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Former Student
Dec 6, 2024

Shithole.

absolutely shocking. Certain teachers genuinely abuse their power (eg didn’t let me go to the toilet, the answer i got in yr 9 was “No.” - no explanation) and i was shy so i didn’t argue. Incidents like phones even vibrating can result in severe punishments by certain teachers (not sure if this has changed) . I left a few years ago and have matured considerably and realised incidents like that are inhumane and happen frequently in this school.
A small minority of teachers are really good people however.
Student
Sep 3, 2024

Bad school

Blocked all the games websites
Parent
Apr 19, 2024

DONT GO TO THiRSK

i am furious that my child has come home on a daily, crying her poor eyes out, wishing the school would change their ways, but unfortunately they have given us no support. My daughter has struggled with social anxiety and many more issues and we have never received any help. I would like to make sure that if you go to the school, you know what you are putting yourself through absolute hell. I have been inside for parents evening and when I went, it was dirty and grubby and not very clean. The school meals are awful and if you get the hot food option you are limited to disgusting food. My daughter is gluten-free and she suffers at school because of that they show no support. They don’t give her any option for her issue now this has been addressed before, but either way nothing good comes from it. The food is disgraceful. If you put your child in the school you need to understand the pain they will probably get from this there are hundreds of opportunities that my kid has missed out on because the school has not informed me and trusted a child to tell their parents now I’m pretty sure I can speak for every parent when I say that parents and teenagers do not always get along, so when my child is come home crying because she’s missed out on these opportunities I blame the school personally . I have issues with one particular teacher named Miss hurt. She’s my daughters RS teacher and she’s cruel. She gets singled out on a daily and has been shown no respect in the lesson. She tries her best but nothing will make her happy she is not a very kind lady.
I will seek that she gets fired immediately.
Student
Aug 21, 2023

Thirsk school leads to futures ruined

f ing up our generation and lazy your slacky work effects our future I called the reception the other day about the problem of vaping and how I can never go to the toilet at break you know what they shuck it off just said don't care unprofessional slugs you don't deserve jobs. learning is a nightmare as noice and disruptive people around me affect
my grades and can't be safe anyway l have fucking BPD from the trauma I suffered in this school and it's only been two years Die you Miss Marston just wanted to say that and miss leopold no one likes you I am ruined I look at this school in loath. sexualy harrased ,weird glances , pathetic rumors, and bullying ... I read a story on this review about a girl who's life here took a horrible twist just like every *normal* person here is going to be thank you for reading this NEVER GO TO THIRSK SCHOOL WORST MISTAKE TO MAKE
Former Student
Aug 21, 2023

Thirst school DON'T COME HERE

There are a lot of people who are not very nice and lots of girls stereo typing me and telling me things I would really like to move schools and there are to many people from my primary who are not nice and I'm just very fed up of this school and I wount get to see my friends anymore and I don't want to grown appart from them and the staff don't understand because when they tell me if they don't give me a chance they don't even understand and assume I'm doing something and some staff are just very stricked and they can be very sexist sometimes and teachers always disconnect me with my friends and they are really breaking the generation and not teaching us enough a another thing is when you ask for help in a lesson and put your hand up they tell you should of listened but you did and you just didn't understand some of these teachers are just unprofessional and they don't do anything about the vaping problem including other serious problem this school is just six cruel hours of our life please NEVER think about coming here or bringing your child here this school is an absolute waste and the school uniform is horrible and to expensive and make you where ties and I hate the glares I used to get down the hallway for not rolling my skirt up or rolling my sleaves and you have to wear tights and and even if your going to faint or boiling they don't let you take your blazer of or take a drink and we have to keep our shirts tucked in the bad thing about that's is that it's so uncomfortable and there are tags everywhere. It's still like that because I just left :(
Student
Aug 19, 2023

L school!

