All Saints Catholic School and Technology College

Majority of the black girls in my year group decided to go to school with their natural hair out. The staff members did not like this and found it intimidating and “ distracting” which is racist and atrocious what is distracting about having your natural hair out do you not bring your child of quality to the school

Not sure what hair has to do with learning however staff at the school met several black students with discriminatory remarks due to wearing their natural hair out. Quite nasty and despicable behaviour. You cannot wear a coloured/unnatural braid colour yet natural hair is only allowed when asked for by permission. Can't imagine what a young black student going here would feel.

Disgusting racist and doesn’t stand for any of Gods true ideals

this school is very bad and racist. they only seem to care about their reputation as a catholic school rather than the pupils education and wellbeing. the favouritism in this school is outrageous, and i believe the headteacher is a bully. the way black students are treated and targeted is completely unacceptable and disgusting. based on my experience and concerns, i would strongly advise parents to NOT SEND their children to this school. please do not send your child to this school!

Terrible staff, racially discriminating against black students for embracing their hair.

The reviewer reports experiencing discriminatory treatment at the school, particularly regarding hair policies that they feel unfairly target Black students. The reviewer states that Black students are restricted in how they can wear their hair and in forming friend groups, while White students are not subject to the same scrutiny. The reviewer also expresses concern about the actions and attitudes of staff towards students of different backgrounds.

This school is actively enforcing anti-Black racism. Disciplining Black girls and calling their natural hair "distracting" is a complete disgrace and a direct failure of safeguarding duties. Afro hair is not a distraction, and policing it is discriminatory. The teachers and the headteacher responsible should be ashamed of themselves and removed from positions of authority over young people.

The reviewer reports that students with natural hair were ridiculed and reprimanded, and expresses strong dissatisfaction with how the school handled this situation.

children of color especially girls treated poorly and unjust by staff. Disgusting.

Disgusting school. Students get food poisoning every two weeks. Racist as hell!!! Got black girls in trouble for having their natural hair out!!?

School catering not good and doesn't cater for gluten intolerances.

I taught at this school for a number of years. From 2016 onwards it’s gone downhill. The Head is a sociopath and her senior management team are bullies. The students are great, despite this. They have a large staff turnover and the sixth form is declining in numbers. I wouldn’t send my kids here and I advise anyone not to work here. You’ll regret it. They are masters at hiding the truth in their publicity materials. It’s all lies.

As a school, the staff are supposed to try and understand kids. But time and time again, I have had teachers, especially the SLT go to extreme measures and never actually caring for the kid's needs. The school tries to "fix up" when Ofsted is just around the corner. So I'll let you know now— I've found maggots in my food, they shout at crying kids, if staff do not like what they hear, straight into isolation. They also seem rather lenient on kids that are not of colour. I've also noticed how they send children home for World Book day, even if they've seen the proof that the book exists. Simply, if they don't like your outfit, they will send you home and play it off as "it looks too similar to school uniform" or "not distinct enough", which is wholly untrue, and unfair. All Saints, get better staff, ones that actually respect and choose to work with children.

The school in my opinion is the worst they tell on students just for the colour of their hair even though it's not even that noticeable and they won't even allow them to use simple colours like brown or dark brown and they make the school look good on the website even though it's not and the school isn't even that big they barely have any benches in the year 8 playground or any equipment and they aren't even allowed to go to other playgrounds where the other years are I mean like they can socialise and make friends with other people from other years so that they can get more friends and be happy and they barely act like they care about our mental health and when we have breaks aswell we don't even have that much equipment rather than basketball hoops and skipping ropes and they barely do any fun things like non uniform day they only do that like once or twice a year and the sportsday they barely let us have any activities with the other half of the year or any other years like for example they could do a dodgeball benchball netball football game against other years like Yr 8 Vs yr10 yr7 Vs yr9 that would be so fun But NO they don't and they never do which is very bad. Etc

The school is so shit I got kicked of the bus because another student pushed me and I collided with another student

School is horrible! They care about uniform and publicity more than the children’s mental health. The English department is also very poor, it took me 6 months to get a permanent teacher and we had substitutes who used their phones the whole lesson and were clueless. The favouritism in this school is also horrendous. If a teacher dosen’t you, they will move you up to the top set ;totally ignoring your work quality and the effort you put into the subject. But if the teacher does like you, you will get moved up, no matter how poor your work is. The food is disgusting. The chicken is slimy, not properly cooked and there is even blood in it sometimes. Food tech department is very unhygienic, staff do not monitor the students to make sure they have washed their hands and they make us cook with dirty pots. They confiscate things and throw them away or never give them back. Overall this school is very bad do not send your children here!

Great school my kids love here

Allsaints is a very good school

Having worked there for 5 years I saw the school change over time. It slowly became a difficult place to work and hard to be a happy member of staff. Felt targeted until I left.... Such a shame for a school that I thought I would stay in forever. Staff wellbeing is not a priority. The school has too many back stabbing staff. However there are some amazing staff still left but time goes on I fear these will be pushed out like many others have Catholic ethos is there for the pupils...... Not for the staff.