Chase High School

I go to the sixth form and honesty I couldn't think of a worse place than Chase. The teachers are below standard and don't know how to teach their subject properly, normally they're learning along with us and one teacher is always forgetful, never remembering to bring books or not having lesson plans, whilst they're supposed to be teaching us, they're making their next lesson plan.

There is no feeling of connection between students, they make no effort to build team work, instead they just allow misogyny to reek all over the school. I've never once entered the school and felt safe or paranoid of my surroundings, this includes the students in the school and teachers. I always dread the day as soon as I sign in.

A few months ago a male teacher who has a high ranking in the sixth form made a comment towards me and to this day I feel uncomfortable every time I see him. It was in December and as it was winter I was consistently wearing baggy clothes and one day I came in with a shirt that was not as loose. He came up to me and said that my body looked great and that i looked like I lost a lot of weight and told me well done. I didn't know how to feel but I know now that what he said was abnormal, I didn't think a teacher, let alone a male teacher would notice my figure like that.

The boys in the school harass random girls and corner them when they're alone, the amounts of times I've been mocked and told awful things only because something that hadn't worked out between me and one guy that I used to date, his group of friends took it upon them to insult me, to put it into perspective it was just me and around 6-8 other boys making fun of me. I never felt so humiliated in my life before.

Now I know it sounds like I brought it upon myself to talk to the wrong guy and that I should've told the school, but I never felt like I would be heard and it's not just my feeling that make me feel like that, its actually happened to me. Once I was really distraught because of something personal at home and I asked to speak to the safeguarding teacher. As i was in tears and shaking she asked me if I had lesson at the time, I said yes and she started telling me that I had to go back to class. I understand that my classes are important but I was literally in hysterics, on the verge of a panic attack. She kept telling me to go lesson in a forceful way and I told her I needed a few minutes to compose myself, she then started shouting at me whilst I was still crying. I never felt so hopeless, I told her I couldn't go to class whilst like this and she didn't care one bit, she only raised her voice even more and made me feel ten times worse. I then had to go to class still crying, I couldn't think straight the whole lesson, what was even the point of going if I was still emotional and shaking in the class, not to mention the teacher had made me feel much worse.

I really do hate attending this school and I always wish I went to another, hearing of my other friends in other schools and how the school prepare many events for them, creating unity between students, offer many ways for support with subjects, makes me feel so regretful that my last 2 years of compulsory education has been wasted in such a nasty environment. Ofsted had rated this school as inadequate and I couldn't agree more, if only they saw the crash out the school had after the rating. We've had around 5 assemblies now of the school telling us that the Ofsted were wrong for the report. Funny how Ofsted came back after a while and gave them inadequate again. If you search anything about the school you'll just be met with immense negativity, its no coincidence, there are many reasons and as I've stated mine above, I could go on about more instances where the school has failed me but these are the main points for now. I wanted to publish this on Google reviews but they have disabled them so I've resulted to here for now. I do not wish for anyone to send their child to this school as their education and mental wellbeing will be compromised. I resent this school on a personal level and for my education, I just know I could've excelled much further if I actually felt comfortable enough to even enter the school.

Absolutely disgusting school. I used to work there, male teachers act weirdly towards students in particular young girls, sexual abuse, racism, homophobia and all sorts are all what a normal day to day at Chase looks like. To make the school seem more 'put together' they cram a bunch of useless adults into a safe gaurding team who do nothing but destroy kids mental health, for example Sasha Brookes. This is abysmal and certainly lives up to its reputation. Appalling attitude from Mat Suttonwood as he does not take any accountability from the Ofsted report left claiming it was "false" but me who had been working there for 4 years say otherwise. His lack of accountability and maturity with the situation really showcases chase high school as a whole.

Usual stuff. Are schools about education any more or just making sure your shirt is tucked in? Poor staff, no common sense, just box ticking robots who gave up on education years ago.

My son had a chest infection and the school wouldn’t send him home

disgusting school, has tried to dismiss the shoddy reputation of itself, but it certainly lives up to it.