I go to ripon grammar and we are a far superior school than this. I have heard many stories from outwood students about how bad this school is. I know someone who got a detention for speaking Italian in a french lesson !! It sounds like the teachers run a dictatorship. At ripon grammar we don t have an isolation room because our teachers don t treat us like prisoners !!!
This school is absolute hell. First of all the food is (mainly from the hot dinner side) is disgusting and not presented well at all, there are flies in the dinner hall, the corridors are WAY too small and the classrooms are all different sizes (some where you could fit a class of 40 maybe 50 and some where you could only have a class of about 10/15 people in. And the staff, there is a lot to say about them. Firstly, the learning leaders say that they will do things and they don't, the learning leaders also only help people who they want to and do nothing for the others, most teachers put too much pressure on the students and say comments that can be hurtful towards the student considering the fact that they don't know what is going on in our home lives (for example, one of the French teachers said "well Shannon you look happy to be here" and one of the learning leaders said to me "have you hurt yourself because your smiling"), most of the teachers are way too strict and the teachers definitely use favouritism . Everyone who attends this school thinks it's a disgrace . The way they deal with bullying is actually unacceptable. Students are told to "just ignore it" when they find it really hard to ignore it .The consequence system never works because a c1,c2,c3 isn't a big deal and teachers think that c4a,c4b,c5a and c5b will scare the students but they don't. Many of the teachers have completley unfair seating plans and don't let the students move when they have completely valid reasons (they feel pressured, a certain mental health problem, being unable to see the board, not being able to get on with ANY work). And a lot of the teachers restrict students from going to the toilet, so I guess the teacher wants to have human waste in their room then. A few teachers let students out late or keep them back after lesson and the student then gets punished for being late to the next lesson. The lines at lunch really bother me. Student have to line up outside until some of the other year group come out of the lunch hall (there is 3 lunches, firsts is year 9s and 11s, second is year 7s so they don't have to deal with this problem and last lunch is year 8s and year 10s) so when by the time the people who lined up outside go in, this is almost no food left. This also gives the year group who had to line up outside no time to eat, we also get told that if we needed the toilet then we should have gone at lunch when people had to line up outside for 5-10 minutes, then line up inside for 5 minutes, then eat there food which takes up the rest of the half an hour ( well 25 minutes because we all have to line up 5 Minutes before the end of lunch). People get bullied by teachers and they also get bullied for being friends with someone who is in a different year group than them (two of my best friends are in year 7/11). Teachers tell students off for the stupidest reasons aswell like being late BECAUSE OF A BUS THAT THEY CANT CONTROL, wearing makeup, wearing "innapropraite" shoes, wearing coats inside, wearing jewellery, wearing brightly coloured socks (how are they supposed to stop or alter our learning), eating in lessons, going on the grass (why do we have a field in the first place if we're not allowed on it) and various other idiotic reasons . So just a word of advice, if this is your or your child's preferred/chosen secondary school, then change it now as it is a really non enjoyable and unfair experience
oof. Year 10 yay. :(
Gcse nooooooooo
some good teachers
some just shout.......
class school but food is realy good [l]#ol
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Miy friend goes too this school and he is good personn
How Ofsted rated it as "outstanding" in 2018 is beyond my comprehension. The academy staff use a behaviour management system which is highly negative and results in poor relations between both staff and students. Behaviour in the school is appalling and expectations are low for academic achievement. If you care about your child at all, find them almost any other school. Parents that do complain are treated much like the children. My heart genuinely goes out to the poor teachers that work there, seriously just leave it's not worth it.
i finished at this school today, it used to be really good, then miss trattles came along, and then it got better with mr Pratt. most of the teachers are really nice, but thers some, who are mean and really not nice. for example, i told a teacher i was partly deaf, they laughed and called me jeff. overall, its decent but then theres the few who really arent good.
Can't find a school any worse than this... rather go auschwitz. If I wasn't caged in by the prison bars, then I would jump of the roof head first into Mr Gaunt
A few good teachers but some others remind me of the schustzstaffel. its almost like they want to punish you and waste your time as if they get enjoyment from it. the school is comparable to prison, you are locked in behind spiked fences and forced to attend, lining us up after lunch to tell us when we can leave to lesson and extremely strict teachers akin to prison wardens. the school poses as outstanding and great but that was 2016 and a lot has changed. the consequence system seems old and outdated and doesn't seem to be working well. detentions can almost always contain 20+ students a day. There is a sort of student council that involves elections in which nobody truly wins. one student was removed from his campaign for acting in self defence despite having the best policies and easily the most fit person for the job and instead another student won and as far as i can tell has done nothing positive for the school so far. i have spent over 3 years at the school and it has definitely gotten worse over time. i do not recommend the school but it is unlikely any other will be better.
Edit: I made this review a bit ago when i was slightly more mad at the school. My comments were over the top especially comparing the SLT to the SS, as the SS at least had a cool uniform and actually did some stuff that made a difference to the world. I do however stand by the other comments i made on the consequences system (although the 30 min detentions are welcome), the ofsted results and the student voice elections. Despite the latter being a stupid ploy to make students feel they are making a difference.
Overall maybe it was an overreaction but to be young i guess.
Death To The Communists
Sincerely,
Roberto
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