Tiverton High School

The first week I got bullied a month later a kid started to strangle me the teacher did not help me so please don’t come here when you get hurt they do nothing about it try to avoid this Place as possible

This school is the WORST school ive ever sent my kids to. There is apparently lots of drug dealing and fighting. My kid comes home in tears everyday because the staff there treat kids like animals. The internal manager is innapropriate and says things like “wrap youre willy up” during sex

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

Not a nice school teacher gets away with everything and don’t let students have a say what as happened! They don’t care about mental health at all and what needs they have don’t send them to this school waste of time

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.

ths is just terrible there is nothing good about it, this place just made my mental health 10x time worse than it already had been, i am so glad i changed schools.
i had a panic attack every rare occasion i went it would just end up with the teachers staring at me saying that ill be fine and that it isnt big a deal yet seconds after i would run out of school because of how they would treat us students

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.

Don't go here or Uffculme...

It will fall down any day now...

Staff very angry and don’t care about how students feel

bunch of pricks honestly the school is horrible

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

the school is a terrible environment i hate the school so much it has traumatised me

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

School is shambles, all I have to say is that the school is more of a piss take than anything, lmao

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.

This school is bs all the school cares about is their reputation they don’t sort out any bullying the food is sometimes served raw the teachers have favourite students and if u are in their bad books they don’t bother trying to help u they give u detentions for stupid reasons. the deputy head is judgemental to the point it is rude they are more focused on white socks and uniform and piercings because apparently it’s a “distraction” like get a grip they tell student they should have a voice but when students do they shut them down they should stop trying to be like blundells and focus on the students the already have the toilets are unhygienic with wet toilet roll on the ceilings their are holes in the walls writing on the hand dryers and it smells like piss and most of the students deal drugs and teachers don’t take any notice if u want to talk to a teacher talk to Nicola lane or Chris Dwyer probably the only half decent teachers their and went to tivy high for 5 years worst mistake of my life don’t go

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.