Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School

Pupils at Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School (BUCHS) benefit from very high expectations of what they can achieve. They learn a coherent and meticulously planned curriculum. Pupils develop strong levels of self-motivation in their learning. Consequently, they do exceptionally well. This includes pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), who receive excellent support. This means they build the same deep and detailed knowledge as their peers. Pupils embody BUCHS’s Catholic values. In particular, they learn the importance of duty. This teaches pupils to speak up if they have views or concerns. Pupils praise the sense of community in the school. Pupils take on leadership positions, such as ‘form’ and ‘liturgy’ representatives. This builds their confidence. Pupils enjoy, and feel safe in, the school. Behaviour is very positive. Pupils are excited about, and focused on, learning. They show mature respect for others. Pupils articulate the importance of empathy, such as wearing their rainbow badges with pride. If there is any unkindness or bullying, they are confident to resolve it themselves. Pupils engage with a wide range of opportunities. For example, many complete The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Pupils praise the way the sporting and creative clubs extend what they learn.

Not happy starting with teachers not able to set clear boundaries and take charge of the class . Girls able to talk back to teachers(was a big initial shock to my dd when she joined the school) Girls wearing fake eyelashes, rolling skirts , girls do what they want. Teachers not able to control the situation. My daughter’s mental health , behaviour deteriorated within 6months of joining school ,unfortunately. She observed the school culture and picked up some bad habits too , sadly. I heard from her there are loads of drama : Girls fighting, bullying each other, (outside school hours lots of girls vape , some drink alcohol, etc . ) it supposed to be a school with strong catholic values but it doesn’t feel that way.. you don’t need to be practicing catholic. School catchment area is very broad, unfortunately. It doesn’t have a local community feel…Girls coming from Grays, Basildon, Romford… Poor communication with parents… could go on and on I don’t know where they get the statistics but it doesn’t feel like my daughter made any progress since joining the school, quite opposite . I gave 2stars just because it’s the only catholic school in the area Has large , nice outside area (loved by my dd)

Students are quite unfriendly. The teachers do not care about your opinions. Students are often bullied which may affect their mental health emotionally. Their food is okay but the lines are hectic. It's only 2 lines for over a 1000 students. Students vape in toilet stalls, and wear fake eyelashes and makeup. Some students believe that they are better than others and it not nice. I think they should also improve the quality of their school uniform.

This school doesn’t know how to treat students as a past student this school is unhelpful to children with home situations and they will only keep labelling your children badly if they have problems or things they can’t control or change so they will treat your child unfairly THIS IS A BAD SCHOOL

Most HORRIBLE school ever. They don’t listen to us when we don’t like something racist that a teacher said. Then when we do something and acc speak up about it we get shouted at and blamed and the problem doesn’t even get fixed. Multiple teachers have said the n word blatantly to students, but apparently it’s ok because they’re using it in context. And like they’re more worried about how u present yourself than your mental health and then when they try to ‘help’ they just tell u to join an anxiety group you tell your problems to. There have been multiple occasions of students smoking/vaping in the bathrooms, to which other students have reported these more than 3 times and have still not have been punished! Yet you wear a single piece of jewellery and get THREATENED with suspension?! They make racist comments towards mainly black students such as have to redo your hair because it’s too ‘extreme’ yet it is still a natural colour. There should be a warning when signing up to go to that mess of a place?

Don’t get me started! This school is terrible. The racism and homophobia is tragic. Mrs Corless is so bloody racist and even their own teacher last who is currently in the school is gay they still treat us like crap. I will never forget when their said traditional African clothing are costumes. How rude can they be! I am so happy that this school got baited out on Twitter for their racism. I would never send my child here. They never talk about mental health issues and there biggest problems is how long our skirt are.They blame your for your own suicidal thoughts and self harming. I have been in this school for many years and I deffo wouldn’t recommend bringing your child here. This school drives you to kill yourself.

The school is terrible! There are so many safety hazards! BUCHS is quite literally falling apart at the seams not to mention the lack in vocational courses and the treatment the students get. There is homophobia and sexism riddled throughout the school and that is just the teachers not to mention the student body which can be just as bad with unidentified bullying. Girls are unable to wear trousers to school and the uniforms are too expensive!