The Farnley Academy

Shit in the toilet and someone came in and ate it, never came back

Absolutely horrible school. Please do not send your kid here if they are neurodivergent, lgbt or anything that wouldn't be classed as the social norm of a mainstream school because bullying is normalised thing in this school and the teachers do absolutely nothing to stop it. They will get harassed, they will get hit and they will face multiple types of bullying. It happens in classrooms, hallways and outside of school and the teachers know this happens but what do they do? Nothing. They are a bunch of untrustworthy, lying people and they get away with it too somehow. Theres a reason kids are dropping out of this school and teachers are leaving. They try to cover up the state of the school with these fancy pop up events and big expensive rides which btw is only available to the people that go in every single day. They bash the people who aren't in 100% of the time, forgetting the fact kids have home problems, mental health and sicknesses to cope with. The absolute lack of care for the kids physical and mental health makes me feel genuinely sick. I used to be a student at farnley and it caused me to be completely broken down and even to the point of suicidal. I had multiple meetings with school and they dismissed my feelings like its a natural thing to do that to a struggling kid. Whats even worse is i got bullied for being physically depressed and bullying is what got me in that state anyway. It just didnt stop, i had to take myself out of school. And the harassment my family and i got from the teachers for having to leave school dispite it being them who caused it was sick too. The teachers are stubborn and so unforgivably rude and the students are just as bad. I have to get therpay to get over some of the harassment i got in this school and im still trying to get better. I could go on for HOURS on reasons not to send your kid to this school. Its an unsafe environment and its just not okay. Terrible school.

We get lots of opportunities but we are never told about room changes. Our timetable was incorrect and we went to the classroom we thought we were in but it was taken by y8s. The teacher had no clue where we were meant to be so we stood around for a few minutes but nothing happened so we walked down the corridor (this is half the class btw) and I found a free classroom but it wasn't my teacher in there so I asked him if he knew anything and he checked on Sims but there was no information so we waited in his classroom for a while but he ended up sending us to the reception so we ended up stood in the reception asking them but they couldn't find anything and CH ended up radioing for KW because he is AMAZING with kids and we had been stood in there ages and then the reception said we would just have to walk round and fend for each other!

If I could give it zero stars I would have, however the one star can go to some of the great teachers who work their. There are some who are dedicated to the job, go above and beyond for their students but the problems come from higher up. The whole ethos and culture of school is toxic, negative and damaging. Not only ti children but junior staff too. Bullying, negative, impossible behaviour policies and terrible provision and support for SEN children

Don’t care about students say help children with disabilities say they know about diabetes But don’t have a clue all teachers all stick together even when they say to your face other teacher was out of Oder and allow to abuse there authority thinking they can bully children with special needs they are worst school in Leeds they never answer phone even tho all sat in office if child one min late even with a reason gets detention and for what they get for food on dinner card isn’t even worth it if your child is in isolation sometimes don’t get dinner teacher follow your child to toilet and block them and now on about glass doors so children can only go at certain times don’t sort bulling even when a teacher is bulling and lock you in school when try to leave after witnessing them bulling your child say no head teacher available or anyone for meetings this is just a joke

went for a little tiddiewinkle whislt visiting my son who was trapped there and there was shite all over the bathroom floor. Was utterly disugsted, would not recommend

I went to the transition event and I can't wait to go there.

These people are so horrible to their students smh 🤦🏾‍♀️ they are so bothered about the shape of students trousers that they don’t do anything about racism like in a situation when someone has said something homophobic they are so quick to throw all the accused students in iso with no proper investigation and they never want to hear everyones side of the story they just want to look like they can deal with bullying even though they’re the bullies🙄 but when it comes to racism they dont care at all, they do absolutely nothing abt it and then have the cheek to make it look like the accused are lying. i feel like the behaviour team laugh in someones face for reporting racism😒 even their behaviour team is horrible none of the behaviour managers care when kids are falsely sactioned yet they shout at people for getting a certain amount of conments. maybe if they weren’t so bothered about water bottles and our trousers they might actually treat students like human beings 🤣 that’s probably why they have to do pop up events and bring in rides to make us come in

