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The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College
Secondary · Academy · Swindon
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Unbelievable school!!
This school is an absolute scam, I cannot even believe I allowed my daughter to set foot in here. I, a mother of four, two of them being adolescents at this point, when I sent my beautiful angelic offspring to this abusive and mentally degrading establishment, and I could not believe my eyes and ears when my daughter came back in floods of tears. The teachers at this school are unprofessional and disrespectful to their profession. Most teachers can't even control the students in their classes and remain to only cruelly punish their students for minor misdemeanours. The bullying and rumour spreading in this institution is horrendous and disgusting, and the teachers of this establishment refused to help my daughter, at her weakest point. And much before I sent my sweet daughter to this vicious and barbaric prison, my son went here as well. He was afraid to open up because of the sheer trauma that he went through while listening to these boring and useless, as well as demeaning lessons that would get him absolutely nowhere but the gutter in life. Because of this school, my child might end up poor and begging for drugs on the side of the road, but I will make sure this never happens. Unfortunately, this school was not a building block for his future, but an obstacle. The tales of trauma and horror which have happened in this school are unbelievable, and I just cannot believe how adults are acting like children more than the actual children. This school really needs to be more geared up to help their students achieve as much as possible in their futures which can hold so much promise. This establishment has destroyed the mental, physical and emotional health of many of their students. This is just unbelievably misleading propaganda, that this school should be good for our children, when it is really just a harmful and overly competitive environment which is detrimental to the emotional growth of young leaders.
No discipline
Wtf are you guys doing seriously?
Kids on school bus always making sexual comments and moan like freaks, my girl go there, she doesn't feel comfortable with it 😡
Kids on school bus always making sexual comments and moan like freaks, my girl go there, she doesn't feel comfortable with it 😡
Awful experience ridgeway:)
I attended this school for my secondary school education. I was appalled by the standards of general hygiene around the school and lack of help for students who struggled throughout the day. The food was horrid and the only acceptable day was Friday when they use frozen food. The false optimistic view that was shown by staff is disgusting. Greeting student's at the gate saying, "Have a ridgetastic day!". Is distasteful especially if the school does nothing to make it "ridgtastic". Mental health is not taken seriously and flyers and the fat mean lady who waddles like a penguin makes no effort to help students deal with mental health issues. Bullying is a very common thing at this school and the teachers and pupils do absolutely nothing the best they do is split people up or shove random people into isolation. Nobody likes this school when they finally attend, not even the smarty pants ones or the teachers who apparently keep leaving so people are obviously doing something wrong at ridgeway. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE
Bullying and mental health issues after going here
They got a bad bullying problem.they don't sort it out.to much home work to much pressure on pupils.and it leads to bad mental health problems DONT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE
This school is bad
The school I’d covered in gum and the toilets look terrible the school forces ideologies on you so I rate it as low as the rating can go
One of the worst school.
This school is absolutely awful. Some of the teachers are nice , but the rest are all stupid and most of the time , students know better. They don’t handle violent situations as they should and I hate it.
i’m traumatized
Absolutely sht for people dealing with bad mental health, literally gave up on me half way through 💀 they aren’t good AT ALL at dealing with bullying and stuff like that and they mostly care about uniform and looking smart instead of actual learning. most teachers pick on the quiet kids by calling on them despite knowing they aren’t comfortable with speaking and don’t really understand when they are upset. Also sht at looking after people if i didn’t make that clear already 🤭 it feels so unsafe
don’t send your kids here
awful with mental health
only care about looking like a good school (uniform, high grade percentages etc)
a few of the teachers genuinely care about the students but there are very few
don’t send your kids here‼️‼️ left 3 years ago and the place literally traumatised me
only care about looking like a good school (uniform, high grade percentages etc)
a few of the teachers genuinely care about the students but there are very few
don’t send your kids here‼️‼️ left 3 years ago and the place literally traumatised me
music
Sixth form
I joined at the beginning on year 12, and i have never felt so happy and settled into my school environment. The teachers are lovely and provide endless support and the sixth form community is so so welcoming
Good school, students eeh
Ridgeway is great I’ve studied there for 5 years in the high school. I’ve just joined the 6th form there as of 2022.
It’s a great school they are always adapting their curriculum to help teach the new generations on going knowledge.
They have such a wide variety of subjects that you can take and they are constantly working with examiners to help make sure each student has the best possible outcome.
On the other hand sutdent aren’t usually the greatest as they are all trying to be better than one another. If you are high up in popularity within your year you get into a lot of drama and if you are lower down there is less of it. Only thing I would say with marking friends is don’t go for the wanna be populars. They only care for themselves and will leave you in the dirt.
The school itself has a good way of dealing with bullying and other types of bad behavior.
It’s a great school they are always adapting their curriculum to help teach the new generations on going knowledge.
