The Thomas Alleyne Academy

As a student of this school, I have not been treated with the respect they promise to have, the food is disgusting and when a student is bullied they do fuck all, they only care for their image and how OFSTED see's them, the teachers on call you for talking about how their actions are horrible and would never help my friends or me while we were getting grief, they also tell you to give up on your dreams as "they are too hard to accomplish". I would give 0 stars. Do not recommend to parents, students, or people looking for work

It’s not just students who are bullied. I was a teacher there for several years and had to leave due to staff bullying. The bullying started because I wanted to report a member of staff for outrageous levels of open transphobia and homophobia (teaching students that ‘they’ are disgusting…etc…)but instead I was ostracised and bullied by my department. This led to a breakdown.
I will state that I believe the school is transphobic and homophobic. I believe that the headteacher treated students identifying as non-binary or gay with distaste: Finding them an irritation and not taking any measures to hide this.
There was another member of staff in my department that was also bullied and also had to leave due to poor mental health.
I found teaching there impossible as there were so many students with crippling mental health, that were ignored or made to feel like a burden for the school, that I was overwhelmed by student’s desperation to talk to me out of class hours (and in class hours). I am nothing special, but I was open about my own mental health struggles and had Pride Flags in my classroom (which were treated with disdain). As a teacher my role is not to involve myself in these situations, so I found it heartbreaking to explain that I can’t do anything to help and anything I do will be treated as a safeguarding breach.
My conclusion is that TA is a school focused purely on OFSTED grades, driven by a homophobic headteacher who wants an OUTSTANDING status more than he wants a happy school.

Brown nural is around every corner of the school this school is shit

People get jumped a lot and bullied but teachers are nice and helpful however food is expensive

I went to Thomas Alleyne at the end of year 7 due to being bullied at my previous school. Right at the beginning when I joined the staff were amazing and supportive but in my eyes this was just for 'show'. When i went into year 8 in the following September I was being bullied for having a disabled brother (discrimination) I went and told there pastoral team, all they did was take us out of lessons as a group (me and the people bullying) and sit down in a room to 'sort it out'. After this I was still getting grief off of these people but the school support staff took this no further. My behavior went completely down hill, a certain group of people were making comments on my looks and commenting about my little brother, i walked out of classes due to these comments because the teaching staff did nothing/said nothing and I was being given none stop detentions. Ever since my behavior got so bad because I was rebelling against the teachers because I felt like i wasn't being supported at all. On the 21st of March it is WDSD (World Down Syndrome Day) my mum and I requested that either the whole school or just my year group wears odd socks to spread awareness but yet again the school out right refused (once again discrimination) I then went into school wearing odd socks on the 21st and I was put into inclusion for 'wearing incorrect uniform'. When I went into year 9 I was going to really try and get my head down, I was then being bullied non stop again and the school did fuck all again. My nan passed away in October 22 and the pastoral team basically told me to get over her death. A week later this one person was making comments on my brother, my family and the fact that my nan had passed away, i spoke to the school about this and oh love and behold they did nothing to the point that at break time the next day that person started commenting again and I just went for her and got into a fight. For this I was suspended for a day and they still did nothing with this person apart from sat us in a room together which did fuck all. After this I started rebelling again and my behavior points were raising quickly and I was getting non-stop suspended. Again on the 21st of march my mum and I requested for them to help spread awareness by asking people to wear odd socks but yet again refused. I went into school wearing odd socks and they isolated me for 'wearing incorrect uniform'. At this point I was being non-stop suspended and always on a 5 day pending permanent exclusion. In between me getting into trouble I was struggling in a large setting (I struggle in a mainstream school as it is) but the school did nothing to support this. They then brought up in one of my meeting about ASD but didn't help my mum 1 bit about getting a diagnosis. Overall this school gives NO support.

Some of these reviews are very suss, especially given the dates.
To talk about an isolated incident that happened years ago and is no-ones business but those concerned. Cheap shot. Teachers are normal human beings too, who have feelings and care deeply about the children. It is a vocation. Not a job.
This site is awful with some idiotic comments and bitterness. I can say hand on heart as a former student that this school is wonderful and the teachers do everything in their power to support children, particularly those of lower income homes that are perhaps a little more disadvantaged.
They work exceptional hard, long hours and it can be a thankless job particularly when you read comments like these.
Now as a teacher myself, I find these comments every bit as hurtful and spiteful as the bullies you claim to hate. It makes you no better.

I myself was bullied at the school and when explaining it to a teacher was told there was nothing they could do because i wasn't physically hit, just called very nasty names. My brother also had a bad time at the school, teachers saying they disliked him to his face despite the fact he had high grades and never misbehaved. Do not send your child here, unless you are happy for them to come out with mental health problems.

Wouldn't recommend coming to this school.
Bullying never gets sorted by the head teacher and gets pushed to the side. Been here 4 years, relentlessly bullied by multiple different year groups and the head has done nothing. Will then blame it on u and tells new kids parents the school is amazing with bullying and sorts it straight away.
They preach about individuality and being yourself but the second u do so u get put in inclusion and separated from everyone else until they 'sort ur problem'.
The mental health 'team' are really something else. Shouts at u for having a panic attack then says your loving the attention.
They preach about being all inclusive to all communities all though we are on a 7 month and on going wait for an assembly on lgbtq+ and slurs. And says we shove our 'woke' beliefs in kids faces, when in realty tell them to leave us alone and let's us be ourselves while they scream slurs and say we can't be gay or trans because it's not true. Head teacher has also said we are causing other kids to come crying to them because they don't understand how to respect us and we are in the wrong for being ourselves instead of fixing the problem by educations the kids bullying us.
Not to mention this new phone and headphone rule. Don't get me wrong it's great for class and all but instantly getting it taken off when putting it away when getting into school then inclusion and no break and lunch. Oh and even if its the end of the day they will take it away if u haven't left the gates and u don't get it back till the next day?
Your also not allowed to leave school with u pe kit if u have pe last and it's 30 degrees out side and u wear trousers because the school doesn't provide us with shorts like they promise 3 years ago.
This school has gotten progressively worse in the 4 years we have been here, the head just seems to role with it and make it more and more worse. First year here a poor girl took her life because of bullying. You would think they would get very serious about bullying but I feel like they have gotten more lenient and worse. Our own head views his authority over the child's own parents.

End of story don't let your kids go here. It's a living hell. Barcleys is better.