Caister Academy

I am in year 11 starting GCSE soon and this has been the loveliest school with the best teacher I ever had to offer never forget them.

Best education in the area of Great Yarmouth very small issues but very good achievement and proud students result. This would stand out of other secondary schools. The school cannot beat all schools but great effort from teachers my child has done amazing effort before my child use to be in a lot of trouble but they try to listen and understand.

I can easily say that my time at Caister Academy has been the worse few years of my life, especially once i got to year 10 and 11. Ever since i started in the school there’s been a lack of support within the staff. From year 7-9 i was racially harassed as i came from a mixed background, i’d constantly report the incidents but nothing would get done and no reassurance was put in place. It went from being racially motivated comments to being bulling for being overweight, which later led me to self harm and i tried reaching out for help yet the school set me aside as if none of it mattered. Moving forward to year 10 and 11 is when everything worsened especially my physical and mental health, due to my mental health deteriorating in year 10 as i was overwhelmed with work and was pressured by several teachers although i didn’t receive any support while they already knew my situation. I was always a great student with high grades and attendance, unfortunately year 10 was a year where missed a chuck of learning as i was sick from the schools poor conditions, (i had gotten food poisoning from the lunch meals, and had gotten a chest infection from the school not turning on the heaters and teachers not allowing students to put on their coats in lessons as its a “school policy” yet they’d have a hot coffee to drink while the students sat on a chair for an hour unable to get up.). I would also dread getting up from my bed to go to school as i knew that i would face the same bullying problems everyday without the higher up staff providing any support whatsoever, I’d constantly get pulled out of lessons to see if i needed any support, they’d say that they’re looking into getting some help for me but i never ended up getting the support i truly needed. My mum would constantly receive calls from attendance and I even had staff members knocking on my door after my mum had informed them of why i was off, yet the kept doing the same thing everyday, they’ve never asked if i was okay or if me and my mum needed any support, all they’d ask is if I’d be in the next day as all they were worried about was my attendance. Me and my mum became sick of school and asked if i could get homeschooled and they became very against the idea, explaining that it would be ‘too expensive’ as we’d have to pay for the GCSE papers and that we’d get not support for what i needed to learn for my future. So we decided that it was best for me to move schools, it was the best collective decision between me and my mum for me to leave such a toxic community, year 11 was the best year for me in the new school, i passed ALL of my GCSE’s with ease and now i’m on the path to a successful and happy life. In my opinion, i don’t recommend going to Caister Academy as I’m not the only one who’s experienced this.

caister academy do not give a shit about the pupils whatsoever. they will only care about you if you are representing the school in a good way. also they will only care about you if you have good grades. i have a lot to say about this school and im only in year 7. first off the teachers, if your one of the pupils who get in trouble pretty often then the teachers will target you and try get you in trouble. they just pick and pick on the 'naughty' kids. all my teachers target me because im a 'naughty' kid. which that is not true im not a 'naughty kid' its just personally for me i think the kids that misbehave the most at school are the ones that have a lot going on. which i do im not going to lie, i just want too do well in school but i cant when teachers are targeting me 24/7 and that makes my mental health even worse. and my english teacher, mr harmer. his teaching ways for me are i just dont get him at all and i ask him for support he doesnt give it. he knows i get easily distracted and i aint that good at english but he never gives any of us support cuz we arent aloud to put are hands up ? another thing. one of the pe teachers mr mcmillan SPAT in my face once. he is absolutely vile. he didnt even say sorry and he knew what he did. and aswell a teacher got sacked from my school because she locked 2 year 9s in a classroom. like the school needs to hire better staff. and one of the teachers, miss newberry well, at the start of the year she was really nice to me and she said she would always be there for me. she has even saw me cry. well one day i was being really 'naughty' and its because of somthing that happend at home, i just wanted a distraction. so i chose school. and then she accsues me of pushing her over. if you was to check the camras i didnt even touch her. then i got suspended for 4 days. when i came back she tried to act like my best friend again. i told her to go away and i want nothing to do with her. and there is somthing werid about this school as a lot of teachers keep leaving, a science teacher left, a catering teacher left, a libary teacher left, a english teacher left, a english teacher got sacked, a cover teacher got sacked, like what the fuck is going on with this school. you can also get suspended for ridiculous reasons. ive got suspended 4 times and if i get one more suspension im permed. aswell, they treat you like an animal in a cage at the zoo. when the bell goes after a few mins all of the corridor doors lock and the ones to acces outside to get into the 2nd building. so, if u was talking to a teacher then go to your lesson you cant because the doors are locked, then you get a L3 which is truenting your lesson which leads to 24hrs in reflection. the school is not fair at all. and all of my teachers are always trying to target me so i came up with a plan this week, i got reflection everyday this week on purpose so i wouldnt have to go into my lessons. and if you go in reflection you dont get s break and lunch but idc about that. and i find when i sit down in reflection i just learn a lot better. and they dont give a shit about your mental health. the reason i dont go into my lessons anymore is cuz i het really nervous and i have panick attacks in the toilets. i tell the teachers this, and they think im lying as im known as one of the 'naughty kids' do not send your kid to this school!!!

I was a student here from 2018-2023, throughout my time there, there seemed to be a general lack of care towards student mental health and wellbeing and also the more creative subjects such as art and photography (so much so that they lost my final photography exam which meant I had to do it all again in a more limited amount of time, almost costing me my GCSE). The school also claimed to have a zero tolerance bullying policy, however if I ever had issues and spoke to SLT about it, which was on various different occasions, I was never taken seriously and so just learnt to deal with things like that by myself which should never have to be the case for any student anywhere. Communication between school and parents was also appalling as during my time here, there was a lot of mistakes made due to a lack of communication, such as work experience dates, and one of the SLT members blocking my mother’s email which prevented her from contacting the school. The sanitary bins in the girls toilets were disgraceful and seemed to be rarely emptied (whether this has changed since I left I’m not sure), which is a major hygiene issue and also just outright disgusting.