The Marches School

This school needs to teach better manners to there students especially lexi bonner can’t believe that girl Vile

almost killed an 8 year old boy

Lexi bonnor
6 Cornwell Ave Gobowen
Oswestry SY11 3JX
family, Mattie, Jamie, Luke and Emma bonner
School, The Marches schoc cars, 3 series grey bmw and white bmw
(Plates)
LB5
Lexi Bonner is a evil cow

Absolutely awful school all the teachers there just care about your uniform and the smart card system then you education and mental health.

As a junior student at the marches, it is not great. This can be due to unfairness with staff, pastoral team not solving issues between students and not taking responsibility for their own faults. As well as this, staff can be incredibly unprofessional during meetings, parent evenings etc. My personal experience is that one of the mathematics teachers was biting their nails, avoiding eye contact when they were called out on the issues of which we had. As a senior student, the staff act as if they’re your friends ( most of them) and everything is much more chilled out in the classroom as of course students have matured so staff aren’t stressed though back to being unfair, prom. The school have allowed students to attend prom who have been excluded for bringing illegal substances into the site and creating high risk for students where as students who are late more than once a term are banned from attending. This needs fixing.
Other than these issues the school is fairly average and would recommend, though students must be able to stand up to staff when something is wrong and stand up to bullies and the staff have other things they would rather do than help out.

Horrible school and teachers no good

Very poor experience at the marches school. Let down by school whose staff failed to recognise a special educational need . This did not come to light until we pushed the school to carry out assessment , by this time unfortunately in year 11 , so all too little, too late. Our child felt singled out in school, with friendships being blamed , when real issue was learning needs not being met . Now picking up pieces and playing catch up . Huge anxiety for child just being on school site , and very little compassion shown or creative thinking to get education back on track. Glad it’s all behind us .

I was fortunate enough to have an 'ok' time with this school - but it certainly still falls short of adequate, considering what may be expected when you look at how this school is advertised.

Year 7 to 9 I was persistently bullied, one member of staff refusing to take me seriously through being persistently threatened, harassed and cyberbullied by said person. It took a petty rumour about me having HIV for anything to be done, along with several complaints from my family. Every time, the excuse was that the child bullying me was 'troubled' - I appreciate this, but there is never an excuse to ignore bullying.

Staff absence often had a knock-on effect for exam results, I had a supply for English (a CORE subject) for the entirety of year 8, as well as a GCSE physics teacher who failed to attend a number of lessons.

SEN support was poor, access leaders made users of SSS feel unwelcome. A further distressing point is that the room used for vulnerable SEN children apparently serves as an overflow for young people who refuse to attend school in the correct uniform.

Speaking of - the uniform policies are absolutely obscene. Female students often advised by male members of staff that their skirts were too short, and female members of staff speaking of how this may be 'distracting for the boys and male staff'... If you feel that a male member of staff would regard a teenage girl in such a way, perhaps you have not employed the correct person!

Delivery of the curriculum was often muddled, extremely disorientating. GCSE options were not offered fully as not enough people chose certain subjects - leaving some students unable to sit their desired choice of subject exams. School seemingly unsympathetic toward this situation, and the lasting impact that this may have for a young person's future.

Homework was insufficient, I know that this may sound mad, but during my five years here, I was barely given enough. Whilst I appreciate self-directed study is important to independent growth, I was sometimes left with insufficient resources to expand my learning.

Facilities were dated and falling to pieces in some departments - math block chairs seeming to break every lesson! Exam tables were coated in graffiti and profanities. And, might I add, the toilets were abhorrent. A popular smoking spot for a majority of students.

To conclude, The Marches does not achieve through caring, more exhibiting control and power over students and disallowing freedom. Achieving is self-driven, caring is rare.

I’m a former student of this school and am now studying in the sixth form. The overall experience of school was great for me with amazing teachers in all the departments (especially music and drama) however, bullying was such a big problem in the school. My friend was really badly bullied and they told her it wasn’t actual bullying. It took me pointing out to the school that she had been self harming for them to listen. Also, although most of the teachers are very kind and care a lot, there are some who are horrible and treat you like you’re beneath them (my worst experience with this was in the art and textiles departments) and Some who are very nice one minute but virtually bullying you for no reason the next. Finally, the school feels that the standards of grades, uniform and the appearance of the school are much more important than how the students educations are actually going.