school sucks! lots of love from harry dodgson<3
Student
Jun 18, 2023

This school is the worst in Yorkshire

Thirsk school has messed me up severely mentally and somewhat physically and it’s been a year since I left and I still have trauma from the gruelling 4 years I spent there Peers made up lies about me from the start the ones I can remember vividly was when I was in year 7 when a black kid said that I called him the n word and a load of other messed up stuff and the teacher took his side and believed him the SEN teacher and my physics teacher at the time believed him over me , and another time he did this I was confused because I wasn’t even around when I supposedly called him a n word on the corridor while walking to my last lesson from French, but i went to the toilet so I wasn’t on the corridor and my last lesson was round the corner from the corridor why would I be 5 minutes late if that was the case anyway I get to my lesson I see one of my peers starting at me I ignore it I sit far away anyway and I hear him say can I go to a teacher he goes to the head of year 8 and also The English teacher and she sends me out to isolation , and he’s in there and she makes us write what happened also on the way she tells me what he told her I write down what happened she doesn’t believe me she sends him back to lesson also the week later the same thing happens again on the same day of the week from mon/fri same lesson and once again this time apparently I called him a clumsy n word because he fell over I don’t know what happened because I wasn’t there , I went the other way and I got sent to isolation made to write a story of my side of the situation this time the head of year was clearly mad at me she had a mad look on her face the mixture of mad disgusted and with a death stare also I swore on my mums life i didn’t say it but she still didn’t believe me also a month later it was like a month after that car accident when those two 17 year olds died and this one student said I was making fun of it and laughing when I never mentioned it because I didn’t even know them also I wasn’t even laughing and this person who started it let’s call him Gordon told everyone then the whole year 7 and 8 went after me and circled me I managed to out run them for a while the teacher on duty because it was lunch time broke it up until these 4 people cornered me 2 were twin siblings boy and girl and other 2 boys one quite small for his age and he tried to punch me in the face but he couldn’t reach me his arms were so small my arms blocked his and didn’t really do much the other tried to do the same I blocked his punches they weren’t that strong tbh but I was really upset after being ganged on by the year 7s and 8s before and the other other 2 who are twins were just kinda taunting me saying how messed up I was for making fun about someone dying even though I said I didn’t also after lunch I went to form and everyone was taunting me and my form tutor at the time sent me out and took there side and some people who were similar age I think they were in year 10/11 and I was almost crying at this point wasn’t though i stayed strong anyway the boys left there lesson just so they could talk to me they seemed mad to start with but they believed me and they tried to comfort me which i am still grateful for to this day also the head teacher believed me and everyone else eventually also the 4 that ganged up on me earlier got done except the the girl but the 3 boys did anyway that’s all my traumatic experiences in year 7 nothing really to report on in year 8 but in year 9 well let’s say things get a little ugly also I’m grateful for the people still reading up to this point and also I needed to get this off my chest anyway so in year 9 I was accused of being inappropriate towards 3 girls at the same time but not physically though but they lied and claimed I said a load of messed up stuff towards them also 2 of them wrote an entire essay of malicious lies about me to my head of year who is one of the most evil teachers and shouldn’t continue to teach all I can say is I feel sorry for her kids honestly but anyway I’ll describe them by there hair colour because I don’t think they deserve me to think of made up names to protect there privacy also 2 of the girls have the same colour hair one slightly shorter so I’ll just say that that during my review/non fiction story whatever you wanna call it so anyway the blond girl with slightly shorter hair made up stuff about me not sure what the teachers didn’t tell me everything they made up about me I guess they assumed I knew but I obviously didn’t anyway so the other girl with black hair did the same the other with long blond hair didn’t really make up stuff about me just stuck up for the 2 and lied for them and anyway I forgot to mention the school got the POLICE involved and also the things they made up about me was that I said to the black haired girl how many windows do you have and that I’m gonna kidnap you when your asleep and put you in my basement even though my house doesn’t have a basement also I think they said that I mentioned that I said I had a