West Lakes Academy

As a parent of children at this school I have for the last 4 years been frustrated by the management and staff with regard to communications and SEND provision. Today the school held their first SEND session which allowed parents WLA staff bee unique and ASD professionals to come together and discuss SEND issues at the school. Not only is this a fantastic first step for a collaborative effort to improve SEND provision for pupils but it also allowed parents to discuss their own personal stories with other parents which I always find extremely valuable as it reminds you that your not alone. Excellent 1st session for the school and can't wait to see progress continue. We'll done WLA.

Came here for a few years, wont say for which year groups or how many to not give away who I am but I left the school is depressing. Things that aren’t taken seriously include bullying, struggling in lesson and with work, mental health, home life, parents money and finance, you either need to be very rich or not well off at all (so stuff like ipads and basic meals are paid for) to send your kids here or it’ll drain your bank account.
Things that are include the amount of stripes on your tie, whether your top button is fastened, whether you have a drink out in lessons and stopping students going to the toilet.

While there I witnessed teachers screaming at students over nothing, the other side where students are really disrespectful for teachers (disrespect is the culture there basically), heads of years and other top end staff ignoring students serious needs, students crying due to desperately needing the toilet and being ignored, peoples learning disrupted because they happen to have a pair of tight fitting trousers or a nose piercing, awful teachers who either cant control their class or are horrible to their class, students nearly falling over the void area after playfighting, actual fights between students, bullying, obvious favouritism, students being made to do PE who really couldn’t, unapproachable teachers who were deliberately nasty (some of which were in roles that literally exist to help you), the list goes on. And apparently it got even worse.

Good word for most of the subject teachers now who are mostly really good and from what I’ve heard under appreciated. There are some that I’ll remember forever and will go down as really important in my life. They are the best thing about the school the higher staff are useless. But theres even some horrible subject teachers who are just as bad or worse.

Just dont bother if you want/you want your child to be both well educated and have fun at school. They’ll have neither.

What an awful school run by gormless posh pillocks.

The schools overall reputation over the past 18 months has hit the floor. The schools main selling point for you to join/apply as a student is throwing that the building costs x amount of millions sums it up really.
Barry Simpson would rather sit and play about with his keyboard than do his job at all let alone properly. The “school” is unbelievably strict to the point where you can’t walk in the corridors without one of the “ALG” morons picking you out for whatever they feel like making up in the moment and screaming at you infront of the rest of the students in the corridor.
They must go to the job centre to employ their staff, couldn’t teach a fish how to swim. They prefer making their lessons into a shouting session rather than teaching students anything necessary.
Oh and don’t forget you must have them 4 stripes present at all times!
Funny that the majority of their teachers started walking away over the past year or so and are now left with clueless old men that should’ve been retired 10 years ago teaching their students.
All the teachers in higher up roles are so far up their own arse they can’t even see the problem with the school. Oh and guess what Barry Simpson is leaving… my shock!!
Maybe the school will improve without that gormless lanky minger.
And regards to mental health… err what’s that? - Couldn’t give two fvcks, not one of them docile imbeciles.
Need to focus on the bigger picture rather than uniform and having phones in students pockets and which teacher can shout the loudest.
Anyways, whichever one of you thick headed spoons are reading this at west lakes. SORT YOUR SCHOOL OUT

school feels like a prison. Teachers don’t care about anything other than uniform. Disrespectful towards students. And they expect us to look amazing for Ofsted,but the school is an absolute joke and I do not want to be in it no more!

This school is so bad that you get blamed for everything teachers don’t care and they should all just jump of the void

the school is terribe let alone the nurse! You go to see her and she tells you there is nothing she can do but then what’s the point of her being the nurse? All the teachers hage no understanding about mh or anything they tell you they care but all they really care about if keeping up there outstanding review!!! but behind closed doors this school is absolutely terribe

this school is awful, teachers pick on students about their behavior, lateness and uniform not realizing it’s the school that causes this. they are only kids and they getting treated like shit and drained to death in the school they can’t do anything without getting screamed at, mental health is a big issue they don’t care about it a student will say something and it will never be brought up or dealt with, they have also recently turned off service by the school..what if someone needs picked up, emergency etc but the awful the way the school is and many students can’t even deal with it

This school will make u want to kill your self it is a joke u could ask a question and u will get punished for it what a mess by Jamie Mawson

The food is way overpriced it’s two pound twenty for a baguette they are expecting children not steal food but they still put the food price up it’s unbelievable they say they are going to do activities but they don’t do anything. They give you four to five pieces of homework a day they expect the students to be social rejects and not socialise and sit and do homework they care more about your uniform than your mental health.

