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Parent
Nov 2, 2023

GCSEs

Excellent School. Every Opportunity to Fulfil Potential

Superb school and extremely caring and attentive staff who are actively involved to ensure positive mental health and that students fulfil their potential. The school has high standards and expectations for their students, and rightly so. The pastoral care is excellent and I've had nothing but 200% support for both my children who have very differing abilities.
Former Student
Jan 21, 2022

Revolting, evil, dangerous.

Everyone saying this school just had a 'little discipline' are widely misinformed and ignorant of the abuse the previous head teacher Elizabeth Lutzier inflicted upon HUNDREDS of students. Bullying was brushed under the carpet, children, literal CHILDREN were persecuted and singled out for grieving and needing support, not 'discipline'. There were multiple self harm and suicide episodes from struggling students at the school. Headteacher instructed every leaflet, booklet and resource on mental health including CAMHS to be ripped up and thrown away. Children were treated as nothing more than walking, talking, credits for the school, if you weren't an A* target in every subject, forget ever being given room to progress and grow in the classroom, you were sat at the very back and left to it. There was a literal case of sexual assault from students against other students, which Lutzier covered up and ignored. She also allowed a CONVICTED paedophile to work under her roof for several years despite flags being raised by many students and parents (google All Hallows RE teacher arrested). I could say so much more. Lutzier was homophobic, transphobic, discriminatory towards the mentally ill. She went out of her way to disrupt the education of students by banning them from attending classes and forcing them into BBC (better behaviour centre) Yes, it absolutely was as Nazism as it sounds or prep (After school detention centre) where children were forced to stay for over 3 hours EVERY DAY after school for TWO WEEKS where they were not allowed on the computers and were then expected to travel/walk home in the dark without being allowed a phone for emergency reasons. Lutzier even confiscated every single mirror in the girls bathroom because they (again, literal children) were being 'vain' - bear in mine, this was never done to the boys.

Please never send your children to this school. This school and it's values are backward, insane and archaic. Elizabeth Lutzier was evil. She told a grieving 14 year old child to just 'move on' from her fathers death less than a month after it happened AND told her mum that 'all hallows just isn't a very hug-y school' in response to being asked why no compassion or empathy was shown to her daughter during this time. I genuinely cannot stress enough how damaging this school was to generations of students. Don't be fooled by the Ofsted 'Outstanding' banner either. Ofsted themselves have admitted that their system leaves very little room for spotting and addressing flaws in schools such as how they respond (or better yet, don't respond) to issues of bullying, harassment, discrimination, and the lack of mental health support available to students. Ofsted are currently in the process of designing a new inspection system that will scrutinise schools on these crucial issues and schools failing to progress their views, will NOT receive outstanding marks anymore, as they once did despite having major shortcomings in these areas.

To Elizabeth Lutzier. You attacked and terrorised innocent, defenceless and hurting children. You took their trust in you as the headteacher of their school and created a vile establishment to punish, humiliate and exert power over them. You were never and will never be fit to be anywhere near children and I am immensely glad you are no longer able to do anymore damage than you've already done. The day I learn of your death, I, along with many ex-students of All Hallows will be singing 'ding dong the witch is dead'.
Former Student
Dec 18, 2021

Education

Absolutely disappointed

Horrible I got eaten by a cow several times not to mention the evil rat haunting me
Student
Dec 1, 2021

All Hallows is actually pretty good

I think that All Hallows Is a good place, it seems to be better managed than other schools. It has counselling and has done tests to see if students need extra help whilst preparing for GCSEs. This shows that the staff actually care somewhat about the well-being of their students. I think that the teachers are mostly good although there’s a few that honestly struggle to teach their students. Overall, I think that All Hallows has been a good place and I have gained a lot of knowledge from being there. I personally haven’t had any bad experiences with the school and am happy with it.
Student
May 17, 2021

Used to be corrupt.

Ok. The school is good, but there is some ups and downs. The school used to have a headteacher who was very corrupt, he made most of the nicest teachers leave the school, from personal experiences, he was quite nice, but he didn’t know how to do his job correct, he suspended me for a day because I asked my teacher if I could have a second chance because he was going to send me out the class, so I think that’s a very dumb reason to suspend someone.

