and some teachers need to work on teaching

As a student, I had to go to this school as a last resort after not being in the catchment area for any others.

I feel much resentment for the treatment of people at this school, I have had first hand experience of bullying and discrimination and have been a witness to many other accounts. I could honestly list so many physical fights that have happened at this school, even between year seven students, but the list would be too long to fit. A boy with autism in my year was assaulted and bullied by a group of girls, they completely destroyed his prised possession which he always carried with him - his bereaved grandpas umbrella. Even after multiple students, including myself, reported this incident - we all received a copy and pasted response from our head of year, and nothing further was done to tackle the bullying.

It pains me to rate the school so terribly because there are some truly great teachers at this school, who’s work would be much more appreciated somewhere else.

All of the teachers listed have greatly improved my experience at this school and made me feel like I had something worth fighting for.

However, some teachers are not so honourable and have extreme biases. You can tell that they do not care for the students that calmly mind their business and achieve the school the grades they need to be prevented from returning to special measures but instead their attention is predominantly focused on the badly behaved students that do something good once in a blue moon, which hurts when you feel unaccounted for and swept away despite never bending the rules once.

There is also an extreme disregard for people within the LGBTQIA+ community or people who are simply ‘different’. Me and my friends are almost all part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and we have experienced discrimination within the school. My friends brother has been called slurs and insults for years and his form tutor will not remove him from the form that his bully is also present in, so much to the extent that her father had to phone the headmaster to try and get something done - which it still hasn’t. The teachers do not bat an eyelid at racist or homophobic jokes or insults, they simply don’t seem to care and I think having a poster that says ‘Some people are gay, get over it” isn’t going to miraculously stunt the homophobia in the school. Even on the s*x ed days only straight couples are told about how to be safe, there is no information for homos*xual people - which is dangerous as they could be exposed to S*Ds from their lack of education on the matter.

The nursing staff are also horrendous, they’ve never let me go home even despite the fact I was never a regular. I’ve been on the brink of tears in pain and their reason for not letting me be picked up to be taken to the hospital was “you came in here after lunch” - despite the fact I had been sitting in there for over 2 hours.

The teachers seem to have a specific dislike to me, I don’t know why but it’s probably how I look. I know the teachers say they don’t pick and choose who to tell off and stuff but they really do, I see popular kids getting away with literally pushing people down the stairs [this genuinely happened] but if i have my skirt a millimetre above my knee then I’m straight off to isolation - you aren’t even allowed to wear stud earrings or a coat that isn’t black or navy? Do they not realise that money doesn’t grow on trees.

I could seriously go on for days about how horrendous this school is but I’m gladly nearly out and thank the heavens I’m not going to their sixth form.

Horrible, they’ve done nothing to help any student succeed

Been there for almost 6 years now. Bullying doesn't get dealt with very well. I know someone who was hate crimed by another student and the victim was sanctioned for absolutely nothing. The teachers can be quite rude, although some are lovely. The students can be rough. Physical fights happen every few weeks and aren't handled very well. Teaching is okay, but could be better.