Horrible, Wouldn’t let me go to prom, Moved here in year 10 was fine for a week then teachers went down hill, they don’t care about your mental health and bullying

The school is a awful mental health is a big problem and they don’t give a fuck all they care about is money and your uniform. No surprise half of the staff are leaving probably because they realise what the school is really like

Do not send your child here unless you want them to hate their life for the next 5 years. It’s ran more like a business than a school, as long as you’ve got 4 stripes on your tie and your ankles away they do not give a flying fuck. No wonder half of the staff are leaving half of them are realising Abby deeks (headteacher) can’t run a school to save her life and her “ALG” team care more about their wages than the kids

I hate this school it makes me come home and want to end it all

terrible they post abt mh stuff as if they care but yet if you say your having a panik attack its no your not try harder get back to lesson.

school is over all terrible school rules are stupid and extreme few of the leader members of staff are not fair to the kids over all i think its a rubbish school dont do what they are meant to for the kids

My daughter is 13 and for the last 2 years she was bullied by several girls in the school because of her weight myself and her dad went in to try and resolve this and we were promised things would be sorted , but instead it got worse there bullying policy is not worth the paper it is written on ,and one of the teachers just can’t even be bothered to teach his subject maths so he would down load work sheets with the answers , she was then off for a couple of months and was told they would help her catch up she is still waiting , I would not recommend this school for any child all they care about is how the kids look and the clever kids so your kids will try there hardest and not get anything back , and if they suffer with there mental health your on your own the list could go on but what’s the point they don’t give one .

My daughter and I do not rate this school one little bit she started getting bullied name calling about her weight I took it to Ellie’s year but nothing was getting done it was just before xmas and ellie had an appointment at hospital were we were told she was very I’ll and doing out she was making her self sick I spoke to our a counsellor and she was rushing over to the hospital as it was serious , I contacted westlakes and asked what could be done and the answer was she was
Staying for a few weeks and they would help her when she gets back which they never did and still expected for her to do her exams. The one that has concerned me the mist was her maths as they were just quiz sheets of Google so the kids could cheat But for one right and he said if she didn’t try harder she would get a head of year and behavioural points on which he did even messaged head of maths to change her sets and yea once agin let down big time ,
I hope when Ellie goes to energy coast utc they will get and understand ellie and if not they can work on things .
If you are just Average or slow you get no recognition all all which is unfair to lots of kids .the only police that is followed about their uniforms .

this school is the worst I have ever been to. First of all I didn't go here through year 7-11 but I did sixth form. The teachers made me feel like everything was my fault and when I would ask for help they would do it in such an aggressive way and give me vague answers to my questions. As much as sixth form is an independant learning experience thats what it is as a whole, you have to do everything on your own, even learn the content on your own. might as well just grade your own papers at that point.
oh, you have late work, hell will reign down on you but don't fret as the teachers can take all the time they need to get work back to you, only when its conveinent for them.

I have multiple accounts on which the school has failed students.

dont make the mistake of sending your child here, or in my case choose to go here.

The school is overall terrible.They put so much stress on the kids and really mess up their mental health.They do not do anything about bullying,if you tell them about your bullying situation they will tell you kids to stay away from them and that’s it.No talking to anyone about,no consequences for the child who’s doing the bullying and no help.In lockdown it’s had been very very difficult,the school offers no support and it can be very difficult for parents to cope as they have work to do of there own.Once my daughter hadn’t finished one of the tasks for her work and I got an email saying she would be in detention when we return to school.The teachers treat different people very differently and have clear favourites.It is required you buy the iPad from the school to do work on which is expensive and some parents can’t afford it.Someone didn’t have one and the teacher was shaming him asking him why he doesn’t have one and if he’s going to get one.I would not recommend sending your children here,there are such better schools else where.