Brine Leas School

Great school, great memories and it set me up for life

Honestly, I had a horrible experience at this school. From teachers not caring about bullying to students being horrible. During the time I was being very badly bullied, I went to my form tutor to ask for help only to be told to 'deal with it yourself', which led me to suffer in silence for the next 6 months. I've had a teacher put her hand in my skirt to check if it was rolled up, this has always stuck with me, and I always feel disgusted whenever I think of it and I never told anyone because I'd had previous experiences of staff quite frankly not caring. We have had teachers not show up for class more than once, and when reporting a student for inappropriate behaviour and making so many students uncomfortable, all we were told is 'boys will be boys' and nothing ever happened to him. Education wise, it's ok. There have been good teachers I genuinely enjoyed having however the good is greatly outshined by the bad experiences.

Really terrible school. My form tutor was fired shortly after I left due to his inappropriate behaviour around children. Never taught proper sexual education. Some absolutely lovely teachers, but they were few and far between. Sexist practises, too—all books that are studied in English were written by men about men, and our teacher told us that the school board thought that boys “wouldn’t relate to women”. Overall shockingly poor.