Tiverton High School

Horrendous, don’t come here a Bench Collapsed on my leg And there is a whole Bruise And marks I told the teachers They didn’t do anything So I had the limp all the way home

This school is genuinely the worst. None of the teachers care about mental health and all they care about is good behaviour and grades. The school has ruined my mental health and the school is falling apart

This is school is a disgrace teachers are allowed to hurl abuse at students with no punishment but quick to kick out kids over small issues but offer no real support make empty promises to Parents and kids I’ve never seen such a bad school the headteacher has a attitude problem frankly they should shut it down and replace 98% of the staff as there is one or two good ones

The school do not care about their students or their mental health. This school has uneducated supply teachers who clearly haven’t gone through basic training as they get into kids faces and scream at them. So do not send your children here unless you want them to be badly treated and not cared for. Also the head teacher does not care about how she speaks to parents nor how she speaks to pupils she just kicks you out for absolutely nothing.

The students are the reason this school gets a bad rap. Everyone is angry about the banning of skirts, even though the girls were given warnings about how short their skirts were getting, but they kept on shortening the skirts so of course the skirts got banned and everyone was mad 'at the school'. Another thing is the constructional strength. The school fallong apart because the school doesn't have the money to repair it and yet, Everyone is mad at the school. The teachers are good, they want you to learn and want you to have good safety in school. But everyone thinks that teachers are mean even though its the student that are being mean. The food in this school is good, it looks and tastes nice and the learning is fine iys just sometimes the people teaching ain't that good at teaching.

The Amount of bullying that goes on here is insane. The teachers just sit around with a slide on the board giving 0 help at all. You get detentions for anything. Even the nerdiest kids get detentions. There is like 2 good teachers in the entire school who won’t be horrible to you. The building is falling apart and the school is WAY overcrowded for the amount of space there is. You will get shoved down stairwells daily and just generally pushed around by the older years.

You’re better off giving your children no education than bring them here!

The school is very negative based. The staff are quick to inform parents if your child is wearing something out of line with the schools policy but doesn’t deal with any bully behaviour. My daughters tutor will give my daughter an all day detention if she’s ‘talked too much in tutor’ but any issues my daughter is facing within the school setting (friendship/bullying issues) won’t be dealt it.

Dangerous place for all sorts of reasons

It will fall down any day now...

All schools in this area are the same
Tiverton, Cullompton and Uffculme are all the same, all with horrible teachers who don't care and violent kids who fight every day and vape. All schools have broken buildings and to be honest, no one of these 3 are better than the other or vice versa
Don't feel that you will be better or worse off elsewhere

bunch of pricks honestly the school is horrible

teacher give no help are very rude and just a bad place of learning

Saw some older years vaping in the toilets and when they came out it looked like they set off a bomb in there there was so much smoke coming out of it.
Also the school just kinda sucks tbh the kids in my school thought I did sh because I wore all black (THAT'S THE UNIFORM IDIOT)</3

It wasn’t until I left that I realised how much of a prison it was. This year the students are no longer allowed to wear skirts and shorts, even during scorching wether. They give different students unfair advantages to everyone else. One big example was the dance students or PE students. Nothing against the students themselves but the teachers adored them. They could never do anything wrong. They where like royalty in our teachers eyes. Secondly they banned phones which is understandable. But before they did this we had the opportunity to present proof of any bullying happening in school. Every since phones have been banned the school claimed to “not have a bullying problem” and if a student try’s to show video evidence or screenshots they get in trouble for having their phone out in the first place. I never got the proper support in class. And I felt belittled if I ever asked for help. All my older siblings who went there suffered RIDICULOUSLY with bullying far worse then me. To the point students attempted to strangle my sister with a skipping rope and my other sister was getting repeatedly beaten in the pe changing rooms. But nothing was done because the girls doing it where the teachers so called “netball girls”
They are so nasty to the children who speak up for themselves. The ones who will walk out when they aren’t being listened too or shout at the teachers. In school you may think they’re a pain but after leaving school and having the opportunity to speak to many of these students I realised how such wonderful people they are and they are just fighting so hard for students to be heard. Not to mention that many of these students have mild autism or communication difficulties or past trauma which means having the teachers speak to us they way they did is what caused bad behaviour. The safeguarding system was really insensitive and inconsiderate. Many teachers would make fun of the students when they weren’t in the room. The toilets are unhygienic and they do not care about our mental health one bit. The one time they talked about mental health was when they told us to exercise to sort it out which was ironic coming from a PE teacher. There are so many other things that can help your mental health that I never knew about until I went to college where they take the students needs as a priority.
Big shout out to Chris Dwyer, Becky Harris and Antony Nduritu and Jasmine Turner though. They have always supported the students in so many situations and given amazing advice to those who need it.
“If you don’t make teaching fun, kids don’t want to learn”
- Antony Nduritu 2021

Gets a bad rep, however when I was there it was punching well above its wait, yes there was bullying but the school dealt with it well. The teachers were all good and most of them enthusiastic, personally I feel that it has a bad rep but really is quite a good school. The school definitely punches above its wait in terms of sport, at the time I was there the rugby and football teams were both going way beyond what was expected as was the hockey team, most of the students in my year came out with good grades and wait onto college then uni.

The school is horrible, not even joking. It's falling apart; a literal threat to life. The building is from 1970s. The staff do nothing about mental health or bullying. Staff only care about you being in school and in your lesson. It's not a good school.

All the school cares about is uniform and how we look rather than helping us learn. A lot of students smoke and deal drugs and the teachers don’t do anything about it. Found a lot of hair in my food while opening it. Worst…school…ever.

If I could rate this lower than 1 star I definitely would. This school has no redeeming qualities apart from a couple of decent teachers unable to make a difference under the terrible head teacher’s rule. Awful resources for students with mental health issues and staff continuously ignore and disregard said students. Massive bullying and harassment issues. Sort yourselves out because no kids at this school or parents I’ve spoken to are happy with THS. Staff I’ve spoken to have been unhelpful regarding these issues which is unsurprising as Sammy Crook has done nothing to resolve these problems.

Imagine sending a girl into school wearing trousers to be more ‘gender neutral’ why not make everyone wear skirts? It’s being very biased towards the gender of males. Absolute joke of a school needs shutting down and the head teacher is an inconsiderate tw*t. Petition to shut this school down!!!!