This school is the most negligent with it students out of any possible in the UK. This school belittles and ignores students who cry out for help. The school plasters around its obnoxiously orange and childish posters about 'No tolerance for bullying' yet when a child of its pupil base brings up an issue it is disregarded. This school should instead say that it has no tolerance for individuality and the mental state of its students. As long as the grades for this school are high enough for the vindictive control of its headmaster they continue to see students as numbers rather than people. The safe guarding of this school is atrocious, instead of nurturing and helping students to thrive they actively destroy the mental spaces of any child from any year group, knowing what they are doing. The outcry about offloading in the recent ofsted inspections in the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the horrible things that occur on farnley's grounds. This school conceals every glowing issue with its infrastructure and PD system with large rewards for people in the 100% attendance club, which aims to lull the school population into a false system of trust, trust that is so easily betrayed by the majority of staff and school rules. This school is a place you should not send your children to under any circumstances, it is a prison of mental instability and ignorance. I would say there are redeeming qualities yet there are too little to create a list with, until changes are made this school is an unsafe, idiotic and controlling force over children in its student base.
Do not send your children here, it is a chaotic and rude mess.

If I could give it no stars I would. A horrible school has such a bad experience. Never do anything about mental health if you ask them for help expect to be left alone. Put you in isolation for anything the teachers don’t care and are too scared to suck up to mr stokes… In year 11 expect to screamed at every lesson if your grades aren’t up to “standards”. If they cared as much about mental health that they did trousers most kids would actually be happy.

This school is a fucking joke!! It needs to be shut down, the rules are absolute fuckin aporling. If I knew how shit this school is I would’ve never ever sent my child here! It’s too fuckin late now. Can’t go toilets during class hours? Phone rules r a joke ‘at least give the student a comment or detention’ instead of confiscating the phones for 2 days, maybe over the weekend if it’s a Thursday or Friday. Cutlery isn’t cleaned in the school, toilets r filth (smells, look horrible)

I’ve genuinely had a poor experience with the academy. I’m going into year 11 soon so I’ve genuinely had some experience and insight into the school. First, the school never handles any problems. I once had a friend who told me that the support leaders don’t care about things like self harm or suicidal thoughts because they’ve seen/heard worse?? As a school you should be able to support ALL students whether the issue is big or small. Secondly, you have to be perfect. It’s incredibly stupid that I’m the one getting punished because my trousers aren’t baggy at the bottom as if they're easy to find. Constant searching for the right uniform and you end up settling for something that’s mid way between acceptable and unacceptable that’s incredibly uncomfortable and hoping that teachers won’t notice. When the school got it’s ofsted inspection rated requires improvement, all blame was placed on the students. The problems were how the staff were dealing with students! Don’t send your children here, trust me. They’ll end up leaving stupider than they come in but at least they know what times they can shop for the best trousers!!

I'm wanting to move my son to another school as had very bad experiences with this school like no other EVER!
You cannot communicate with this school in 'urgent situations' such as your son having possible covid and needing to be sent home as noone bothers to ever answer the phone on any of thier lines! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO COMMUNICATE!!!! They have NOT supported my family throughout this pandemic they have left what they should be offering like other schools do (covid tests etc etc) to OTHER schools! Basically my sons siblings school have offered the support they should have to THIER PUPIL! They do not show empathy to families situations because they do not care, they even got my name completely wrong!

i used to think it was okay, but now after Chris Stokes came it's gone straight to hell. the food they provide is horrible and overpriced, profiting off of kids who have no other choice but to eat there. they cant even deal with racism, homophobia and transphobia appropriately and when students rightfully call out the school for their miseducation they deflect the blame back onto the students. they make themselves out to be this great school when really it's just horrible. they expect everything to be perfect all the time like seriously, these are teenagers, children, and they expect them to act like perfect adults. perfect uniform, not too baggy pants, but not too tight. not too big tie, but not too small. and on top of this, they always expect pristine behaviour and grades or they'll offload you to stephen longfellow. one of my friends isnt doing too well with school and the pressure the teachers are putting on her to be at 8s by the end of the year (even in year 10) is killing her. there are lots of issues in this school, i wouldnt recommend sending your children here.

I’m a parent and I think this school is horrendous, mental health is never dealt with or help and bullying is left aside. Some teachers also think it’s okay to treat kids like nothing and throw them in isolation whenever they want. Shit school and need to improve and can afford all these trips and rides but not a fucking glue stick pathetic.

Bull shit school, care more about throwing kids in isolation than there mental health and don’t think mabey somethings going on when someone starts acting up, but there’s some decent people who get ya out of trouble

most people have corona but they still don’t close the school next everyones going to get it and no ones going to do anything bout it