Now for sixth form:
My experience at the sixth form has honestly been the best out of the whole school experience. All of the teachers are kind and treat you as an adult rather than a child, although the rules look strict once you get used to them they’re no problem , the mental health support system is amazing and it all feels very relaxed.
Overall
8/10

Let's start with the positives:

- The ICT department has an amazing set of staff, I have been taught by all of them and enjoyed every lesson. The ICT lessons are fun and interactive and the teachers have a sense of humour.

- There is a Safe Soace Social group on after schools on tuesdays, it's quite a small group but it nice to have especially for the lgbt, disabled/SEN and ethnically diverse kids.

- There are a few nice teachers that you can tell your problems too.

- There's been more support and education on LGBT issues recently.


Now negatives:

- Skirt length is too important to teachers.

- Teachers have OBVIOUS favourites and disliked students.

- Some science groups dont get to do practicals because theyre in a lower set.

- Bullying is a major issue.

- The councilour is terrible.

- Pastoral will give you I.E for wearing the wrong trousers but wont do anything if you're called slurs or told to kys.

- PE is terrible, people have been sexually assaulted in the changing rooms by peers and nothing gets done about it, trans kids are pushed to one side and get picked on by peers and the PE teachers dont care. The girls do just dance all the time.

- People have become homeschooled because of mental health issues or bullying, I'm friends with 2 people who left two years ago and are yet to return.

- The SEN equipment (Laptops, e-reader pens, ect) don't

- Teacher's suck, especially in the English, Maths and humanities departments.



Personal stories about this school:

1. I was bullied for half a year so my mum contacted my form tutor to make her aware, she then told my mum it wasn't bullying and didnt do anything about it.

2. Two of my friends left school due to mental health or bullying, I was going to move schools because of bullying in year 7.

3. Supply teacher mocked me for being trans.

4. Best teacher in the world in Science sings science songs for us, he's a good teacher and one of main positives about the school.

5. Teacher helped me through a rough period and was extremely comforting, this has happened multiple times with around 3 different teachers.

6. Teacher shouted at me for trying to get my PE kit from my friends locker because we weren't allowed to go there during social times???

7. Got trapped in I.E when I wasn't supposed to be there.

8. Had a fellow student pull out a knife and tell me he was going to kill another student with it. This was delt with quickly as he had threatened someone with a compass before.

9. Had 2 knife incidents within a two week period.

10. Was told to kms by another student and teachers did nothing about it.

11. One of my friends was ridiculed on the bus home by fellow students because she's LGBTQ+



End of review comment:

This school is overall rated OK, it sucks with things outside of education but the education itself is relatively alright. Would rate 5/10 all together. Not extremely safe but is getting better.

This school is absolutely awful !
I most definitely do not recommend. The most important things they care about is the SMART system. The teachers care mostly about are uniforms and it’s absolutely ridiculous .

I have witnessed teachers make girls stand in a line and measure their skirts with rulers to check if they were higher than 2cm above the knee. They have made students colour their own school shoes with black marker just because gold is showing.How do they expect girls to buy school shoes when every shop that sells decent school shoes has some sort of detailing on it ?
Boys have been forced to go in isolation because of their hair being to short, coats with fluffy material are not aloud to be worn and you are not even allowed to take your jumper of around school unless is summer . This to me is absolutely appalling , students do not deserve to be treated this way

Teachers start to favour the naughtier kids and children who are less talkative get ignored and left out by teachers. A friend of mine that went to this school couldn’t come in for months due to bad mental health and I can see why .
The school doesn’t care at all about the students, they just care about grades and how the schools presented.

If you are even just two minutes late in the morning to school the headteacher will be standing outside waiting to give you a detention. The head of year riddles the children with anxiety constantly looking for something wrong with them to pick on. I believe this is unfair on students ,especially the less well behaved ones as they are constantly being picked on for literally anything and other quieter students go unnoticed.

