Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School
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Go to SchoolParrot for Schools- Former Student1.05 August 2026
Well….. what can I sa.
Well…. By the sounds of things it hasn’t changed one bit, I attended there in the early to mid 80s bullying from the girls mostly who thought they were gods gift to men, and don’t get me started on the cliques because the parents were friends out of school , and if you were not very well gifted in the brain department you weren’t given a chance down the pecking order you stayed as the school had its favourites.
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- Parent1.021 May 2026
DON’T SEND YOUR CHILD HERE IF YOU LOVE THEM!!!
Would give zero stars if it was an option. This school is everything but catholic. I honestly don’t know where they get their staff from. The ‘mental health’ lead is satan on earth and looks like a walking corpse. She probably makes the pupils mental health worse. They don’t deal with bullying. They baby the bullies. And when you tell them to deal with something, they do the opposite of what they are told. Honestly this school has affected my child in many different ways, none of them good. If...
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- Student1.020 March 2026
Don’t come here
This school is so horrible and they don’t care about the students at all they only care if your uniform is perfect and that’s about it especially slt they are so rude and once a member of slt even swore at a group of students which shouldn’t be acceptable especially from a catholic school this school is terrible and there are always fights sometimes there can be up to 4 fights a week.
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- Student4.021 February 2026
Ok school
Ok school, I'm somewhat of a teacher's pet and also get good grades meaning the teachers are fond of me and for the rest of my class, they are more crazy but me and them have the general understanding that the teachers are there to help and support us. As for food the canteen is great but sometimes the line is long and busy. And as for bullying as I'm in one of the younger years some older students can be a bit nasty but mostly they are fine. But one area the school struggles with is fights there can be up to about 3 of them per week sometimes.
- Employee1.04 August 2025
Disappointing!
As a former employee this is not a school I would ever send my own children too. Whilst some aspects of the school are positive - for example the catholic ethos (including the chapel and whole school masses), other aspects are disappointing. As an educator, attempting to teach classes where significant proportions of children do not want to learn, whilst the systems do little to promote positive behaviour is frustrating. Behaviour is a huge issue, and senior leadership seem powerless to move t...
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- Other1.017 July 2025
This school is straight out of a horror movie
This school quite literally licks the arse cracks of the kids who lack complete common sense, whilst babying them as they disturb the well-being’s of other students. When you go and explain your problems to the useless brain dead team they call pastoral, all they do is turn a blind eye and go back to gossiping about everyone who’s ever stepped foot in the school. And DON’T get me started on the head teacher. All that man knows how to is eat, stamp books and hibernate in his office doing nothing about things like obvious bulling going on with other students. In addition to this, the mental health leader is probably the biggest joke I’ve ever come across.. or should I say the skinniest as she’s quite literally built like a peperami stick. Honestly thought that witch was Satan in disguise with the way she treats students. Absolutely appalling staff. Idk if they found these teachers outside Tesco but they all need to look for different carrier paths as students cannot handle the absolute tomfoolery which is presented in this hell hole. For the sake of your child’s mental health DO NOT send them here as they’ll probably end their lives before even reaching half term.
- Parent1.017 July 2025
There’s no hate like Christian love.
An absolute joke of disciplinary system. Teachers babying those that are a menace to the whole school. Isolation? More like nursery. The assistant head teacher, who ironically is also meant to be a mental health lead, is probably the biggest bully amongst all the useless staff. School rules? They don’t exist when she’s there. She’s the overlord who makes the rules for her convenience when it suits her. Now, she doesn’t only inflict her hell on the pupils, other members of staff absolutely despise this lord of the underworld. The only person she will bow down to is the headmaster, another useless man. He’s more of a ghost than a head teacher, as he’s never present to have conversations with anybody about any problems a child might be going through. Another thing is the current head of English, who ALSO ironically does multiple charity donations on her Facebook, yet is the most disgusting and hypocritical person you will ever come across. She has a worrying tendency to favour the worst boys in her class, and treat the girls like a Handmaid. So much for reading books, that it seems she got all her inspiration from the handmaid’s tale. Another interesting persona is the power-hungry, egocentric beast in the PE department… Last time I checked, the noun ‘bullying’ existed in the dictionary. Well, this institution doesn’t think so. Oh, and this is far from being a faith school. The only Christian thing they have is the school name.
- Student1.030 June 2025
LIVING HELL
THIS SCHOOL IS THE EMBODIMENT OF HELL. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC AND WILL TRAUMATISE YOUR CHILD - DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE ITS EVIL.
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- Parent5.016 June 2025
Good school
I didn't get a chance to actually begin the school propally I think it was is a good school but it can improve a little bit with staff and children but in general good these reviews downs there they are not true
- Former Student1.08 June 2025
Terrible enviroment for learning
Teachers would be constantly quitting, with incompetent replacements taking their place, the school does not accomodate for anyone with issues with anything of real substance or assistance, the headteacher is incompetent and obsessed with his own ego to the point of being an active detriment to the rest of the staff, entire student body and quality of the school. It is a must-avoid; incompetent administration, no consistency and subpar replacements create a terrible enviroment for students, and is an active detriment to their life.