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The Sweyne Park School
Secondary · Academy · Rayleigh
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I wouldnt send my child here
This school has some good teachers but I personally do not like this school, they have form time after the first lesson? Only school that I know that does this is this school and it is very strange, if you are 5 minutes late to lesson you must sit in the hall for a hour after school the next day with the choice to do homework or work? What if you are late to school for traffic? A hours detention for makeing up 5 minutes it's ridiculous especially as most children would like to use the toilet before going to there lesson. And one of the art teachers don't teach at all! Instead gives out work and expects you to draw and be good at it? I'm not shure how true this is but people agreed with this statement. I would not recommend this school at all. They do provide lots of the ingredients in food lessons and do have some supporting teachers. they also have a back entrance in the school what anyone could climb over at any point of the day! There is litter everywhere and staff can be very rude. The education is Average and you learn what you need to. They do have passes to use the toilet bur if you do not have the pass you are not allowed to go. They also have a "time out pass" for students that could suffer from anxiety or something related so you can step outside the class for 5 minutes to take a breather. But my main dislike for this school is the 5 minute late rule and the fact that you have the same detention if you are 5 minutes late to the class and if you miss the class Entirely. So it Encourages kids to skip lessons if they are over five minutes late as they get the same punishment.
Avoid the sixth for all together
Terrible school, in the sixth form teacher very rarely turn up to teach the lesson when the so they are very late, the computer science class might as well be a self taught subject as teachers hardly ever show up at all.
A real shame
Gone massively downhill and SEND department too overstretched to provide required help- pastoral and Head of Year poor too. Behaviour impacts on students who want to learn
DO NOT ATTEND
DO NOT COME HERE. The school is a shambles, hate it
Recent decline.
As a former GCSE student I believe, after the new headteacher there has been a severe decline in the arts and the behaviour, misbehaving students are getting away with more and are facing less punishments, maybe due to their lack of care for the repeated punishment. Overall not very satisfactory. Nearing the end of my time at Sweyne I had lost all motivation to study, often rare in a typically good student. This could possibly die to the lack of motivation given from staff, or the “bad vibes” given off by the school I’m general. Also, when revising for the GCSE’s I felt I was very behind on many subjects specifically due to the teaching. I commonly found that subjects hadn’t been covered enough or some parts were completely left out. However there were those few teachers, who helped me through a bad school day, who truly knew the best ways of teaching, and who have allowed me to gain amazing marks.
Amazing food and grades.
Its amazing school.
I'm in year 10 and in the covid pandemic been hard but my teachers are also there. My form tutor gave me something of his own money to help my stress a punching bag.
Every lesson is great and teachers are too, food in the cantee can be better an cheaper but its good over well and in some lesson people are very noise but the teachers control then great in total
I'm in year 10 and in the covid pandemic been hard but my teachers are also there. My form tutor gave me something of his own money to help my stress a punching bag.
Every lesson is great and teachers are too, food in the cantee can be better an cheaper but its good over well and in some lesson people are very noise but the teachers control then great in total
it’s a decent school
it’s a good school, the majority of the teachers are helpful and not too strict. it’s a decent sized school so there’s a lot of classrooms so there aren’t to many people packed into a room and they can have enough sets to help people with different abilities in a subject i think it’s a pretty good school
Good school
Good school. Even considering the covid-19 situation
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