Bideford College

Bideford college has changed since the new CEO came to the school I hate that we not allowed to do what we want to do with are bodies

just wanted to share something that happened today. i have autism and today in english i was very overwhelmed and my teacher could very clearly see that. she came over, told me i was overreacting. i stormed out of the room crying and was given a sanction 2. all of my other teachers know i’m allowed to stand outside for five minutes when i get overwhelmed..?

Can't be bothered to help with anything and include stupid rules to "improve your education"

Absolutely terrible they only care about looks not education one teacher compared me to a singer who killed herself and was a dr*g dealer ? make u go on trips even if u can't afford it

This is so bad. I walked into school Monday morning and in greeting got told by my tutor that I was on a sanction 1 , she didn’t tell me why, so I asked. She said she didn’t know? I hadn’t done anything the week before hand. I had to sit in a silent room copying answers from a booklet for 2 and a half hours. It’s rediculous.

This school is honestly horrible. I have been going there for the past year and honestly the on,y good thing about it is the food. You can get in trouble,e for going under the table to get a pencil, which I'd honestly unfair. Right now we are in a heatwave and many pupils got sent home because of heatstroke because teachers made them do double pe. We aren't aloud to wear shorts or extra jewelry. I got sent to sanction one for the entire day for having the wrong shoes and they wouldn't find me a spare pair to wear when the offered multiple other people pairs. It is very clear that they have favoritism because me and my friend(who left a couple weeks ago because of this school) got sexually assaulted, told a teacher and she used his nickname and did nothing about it. When my dad went to thsi school, so quite a while ago, they made fun of his ADHD. This was ages ago, but is still something they do. Once a girl had a nose piercing, just done, and she couldn't go to lessons until she could take it out, so a couple weeks in a hall doing next ti nothing. There is only two 30 minute breaks, and the lunch line is so long, that sometimes people don't get a chance to eat. At the start of the year, we were pressured into joining atleast two clubs and all of them are pretty terrible. We are not taught about lgbtq+ enough, in order month we did one 10 minute assembly about it. That was it. They dint do anything about bullying as I was getting death threats and people saying they were going to beat me up and following me around school and home and school did nothing. They will give warnings for the stupidest reasons, like having your tie off, evenly you were just sorting it out. The uniform policy is very strict. I Don not recemond thus school too anyone.

Teachers aren’t really helpful and don’t understand even if they say they do. Only time teachers are useful are when there are fights. Some students can be very rude to other students. There are a few students who are racist and the teachers don’t do nothin about it. very bad place 0/10 recommend

Terrible school for dealing with bullying. I am not surprised by the very low ratings after experiencing a totally incompetent school! Almost everyone I know has had some sort of issue with bullying and has been dealt with by the worst teachers going. And so the bullying continues!! They should be ashamed of themselves considering the huge amounts of money that has been pumped into that school.

Very strict but fun to be at, maybe lengthen the time between lessons and there is a wide wrangle of subjects

I was a good student, but they only care for the grades you produce rather than your well-being. I had to leave due to how awful they were to myself and others.

Being autistic, I left bideford college traumatised. There was absolutely no support for me as the staff only cared about grades. It was an awful and toxic place, I wish no one to have to go through what I did, but unfortunately I know many others that have.

Hello, first of all if you are thinking of taking your children to this prison... oh sorry, school please don’t. I when to this school for years 7,8,9 and 10. And it was the worst 4 years of my life. They don’t deal with bullying, they have very little resources for children with mental or physical challenges. They care more about their reputation and grades than the pupils. They have a terrible behaviour policy and a terrible uniform policy. Going to this school is like torture. Please do not take your children to Biddeford college, for their sake. Thank you.