The school does nothing for bullying, all my life in this school I’ve witnessed horrendous amounts of bullying and the teachers have done nothing. The only thing the teachers care about if grades and if you don’t succeed you would be forced to go to intervention for the subject.
The school toilets are revolting as students don’t even have the right to have a door into the bathroom so the whole toilet block is just there smelling out corridor with cameras watching you as you go in. Students of each year group are assigned to a year zone and are banished from leaving the area at social times as teachers guard the exit. The whole school is surrounded by tall fences so it is physically jail.
There has never been a assembly where the teachers have ever praised the students, they constantly pester you to do more and more things, it’s no wonder why some students have given up trying at all .
They say the school experience is meant to be enjoyable but really it’s so tiring . I believe that schools are not meant to be like this and it’s unfair on the students.

they dint give you any support you need and they let bullying slide, they tell you to come back in your own time to sort it out but when you do they send you away and say its nothing to do with them and they cant do anything, when its outside of school they cant get involved but when they catch someone “smoking” and etc outside of school they will be disciplined, this school is the worst for not listening and not helping you reach your needs that are meant to be reached, especially when you need extra help and have support with you, it never happens you are always left on your own with no help/ support so all in all this school isn't recommendable

As a former student of the 2019 Marches, this school is probably the most contradicting, double standards and back handed place you could send your child.
The teachers were bullies, very big bullies, they’d never listen to issues you’d have, in class or at home.

They’d praise and baby the wrong children , the bad children who bully and attack everyone. Then they’d be confused why they aren’t changing their ways. Whilst the quieter kids, the smarter ones who could’ve had a good future was thrown to the back of the class and rarely told well done or even given the attention they needed to succeed.

The education was the poorest thing about this school, the teachers wouldn’t actually be interested in teaching and only giving you small information and then expect you to know everything else off by heart.

The teachers would constantly harass students, especially the head teachers and the p.e teachers. They were the cruelest ones.

If you want your child’s mental health to remain well and not suicidal, do NOT send them to this school because the school will not listen to them. They’d hand them a paracetamol and tell them to deal with it.

They praise the wrong students. All the "bad" students seem to be best mates with the teachers and get away with so many things. You do what they are doing and get 2 days in isolation. Ridiculous.

The school has little mental health support, the councillor is useless and takes the side of the bullies.
The "SMART card" system is terrible, I knew a girl who had her skirt hem undone because it was a centimeter too short (thats right there is a required length that they will measure). The school do not deal with bullies adequately and even resulted in my friend refusing to go back on campus from fear of her bullies, and rather than discipline the bullies she now does online schoolwork.
The actual education quality is also apping, with half the teachers seeming like they don't even know what they are talking about.
The food is decent, but it is not uncommon to find barely cooked pizza and only half baked cookies.
The school definily lacks diversity, and as a result some staff members come across as racist, a person of colour was taken out of my class by a staff member, who asked if the person needed a dictionary to help translate.
The school is also lacking LGBTQ+ support, there is no education provided about LGBT+ peoples or history, nor sex education, and the school have made no effort to suggest that it is a safe space that will not tolerate homophobia/transphobia, however, the school will let students change their name on the register.
Their is no actually breaktime area that can accommodate all students, and even has a road going through the school to a second car park, this road is accessed infrequently by cars but cars do still pose a threat as many children that congregate on the road during break and lunch only for a student to shout "CAR" and everyone disperses to make room for a frustrated supply teacher.
Several classrooms do not have proper interactive whiteboards, the few that do no longer have the appropriate pens, and aside from the IT department and teachers laptops, nearly a the tecnology is outdated and often the keyboards are broken or missing.

The school doesn't help dyslexic students and they don't even help if you're getting bullied. I was being harassed for 3 whole years and the school did absolutely nothing about it. I was being called names by other students and had bottles thrown at my head on the bus. I hated my time at that school. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

The school don’t care at all about bullying, you should be ashamed of yourselves, you care more about uniform than our education, just ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!!!

Wouldn't send a dog to this place, so many children having to be reschooled due to bullying with absolutely no remose from teachers nor safe guarding.

I can think of Multiple times where i have needed help with my mental health and i have just been told to go back to lessons. all they care about is what uniform looks like. I’m not sure why male teachers feeling uncomfortable about my skirt length has anything to do with my education! The school says they want people to feel like they can be who they want but they make us all dress the same and we get put in isolation if we don’t abide by all the uniform policy rules. which is so stupid. we are getting taken away from OUR education because our skirt is a few centimetres higher than they’d like or our eyebrows are darker that day or the boys hair is too short. it’s absolutely ridiculous and they need to get their priorities in order.