quickie with someone which I never even said I never even heard that word until they mentioned it I do now because then I looked it up also I was 14 at the time also they would call me names and make fun of me and make fun of my appearance and stuff and physical stuff I couldn’t control like having acne and greasy hair also in lesson they would stare at me constantly and whilst writing on paper took me a hour to actually realise they were writing stuff about me malicious lies they wrote which were later handed to my evil head of head which I’m convinced she knew I didn’t do it and that she and her were like best friends or something also I found out this before they were handed and I read it and I was in disbelief on what they wrote and I was that disgusted I ripped it up and put it in the bin they wrote another one and added a few more malicious lies I’m not sure what they were though also when I was in a rs lesson not sure if I should say her name she only worked there for a few months she was really nice but my class really used to play up and that made her leave I think but the other was ok anyway in an rs lesson the blond girl with short hair threw pen lids at me so I flicked a small piece of sellotape at her off the floor because that’s all I had I wasn’t gonna waste my 2 pound WHSmith soft ball pens on her but then she said I’m telling the head of year I didn’t care though I assumed she wouldn’t care because it was just a bit of sellotape off the floor but boy was I wrong so I guess the blond girl with short hair went to miss Dolan and she told her bestie practically was though and said that I’d be in isolation the next day but at lunchtime the same day the building/block her office was in had a toilet round the corner the others were full so I used it then as soon as i was about to go outside the head of year stopped me and said come with me whilst giving me a death stare and said in a firm voice with a extreme dare stare when I was in her office she was quite close to me and had me backed up in a corner and said did you throw sellotape at (name) she doesn’t even deserve the name name anyway I said quietly because she was already making me feel uncomfortable and scared I should have screamed help me but i was even too scared to scream that and i said in a quiet voice it was only a small piece and i’m not exaggerating but she screamed I don’t care weather or not it was small medium or large the point is you assaulted her and she got closer she was only 3cm away from me and had me fully backed up in a corner and completely traumatised me also the scream was so loud the floor and door and even the walls vibrated and shook not even exaggerating and I was terrified I thought the devil himself was looking at me no joke and also I got sent to isolation and I told my mum and she was going to complain for her literally traumatising and bullying me also nothing happened and she said that it was metal role of sellotape holder when it was a tiny piece off the floor I don’t think it would have fit in the pencil case I owned if I owned a sellotape holder I think she said that to save her skin which worked also a month later she and the SEN teacher who’s also a physics teacher Got a police officer to have a word with me and I said it was all lies and the teachers knew and were making it all up as well and he said I can’t prove weather or not you did it or not it’s your word against there’s but I’m banning you from talking or going near any girls in school I was like ok and I didn’t even care and the officer was like you don’t seem at all bothered and hears what’s funny I am actually gay known I was since I was 6 I never really cared just went with the flow but never told anyone but anyway I think some people may understand why i didn’t actually care of give a single fu** 😏 but anyway thank you Thirsk school for ruining my life and giving me ptsd and trauma I don’t feel like a person and I don’t know who I am anymore so thank you very much for destroying my life it’s been a year and I’m still not over it even after counselling and therapy so thank you very much for ruining and destroying my life I don’t even experience happiness anymore.
Also some teachers were nice and tried to help me also others tried to help me but just made it worse also i forgot to mention they tried to have me diagnosed with all sorts of mental disabilities I didn’t even have. 🙄
Former Student
Jan 13, 2022

Discriminated and singled out.

Said they were going to do one thing, did the exact opposite. I'm trans and disabled and had an awful experience. The teachers allowed students to ask intrusive questions about my transition. My disability accommodations weren't met. One teacher even likened me to a reception child for using stimming resources. A few members of staff that I had previously got on with turned on me when I came out as ftm. I wasn't allowed to use any toilet other than the disabled either. Not to mention the fact that I was made to freeze in class because I didn't have a coat. My grades dropped significantly and no one seemed to care.

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