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Woodkirk Academy
Secondary · Academy · Wakefield
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Its good
This school is actually good. I’m a student here and as much as I don’t really like schools it’s the best school I’ve ever been to I would definitely recommend
The people there are rats.
The school is so mean to me always give me detentions and isolation. Then after I get a trim I g o to isolation for like 4 weeks. The teacher and pupils are such rats. iN fact I do not even have a favourite lesson as the teachers are always giving me det. Now for the sports. at sports I barely get picked for anything but i am one of the best there and the sports there are just boring. And this guy is always saying horrible stuff to me , yet nothing happens to me and i get in trouble. and the safety is bad because all they care about is detenton . The people at there are rats. do not go there unless you are selfish or boring. Again the pupils and teachers are rats. that trash school needs masive improvements. and it has only been my second term in this school. That garbage turned me playful to deppressed. teachers are just stupid.
Felt like my son was let down
My son has mental health problems and has suffered most of his childhood with anxiety, anger, and confidence. This school promises a great deal on paper and by mouth but does not actually follow through on what has been agreed. As a parent I have followed and attended everything that was asked to get help for my son as I was told that it was a process before my son's case could be picked up only to find that any support was hit and miss my sons support was dropped and left until I got in touch to ask why he hadn't seen anyone for weeks and months, then to find after doing everything I was asked to do eg family mediation my son's case was not actually going to be picked up after this was always the agreement. My son has gone months with out any support through school and my messages and emails have been ignored regarding further support, I have had no response from anyone. At one of the most stressful times in my son's life through GCSE he has felt so let down and struggled through when I felt if support was there for him it may have been so much easier for him. We have tried our best to make this time easier for him but if his mental state is not right as it has not been there is only so much we can do which is what I have told the school but again no response.
My son has attended his last day at this school today and leaves with over a month of no follow up support after family mediation that opened a lot of emotions which was advised by school family support, no feedback has been given as to what has been advised all those weeks ago even after requesting it more than once and not even a finishing session for closure. Just ignorance and lack of care. A real let down.
I have since found out by mediation team (not school) that a report was made over a month ago requesting my son has immediate therapy sessions which never took place or was even set up. Still no reply to my messages.
My son has attended his last day at this school today and leaves with over a month of no follow up support after family mediation that opened a lot of emotions which was advised by school family support, no feedback has been given as to what has been advised all those weeks ago even after requesting it more than once and not even a finishing session for closure. Just ignorance and lack of care. A real let down.
I have since found out by mediation team (not school) that a report was made over a month ago requesting my son has immediate therapy sessions which never took place or was even set up. Still no reply to my messages.
Awful place
Had a terrible secondary school experience here. Teacher's couldn't care less. Teachers biggest bullies there. I learned virtually nothing of ny substantial value in 5 years.
This school is shit
Absolutely awful school. If you send you child here they will be harassed and bullied by the teachers .
poor safeguarding and no care
please don't send your children here, continued problems no support unless your child is A* very old fashioned views and very unsupportive. So sad about this as I dont ever write poor reviews but after what my child is going though please be carful and read ofsted report carefully
SHITHOLE
Don’t send ur kids to this fucking shithole they are creeps and absolute freaks they are nonces and mentally abuse kids
Horible
I go to this school and I got threatened with a knife and he only got suspended for four days
Horrible teachers are rats at this school
Horrible school, in fact it's not even a school it's a prison, woodkirk academy FIX YOUR PROBLEMS AS YOUR SCHOOL HAS A TOTAL OF 2.4 STARS OUT OF 5 REVIEW.
DONT SEND YOUR Kids TO THIS SCHOOL
My child went to this school and cried her eyes after her first day at that horrible school due to all of the drama homework and bullies she is in year seven and the teachers got mad at her because she was ONE MINUTE LATE which I think is Ridiculous
this school is awful
bad school. they do nothing to help their students. overly strict. only care about grades instead of the students wellbeing
horrible school
some teachers at this school shouldn’t work with children. they shout at students telling them they should “shut up” and just have a complete lack of respect for those they are teaching and expect to be respected even after acting like that. also, some members of the safeguarding team make students uncomfortable by constantly staring at girls in particular (probably boys aswell) saying “your skirt is too short” and “your
trousers are too tight” usually when looking at their back sides.
trousers are too tight” usually when looking at their back sides.
