Blue Coat Church of England Academy
How would you rate Blue Coat Church of England Academy?
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Based on 7 reviews and 63 answers
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Average of 7 reviews with area ratings
- Outdoor environment2.0
- Food2.0
- Communication1.9
- Indoor environment1.9
- Activities1.9
- Education1.6
- Staff1.6
- Safety1.0
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- Employee1.010 March 2025
Disgraceful!
Poorly organised and ran establishment with inexperienced leaders. The students are out of control and extremely poorly behaved. The learners do not respect their teachers or cover teachers so people leave. Yet, the learners are complaining, the behaviour is poor and the attitude to learning is unacceptable. The reputation of this school has gone down the pan. As a cover teacher, I do not recommend it. Better schools are in the local area and appreciate a good teacher.
- Parent1.010 March 2025
Complaints
My friend has several children in Bluecoat academy. Some have additional needs which aren’t being met, leaving the children to struggle and unable to learn the same as their peers, or to be kicked out. Mixed raced children are treated differently to the white children. Some of the staff there talk to students with disrespect, shouting and calling students names but then expect students to respect them as staff. If you want students to respect staff, staff should set a good example because the ba...
- Other1.023 February 2025
Disgusting Behaviour and Culture.
The behaviour and culture among the learners at this school is disgusting. I will never know how this school has a good rating or reputation. The learners are running the school, not the staff. The learners operate in gangs-mainly race driven and target young female staff. The learners will complain about the lacking of teaching or support from teachers. Yet, they treat new members of staff and teachers like dirt. As for education standards, the learners are clueless and do not care about their...
- Parent1.06 February 2025
Poorly run school. Drastically dropped standards
I am appalled of the standards of this school. A lot of cover up from management not wanting to address issues. Communication with parents does not exist. Teachers tone/language is shocking. You can be parked outside the school and hear teachers screaming at students. Food is expensive and poor quality. Bullying from other children is not tackled appropriately. Too many teachers leave and don’t stay. Cover teachers don’t teach they babysit.
- Former Student1.09 July 2023
Don't send your child to this school.
This school has extremely bad teachers with students suspected of carrying illegal knives. Some students carry matches with them, lighters, vape in the toilets and teachers do absolutely nothing about it. If the teachers do something about it they will give them a light punishment and will do it again. Some teachers actually help you in lessons at this school but most of them will just ignore you ESPECIALLY cover teachers that cover lessons for teachers that are not here. Teachers In this school...
- Parent1.025 May 2023
Let down by school
I have had a very bad experience sending my child to this I am appaulled with the communication between school and parent I believe the school needs to be assessed on methods of communication help and interaction I have been trying to get in touch all day all I got was answering machine I feel let down and very distressed 25.05.23 17.00 pm
- Student4.022 August 2021
BCA REVIEW
okay so there’s a lot of good things and bad things about the school. some good things is that i love how it’s so diverse. you will find people from all over the world it’s so cool like i love hearing about other people’s cultures and how different they are to me. some of the teachers are so sweet i would use their names but i’m not allowed. but for my head of year in year 9 he was honestly the sweetest teacher ever he was always there for me. whenever i had a problem with anything he’d always try his best which really would make my day as tbh not all teachers are like that. i also wanna mention my ICT teacher i had from i think like half way through year 8 till year 9. she’s like one of them teachers you can gossip to as she loves to hear it all haha like we’d treat each other as friends she’s the best. the school is very easy to get around as it’s not that huge even though we do have a few buildings oh yes they also accept anyone like no matter your race , sexuality they will love to have u here however i don’t think our school is like wheelchair friendly i’m not sure but as i look around the school i wouldn’t rely on it for wheelchairs. now the food is good and bad like back in year 7 they’d do these pasta pots and i would look forward to lunch everyday for that ugh i miss it so much and so does everyone else. like the food is okay but because of covid i haven’t been able to eat everything as i only had access to the sports hall and they could only bring a few items over. okay something bad which i hate is the teachers for lessons can be so bad sometimes in particular my physics teacher. he really would get on my nerves as he’d never teach like he’d disappear for ages then we’d get some other cover teacher and he couldn’t teach the class probably coz he didn’t know how to control us as we were out of control but that’s not even him like bio teacher couldn’t so she’s like done with us and then my chemistry teacher she will full on stop teaching if pp speak like it’s crazy how much time goes by and we don’t learn anything. like ik it’s the students fault for not knowing how to respect but then again it’s how the teachers speak to us too some of them i personally think are racist. like my chemistry teacher really has an angry tone whilst speaking to like asians or the black people but when it comes to the white people she’s like fine with them and i always help her hand books out and i always say hello and hold doors for her but it’s honestly her. so yeah don’y try and rely on teachers to teach u sometimes as i’ve been revising my butt off everyday so i don’t fail for my gcses this upcoming year.