The Nethersole CofE Academy

My child left the school the year in Summer 2023 after 6 years plus time spent at the pre school adjoined to the school. Her first four years were happy, staff were helpful and friendly and she enjoyed going to school. Then change seemed to happen after Covid and home schooling. Teachers and headteachers were leaving and there was a high ratio of staff turnover. My child's teacher changed again a quarter of the way through year 5 to a supply teacher and from day one she was showing favouritism with other students and clearly had no time for my child. It seemed to be the fact that this teacher was not keen on the less vocal students and more time for those that were confident. It got to the point where my child did not want to go to school she said she was always being shouted at by this particular teacher and one day my child came home crying, inconsolable because this teacher had shouted in her face and then to top it off she was being bullied by a girl in her class. After raising the issue formally with the school they said they would investigate but as nothing was done we confronted the teacher in the school yard at home time and she argued that she did not shout at our Daughter in the face and this was in front of other parents, children and staff. This was put in writing as a complaint to the headteacher but not investigated and nor was the child that was bullying my child. We spoke to the headteacher at the time (she left shortly after due to personal reasons) who refused to investigate and put the phone down on us after we raised our concerns that we were being ignored! After this her teacher made a sort of apology to our Daughter and so we let things go quiet as we did not want to spoil our Daughter's last month at primary school. However, she did not go on the end school residential trip so we cancelled as she was afraid of the said teacher and the other child bullying her. Oh and on her last day, the teacher gave them all a DIY certificate on what she thought were her best achievements to which she said my Daughters was ' a good animator'. My Daughter looked shocked and teary but we laughed it off in the end - my Daughter had not done any animation since year 2, when this teacher was not even employed there so it just goes to show how much or should I say how little interest she had in my Daughter! Along with all these issues, there was another teacher who had a child in my Daughters class who stopped their child talking to my Daughter because of these issues with her teacher. Oh and her Husband was also on the school board of governors so if we had escalated it, it would have got nowhere. The reason I am writing a review now is that I have recently had it verified that the child that was bullying my Daughter was contacted by school at the time and signed a piece of paper to say she never bullied anyone and did not bully my Daughter and they left it at that. We were never approached by the school and they would not investigate our concerns but they investigated the bully and her mother who made that child out to be a victim and ignored the fact that our Daughter was being bullied by that child and teacher but would not listen to us and did not investigate our side. So please BEWARE if you are thinking of taking your child to this school. If you have child that is confident, popular and being favoured you will be fine, if you have a child that is not confident or quiet or being bullied by other children and teachers you will be ignored. I would not have even given one star but you cannot submit a review otherwise.