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Dilkes Academy
Primary · Academy · South Ockendon
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This school is horrible and untrustworthy with children of colour! The staff members are unprofessionals and racist. They punish children extremely harshly over small inconveniences which happens to be the fault of the teachers! Don’t send your children here they need to be investigated for their treatment towards these children. The teachers refuse to have a discussion or meeting with parents/guardians instead they just scream at the kids behind locked doors!
How is this school still funded?
I am writing this review on behalf on my brother, his son goes to this school yet he doesn't want to cause any trouble for him and fears the school might do something or find out in someway and treat him negatively. I've used school three times already but not once have I meant it, it is more akin to a prison, a correctional facility run by madmen, these teachers frequently bend the rules to suit their needs and turn a complete blind eye to all the horrible acts happening within the school to their students, my brother confided in me that his son has recently started to get bullied for reasons he wont disclose and when his son tried to get help for it, the teachers brushed him aside with a "we'll look into it", unsurprisingly nothing happened and yet this school wants to parade itself as being a place that gives a "happy educational experience for every child", what an absolute joke, like the more I write about it the more I worry about every child that doesn't have anyone to speak out for them or have parents who will go out their way to directly speak to the school. Schools are supposed to be places where children make friends and support each other and mainly have fun, yet this school doesn't even f***ing bother (I don't know if I can swear on this form so I will drop this once). I don't even know what they are learning but my nephew has not once been enthusiastic to go into school or come out with something grand to say about a certain topic they like or they find enjoyable, if any. I'm not aware if it's because nothing is learnt there or its just so boring it doesn't allow for students to express themselves freely or even enjoy the things they do learn. I've personally tried to reach out to talk to the headteacher about this but I've got hit with a big fat nothing, just a "He is too busy", yeah right, the man is just as useless as the teachers, even more so. What type of training to do you need to get into this school?, is it an issue with training, no background checks or does the school just breed an environment where this is natural? where nobody wants to speak out as they might get punished for it, hell the fact that it's gotten an "Outstanding" rating by Ofsted scares me because how can an organization be so blind to such rampart discrimination and negligence on the schools part and award it for such behaviors. It's sickening and unless there's a massive scandal or something, I don't see it changing any time soon. I know many children have it worse than my nephew and genuinely that scares me, my nephew is a healthy black boy so I assume racism sadly will affect him but what about the children who suffer from learning disabilities or physical disabilities, I don't see anything that the school is doing not only to accommodate them but protect them, hell I want to say its just ignorance and negligence on their part, that they simply just don't care and want to look spick and spam for Ofsted but some part of them genuinely believe that there are evil or sick people who run this school who enjoy some sick powerplay over children. All of them are mad and every time I hear another story about the school I keep think to myself, how the hell is this school still funded. To everyone who's suffered from Dilkes Academy, please please speak up, we can't let children suffer in silence because of madmen who believe the world revolves around them.
Head teacher needs the SACK!
Head teacher is a egotistical individual
DO NOT send your child here!
Please do not send your children to this school if you care about their overall well-being
They keep the children in and don’t allow them to play with friends if they don’t believe have done enough work. If they have not done their homework and if a parent forgets to sign their reading log. It is absolutely awful! My child was in year 2 and I had enough of it! He has PTSD from everything he went through at thjs school.
I was so happy when My child got into Dilkes but children need to have fun aswell as work hard in their studies. There needs to be a healthy balance which Dilkes does not have. It is not fair because they want to uphold their scores and results that they punish children in this way
The headteacher never spoke to me about my concerns because apparently “ he doesn’t like to get involved in stuff like this” I was told by his teacher.
This is a terrible unhappy school, the best thing you can do is to get your child into a happy environment where they can be children! They are not children for long and have the rest of their lives to worry about be labelled and feeling not good enough
They keep the children in and don’t allow them to play with friends if they don’t believe have done enough work. If they have not done their homework and if a parent forgets to sign their reading log. It is absolutely awful! My child was in year 2 and I had enough of it! He has PTSD from everything he went through at thjs school.
I was so happy when My child got into Dilkes but children need to have fun aswell as work hard in their studies. There needs to be a healthy balance which Dilkes does not have. It is not fair because they want to uphold their scores and results that they punish children in this way
The headteacher never spoke to me about my concerns because apparently “ he doesn’t like to get involved in stuff like this” I was told by his teacher.
This is a terrible unhappy school, the best thing you can do is to get your child into a happy environment where they can be children! They are not children for long and have the rest of their lives to worry about be labelled and feeling not good enough
Best school ever!
Simply the best school around by far. Probably in the country (I am a little biased as my kids go there).
As a parent I cannot recommend the school enough. My Kids absolutely love it. During lockdown my kids had real lessons every day and children saw their teacher and assistant teacher. I thought this was normal but when I spoke to other parents they didn't have real lessons at other schools.
Communication is brilliant and there is something on Twitter every week. You can see all of the amazing things that they do.
Never had a problem with them. They are professional and they are always helpful and polite.
The previous reviewer clearly hasn't been into the school as the school is spacious, bright and there is work made by the kids on all of the walls.
Get your kids in there if you can. Best thing I ever did
As a parent I cannot recommend the school enough. My Kids absolutely love it. During lockdown my kids had real lessons every day and children saw their teacher and assistant teacher. I thought this was normal but when I spoke to other parents they didn't have real lessons at other schools.
Communication is brilliant and there is something on Twitter every week. You can see all of the amazing things that they do.
Never had a problem with them. They are professional and they are always helpful and polite.
The previous reviewer clearly hasn't been into the school as the school is spacious, bright and there is work made by the kids on all of the walls.
Get your kids in there if you can. Best thing I ever did
Wouldn't wish it on any child to go there!
Terrible school. Don't take bullying seriously, head teacher is impossible to reach and doesn't get involved. The school is very much about grades and attendance not the happiness of children. They keep children in for break and lunch to do work and not let them play outside. Not a fun place to learn, very dated ethics where they like all kids to fit in the same box and push them with punishment to get good grades. They punish kids for not being clever enough, but don't punish bullies and instead tell children to just toughen up.
Bad school
Head teacher is impossible to reach for a meeting. Not suited as a head teacher, moved up the ranks too fast.
The school themselves use bully tactics to overrule parents. The ego is huge.
They cannot supply school policies when requested. Would prefer to dismiss and abuse their power.
Use interrogation tactics on students.
There is no colour around the school, closer to a clinical, white walled psyche ward from the 1900s with the attitude to suit.
keep students in during their breaks to catch up on work on the same week the student went to their Nana’s funeral.
This school is in major need of a full government audit and a management restructure. A school should not be allowed to get away and operate in the way that Dilkes does.
Disgraceful, discriminative, no care for special needs. They are only after top performers and will throw others under the bus to get to where they want to be.
This school needs a complete reform, starting from the top.
The school themselves use bully tactics to overrule parents. The ego is huge.
They cannot supply school policies when requested. Would prefer to dismiss and abuse their power.
Use interrogation tactics on students.
There is no colour around the school, closer to a clinical, white walled psyche ward from the 1900s with the attitude to suit.
keep students in during their breaks to catch up on work on the same week the student went to their Nana’s funeral.
This school is in major need of a full government audit and a management restructure. A school should not be allowed to get away and operate in the way that Dilkes does.
Disgraceful, discriminative, no care for special needs. They are only after top performers and will throw others under the bus to get to where they want to be.
This school needs a complete reform, starting from the top.
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