Charters School

Great school. Strict rules meaning the kids can't get away with things. About to ban mobile phone usage in school which I think is great by having kids put phones in lockable pouches. School results are very good.

This school is very supportive of children who are observing the Holy Month of Ramadan. They allow children to either sit PE lessons or very very mild exercise. The PE teacher is Mr. Marris and he is brilliant not only with the children but also with the parents. I also want to mention Miss Lane the attendance officer who actually uses her common sense before sending letters to parents for poor attendance. This review is left by Nadeem Kiyani.

This school offers no support for the year 7s who are starting the school. These children have come from some rural schoolhouse with no more than a dozen students to a literal college with 1500+ students. They expect to be fine with the change but it’s so terrifying and overwhelming especially for neuro divergent students. Speaking about neurodiversity if you weren’t diagnosed at birth, they don’t give a fig. Autism and Hypersensitivity can occur at any age but I don’t think they know that. Those who were diagnosed at an early age get to skip the lunch queue and eat/ change for PE in the LSC(learning support centre). They claim to have so many locations for pupils’ mental health, like the Wellbeing centre and the Maine centre but they never allow us there and I think it’s just for show. The lunch breaks are so short (only 30m) and the lunch queue takes up half the time. Plus the timings of our Lunch changes every day and it’s so confusing. Also lunch is way too early. 11:00-11:30 are you kidding me?!? My sister doesn’t even wake up at that time. But the lunch food it pretty good. The queue is terrible. It is ridiculously long and it’s so cold outside but they won’t let us in even though everyone’s already sat down and are eating. Plus everyone in the queue pushes forward to get their food faster or are just play fighting with their mates. If you playfight then playfight. That’s fine. BUT DONT DO IT IN A QUEUE!!!!! I was pushed so hard I fell flat on my face and broke my new myopia control glasses. And the kid didn’t even get a negative( the least serious form of punishment) if my friend got a negative for forgetting her RE book in the 2nd week of Yr 7 then why shouldn’t that dude who’s been in the school for 3yrs get punished for damaging my £800 glasses?? They didn’t do anything about it. It’s funny how they can afford trips to Japan and Belgium but we can’t have private changing places. Sure international trips are the best. But pupils get bullied severely for their figure. This one obese kid got abused daily. Sure he was aggressive, ignorant and would push people to the floor for fun . I don’t even like him but I don’t judge him for being obese. People say crap like “all the ladies are jealous of his man boobs and hips” if we had private rooms to change in or we could change in the bathrooms a lot of body shaming will disappear. Speaking of bullying, there’s a whole damn lot of it. I don’t think anyone cares though. Saying crap like the N-word, ‘last on to touch this is gay’, harmful memes about South Asians, disgusting things about sex, and shameful things about therians has been normalised unfortunately. If you are south Asian, LGBTQIA+, a therian, a woman, an academic or neuro divergent, you won’t survive. It’s so harmful here and no one cares. It’s so toxic. This will never stop. Why can’t we just exist? I’m LGBTQ+ and people are so arrogant. So many of my LGBTQIA+ and therian friends are depressed and urgently in need of therapy. They even talk about killing themselves. I’m not even joking I have text messages I can show you. It’s out of control and the teachers do not care. In fact they are probably more racist than the students. My sister is south Asian like me and her best friend is Portugalese and both have an accent. The teachers are very racist and are constantly criticising their accents. And then they ask them to to apologise for calling her racist. Hmm maybe JUST MAYBE there’s a reason we call you racist?? With the uniform we have to wear lanyards in hideous colors like neon orange and acid green. We have to wear it all day and it’s annoying!! Now onto the curriculum, English is pretty good. But we spend the first 10-15 minutes of every lesson reading our books which wastes lesson time but benefits us. In maths there is so much pressure in top set. We are expected to do 50 difficult algebra questions in 20 minutes and we are rushed. There’s so much pressure and too much work. We are constantly shamed by our teacher who says stuff like “ I didn’t expect this from a top set maths class” . She doesn’t allow us