Calday Grange Grammar School

Mid ngl and no phones at lunch and break is scandalous like come on and the food is mid a best could use improvement and shorten the terms because there way to long

NOT as good as explained to me on open evening and when I was in year 6. Poor behaviour from most students which makes the miserable teachers nasty and mean to other well behaved students who haven't done anything wrong. Not to mention 90% of these teachers cannot control a class and within some classes there is favouritism where some teachers take the mickey out of specific students. The majority of teachers have a very short temper. Extremely underfunded school who spend all the money they do get on sports facilities which are only just above average. PE lessons are on a roster so you do a different sport every half term but PE staff are hardly there so mostly have a choice of 3 sports every week. Just to add they've just built new drama and music studios for the very very few students who do those GCSE's. Students aren't even like people to teachers just like grades as that's all they care about. Target grades make the students feel pressured and they're completely inaccurate. 90% of bullying is ignored and unresolved. Kids will bully others for the most pathetic things over and over again for years having a severe impact on their mental health and SLT will say "kids will be kids", give them an isolation and off they go; just to go and do the same thing again. The school will threaten with exclusions which theyll never follow through with. Punishments are detention and isolation mostly which teaches the students nothing at all. They will do the same thing over and over again and the school is too soft to exclude even the worst behaved students. Behaviour point system and 'form time report' is a load of rubbish as even the best behaved students can get on this report. Students just behave good when they're on this report and go back to how they were as soon as they come off the report. The school is like a prison with all the fences that former headteacher Mr Rodaway spent money on. Food is overpriced although the dinner lady's are the only nice teachers in the school so instead of building new long jump lanes for 20 grand and new music and drama studios maybe give the dinner ladies a rise (give Sheila the most). Calday's lessons are very centered around CCT's (Exams on knowledge learned in the past few weeks) which you have to revise for on top of the endless piles of homework handed out by the teachers. French is homework every lesson which gets stressful. Teachers expect us to go hours and hours into our free time just to complete a tiny peice of homework that won't even be marked because most are too lazy to mark them. Physics lessons are pointless as the teacher trys to teach physics stuff which you don't understand. When you tell them you don't get it, they tell you you should've listened and won't say it again for you to understand. One of the strictest schools I have heard of with minor things. If you have your shirt untucked, that's a detention but major things like bullying SLT couldn't care about. I haven't seen a worse student support in my life at any school. They say your a risk even if you are completely fine. I have no idea how ofsted rated this 'good' to be honest. Steer clear of this school or just be warned about the severe bullying problems.

Very bad school! Tolerates bullying and teachers offer no support! Teacher's who cannot control classes and teacher's who encourage picking on other kids. This school is a mess please avoid at all costs
Written- 23/03/2022

All the teachers, apart from a minority are very short-tempered and mean, the good teachers are leaving for many different reasons, says bullying won’t be tolerated, almost 90% of bullying gets unresolved because they aren’t bothered about it, the grades that the school gets are of importance child wellbeing isn’t that important the students are just numbers and grades, majority of students are rude and ignore the teachers and for some reason got back into the school just to disrupt lessons even more with the non-funny antics, most people’s sense of humour is just the same as it was in Year 7 which is embarrassing, and there is no personal growth whatsoever, teaching is fine unless you get put in with all the idiots that don't care about their learning and get constantly sent out of class, which doesn't help the mood of the misery gut teachers, if you go to them anyone over issues that you have regarding exams and stress or bullying they aren’t really bothered, and only really care about the higher grade students and the others are just a waste of breath