Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College

I don’t know but Ive been blamed for vaping in the toilets but they found nowt when they searched me so I recommend to not go to this school

Hello, if you’re reading this, I have suffered with mental health issues in this school for years. The school favours girls over boys for starters. Girls have always been the favourite. I was in an issue which got me into a fight with me and another boy (that is now my friend) and a girl who the boy datED with she caused the whole fight, she was my ex. We are both still in a lot of drama. (There’s more things about her but I’m gonna save my words on) Year 7’s are the priority and are annoying idiots. I’m hearing a lot of trauma with Year 11’s. If you’re a parent reading this, I highly advise to choose another school. The rules are strict and are aiming for students to be “more ahead” than the other school. This is utter 🐂 💩. The only thing these teachers care about is the money. Due to me having mental health issues (referring back to the fight) they pushed me aside and put all the blame on me. The girl got no correction. NOtHinG. The school does nothing with your mental health. Males are always the blame even when girls are the instigators (some girls are good). I have now got scars on my arm (due to self harm) which I’m constantly being harassed about yet I still get rejected to leave the room or work somewhere else. SAVE YOUR FUTURE, do not come here!!!

The school is the worst in County Durham in my experience. Teachers only care about the new year sevens, once they go to year 8 their classmates start to bully/be mean to their peers, the teachers do not do anything about the bullying and only care about the appearance of the students, they do not have a good pastoral care or wellbeing team, they don’t give a 💩 about your mental health and only care about your uniform being correct, any piercings or died hair colours that is not the student’s natural hair colour and also the wearing of trainers or leggings students will not be given a warning for a first offence and will be taken straight to isolation or given an after school detention, the year 11s get treated very poorly and my mental health suffered throughout my GCSEs and if you tell them you are struggling with your mental health and you tell them you don’t want them to inform your parents or caregivers they do the opposite and tell them anyways which made me feel worse and made my mam annoyed with all the phone calls, started to keep myself to myself which made my mental health suffer more , they also do not let students with health conditions such as autism, epilepsy etc attend the year 11 prom, in one year a student with a hidden disability was barred from the prom when previously they were invited but later told they cannot go anymore because they don’t have the staff to deal with their medical condition if something was to happen to them (have a seizure or a meltdown etc). Majority of the teachers don’t care but a few genuinely do, (however you must be a hardworking or popular student in most cases) School is way too harsh on all students but mainly bully the year 11s and they don’t put in enough support for the lower band groups. Anything relating to your mental health they call home and tell them the whole conversation you have had with them, try to refer you to CAMHs service in some cases and this made my mental health worse as CAMHs told the school and also my parents, teachers make the well-being of their students worse by not giving a care in the world about the mental health of their students. They think they are helping the year 11s in preparing for their GCSEs but they just make their mental health suffer by not supporting the emotional health of their students. Indoor environment is ok, in the summer it gets too hot in the school and they don’t let you take your blazer off, even those with health issues which can be triggered by heat, in the winter the school is pretty warm. If you don’t want your child to suffer from mental health issues in the future and to struggle with mental health for the majority of their lives then do not send them to Ferryhill School/FBEC.

Teachers are great at teaching but the students ruin it and the teachers don’t do anything about bullies this school let me get bullied horrendously for 3 years before I moved. I told the teachers but they didn’t give a care and got no support from anyone even camhs are better at treating mental health I don’t know if they have improved it over the years I haven’t been there but it impacted my grades and everything but the teachers just let me crack on and get really depressed while I was there worst years of my life