to ask for help and goes by the questions quickly expecting us to understand it completely. Science is ok but my teacher is lenient to a fault. Students are screaming, standing on desks, passing notes and running around. It’s a mess. There’s no discipline and he cannot teach for his life. And we are taught about sex in too much detail. We are taught in year 7 and we have to watch videos and analyse images about genitalIa. PE is the worst. First we have to change in front of others, which is terrible. It causes body shaming and insecurity. And then teachers are constantly changing our sports. We are scheduled to do football outside and we need football boots for that. But then they change it to volleyball and we need trainers for that. They expect us to bring two separate PE uniforms. They also don’t allow us to bring a water bottle with us to PE which is ridiculous because it’s not like Algebra is making me thirsty. It’s exercise. There’s always so much pressure on students to be good at PE especially boys. And when the trans dude does PE with the boys everyone is SO HURTFUL. I’m crying right now. My friends have gone through the worst pains at this school for merely existing. Comments like “what is that girl-boy-thing doing here?” “That’s literally a girl”. PE is the toxic subject History is terrible too. We are taught that the British helped revolutionise India by giving them hospitals, education and Railways. WE PRACTICALLY INVENTED NUMBERS. All the people you raped, murdered, whipped?!??! MY ANCESTORS STARVED TO DEATH BECAUSE OF THE BRITISH. THEY DID NOTHING BUT DESTROY OUR KINGDOMS. It’s all lies. And the white students believe them. They always gloss over the bad things saying that the white people weren’t nice to Africans/Indians. Ok so you’re telling me that raping is “not nice”… Geography is just as bad as they tell us that China is full of impoverished people and children are allowed to work at the age of 8. They also say that they work for 24 hours which is exxagerated. China is the second most developed country in the world. They spread lies . But we have more DT than geography. Geography is much more important than DT. We have a subject called Learning to Learn which is all about revision skills, organisation, communication and stuff like that. It’s a good idea in theory but it’s kinda useless and everyone knows the content and there’s no garde for that class. I would rather spend my time doing Geography. Every year we are behind on Geography because there are 5 topics to cover and so little lessons. The buses arrive at 8:00-8:15 and the bells rings at 8:25. In the meanwhile, people are at the canteen, library or just talking to friends. The canteen has croissants and porridge and other breakfast stuff for students who don’t have time to eat. I think this is very good ?. Then we have tutor time from 8:30-8:55. We do a variety of activities like quizzes, class presentations, debates, reading and touch typing. We have assembly once a week during tutor time. Our lessons are 55 minutes long with 5 minutes movement time to get to our lessons on time. We have lunch either before period 3, after period 3 , or in the middle of period three. This can be distracting from focus. We have our second break during 1:00-1:25. Teachers can set detentions during this time. We have clubs here as well like Book club( discussing books), Backstage club(creating props for drama) and Creative writing club( writing poems and stories). We can go to the library and canteen. Library is too small. Library has terrible chairs. We have multiple computer rooms to print out homework. This break is too short. Teachers give negatives for going to the toilet. Needing to pee during class should not be punished. ITS RIDICULOUS.School ends at 3:00 but many students stay after school to do more clubs like chess club, tennis club and art club. This is from 3:00-4:15. People can also have lessons or detentions after school. There is a Cafe near our school and the path is very simple. Many students go there after school which helps connect us with the local community. The busses leave at 3:10 and 4:30. Sorry for bad english it’s not my first language

What a delightful private school that produces such fine judges as the honourable C. Hehir, who sentences peaceful protestors to many years in prison. And to impart such vast knowledge of science that the reality of climate change can be denied. Truly an accomplishment to 'educate' such alumni...!

I cannot express how poor this school is, if your child does fit the mould, has mental health issues or struggles in a school environment then please don’t send your child to Charters. They will be made to feel like a failure and definitely won’t be supported in their education.