George Spencer Academy and Technology College

If I could do lower I would this school is horrible for kids mental health and makes kids upset all the time my daughter is in yr7 and her pastoral and head of year told her not to go talk to them because she suffers from bullying I would never recommend.

The uniform checks are horrendous, if you wear a skirt, you have to lift your jumper to let the teachers check your waistband and it is extremely uncomfortable and inappropriate. If the skirt length was an issue, you would know from just the length and not have this extremely uncomfortable and inappropriate encounter.

DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO THIS SCHOOL even if all their friends go there ! This school doesn’t attempt to understand children. This school makes children worse and drives them crazy with their ridiculous lack of care , uniform and behaviour policy. One of my daughters got school based trauma being here. I was told by Mr Hartley (senior staff) that I had to home school or move my daughter to a new school. Struggling with server social anxiety with panic (letters from doctor) he said “how can she go to rollerworld if she has anxiety?”, this shows total ignorance around anxiety struggles! My daughter feels safe in the dark predicable roller world, she’s good and confident at it to, unlike this school where she felt the opposite. Some children can go in with trainers on , short skirts, died hair, crossed legs in class and other children get punished. Some children can physically assault other children and totally get away with it. I know teachers that have worked here in their SEN department and they say prisoners get treated better ! I’ve experienced the “link” building and ARNA (anxiety related non-attendance) room, it’s where they put all their children they cannot deal with , it’s like a free for all with no education! They only have one ELSA worker (emotional support) and no councillor. A lot of the children that struggle cut them selfs as a release and teachers with their lack of understanding make the Children’s mental state worse. Leaving parents desperately trying to find a new school for their children to move to. This school is great in the art of getting rid of children that don’t comply to strict rules making it like an army camp for teens. My first daughter had to home school for 10 months after leaving here to recover and then went to another school and her needs were met and the new school made reasonable adjustments and recommended an Autism diognosis (now come back positive which makes us understand her more). This should’ve been recognised by the SEN department at George Spencer who refused to work with us ! Second daughter was kept in isolation for two weeks straight with no lunch or break , kept in a booth and not allowed to speak , turn around, swing on a chair along with automatic built in after school detention until 4pm , because a male teacher singled her out to inspect her skirt at the front and then asked to see the back and my daughter asked “why do you want to see the back of my skirt sir - it’s just weird?!” He then sent her to isolation and suspended for 2.5 days, when we had a readmission meeting Mr Hartly (worst teacher I’ve ever encountered!) said “ if she wants to come back to the school, she must wear trousers”. My daughter cried all the way to the shop and refused to wear trousers - hence the permanent isolation! This daughter is now happy at a new school which hasn’t mentioned her skirt once ! GEORGE SPENCER ARE MORE BOTHERED ABOUT HOW YOUR CHILD LOOKS THAN EDUCATING THEM. If your child follows all the rules , sits still and enjoys learning a range of subjects and has no SEN and stable home life / friends then they might stand a chance - anyone else stay WELL CLEAR AT ALL COSTS.

I am student here and in my fod tech room there was a rat and instead of killing it my teacher picked it up and put itin a different room and did not wash her hands after , then she started coking without washing her hands!! -3 hygeine

The Construction Teacher made racial slurs to my son, there was an independent witness, but, the school chose to believe the teacher. Some of the teachers are bullies and I wonder why they are in this profession. My son got detention for having the corner of his shirt out after playing football at lunch time. Rather than mentioning this to him, they gave him detention. Ridiculous!! English/Maths Teachers are great!

This school is very bad I can’t believe how bad it is the senior leadership team don’t care about you they have more interest on Facebook marketplace on their phone than a kid lying on the floor screaming in agony this happened once and the teachers didn’t care till the last minute of break just to come up to him and say you have to go to your lesson now rather than helping him or calling first aid they apparently have no money when they re painted the lines and do stupid stuff that no one asks for also they have no disabled toilet I have never seen a disabled toilet in this school. They don’t care about your mental health and just want to shove worksheets in your face. There’s so much homework that you can’t even take a walk to a shop there’s never been a week where we haven’t had a single piece of homework. The teacher shout at you for the stupidest reasons like you haven’t put a full stop or a comma or why are you looking down and someone got a 20 minute detention for asking a question. In the maths block you get a SLT detention (a hour) for going down the wrong stairs even though the teachers go down it themselves. The pupils support centre somehow get payed for “helping “ students when they are sick or getting bullied I vomited outside it and they said “walk it off and drink some water “ very good help isn’t it psa. All the teachers target people every lesson when they are literally not doing anything but the work but people are talking around them but the teacher tells them off obviously because they have no clue what’s going on and that’s why teachers never finished school because there still in it after the 3867 years of teaching and being in school at this point just live there WARNING DO NOT SEND YOU CHILD HERE (from a year 7 student)

this school is horrible. its more like prison than a school. the staff are horrible, multiple times have gotten yelled at and called an attention seeker while having a panic attack. they never do anything about bullying they just make it worse. psa dont do shit.

The one star is only for some nice subject teachers who try their best to help. The staff run the school, make the rules are awful. Please do not send your children in this school if your kids are not super behaved and no issues at all in the school. Otherwise, they would become the prisoners and no respect to them at all. When your kids make mistakes, no matter big or small, they just punish you by throwing you into the isolation/detention room. They do not care about students education, they just want to have a easy life and blame on students for everything. No wonder it is not only a 'good' school not 'outstanding' anymore although I still doubt about 'good'.

