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The Pontypridd High School
Secondary · Maintained · Cilfynydd
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Worst school !!!!!
There’s not enough word to describe how bad this school is!!!
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You have no purpose in this world. You should kill your self NOW
Pontypridd High School!
Bullshit.the school locks the toilets almost all day. we can’t use toilets at break or lunch 😂 laughable. Won’t open the toilets for anyone even if ur due to change a pad or a tampon. teachers have full access to staff toilet but lock ours due to ‘vaping’ when the toilets are open (occasionally) we get checked to see if we have anything that we shouldn’t have or tell us to leave our phones and coats with them. Uniform isn’t thick enough and won’t let us wear our hoodies because it’s not school uniform but teachers wear 10 layers and say they’re warm so we should be too?! We get treated the ‘same’ but they don’t shout at their favorite students but if others done something like that we get put in isolation. we can hardly eat st breaks and lunch because they put all year groups together and some people don’t have enough to get good never mind eat it.if we’re late to lesson bc we haven’t finished our lunch we get detention. Unfair! Pontypridd High School should be shut down asap!!!
Mental health.
Always great to see a school that cares about the pupils mental wellbeing but, this isn't one of those.
Through my experiences of this school I have struggled with anxiety and depression. I thought the best way to deal with this was to try and get a time out card, which I successfully got. I was only able to use it properly for about a week until I started to get restrictions on it.
A couple people who also had cards started to experience that when they tried to leave the classroom and go to the attendance room (which we were advised to go to when we had to leave the classroom) they had an experience of having a time limit on the time we were able to be there. My friend had just experienced a panic attack and needed to leave the room, so they head up to the room and they were told that a teacher, a deputy head had told the attendance room, a place where you're meant to stay safe, that they were only allowed to stay there for 5 minutes. Keep in mind that the teacher wasn't there at the time and had passed on that message to keep that student for the shortest amount possible. They purposefully picked them out and took away the support system that should've been in place for them. I don't know if you've ever had a panic attack but, it doesn't take 5 minutes to calm down. It takes hours, sometimes days to fully recover. Yet these teachers were aware of our problems they willingly ignore them for the sake of what? Because you "over use" or "abuse" a card that is supposed to help you?
These students try their best to be in lesson but the school overlooks that and decides that they know better. Another experience I was made aware of was that one person was having a severe panic attack that left them unable to talk for a while. Their panic attacks are recently caused by loud noise. So, their head was lowered and about 3 teachers aggressively shouted at them to lift their head up when they were clearly shaking.
If you don't care about your child's mental health then Pontypridd High School is the place for you!
Through my experiences of this school I have struggled with anxiety and depression. I thought the best way to deal with this was to try and get a time out card, which I successfully got. I was only able to use it properly for about a week until I started to get restrictions on it.
A couple people who also had cards started to experience that when they tried to leave the classroom and go to the attendance room (which we were advised to go to when we had to leave the classroom) they had an experience of having a time limit on the time we were able to be there. My friend had just experienced a panic attack and needed to leave the room, so they head up to the room and they were told that a teacher, a deputy head had told the attendance room, a place where you're meant to stay safe, that they were only allowed to stay there for 5 minutes. Keep in mind that the teacher wasn't there at the time and had passed on that message to keep that student for the shortest amount possible. They purposefully picked them out and took away the support system that should've been in place for them. I don't know if you've ever had a panic attack but, it doesn't take 5 minutes to calm down. It takes hours, sometimes days to fully recover. Yet these teachers were aware of our problems they willingly ignore them for the sake of what? Because you "over use" or "abuse" a card that is supposed to help you?
These students try their best to be in lesson but the school overlooks that and decides that they know better. Another experience I was made aware of was that one person was having a severe panic attack that left them unable to talk for a while. Their panic attacks are recently caused by loud noise. So, their head was lowered and about 3 teachers aggressively shouted at them to lift their head up when they were clearly shaking.
If you don't care about your child's mental health then Pontypridd High School is the place for you!
Ponty high school
The school is supposed to be a safe place for everyone, this one is not.
The teachers do not care about the children mental health st the school and do nothing about things like homophobia,transphobia and racism.
The school isnt safe from the classrooms practically falling apart, and the school is not equipped for people who need extra help.
All together this school does not care about their students.
The teachers do not care about the children mental health st the school and do nothing about things like homophobia,transphobia and racism.
The school isnt safe from the classrooms practically falling apart, and the school is not equipped for people who need extra help.
All together this school does not care about their students.
Sucks.
The school absolutely sucks, there are no nice classmates or teachers that can help you when you’re struggling. The school is a absolute dump.
Good!
Nice teachers however the actual classrooms are disgusting x
Glad I left
Did not enjoy. The people are horrible and some teachers aren’t helpful.
just a meh
meh, teachers can be horrible. most of the students are horrible too, decent school but nothing special
Albion Site, CF37 4SF, Cilfynydd
01443 486133
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I once came in during a manic episode covered in self inflicted body damages, I was bloody and miserable and the school made the wise decision to call my father in (the reason I was so hurt in the first place). Absolutely terrifying experience. I was sent home and it got worse from there, I believe schools need to understand that sometimes family is the last place a student needs to be during such a time. My friends made school a place I could feel safer in but the more I look back the less safe it truly was: we got physically hurt by fellow students for being minorities and those students avoided repurcussions.
I appreciate the attempts in trying to keep us safe however in the end no repurcussions were made and I was put in physical danger many times due to the students.
I am disabled but my friends were both disabled and racial minorities, you would hope we would be safer.
I haven't been to highschool in a long time, but, I look back and wish we were safer