Cardinal Allen Catholic High School, Fleetwood

Horrendous. You can’t even have a good haircut ?

This school is honestly the worst. The teachers care more about your appearance than your education! People get excluded for having nose piercings (don’t see how it’s distracting) when many teachers have nose piercings. You have to have a natural hair colour or you could get excluded! You are only allowed one plain gold or silver stud in each ear but has to be your first piercing. Most of the teachers are hypocrites, all the rules they have most of the teachers break anyway! With the boys you aren’t allowed extremely short hair or long hair so they are very limited how they have it! Mental health in school they don’t care about, they won’t do anything about it. If your ill they don’t send you home, they make you go back to lessons! The only rule I get is your not allowed acrylics especially when you have pe! Another stupid rule is that if you role your skirt up to many times then the school will force you to wear pants! However some of the teachers are nice and show a good side to the school! Behaviour: the school don’t care about behaviour, if your naughty then you’ll get out on inclusion or isolation and if that doesn’t change you, you will be excluded. Most people see exclusion as a reward as they get out of school for however long! Honestly, if I was you I wouldn’t send your child here unless they have a chance of getting good exam results when they finish After school clubs: there are a variety of after school clubs but they are only really aimed at low achievers who have no chance at passing exams or those who are sporty! The only chance you have at getting a good education is if you have one of the very few decent teachers

I started out there loving it.brilliant opportunities, teachers, out of school hour activities and then throughout the years I feel like I saw what the school was really like. A sexist uniform policy, scare mongering teachers, victim shaming. Students teachers have difficulties with they don't even try to help, they just immediately exclude them. There is some lovely staff and kids but the faults seriously let the school down. Perfect for perfect students with impeccable grades and behaviour. Mental health? Behaviour? They won't deal with that. Teachers care more about what the school looks like than its own students.