Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I was a former student here and I have never hated an experience as much as I have this school. No support when promised. Bullying not dealt with I even had to have police intervention due to threats of being attacked and school did nothing I was physically attacked within the school grounds and the attacker only got isolation. Another round of bullying a pastoral who no longer works there was trying to get me to apologise to them for bullying me. I ended up in hospital due to mental health detonating and sucidal thoughts due to this negative experience

Awful school ran by incompetent bullies. The biggest issue the school have is the deputy head/mental health lead, her job title is laughable (and qualifications questionable) considering she is the reason my daughter's mental health plummeted when she was asked to support her on a bullying situation. This happened over the children's phones and we had plenty of evidence but despite their "cyber bullying policy" we were told it was "out of their jurisdiction" because it happened outside of school hours and she refused to help us any further. The head teacher is practically non existent, he is never available to talk to and has attended one of many meetings I've had at the school and he didn't say a single word. Not even to introduce himself. The majority of teachers seem to use isolation as a first resort to any incident rather than a last as is supposed to be the procedure. Autistic or difficult children are hidden away for OFSTED visits to ensure each monitored lesson "runs smoothly". And apart from the mandatory R.E lessons and occasional masses there is nothing religious about the school. Nothing about their religion is reflected in their behaviour and approach to vulnerable children or families and definitely nothing reflected in their senior management teams views and actions. I will say some teachers are amazing and go above and beyond most days and they really should be appreciated by the head for practically carrying the mess that is the rest of the school. The head of 10 is one of these teachers as well as the pastoral team.

They are really bad at dealing with bullying