The Wavell School

I went to the Wavell school from year 7- right to the end of year 9. When I started Wavell in year 7, I was a bright, happy and funny young girl who behaved in a well manor. Within the first few months, I got bullied for the way I looked and my personality. I always hung around with the more or less popular group from when I started, bringing more attention on me from other students from either my year group or the year above causing more of the bullying. My mum reported the group of other students who were bullying me many times but nothing was ever done except for isloation, which if you have attended school you will know is not enough to teach bully's. My behavior began to worsen, and my appearance started to change due to this bullying as I thought it would be a way to stop it and people would accept me as normal or at least validate me. That was my biggest mistake, and it only got worse. Which you can blame on me, yet if the teachers took proper action against the bullies, it wouldn't of happened. Year 8 my behavior hit rock bottom, I failed to stay in class for the full 45 minutes and always found myself pulling faces through the window, or staring at a wall in isolation. My year groups behavior and attitude to learning was by far the worst in the school. Nobody would listen and all gang up against teachers. The majority of the staff failed to keep classrooms in control, usually the science and maths department. Throughout my years at Wavell, I came across very bad teaching and lack of teacher. In year 7, my maths teacher left half way through leaving us with covers, as well as the entire year in science we had no qualified teacher, just back to back covers. In year 8, my maths teacher was inable to control and teach a class, she would stick all the childeran she believed often 'misbehaved' at the back, where we would all chat and laugh. During my time in year 9, my maths could barely control the class, people sat where they want, chucked things across the classroom such as food, balls and equipement and would sit on there phones. Then she shot of to Texas leaving us with so much cover for the rest of my time there. English lessons at Wavell are great, the teachers are amazing and very helpful, no shame in them.

The safe guarding team at Wavell, in my opinion, failed to deal with situations fairly and listen to students voices. I think the new head teacher is poor and cannot do her job.

Break and lunch times were APPALING. Food was chucked at people, people would be crowd surfed across the canopy, condoms and water balloons were filled and chucked at people, play fighting got too out of hand, kids would openly vape in the corner and my year group was uncontrollable, to the point an old rule was reinforced to our year group that we must only go in groups of 4. Obviously nobody listened to that.

Wavell however had it's perks, I made wonderful and unforgetable memories at that school and had a good time there. I made my friends for life there, and wish O could turn back and do it all again.

History, geography and English department are great.

I suffer with bad anxiety and depression and the school has done nothing but make it worse because of My mental health I have been of school for a while and keep getting in trouble for not going somewhere I feel welcome I constantly have slurs thrown my way and it's not okay!!!

only giving it two stars for all of the amazing english and history teachers, rest of the school and my experience was terrible, the teachers honestly have no care for you and as others have said, it is literally a bullying hotspot. i received such a lack of support from this school and developed such a severe depression and dreaded everyday, even having to skip coming into school so many times because i just wasn’t prepared to deal with the dreadfulness of everything. the teaching was okay, definitely could improve a lot except the english teachers and history teachers. i received 0 support and had to learn everything through a tutor, im just lucky i passed my GCSEs because of my amazing tutor despite having to learn everything the night before every GCSE because of the lack of education given. so many students were horrible and school did nothing about anything, even putting the blame on me plenty of times, got given detentions for no reason and just an overall horrible experience that i wouldn’t wish on anyone. if you’re considering coming here or sending your child here, find a better secondary school please, it’s horrific and they only care about telling you to take out your nose stud or take off your coat in class despite it being minus degrees outside and having to have the windows open due to covid. literally they couldn’t care less about your well-being or education, im just lucky i had such an amazing english and history teacher to look forward to seeing 4/5 times a week, forgot to mention, they also don’t let you sit inside and make you sit outside for lunch and break in freezing cold weather

Once had to endure an assembly where the slur "f-gott" was used at the same level as "nerd"! You go, Wavell! Also got told - in that same assembly - that gay people aren't allowed to reclaim slurs. What a cool day! Love the History and English departments, though.

This school is undeniably the worst school I have attended in my life, and probably will continue to be for the rest of my life as well. I started the school as a year 7 and safe to say my experience wasn’t the one they advertised when doing tours of the school. Within my first few weeks at the school, I was heavily bullied by my classmates for months. One of my bullies sat directly behind me in form and I would have panic attacks every morning unable to speak when attending form. Obviously, I asked to speak with my form tutor to move seats to the empty one at the back of the classroom because I thought I’d have a better experience. What did he tell me? I can’t move to the back of the class because he likes his students to sit in alphabetical order. He preferred for me to have a horrible experience every morning just to keep his alphabetical order intact. This wasn’t the only teacher who disregarded my mental health. I spoke to my head of year, my science teachers, my english teachers all about my situation and their only piece of advice was to go to the “drop-in”. After going to the drop-in, I would be given a flier and a small toy to help with my anxiety but the people bullying me received no repercussions. I even got sent a letter by students telling me to kill myself with their names written on it and showed it to my head of year. He did nothing. This school does not even have an ounce of care for their students going through problems at their school. I left the school after only attending for a year and a half because I couldn’t take it anymore. This experience still brings me harm to this day as I’ve continued to have severe anxiety and depression due to the bullying I faced at The Wavell School.

Wavell was a great secondary school in the long run however I did have a problem with the maths department. Not going to name anyone but this one teacher didn't know how to control the class and whenever I would ask a question she sometimes wouldn't know the answer.
I failed my maths GCSE however I luckily passed maths at college just goes to show that FCOT's maths teachers are wayy better than wavells.

Apart from the maths department. The rest of the wavell is great specifically the science teachers. Would recommend

the school claims to care about our mental health but all they do is tell us to be kind to eachother in pshe lessons. they don't do anything helpful to sort out problems and they can't control their students. i hear sexism, homophobia and all sorts of horrible things like that every day, and nothing is done to prevent it. if u r here to look for a good school, don't pick this one

Got bullied and the school turned a blind eye. There education scheme was awful. Teachers never knew how to deal with a situation apart from putting their pupils in isolation. I moved to Heath end in Farnham which is an amazing school 10X better than Wavell