Barr Beacon School

Not as good as they think they are. Terrible at dealing with bullying issues, pastoral support is nonexistent. Haven't got time to support vulnerable students, always look for the easy option instead of helping. Teachers are full of inconsistencies, gross exaggerations and half truths when dealing with incidents. I'm glad to be out . I've had therapy since leaving this hell hole to try and heal the emotional damage this school has caused me.

I would rate this school lower if I could. It’s an absolute shambles, when Dame Brennan was head I remember having the best school years ever but after she left it couldn’t have gotten any worse My brother is in Yr8 and my mom is so upset with the influence he’s getting from school as the once sophisticated child has now become so different The children he is being surrounded with a chavvy and have no sense of standard or good behaviour and when teachers were called up about this they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING He will now be changing schools When I did my A-Levels, the teachers would use textbooks to teach and not proper PowerPoints, I was failing constantly in one of my science classes and no teacher tried to help me and guide me We were told that we couldn’t have an extra hr after school as ‘GCSES were their priority’ and at one point the Head of the History Department came into our class and abused so badly that some people were left in tears, we were told we wouldn’t make it and academically we were ‘worse than any year she had’ The teachers have no idea how to teach, they seriously do not know what to do and it shows when whole classes are failing badly, but apparently it’s ‘the students fault’ There is so much more but seriously DO NOT SEND UR CHILD HERE

It’s bad, the food is bad (except for the chips) They’re constantly on you about beacon values They don’t care about anything They give you detention for nothing

The school doesn’t care for there pupils at all they disregard are opinions and only care about attendance and praise points. We re learn the same things every single year and there never on the tests and assessments but what is on them we’re expected to know without being taught them. I honestly hate going to beacon and would move if I could!!

this school is awful i had the worst 5 years of my life attending here. the teachers are CREEPY and always made all of the girls feel uncomfortable..if you know, you know…the teachers don’t have a clue what they are doing, they are pretty much all muppets, they always made their students do PE outside IN THE RAIN and then complain when they weren’t in school…how does that work? BUT THEN would make us do PE inside WHEN IT WAS HOT!!!!!! ridiculous. if i could rate 0 stars, believe me, i would!!!

Science department is terrible they can’t even lend year 10 textbooks also the science department don’t even carry out experiments they just use YouTube. Which is pure laziness.