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Chew Valley School
Secondary · Academy · Bristol
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Worst school
Worst school you could send your children too bullying is terrible and the school do notthink too help at all children come out that school with terrible mental health problems
This school should be shut down
I thankfully have left this school now after enduring 2 years of hell. I was tormented and bullied within those two years relentlessly, taking all of this up to the right teachers, head of houses, and safe guarding leads. Yet after a while of this going on and endless calls out for help from them everything became too much. From the endless bullying I endured constant panic and anxiety attack which made me feel lower and lower, each time striking away my confidence.
I began self harming which the school were made aware of as they had to clean me up. They had stated that day that because of safe guarding they were to inform my mum which is completely reasonable. However, when I got home she was not informed, there was no miss phone call, no voicemail left and no email; they had lied to me.
I took some time off school because the bullying was impacting me so much that I started to feel suicidal. During this period I had asked for a social contract which one of the heads of houses had stated during a meeting we had. After asking for it they refused to acknowledge it and began focusing on me coming into school again, despite my doctor refusing, saying it were better to stay off.
Cahms got involved after a few months and we arranged for me to come back into school. So we sat down with my head of house to arrange a plan for when I were to come back. I was put with the welfare officer when I decided to come back.
Then as the school year went on, the bullying didn’t stop. By this time I had brought up the social contract a couple more times and yet there still wasn’t one put in place. Then one day, the bully was becoming too much I called my mum on my phone, which isn’t allowed but I had went to student, asked and tried to ring her on their phone but she didn’t answer. My mum was fuming. She came to the school as quick as possible and demanded that a social contract be put in place to which one of the heads of houses stated in a very patronising way, “I pretty sure you have one already?”. They had lied to us. After threading with pulling me out of school, we eventual got the social contract but I was blamed for calling my mum to the school when I felt unsafe? Typical.
Everything died down for a while after that and then September of the new year, everything spiked up again. I went to my head of house, telling them what was happening and begging for them to do something because i was gradually getting better and the bully was knocking it all down again. They said that they couldn’t do anything without evidence and yet never informed me of a way to gather that evidence against the bully.
Thankfully, there was many witnesses that came forward so the school HAD to do something about it. So they spoke to the bully and after, my head of house informed me that “the bully seemed too distressed and that THEY BELIEVED THE BULLY.” But because of the evidence they had to ‘punish’ them.
So, apparently the bully had some sort of a consequence which they never told me of. And that was that, the bully made snide remarks and after a while I began barking back too which seemed to get them to shut up.
I wish I had done that instead of going to the school, it would have salvaged my mental health.
I began self harming which the school were made aware of as they had to clean me up. They had stated that day that because of safe guarding they were to inform my mum which is completely reasonable. However, when I got home she was not informed, there was no miss phone call, no voicemail left and no email; they had lied to me.
I took some time off school because the bullying was impacting me so much that I started to feel suicidal. During this period I had asked for a social contract which one of the heads of houses had stated during a meeting we had. After asking for it they refused to acknowledge it and began focusing on me coming into school again, despite my doctor refusing, saying it were better to stay off.
Cahms got involved after a few months and we arranged for me to come back into school. So we sat down with my head of house to arrange a plan for when I were to come back. I was put with the welfare officer when I decided to come back.
Then as the school year went on, the bullying didn’t stop. By this time I had brought up the social contract a couple more times and yet there still wasn’t one put in place. Then one day, the bully was becoming too much I called my mum on my phone, which isn’t allowed but I had went to student, asked and tried to ring her on their phone but she didn’t answer. My mum was fuming. She came to the school as quick as possible and demanded that a social contract be put in place to which one of the heads of houses stated in a very patronising way, “I pretty sure you have one already?”. They had lied to us. After threading with pulling me out of school, we eventual got the social contract but I was blamed for calling my mum to the school when I felt unsafe? Typical.
Everything died down for a while after that and then September of the new year, everything spiked up again. I went to my head of house, telling them what was happening and begging for them to do something because i was gradually getting better and the bully was knocking it all down again. They said that they couldn’t do anything without evidence and yet never informed me of a way to gather that evidence against the bully.
Thankfully, there was many witnesses that came forward so the school HAD to do something about it. So they spoke to the bully and after, my head of house informed me that “the bully seemed too distressed and that THEY BELIEVED THE BULLY.” But because of the evidence they had to ‘punish’ them.