Child well fair not considered. Needs not met. School have progressively made things worse - now my child will not attend at all. I get the blame as it’s the parents responsibility for their child to attend school! I’m sure this is how they get rid of the “weaker/difficult/ ones with needs”!! Communication with school is slow, disappointing, negative. Do not send your child here, unless they are text book perfect!

This school is more like a prison then a school

as a student at this school i see first hand how terrible the school is,the most disgusting part is the teachers, I have been grabbed by a pshyco of a science teacher he is vile to students there has been many reports about him,I tried to tell a teacher about what he did but as always got ignored.the only thing this school cares about is money and uniform,it isn’t right.students are made to feel like they’re nothing and no one and that if u don’t have 6 stripes on your tie you won’t succeed in life.They shout in your face and tell you you shouldn’t eat takeaways if you want clear skin.The school has treated me and everyone I know in the most disgusting ways,I was so good in primary this school changes people for the worst.don’t send ur child here if you want them to be happy.the food is so expensive and undercooked they don’t cater towards those with different food allergies.The school is discriminative and it shouldn’t be running,Some teachers are so nice and see how vile the other ones can be but overall 90 percent of them are vile.They have no care in the world towards young peoples mental health who have problems at home.They shove you in isolation for 7 and a half hours for the smallest reasons like losing your report or walking away from someone when your crying.they have no intention to help any student.The head of well-being is supposed to be there for students right? Well he is not he is one of the worst people there,He followed me round the school screaming horrible things at me and many other students he has done the same too,It’s like they take their problems out on us.They act all nice for ofsted but believe me it’s all fake.This school could be so much better and a nicer environment for students if some of the teachers left.

i’m in year 9 at gsa. there’s not a single day where i don’t cry to my parents about not going to school. first off i’d like to adress how people treat you and make you feel, you only fit in if your pretty or popular. no one cares who you are if you don’t fit into their special categories. i’m not one of them people. the kids make you feel lonely and different. they’re so horrible and the amount of bullying and judging at that school is horrendous. also the mental health team isn’t great. i was sent in to one of the link buildings about my depressive state and my unsafe way of dealing with my problems. i had one talk with her and she never brought me back into her office again. i was in a really bad state too. there was no checkups, nothing. being at this school is a straight up prison, you can’t wear any jellwery and have specific hair styles and colours. the students can’t express themselfes in the ways they want to. they just have to act like robots and copies of each other to impress the community and offsted. the teaching is so poor too. they don’t care about the knowledge you receive they just want their pay. the subs just sit there and do nothing so the class will miss behave all lesson. the uniform and pe kit is well expensive too. especially if you have more than one child, your not allowed to buy cheap skirts or jumpers. it has to be all branded and boys can’t wear shorts. that’s ridiculous in the summer. overall this school makes me want to die. nothing about it is good. it’s a literal nightmare. please don’t send your child to this school unless you want them to feel the same way i do

I have had 4 children go through this school (one still there) and would not recommend it to any other parents. The school has an ethos of bullying from pupils and teachers to pupils. They seem to care more about their image than the pupils, especially children with neurodiversity. They have a ‘our way or no way’ attitude and will never admit getting anything wrong. The budgeting goes to ridiculous new ‘traditions’ rather than the pupils and the SEND provision is non-existent. Ethos of bullying and disrespect. If your child is shy, anxious or different they will not cope in the environment the staff provide. Children are shoved and hit on the bridge over the A52 and despite many parents complaints it is still not supervised and teachers outside stand looking at their mobiles looking bored, or screaming at kids for the ‘wrong shoes’. A renect work experience teacher was heard on their phone outside the school saying ‘don’t ever work here they treat the pupil’s disgusting’. I echo this sadly as a parent.

Teachers treat you like prisoners and don't let you go to the toilet even when you are desperate. Don't let you go inside when it's raining so everyone croud under the tinniest bit of shelter. Teachers also don't let you have your own opinion and say you are being rude if you try to say something. Also the food is so overly price it's £2.30 for a horrible tasting burger and some water. Also having mold on the buns of the burgers.

This school is so bad It doesn't help anyone it puts you on report for having 5 warnings in 1-week school dinners are overpriced and mouldy i had a raw chicken burger its £2.30 for burger with water Teachers dont help you for big things I wasn't allowed to go to First aid (which is poor) When my head was bleeding, I've been threatened with having a 2 week suspension for not calling a teacher sir. I constantly get detentions for shaking my knee when i can't help it. Bulling is so frequent Like people hate this school its not safe at all there isdealing all the time. 2 students in late 2021 got expelled for having knives on them there is always fights

Bc they don't deal with mental health and bulling and they don't have proper meals

They do not handle situations well.

They do not help with bullying at all and don't work with kids to talk it out they just make them write.

Very bad school, absolutely horrible mental health management and absolutely no action against bullying from students or teachers, yes the teachers treated students with no respect either. I only left 2 stars for the poor nice teachers who were trying their best to keep us mentally stable and happy at school and trying to make a difference and talk some sense into the higher powers of the school. I had to endure so much bullying throughout years 7 all the way up to 11 and it's left me with severe anxiety and many more issues, and my own little brother hated that school so much that he became heavily unwell mentally and started hurting himself. Please do not send your kids here.