Chew Valley School

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 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.

it’s an amazing school always happy teachers and students