This school is a Disgrace
This school is an absolute disgrace they punish students that have been bullied They lie they make racist remarks to students they bully students. The staff are rude and talk down to parents. I should have never sent my child to this school
problems need to be addressed
teachers here, especially the SLT are way too controlling. they care more about girls having short skirts than actual problems that occur. education should always come first but that’s not the case in this school. many people have said that they feel uncomfortable with how certain staff members act and lots of people have felt this way for years and nothing has been done.
Freshman
Good best school
Good good good good good
WOODKIRK ACADEMY SUMMED UP
OK,
Woodkirk summarised as an Ex student in terms of quality of the departments that teach gcse, i post this here as i cannot review the main school but same teachers teach sixth form,
maths- ok
english- good
science- good
geography- teaching is ok, but when you have mixed ability sets where you have students who come to school to mess around, the weak teachers do not do anything and the foolish students who mess about controls the class, so you dont learn much and distracted by fools.
for future students studying either geo or history,
woodkirk needs to abolish mixed ability sets
computer science- teachers pretend to teach,
students pretend to learn
did not get taught the GCSE properly,
few weeks before our coding gcse paper,
where we did not get taught properly how to code
(the teacher expected us to know how to code though most people struggled)
advised us to use youtube to learn, essentially going against the purpose of school- to teach.
so people went into the exam barely knowing how to code, so thats about half of the marks lost,
i would advise you to not choose Computer science for gcse or alevel unless you can teach yourself at home or if you want to fail
extra- food-
many students rely on school food as their main meal a day essentially relying on the school food to have an abundance in nutrition,
but when the school food is as cheap, plastic-like, non-nutritious, students will lose fundamental nutrition affecting growth and cognitive functioning,
and the food is heavily overpriced for its cheap worthless quality.
Woodkirk summarised as an Ex student in terms of quality of the departments that teach gcse, i post this here as i cannot review the main school but same teachers teach sixth form,
maths- ok
english- good
science- good
geography- teaching is ok, but when you have mixed ability sets where you have students who come to school to mess around, the weak teachers do not do anything and the foolish students who mess about controls the class, so you dont learn much and distracted by fools.
for future students studying either geo or history,
woodkirk needs to abolish mixed ability sets
computer science- teachers pretend to teach,
students pretend to learn
did not get taught the GCSE properly,
few weeks before our coding gcse paper,
where we did not get taught properly how to code
(the teacher expected us to know how to code though most people struggled)
advised us to use youtube to learn, essentially going against the purpose of school- to teach.
so people went into the exam barely knowing how to code, so thats about half of the marks lost,
i would advise you to not choose Computer science for gcse or alevel unless you can teach yourself at home or if you want to fail
extra- food-
many students rely on school food as their main meal a day essentially relying on the school food to have an abundance in nutrition,
but when the school food is as cheap, plastic-like, non-nutritious, students will lose fundamental nutrition affecting growth and cognitive functioning,
and the food is heavily overpriced for its cheap worthless quality.
Good
Good good food good everything
The WORST school to ever EXIST
This school is the worst thing that has ever happened to my life so far. This school has ruined my mental health, to which i’m still suffering with now.
There was an incident when I was in year 8 where another student (from another school) was pressuring me to send revealing photos of myself and proceeded to verbally abuse me when I refused. I was advised to talk to my school about it, and when I did, I was simply told it was my fault by the head I discussed this with, and from surrounding staff members who had overheard the incident, and shouldn’t have accepted the friend request (baring in mind the individual had sent me a friend request months before the incident, and could still message me even if we weren’t friends online). That one statement still plagues my mind to this day and I find it funny how surrounding staff who had nothing to do with the incident got involved just to tell me that it was my fault someone tried pressuring me to send photos of myself.
