Bennett Memorial Diocesan School

Students always fighting or punching other people or injuring people for no reason. Students usually lie the reports other people sent to the welfare team, Bennett never cares about safety, they only cared about education. Stealing is also a common situation in Bennett, Bennett students could affect your life so be aware!

Old fashioned Victorian rules. Head teacher always telling young girls off inside and outside of school for the length of their skirts. A lot of the Teachers do not listen to pupils and treat them as if they are robots with no feelings. teachers follow children outside of school and block their way if they are not happy with uniform.

Bennett is an awful school, they have an uncaring welfare department who care more about the school reputation then the children’s mental health. My child was struggling with mental health at Bennett a few years ago, and the welfare team did nothing to accompany her needs or make her feel more comfortable. They instead decided to make her feel psychotic for her emotions and belittled her in such bad ways. The teachers there care more about haircuts and uniform then teaching the actual kids and would rather send them to put on a new pair of shoes or tights during a lesson than actually have the children working in lesson and being able to learn. They cover up a lot of what happens on the school site because there reputation means the most to them and it is disgraceful. I’ve never been so let down by a school with such high standards, teachers are manipulative and feed into the ridiculous rules that the school has in place. I am honestly disgusted with how appalling the school approach mental health and the children’s education. Would not recommend.

Academically good? Yes. But there are so many rules it feels like a prison most of the time. No good trips and teachers don’t care about you having fun only working hard.

teachers are more bothered on your clothes and hair than your actual education they also throw your mental well-being out of the window and just don’t know how to deal with children properly! many times they have been told to change their welfare team cause it is just the older teachers than the younger teachers the children don’t feel comfortable with the teachers. they also take racism not seriously and even in the rights assembly we have every year they tend to say the actual slur itself even though everyone does know what it means and they don’t have the teachers who are allowed to say the slur say it but rather the ‘head teachers’ say it. They also make the students sit outside in the freezing cold during winter and don’t allow them to sit inside for the whole of lunch

Utterly horrendous in the lack of help, awareness or understanding of mental health needs. Welfare department is ignorant, bullying and severely damaging to vulnerable pupils. It is shocking, and the more people who report and make others aware the better. Staff clearly are not trained. The bottom line for Bennett is all about attendance stats and results. They ride on a reputation which is built on this. People need to be aware before considering this toxic environment. Learning Support however is excellent, caring and for the individual student.

this school is absolutely horrendous dealing with my health awfully you have the odd few teachers that are the nicest and the rest don’t care all bennett care about is your grades not about your mental health they couldn’t care less about that they preach about there welfare team and how they don’t tolerate bullying but bennett is probably the worst school for it DO NOT ATTEND all the school say it get on with it and get a grip

The school doesn’t care for mental health. They put your academics above everything else. The welfare team are mostly nice people but they cannot support students. EVERYONE says it. All the do is tell you to get on with it. They preach about bullying but they don’t do anything to sort it out

the welfare team is useless and rubbish but the students there are great you make friends really quickly and the teachers there are good i guess

great teachers and overall friendly staff. feels almost like a grammar school because of the high education that you get. the welfare team isn't as great though. great options to take such as product design and computer science being some of the favourites

Although we complain honestly we’re really lucky to go here, sure it has it’s faults but all in all it’s filled with great, supportive staff and a real community.

The welfare team are absolute rubbish but other than that good