Also the COVID crisis could have been handled, instead of doing the canteen up you guys could have tried to create a support system slit quicker, because during the lockdown(s) i fell behind on quite a lot of subjects, and now have to work 5x harder. This is not part of the school values, and my intelectual curiosity has been deeply effected, I’m very sad :(
Former Student
May 17, 2021

good school

its a good school its a good school its a good school its a good school its a good school its a good school
Former Student
Mar 31, 2021

The devil comes in the form of a catholic school

In the five years of being there and in my personal experience I highly recommend parents not taking their children to this secondary school due to multiple reasons and one of the reasons is that there is a a lot of bullying at this school if you feel like your child is “not like a lot of other kids” do not bring them to this secondary school unless you want them to not only be bullied by the students there but also have teachers and staff single them out making them feel even more of an outcast and I was groomed and sexually assaulted my grandmother went to the school but they said they could do nothing about it and they said the same thing when I was being bullied to the point of suicide and the worst part was that I wasn’t the only one in my year group due to how bad the bullying got to everyone where people developed depression, eating disorders etc so ladies and gentlemen fathers and mothers do not bring your children to this “Catholic school” unless you want them to come out of it with suicidal attempts terrible self esteem and anorexic or bulimic hope this helps when your looking for the right secondary school for your kids because this hell hole is not the place
Student
Jan 18, 2021

The pressure put on students is too high

Its okay. There are both positives and negatives about this school. The old headteacher bullied some of the best teachers into leaving so many ideas that they came up with got scrapped (including gender neutral toilets). The new head teacher encourages improvement but there is a huge amount of stress put onto the studentes from year 7 with predicted grades. There still stands a subtle shielding element where we were never educated adequately on real life situations, especially not if they went against catholic teachings.
They have coped moderately well with Covid, obviously they cannot socially distance everyone with such short notice. However Some teachers do get a lot closer than they’re supposed to, one even came in after having a test.
There was a recent renovation on the canteen- making it look a lot better and a new place to get food outside too. Although these things look nice I think the money would have been better spent on making students feel safer in the school with the addition on some gender neutral toilets or an available therapist for students to go to when they need some help.
Overall I would say that they seem to care more about upholding high grades than the mental health of their students, as a lot of pressure gets put upon us, and with higher graded students getting more attention from teachers than the ones struggling
Student
Dec 31, 2020

All Hallows Secondary School

This school is good! Some teachers are strict and others are not but it’s like that in any school. one thing I would say is bad is that under every desk there is gum which is really disgusting and irritating. Overall I give this school an average because it has a good canteen and a nice layout with plenty of space.
Student
Dec 6, 2020

Poor quality school

This school is completely clapped. They won’t let you drink and my weed got confiscated three times. Really poor quality teaching and my friend got half strangled by a teacher for opening a window.
Student
Dec 5, 2020

Covid management and predators

Allot of the teachers are predators,for example a teacher once grabbed my mate in the pe lesson and when i told a FEMALE SENIOR MEMBER OF STAFF it was never followed up even with clear cctv proof and multiple witness allthough the current head master is a g compared to the one before.the coronavirus management is disgusting many teachers i know refuse to social distance ESPECIALLY my maths teacher who touches my stuff and is always less than six feet away
Former Student
Nov 27, 2020

A Declining Experience

Throughout my 5 years at All Hallows, leaving in 2019, I could not wait to leave. The arrogance and complacency of the whole institution was covered in a facade of outstanding grades. Grades which were declining ever since the school’s head who joined when I was in year 9 started his reign, and grades which the school gained by making year 7’s paranoid that if they do not get their target grade in every subject (including the compulsory subjects such as a language you are given randomly out of German or French) they will fail in life. Don’t get me wrong here, a little stress can be motivating, but the extent this school did that to not just me but my entire cohort just resulted in burnout by Year 11, when the results actually counted.
Why did I not give it a 1 star then? Maybe it’s hope, maybe it is some of the lingering indoctrination of the school that said they was constantly improving (when in reality many of the high quality teachers left resulting in endless study hall periods). The facilities are good, with a new canteen which took 6 years to finally get built after advertising it at my year 6 open day as being imminent, and from what I have heard from friends who stayed at the sixth form, there is a new fitness suite.I’m not sure, but from what I have heard, the head has been replaced with the old deputy head who I had for a year before I left which is promising. He went to the school in it’s better years, before the dogma and hypocrisy kicked in in the past few years, so hopefully, at least for the sake of the good teachers left and the students, that it becomes a more pleasant experience where the next day isn’t constantly dreaded.
Student
Nov 9, 2020

Coronavirus management.

Although measures have been put in place this hasn't stopped the spread of coronavirus. I was never really exposed to the virus before being ushered back into school. In the past month there has been a total of 4 confirmed cases within different year groups. 2 in year 12 1 in year 13 and 1 in year 9. The school should re-consider if they are actually preventing the coronavirus spread within the year groups or actually spreading it further.
other than these flaws with the system the school has progressed with their learning through online classes via teams, this has proven vital to those who are unable to attend classes in person.

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