The St Marylebone CofE School

Marylebone Girls school. A seemingly good school, with good facilities, good gcse grade averages.. and etc… right? Wrong.

This school is a breeding ground for toxicity, drama, peer pressure, and IMMENSE academic pressure. With around 5 homeworks for each subject each week, it is almost impossible to have free time.

In cold English winters? No support. The school barely pays for heating and yet it expects students to not wear puffer coats in the halls, for those who do, face freezing in the cold and getting their jacket returned at the end of the day. In lessons, the students must ask for PERMISSION to take off their blazers. Even. In Summer.

The teachers frankly don't care whether it’s ‘that time of the month’ or if you are close to bursting, you will wait till the lesson is finished to go to the toilet. And yet, there are only really 3 minutes between each lesson, so if you do go to the toilet, you’ll be late to your next lesson, and be punished for it. Proof of this, is a close friend of mine wanting to go to the toilet so badly. She had to wait hours to be allowed to go to the toilet, and she was in such bad condition that she could hardly walk. The aftereffects of waiting for so long even caused so much pain, that she was admitted to hospital!

There is absolutely no support in academics as well. I myself struggled with maths, and yet, there was no help in place to recuperate my grades. I ended up failing, for years, and when I moved to my next school, I had to spend unholy hours, going back to year 7 maths, and having to learn from there.

Detentions are cruelly overused. You forgot a pencil? Detention. You forget a tie? Detention. You accidentally wear one of the 3 uniforms on the wrong day? Detention. You’re late? Detention. You accidentally break science equipment? Detention. Or… you slightly piss off a teacher? Detention.

I remember, one lunchtime, my form room teacher left gingerbread on his desk, and left for lunch. To none of my surprise, it was taken by someone. He returned for our history lesson a few periods later, and spent the entire lesson shouting at the entire class, even blaming an innocent student, and shouting at them to the point that they were on the brink of tears. And yes. This was over a single. Gingerbread man.

The double standards are outstanding as well. There's ‘up’ and ‘down’ staircases, to stop traffic, but if a student is late to their lesson and tries to get up to their lesson that’s right in front of the ‘down’ staircase, detention. However, it’s completely fine for a teacher to go the wrong way, right? Because they’re adults and what they say goes. They don’t have to attend to the rules, right?

The students who have mental health problems are also not cared for. And bullying can go on for ages, and the school does not do ANYTHING. It also seems very coincidental that more than half of the students have mental health problems. No?

I have been scarred for life from going here, as while here, I developed Depression and Chronic anxiety.

Horrible school. If you care for your child, do not send them here.

Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad 💩

My daughter has had complete mental breakdown due to bullying at this school since she started year 7. The school was unwilling to address concerns instead they did everything they could do to push her out of the school. Not much practice on diversity and inclusion, SEND.

SMT are too proud to accept negative feedback or make any improvement. They dont listen to parents even professionals feedback.

I moved my daughter to another school as advised by two of the professionals involved with my daughter health. Now she is much better.

Quite a good school and a lot of the teachers can be nice if you’re on their good side. Have some unreasonable detention policies and are quite big on homework. Once you get to gcses it’s a lot of stress and they’re quite serious about it but they do help set you up for life.

the school , did absolutely nothing to support me and my autism , following my sexual assault my rape alarm was taken off me as it was distracting the other classmates and i was told i didn’t need it, the school poorly handled my friends ADHD and labelled her as misbehaved and giving her detentions and isolating her instead of helping her , the school did absolutely nothing when i was being bullied they simply told me that i was overreacting, i was told i couldn’t do drama for gcse because i was autistic and i would not get bad grades which will make the school look bad , they had a program called the brilliant club where select students who’s grades were higher than 7 would get to go on trips to thorpe park but the club was a secret and members of the club were not allowed to tell anyone about the club which is disgusting