Beverley High School

School cares too much about grades than the actual students, there are so many frivolous rules that if you break just end up in behaviour points or detentions. Some teachers have no care for the students and just care about their own personal results so students who don’t really understand it will be left behind. Many teachers especially in some departments are actually very passive aggressive and childlike towards students which in my opinion is very unprofessional. Thankfully there are some teachers who genuinely care about you and helping you progress and it is very obvious which teachers are which. Slt department is average not bad not good.

school is emotionally draining at the moment, since we are in lockdown it feels almost as if the work is just piling and piling up. when you don’t complete a peace of work instead of the teachers checking that everything is okay, they send angry emails and messages out. i understand that it is important to do the work we are set but sometimes that it hard to do when your mental health is not good. when we are actually in school we are constantly criticised by teachers around us because ‘our skirts are more than two inches about the knee’ or ‘our bobble is the wrong colour?!’ it confuses me because school encourages us to express our selves in the ways we love, but as soon as we put a peace of jewellery on, or we dye our hair any other colour but brown or blonde it’s seen as ‘informal’ and ‘a bad representation to the school’. many of the teachers are very helpful in ensuring that our mental health comes first, especially in the history, french and well-being part of the school, however some teachers have more of a negative impact on mental health and will get angry at us for doing such a small thing as walking on the wrong side of the stairs, which can make us feel invalid. we where also allowed no privacy when attending school during the pandemic, and it felt like we had a teacher monitoring our every move as we where barley allowed outside and when we where, there would be a teacher watching, which got quite stressful and in some ways emotionally draining as we felt as though we couldn’t talk about the things we wanted to/private things in fear that a teacher would overhear and turn it into something it wasn’t. the school in many ways is good as it provides a variety of learning recourses and is good at preventing bullying/ raising awareness and has a good system of keeping us all safe and ensuring a good working environment, however they do sometimes take behaviour and punishment over the top, i had a teacher last year who would give out behaviour points for writing the date on the wrong side of the page, or have untied shoelaces, which was quite unnecessary in my opinion, but they probably have their reasons. i would rate the school three stars as it is good, but not the best.