Wootton Upper School

I am a student who goes here, and it is fairly poor. we get a new science teacher every few weeks, most of them can't teach or even speak English. teachers leave or can't control the classroom in general.

ever since the new head of trust came, it's gotten even worse in my opinion. the rules are misogynistic. all of them are about the girls and how short the skirts are or makeup, whereas males are allowed to show off their behind without getting told off. the first day of school for year 9s, most of them were sent into isolation for the smallest of things, like wearing white socks.

if you get an ATL1, you're put in LRC all day the next day with an after school. they want you to be in lesson, but refuse to deal with it or try cooperate. there are no exceptions to certain things, like their non-negotiobales, but they can adjust them all they want.

the SEN department is miserable, too. all the TAs are quite nice, so is the SENCO, but they never adjust or try to get the school policy to adjust for us. their SEN policies on their website are all lies, as they do not follow any of it whatsoever. in the SEN room, some people are allowed to sit in there all day just because their parents kicked off, but others aren't and are forced to go to lessons, even if visibly anxious.

the lack of care for bullying here is crazy, too. all they do is just give a couple of warnings at first before calling the parents. but even then, most of the time, the parents aren't that bothered. the pastoral team isn't even a pastoral team anymore. pastoral is never open and you're never allowed in there, as there's no teacher ever in there.

it's rare to find a teacher here who genuinely cares or wants to help you actually learn. the school getting stricter isn't helping with this, it just makes it worse. students are getting worse and even more fed up with the school.

please for your sake and your child's, do not send them here.

having a new pedo for every school year doesn’t give the best reputation to the school, especially if it’s broadcasted all over facebook for the entire student population to see. is a performing arts based school really but they haven’t put any funding into those areas for years and instead focus of stem, which is t a bad thing you just shouldn’t advertise as a PA school if you’re then not going to fund it.
too many students on drugs or drinking and a scary amount of knife threats. i saw a kid bleeding after being attacked in his way home by some students there.
and please plsplspls teach the kids about harassment and assault and actually do something when a student reports it. it’s detrimental to a growing persons wellbeing and let’s t*ats get away with it for years
and stop the homophobia there

Quite good school for GCSE