Another thing I would like to add is how Woodkirk Academy deals with arising issues. One teacher told me these words exactly: “Now if we look at your records, you’ve had previous issues and dealings, but if we look at (….)’s records, they are SQUEAKY CLEAN, so you can now understand why we have pulled you in and not her”. Let’s just focus on the point my “previous dealings” were in year 9, this was year 11, when I had matured and changed as a person. I felt they were personally targeting me with this and felt insulted they were judging me based on my past.
This isn’t the only issues i’ve had with them. They never helped when I was getting bullied, I was told that “they were just being silly, and to ignore them” (even when they threatened to beat me up and to kill my animals) and when I came with an issue myself and came in with PROOF of who was doing the incident, they ignored this and sided with the pupil, again because they were “well behaved and had a clean record”
I would also like to add that this school’s food was terrible. I had multiple issues at dinner time, including finding a dead fly in my pasta along with having undercooked chicken and even being told I wasn’t allowed to buy certain foods, to which I was left with nothing but a small drink. When I came to them about my eating issues, they implied that I was lying which I personally find disgusting. They then started questioning me on why I started bringing my own food in, and even wanted proof that I had packed myself a sandwich.
The way Woodkirk handles issues and situations is appalling, they constantly single out students due to their past and quite frankly don’t care about anyone but themselves.
Oh, and can I add that myself and many others have experienced sexual assault and harassment at this school multiple times. When I alerted the head of year of my experience with this, they hardly did anything to find who had touched me inappropriately and dismissed the incident pretty quickly.
The only good thing I can say about this school is the education. The teachers were very kind and approachable and did their jobs spectacularly. I wish I could say the same for the higher staff.
Moral of the story, save your kid the trauma and send them somewhere else.
There was an incident when I was in year 8 where another student (from another school) was pressuring me to send revealing photos of myself and proceeded to verbally abuse me when I refused. I was advised to talk to my school about it, and when I did, I was simply told it was my fault by the head I discussed this with, and from surrounding staff members who had overheard the incident, and shouldn’t have accepted the friend request (baring in mind the individual had sent me a friend request months before the incident, and could still message me even if we weren’t friends online). That one statement still plagues my mind to this day and I find it funny how surrounding staff who had nothing to do with the incident got involved just to tell me that it was my fault someone tried pressuring me to send photos of myself.
Another thing I would like to add is how Woodkirk Academy deals with arising issues. One teacher told me these words exactly: “Now if we look at your records, you’ve had previous issues and dealings, but if we look at (….)’s records, they are SQUEAKY CLEAN, so you can now understand why we have pulled you in and not her”. Let’s just focus on the point my “previous dealings” were in year 9, this was year 11, when I had matured and changed as a person. I felt they were personally targeting me with this and felt insulted they were judging me based on my past.
This isn’t the only issues i’ve had with them. They never helped when I was getting bullied, I was told that “they were just being silly, and to ignore them” (even when they threatened to beat me up and to kill my animals) and when I came with an issue myself and came in with PROOF of who was doing the incident, they ignored this and sided with the pupil, again because they were “well behaved and had a clean record”
I would also like to add that this school’s food was terrible. I had multiple issues at dinner time, including finding a dead fly in my pasta along with having undercooked chicken and even being told I wasn’t allowed to buy certain foods, to which I was left with nothing but a small drink. When I came to them about my eating issues, they implied that I was lying which I personally find disgusting. They then started questioning me on why I started bringing my own food in, and even wanted proof that I had packed myself a sandwich.
The way Woodkirk handles issues and situations is appalling, they constantly single out students due to their past and quite frankly don’t care about anyone but themselves.
Oh, and can I add that myself and many others have experienced sexual assault and harassment at this school multiple times. When I alerted the head of year of my experience with this, they hardly did anything to find who had touched me inappropriately and dismissed the incident pretty quickly.
The only good thing I can say about this school is the education. The teachers were very kind and approachable and did their jobs spectacularly. I wish I could say the same for the higher staff.
Moral of the story, save your kid the trauma and send them somewhere else.
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