They have such a wide variety of subjects that you can take and they are constantly working with examiners to help make sure each student has the best possible outcome.
On the other hand sutdent aren’t usually the greatest as they are all trying to be better than one another. If you are high up in popularity within your year you get into a lot of drama and if you are lower down there is less of it. Only thing I would say with marking friends is don’t go for the wanna be populars. They only care for themselves and will leave you in the dirt.
The school itself has a good way of dealing with bullying and other types of bad behavior.
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Ridgeway school is a fine place for students to learn and be educated but for some students they feel threatened hurt and bullied all around the school the teachers are friendly (most of them) and the lessons are ok but for the care at ridgeway is 1/2 and 1/2 they either care or they don’t care if a child feels threatened they do not come to poastarol hub because they know you might not do anything
Sincerely .
Sincerely .
Ridgeway
The school is the best school in Swindon some of the teachers are alright some are not it would be the same at other schools not just Ridgeway I have been at Ridgeway 5 years due to leave in a few months time thank you Ridgeway
Dont go here
Worst school ever. People disregarded you as human if you had nothing to offer to them. Very cliquey. If you didn’t have a reason to talk to someone, you wouldn’t, you’d be seen as irrelevant to them. The teachers are worse than the students. Not diverse at all eventhough theyre all convinced its so diverse. No POC teachers. The teachers were racist. Since all the teachers were white they would only bond with the white students just because they could relate to them. The safeguarding team was so shit, they did absolutely nothing. This place traumatised me so much. Very uneducated on different cultures, religions and communities (both the students and teachers). Forced the muslim students to do PE when they were fasting. Rigged all the voting (eg prom king and queen, and the awards). Dont get me started on how bad prom was, they didn’t even have a vegetarian option. Scammers i only bought the yearbook for the quotes and they didn’t even put it in because “there wasn’t enough space”. So ignorant they dont even realise how much is wrong with this school, i hope they change. Genuinely such a shitty school with such a hostile environment, all the groups hated each other and even within the groups people hated each other and were fake even to their friends. The teachers weren’t helpful at all.
Not as good as it sounds
They make you feel so shitty there and don't deal with violent situations appropriately and it gives out way too much homework and it makes my mental health so bad please don't send anyone here
GCSE
Okay
it’s alright, they care more abt ur uniform than education tbh and when it comes to them dealing with your mental health a lot of the time they disregard it and make you feel shit about even going to them. you can rlly see who cares and who doesn’t in that school lol
Not great
They don’t care about the students they just want them to get the best grades and teach what u need as fast as they can
I could name two good teachers that actually help the individual with the work but the rest just expect you to know it
They claim to care about mental health and lgbt+ issues and claim to be inclusive but they really do nothing if you do have a problem
I could name two good teachers that actually help the individual with the work but the rest just expect you to know it
They claim to care about mental health and lgbt+ issues and claim to be inclusive but they really do nothing if you do have a problem
shit school
this school is shit my friend opened up to them about self harm and they haven’t done anything and my friend was getting bullied and they didn’t so anything
They don't care about students
They honestly do not care about there students, they only show there impressive grades to make it look like a good school but they care more about chewing gum and uniform than bullying and metal health, I would not recommend, although most teachers are nice and caring some are horrible and the student support team just preach what they think will make them look good and then do nothing about. If you care about mental health don't go here
Would not recommend
My honest opinion about this school is that it’s an absolute sh*t show. The facilities they have are run down and out of date, the members of staff only accommodate to the typically ‘smart’ students making it a very clear divide in both behaviour and academics. Mental health isn’t taken seriously for both male and females but especially men. There are no members of male staff in the well being department and men are just expected to get over what ever they’re going through. There lessons on mental health and sex education are absolute shambles, they only teach the bare minimum and don’t bring up new concepts like non binary, gay relationships ect. If i were you and you wanted your child to go to a school where they feel safe, appreciated and like a human being then this school is not the one for you. I hope Mr Povoas reads this and takes on some of this feedback because this school needs patterning up.
A level
meh school
They deal with things horribly, so many issues here
Would not recommend
Most teachers there are lovely but most staff are awful. They will not help students that are struggling with education or mental health. They also do not protect students that are part of the lgbt+ community as a student kept saying homophobic insults and slurs at me and my friends and it has been reported to the staff countless of times and nothing has been done. I personally would not recommend this school because of what I personally went through and what many other students encountered aswell.
Don't go here if you value mental health
It’s fairly clear that the school administration absolutely doesn’t care about its students from years 7-11 but at least most of the science teachers are decent.
a secondary school...
Great school, lovely teachers mostly, they push hard to get the best out of people. however full of people who are awful and hateful!! :(
Ridgeway-
Not an amazing school, good education but poor methods for people with mental health problems and disabilitys
Excellent school.
Excellent school, amazing teachers and facilities. Would highly recommend.
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