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Woodham Academy
Secondary · Academy · Newton Aycliffe
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woodham academy teachers are pure low lifes
Worst school
Wouldn’t give it any start rating! If your child had any sort of issues such as being bullied, struggling with anything they pie you off and let it continue miss McLean has to be the worst teacher her there if your child comes home and complains please listen to them it isn’t a lie she is sly and talks down to the students should even be a teacher but acts the victim when she is confronting. They don’t cater for anyone who needs extra support either AVIOD if you care for your children. Safety of children is the worst.
Terrible
2025, Im in year 9, I was okay last year but once it got to November and December, my mental health went downhill, I cried EVERYDAY before school, begging my mam to let me stay off. It even got to the point where I was begging to be homeschooled, and school makes it worse, they expect me to work work and work, but I have severe ADHD and Autism, the works to hard, the teachers and staff are too hard on me, expecting me to know what to do and that I shouldn’t bring my problems into school. My anxiety has gotten worse, I always have panic attacks and anxiety attacks in lesson, even when I try my hardest, the teachers and staff always say I’m not trying hard enough. School is destroying our metal health and our happiness, please get this sorted out ASAP Woodham Academy
joey ainslie and josh barr are terrorists in the making (proof)
as a former student the only complaint i have to make is a student named joey ainslie because he threatened to give me a knuckle sandwhich
written by ethan tickleson
p.s josh barr likes boys (he said age is just a number)
written by ethan tickleson
p.s josh barr likes boys (he said age is just a number)
my opinion 😶
this school is mid
go if you want
go if you want
Privacy and rules.
Wood ham academy is a hood schools and probably one of the best, the grades are hight and they have good teaching. But, at break/lunch teachers only guard the female toilets but not the male, and I don’t think that Cameras in every toilet is very good, toilets are meant for privacy and not for teachers to be spying on you all the time. I just think that overall it’s a great school but they should start evening out girls and boy rules most rules are only for girls.
Very hit-or-miss - brilliant academics just awful student support
I’ve nearly finished my 5 years at Woodham and I can say that the manner of teaching is great, I’ve gotten very far grades wise here. However, behaviour team is lacking in how they treat homophobia and sexism. A perfect example of this is sexism within the behaviour team:
There has been a vaping problem in Woodham like many other secondary schools for the past year and the behaviour team has resorted to having a member of staff stand outside the toilets and occasionally check in every so often to see if anyone is vaping. Sounds normal, right? Until you find out this is only done with the girls toilets and by a male member of staff (with addition to a camera in these toilets which is over a toilet stall).
Back to the topic of lacking support for students, I mean the mental health side of things, poor home and school life etc. Woodham academy’s student support team will turn a blind eye to the students which ask for help and choose to stick their noses into irrelevant matters that have nothing to do with their jobs.
Example:
I have a friend who used to have an issue with wetting themselves, this was none of the schools business yet the support team decided to take this friend out of lessons to ridicule her about how ‘childish’ she was.
And finally, the crème de la crème, the way the behaviour team treats bullying is atrocious. I personally have been harassed by a girl my age for the entire time I have been at Woodham Academy and no matter how many times I complain or bring it up the behaviour team brushes it off and tells us to ‘try get along’ instead of punishing the girl or at least speaking with her.
So yeah, Woodham Academy is very hit-or-miss, grades and education wise it’s the best in the area but how students are treated at times can be awful.
There has been a vaping problem in Woodham like many other secondary schools for the past year and the behaviour team has resorted to having a member of staff stand outside the toilets and occasionally check in every so often to see if anyone is vaping. Sounds normal, right? Until you find out this is only done with the girls toilets and by a male member of staff (with addition to a camera in these toilets which is over a toilet stall).
Back to the topic of lacking support for students, I mean the mental health side of things, poor home and school life etc. Woodham academy’s student support team will turn a blind eye to the students which ask for help and choose to stick their noses into irrelevant matters that have nothing to do with their jobs.
Example:
I have a friend who used to have an issue with wetting themselves, this was none of the schools business yet the support team decided to take this friend out of lessons to ridicule her about how ‘childish’ she was.
And finally, the crème de la crème, the way the behaviour team treats bullying is atrocious. I personally have been harassed by a girl my age for the entire time I have been at Woodham Academy and no matter how many times I complain or bring it up the behaviour team brushes it off and tells us to ‘try get along’ instead of punishing the girl or at least speaking with her.
So yeah, Woodham Academy is very hit-or-miss, grades and education wise it’s the best in the area but how students are treated at times can be awful.
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and mrs maclean you wanna call my wife names down the phone i will bring her to see you in the school what a low life scum you are mr bell im sorry to say you have teachers in there that are uneducated and bullys pal and you need get them sorted straight away your teachers are allowing bully as well which is uncalled for and you need to put a stop to this straight away i advise all you parents i would avoid this school like the plague