So, apparently the bully had some sort of a consequence which they never told me of. And that was that, the bully made snide remarks and after a while I began barking back too which seemed to get them to shut up.
I wish I had done that instead of going to the school, it would have salvaged my mental health.
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I used to be excited to go to the school, nearly none of my friends from primary went here, and they made the right choice. The school has a terrible bullying problem, and I am a victim of that, and the school sees it as nothing. I've barely been here a year and I'm sure I'm leaving by year 8 - they haven't even fixed the science block that has holes in the ceiling for years and tables rud with carvings. Overall, the school isn't the greatest, it deserves much needed improvement. If this school is your first choice, I recommend picking another.
not safe for anyone who dares to be a little different really
i left this school a while back. i was excited in year 6 when i was going to this school, but after dealing with what i've dealt with i never wanna go back, ever. im lgbtq+ and i was bullied, misgendered and attacked and when i told teachers they said it was "just a few people being a bit spiteful" when sometimes i thought it was too dangeorus to even go into school. i used to cry every mroning and cry when i got home. i love learning, and i want to go to a school , but the kids and teachers are vile. i miss the sweet teachers who actually tried to help me too, they're the type of people we all need in our lifes. but i genuinely attempted to kill myself because of this school, i didnt do it because i didn't wanna be their fucking poster boy. please dont send your kids to this school, the kids are vile and so are the teachers.
I am a student in chew valley school
it’s an amazing school always happy teachers and students
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awful school, hopefully will get shut down soon . they can lie there way through the Ofsted inspectors if they want but I can see very well that they are hanging on a thread .
its a vile school, vile SEN staff if that's what you want to call them, and absolutely vile kids . this is a school that uses peoples deaths to make money and publicity its fucking disgusting and i hope it gets blown up. i endured 3 years of torment day in day out at that prison they call chew valley school and witnessed many others like myself having such a horrible time as well . i was very badly deppressed there and actually self harmed i dont want to talk about sensitive topics but i have to. i am not saying my name but everything ive said is true and honest and i wouldnt lie. the school may look all great from the outside but in reality its a fucking horrid school. i mean just look closer and you'll see that they cant even be bothered to pay for new tiles outside where i actually saw a few kids trip over them and one girl had to be pushed around in a wheelchair all day.
they are so poor and crap that they cant even be bothered to change the curtians in the assembly hall that are still from the fucking 50s by the looks of it. the science tables are just appalling graffiti all over them, chunks missing. just eveywhere in that school is disguusting and there are so many safty hazards including the corrordors where hords of students will ram into eachother trampling on poeple and pushing poeple into eachother i could write about this scum of a school all week long but here are some things to go of of for now i hope this makes its way to the right poeple and we can hopefully get this school shut down for good and the viol kids put in a school with better punishment . oh and add this kids also smoke vapes and weed in the toilets and only get detention for it . need i say more this school is fucking terrible and if you want your kid trampled on , bullied and given a crap standard of education then this is the perfect school for you. but for me chew valley school can go fuck itself.
its a vile school, vile SEN staff if that's what you want to call them, and absolutely vile kids . this is a school that uses peoples deaths to make money and publicity its fucking disgusting and i hope it gets blown up. i endured 3 years of torment day in day out at that prison they call chew valley school and witnessed many others like myself having such a horrible time as well . i was very badly deppressed there and actually self harmed i dont want to talk about sensitive topics but i have to. i am not saying my name but everything ive said is true and honest and i wouldnt lie. the school may look all great from the outside but in reality its a fucking horrid school. i mean just look closer and you'll see that they cant even be bothered to pay for new tiles outside where i actually saw a few kids trip over them and one girl had to be pushed around in a wheelchair all day.
they are so poor and crap that they cant even be bothered to change the curtians in the assembly hall that are still from the fucking 50s by the looks of it. the science tables are just appalling graffiti all over them, chunks missing. just eveywhere in that school is disguusting and there are so many safty hazards including the corrordors where hords of students will ram into eachother trampling on poeple and pushing poeple into eachother i could write about this scum of a school all week long but here are some things to go of of for now i hope this makes its way to the right poeple and we can hopefully get this school shut down for good and the viol kids put in a school with better punishment . oh and add this kids also smoke vapes and weed in the toilets and only get detention for it . need i say more this school is fucking terrible and if you want your kid trampled on , bullied and given a crap standard of education then this is the perfect school for you. but for me chew valley school can go fuck itself.
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