Harlington Upper School

good school the teachers are nice and they care about education and wellbeing

If i could put zero stars I would, this review isn’t out of spite or rebellion it’s the truth. Although there are a handful of lovely & caring teachers. The ones that are greatly authoritative are awful. The teachers are disrespectful towards students & parents but expect the respect to be reciprocated? absolutely not. There is a great lack of consideration of how the children feel as a majority of the staff have a great sense of self entitlement. All of these plus many more negatives were partially unseen by ofsted as the teachers put on a show for them. Funnily enough they removed the literal chains off the doors adjacent to the toilets to prevent students going to them ( which they have all rights to no matter the time). However some students were chosen and were able to speak up on the serious negatives of the school including the constant usage of drugs on the school premises & the persistent fights which occurred. Once the lead heads of the school were aware of the students feedback they orchestrated a year group assembly instructing the students to say positive things about the school which is completely unacceptable.

im not over exaggerating but im pretty sure this is a prison. im not allowed to take a wazz during lessons and im raging, miss harris is a girlypop and is extremely rude and entitled. please save your self its absolutely horrific here. also miss harris if you see this i hate you xx

Absolutely disgusted with the way the school has handled my son's one mistake there. Schools should have a duty of care but the SLT have made an example of my child. Racism and not looked into possible sen needs. The school are only concerned with what looks good on paper.

Utterly disappointed in how rapidly this school is going downhill under the new leadership team, pupil's best interests are certainly not on the agenda for our children and every other parent/pupil we know. Money is recklessly spent on re branding, signs, enormous irrelevant pictures etc etc to help 'sell' the school whilst pupils seem to be considered as an irritating commodity used for funding purposes. The leadership team continues to chase good teacher's out of the door whilst desperately welcoming anything in their place but are currently still able to trade falsely on past results. The grades are falling as pupils become less and less engaged with the school and after trying to give the new leadership several terms of opportunity there's simply no doubt this senior leadership team aren't made of the right stuff to empower pupils and ironically do not meet their own standards of 'ambitious, altruistic and accountable leaders' Others have even described it as a 'Korean dictatorship', perhaps a little strong but 'failing dictatorship' does come to mind. Two children and parents entered with positive mind sets, to start it was everything we hoped for but as 'the change' happened we became counsellors to the nonsense that followed with "try to make the best of it" becoming a regular phrase in our household. Can't wait to get them out and 3rd child will not be subjected to this nonsense.