Wales High School

(put former student but I'm leaving in like two weeks, so it counts)
Pre Covid Y7-Y8, I really enjoyed coming here, genuinely I did. I was bullied severely for being lgbtq+ and for just being a little weird, and all they did was give them a slap on the wrist. but the curriculum was quite enjoyable throughout lower school and empowered me in a way my primary school didn't.
I did begin councilling here, as I'd already had three of them before and school thought it would be beneficial. During this time my mum suggested I could be autistic, so I brought that up to the councilor I had. She agreed and said she would send me to cahms for diagnosis but didn't want to do the paperwork. I reported this to school and by the looks of it, they just moved her office to a hallway barely anyone goes through.
When school started again after covid, I was extremely depressed. I'd just been diagnosed with autism and it was taking such a toll on me. School said they'd put me on a list to go into councilling again (spoiler alert I leave on the 22nd of this month. I didn't get any).

So due to school's lack of support, I began becoming so sick from exhaustion and stress that I wasn't coming to school. When I was off school I did my best to email teachers for work as to keep up and they refused. Then most teachers would berate me for not being at school and not being caught up with the work. When I was in school, I would attempt to cope by going to learning support when I was overwhelmed. As my friend is also autistic, I assumed I'd also be allowed to go for help when overwhelmed there as I am an SEND student too.

I was screamed at as I wasn't supposed to be there and couldn't get the same accommodations as, in their words "he has a learning disability he can be here". They only seem to accommodate those diagnosed as children and it's frustrating.
My mum has had several threats for being fined due to my low attendance but never been offered any help for me with school.

Aswell as this it's crowded to hell and back. They increase the year group size every year meaning that it's impossible to navigate hallways or get any lunch. Although the lunch is good I will admit.

The outside doors auto lock during lesson time too, meaning if you're late or coming from an exam, you have to wait at the door til a member of staff passes you to let you in.

It's a school were sometimes you don't want to go they do assemblys and act like they don't accept racism and discrimination but sometimes it's a alright school

very bad experience with staff and support; when something life threatening happened to my best friend , i was crying in one of the bathrooms instead of being in my lesson (as you would be if you had just found out your best mate had been hospitalised) when a teacher came in and started shouting at me to go back to my lesson and that i had to stop crying. They then escorted me to a lesson i was not in a right mental state to be in which left me then crying in said classroom and until the end of the day instead of offering ANY support. Even though this review is about teachers not supporting students properly, may i say that this isn’t ALL teachers, because there are several teachers that are extremely supportive of the students there ( the music department being a prime example, a big thank you to you guys) but several isn’t good enough.You would have expected that all teachers (especially SLT) were supporting students whenever they felt completely lost and distraught; however this isn’t the case here. Thanks to all of the teachers here that go into the job so that they can actually teach and are prepared to support their students as it is an inevitable aspect of teaching. In my experience you should never go into teaching without being prepared to be there for your students as it is an important thing for us to know that we have people to talk to when things get rough and it can be very damaging to not be able to be open with someone about something upsetting you. Thanks for your time :)

I'm autistic and was diagnosed late year ten. Although I was not diagnosed until year 10, people bullied me for clearly not meeting the social norm and bullied me for being gay and transgender. They refused to do anything about the bullying. Aswell as this in year 7 I was sexually assaulted by another student and was told by the school that it was my fault. As I was diagnosed with autism last year I was given a key worker, she's a lovely woman and one of the best teaching assistants in the school. Although she has been given 17 keyworker kids which is clearly not fair on her or us. It is completely out of her control and I feel really bad because it's probably really stressful for her. It feels like they're understaffed for TA's. Alot of the teachers are downright abelist, one teacher bullying me for an entire year, forcing me to make eyecontact, screaming at me and overall singling me out for my autism. The school did nothing to deal with her attitudes and aparrently I'm not the only one that has had to deal with her behaviour. The food is good though.