Causeway School

I will admit i had some of the funnest years of my life there and wish i could go back, but education wise it’s awful and also the teachers only seem the acknowledge the kids that don’t behave. I’ve been extremely depressed & anxious all throughout my years there and in the final year there i developed an eating disorder and no teachers even picked up on anything until year 11, when they did pick up on it i was told that someone like a counsellor or something was gonna come in & help me and it never happened and i never heard anything of it again. it’s quite a severe illness for them to brush off but there priority was mostly what your uniform was like and if you were wearing trainers, they didn’t seem to care about much else

This school doesn't care about your mental health, or your children. It is positively awful.

I used to go to this school and quite honestly just cannot recommend it less. My years at this school were honestly the most horrendous and difficult years of my life. When my year 11 year ended abruptly due to covid I was quite honestly glad that I didn’t have to enter this school again. Causeway’s approach to bullying is quite honestly disgusting. The amount of times I reported incidents and got ignored or I got told I was ‘being too sensitive’ and to ‘grow up’. I got cyber bullied by people in the school and was told ‘we can’t do anything because it didn’t happen on school grounds’. I had people taking random photos and videos of me on and off of school grounds. When I told the school they did absolutely nothing. I was told to get over it. The school behaviour and rewards policy was quite honestly ridiculous. Kids who never behaved were rewarded if they behaved once, whereas those like myself who were always doing the right thing got no recognition and were ignored. When I was in Year 8 I started to struggle with my mental health. I was having panic attacks in lessons and was given a temporary time out pass that only lasted for a term. After that I was told to get over it. I tried multiple times to speak to teachers and they told me to just get over it, or to ‘be appreciative because others have it worse than me’ nothing was ever done about it. Causeways approach to students with learning difficulties was also quite honestly disgusting. I had friends who were desperate to pass their English and maths but needed the support to be able to do so, but were not able to because the school just didn’t help them. A lot of the teaching staff at Causeway are rude and just not helpful. One of my teachers almost made me give up on my dream career as she made my lessons in that subject hell. I was one of the few people in the room that tried and was given so much flack for ‘not putting the effort it’ even though I was top of my class by a lot. In another subject we had the teacher throw our books on the table at us because she gave us many hours of homework that we just didn’t have time to complete on top of all our other GCSE subjects. Staff had been reported to transphobia and homophobia many times by students, but nothing happened. She still works there and simply worked out which students had reported her and treated them in a poor manner. If you can help it avoid Causeway at all costs. My school friends and I all agreed, if we could go back and choose a different school we would.

I cannot stress enough, do not go here if you can help it. They don't handle bullying well, are overly strict with uniform and phone policy (locking away phones when they so much as vibrate or fall out of a bag/pocket) they don't handle serious situations appropriately, nor do they handle mental health effectively. When I was in this school, I had a serious altercation with another student, and he was barely given a warning, and simply told not to do it again, I was then forced to sit near this person in tutor and some lessons despite expressing my serious concerns. Problem students are ignored, and bullying in the classroom is often overlooked, u less specifically reported, and even then, they often get nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Their approach to mental health is seriously lacking, and incredibly embarassing. My experience was being taken out of a class, sat in an office and immediately being told to roll up my sleeves, without so much as a warning of what the conversation was about. Then the issue just seemed to fade away with no real support given to me, other than a time out card, which I was too anxious to use. Later in my time in this school (the begining of year 11)the school promised to get me some kind of support, after I expressed to a teacher that I was struggling, however this never happened, and I had to seek help myself. There was also sexist and transphobic encounters with one member of staff, including being told to "act like a lady" whenever I was loud, however my male friends, were never told their behaviour was innappropriate to their gender. The headteacher changed at least three times since I joined in year seven, and teachers came and left at a ridiculous rate. There was also holes under the fence, and people often managed to sneak out and sneak back in without being noticed - which is a huge security concern if people are sneaking in unnoticed? If I hadn't of had friends there, I would have changed schools. Up until year nine, I loved it there, but as you go up the years in the school you often come to realise it's nowhere near as good as it should be. There is some incredibly good teachers, and very supportive. Computer science in particular, my teacher was amazing, and incredibly supportive and always made an effort to make sure all his students were doing okay, however I can't reccomend this school to anyone after the below par experience I had there.

We don’t hand sanitise, don’t wear masks and constantly crossing all different year groups one last thing no social distancing at all not even 1m