The Forest School

For a school that champions combatting antisocial behaviour, they sure do a poor job of the aforementioned task. Students regularly get away with physical altercations, one notable example was when half of Year 9 attended a fight where a student's shirt sleeve was ripped off and another where the same student was slammed to the ground on three separate occasions. Nobody faced the consequences of their actions. Another occasion involved the theft of a solid iron block, and the peroetrators were never caught. And yet, a student got a day's isolation for sending the word 'shellshock' in an email (apparently harrassment towards veterans???). Yeah, this school is the definition of hypocrisy, don't bother even attending the open evening.

very bad never send your child they will have bad ti,me

Yikes.
As someone who went to a local all girls school. Ive met a fair amount of forest boys at either college or when I used to walk to school. Your boy will become an asshole or get bullied.

Even the boy next to me in one of my college classes says he hates forest Boys. Please, for goodness sake, send them to a mixed school. Istg all boys schools create the most immature men.

Contrary to the school's misleading slogan, boys do not learn best here. In fact, for the vast majority of their school life here they will do nothing that will come even close to this fallacy. The vast majority of lessons are wasted until about 3 months before your final exams, whereby your GCSEs depend on the off-chance that your teacher remembers to begin teaching the curriculum. Even outside of lessons this mockery of an educational institution doesn't fail to disappoint as teachers seem to thoroughly enjoy setting pointless homeworks that require the same intellectual capacity as a Christmas word search.

I don't know what criteria the Headmaster used when hiring the Senior Leadership Team, but clearly common sense did not feature prominently on the list. The SLT can frequently be found arguing to the ends of the Earth with the student population of Year 11 over picking up litter. At times they even resort threatening to bestow punishment on those who resist, although this kind of behavior bears no basis in the powers granted to educational institutions by parliament. The Senior Leadership Team dispenses punitive measures onto students with such a degree of bias and volatility that one must wonder whether they were recently 'let go' from a Minnesota Police Department.

The school’s results are far below national average so it's rather unsurprising that a fair proportion of the students here are more or less illiterate thanks to certain members of the English department.

The maths department recently decided to focus Year 11’s top-set curriculum on character building rather than maths because, as the school frequently demonstrates, Forest cares very little for your son or his grades. However, the Senior Leadership Team will be happy to waste your time by dragging you into a parent meeting should your son’s shoes be the wrong shade of black.

Whilst the school loves to boast about its 20 acres of field on its website, it's about two budget cuts away from selling it all off to a housing developer. Albeit, this would hardly deviate from the status quo considering the field is arbitrarily closed with not a hint of discretion until it is deemed hot enough that you could fry an egg on the school playground.

The school’s mediocre cafeteria is perhaps one of its most redeeming qualities. It’s often difficult to tell in which school year the food was cooked and most of the food is coated in enough grease to warrant a full scale invasion by the United States’ military. The catering company also runs several of Britain’s largest commercial prisons, not including Forest.

The school’s YouTube channel is bursting with content, including the maths department’s welcome video in which the Head of Maths, unenthusiastically as always, poses the so-called ‘question’ “the only even prime number is 2” to an understandably confused cohort of new Year 7 students. It’s just as well he’s not Head of English.

If you love watching a single teacher try to control 100 students, then you’re going to love the PE department as they always find an excuse to double-up, or even triple-up, classes so that other members of staff can have a well-deserved, taxpayer-funded break from their unimaginably difficult jobs to sit on their phones in the staff room like the admirable advocates for physical education that they are.

The Business Enterprise Centre, commonly referred to as ‘the BEC’, is little more than a glorified primary school auditorium. Better still, the governors seem to have scraped together the funds to hire a decent architect by depriving the art department of pencils indefinitely.

The distribution of funding across departments is completely beyond me. The languages teachers claim the school’s finances are in such peril that they cannot spare a single sheet of A4 whilst the maths department makes its contribution to the desecration of the Amazon Rainforest known by churning out no less than five fully coloured handouts per lesson to each of its top-set class of 38. In fact, it seems only the PE Department are on top of their finances as they inform Year 11 of the value of each item of kit they intentionally deposit onto a neighboring roof.

Whilst most of the teaching staff are utterly useless, a selective few with the passion and enthusiasm for their subject produce some of the highest academic results in the school, particularly in the Geography Department.

Forest has proved time and again that they value petty discipline over the academic results of their students and, thanks to the competent leadership of the current Headmaster, the great danger of grade inflation has been successfully averted as he presides over an academic decline paralleled only by the mental faculty of a dementia patient.

This school is atrocious. The teachers pretend to care but when i get really shy and anxious when asked a question some of the teachers act as if it’s my fault that I get shy and I also know people who have experienced favouritism (including me)

Great School, Good Teachers great facilities. But No Care for students Mental Health as the level of stress and Mental Health in teenagers increases the school needs to be more aware of this as they don't take it seriously.