The Sittingbourne School

This school is terrible. The teachers don’t care about you whatsoever, all they care about is your behaviour. They don’t care about mental health, education, your illness’, absolutely nothing. Teachers are rude and disrespectful to children. One day they say “We’re here for you” and the next they’re shouting and arguing with you. Teachers shout loudly at students and they don’t get nothing bad, however if students “back chat” or shout back, they get into trouble. It’s an unfair school. They say to respect your teachers, but they don’t respect us? Dont make sense. You can’t go to the toilet, except for break and lunch, you can’t go to medical room, you can’t go get water, you ain’t allowed to talk, you ain’t allowed to stand in corridors or they think your skipping lesson. It feels like prison. School is to be a place to make you feel safe, but no. All the teachers mainly focus on girls, on what they wear, jewellery, makeup, etc. but nothing with the boys? In my opinion, i think a pencil skirt is much nicer and safer for school. I think this because when it is windy it wouldn’t blow up, however with a pleated it would. I think this school is terrible and i do want to leave it but i have mates that i care about a lot. But if your thinking of coming to this school, Don’t.

This school and it’s head teacher Mr Smith deprive the children of an education quick to punish without taking both sides even when they have the evidence infront of them teachers are grooming children two in the last 18 months for grooming they keep it quiet think this school would be if it from new head teacher and staff

After 5 years at this school, and eventually leaving for a different sixth form, i can finally say I am happier than i ever was at TSS!

When joining in year 7 i was bright, optimistic and full of life. I loved school, i had a passion for education and to do well. The Sittingbourne School grabbed every spark of creativity, every inch of joy and every prospect i had a shredded it.

Every year, they would do NOTHING about bad behaviour, and reinforce the naughty kids with: sweets, amazon vouchers and trips. This made trying to get an education a nightmare.

Within The Sittingbourne School bullying is rife (i understand this happens at every school) but TSS did ABSOLUTLY NOTHING about it and labelled it as "boys will be boys" and once when i was being followed home and physically assaulted, they just told me to "take another bus" (FYI, i tried that and funnily enough it didn't work). The students at this school are vile people, who are relentless and will stop at nothing until they tear you apart ripping every shred of self worth you have left.

If you or your child has SEN needs, i would not recommend this department. Throughout my 5 years of education here, they didn't pick up the fact i had Irlen's and Dyslexia, it was only when i moved to my new sixth form is was discovered.

As well as this, the "wellbeing team" are useless, rude and incompetent. After suffering with poor mental health, i tried to seek support and they told me (this is a direct quote) "i cant help you, I've got too much other stuff to deal with, find someone else to bother" (i had extremely mild anxiety at the time, later progressing due to the lack of support i was receiving) they then chucked me on a 8 month waiting list, for the mental health professional to literally to me to go to the GP and practise self care (don't you think I've already done that??)

HOWEVER, the only redeeming thing about this school is some of the year 11 teachers i had. Some were absolute stars and did all they could to better my education and let me reach my full potential. That being said, i wanted to move to higher maths and science GCSE (after consistently getting 5`s and maxing out the grade boundary) and i was not allowed to at all in maths, but in science i was allowed to 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE EXAM, this hindered my potential to a great extent.

after 5 gruelling and painful years at this school I can say that i achieved good GCSE grades, left with a few friends and appalling mental health. If your child has SEN needs, please do not send them to this school, it will NOT help them in the slightest, in addition if your child is vulnerable or has been the subject of bullying before, this is not the school for them. Thank you for reading :)

I mean, it's not the worst school to go to, but it isn't exactly the most amazing school, either. There is so much bullying & discrimination, despite there being an anti-bullying & discrimination team (made up of both teachers & students). The students are okay, depending on the year group & their friendship circle. Take the popular kids for example. They're rude to other kids, disrespectful to teachers, incredibly likely to bully the less popular kids. The violence levels from them are mind-blowing. Every day, at least 3 fights (on average) happen. The school is decently clean. The toilets are always disgusting, way too small for all the people to use them (especially the girl's toilets). The staff are typically nice, it depends on who they're teaching, though. During the whole pandemic, they've been good; sending those home without a face mask, using sanitizer consistently, trying to prevent people not social distancing, sending kids who've mixed with infected people home from school to isolate for 10-14 days. Overall, and alright school. Not the best but not the worst.