Harris Academy Chafford Hundred

Do not send your child here. We withdrew our daughter after six years due to ongoing bullying. For over two years, she was repeatedly bullied by a teacher’s child. In just one year, we recorded 52 incidents involving kicking, punching, and verbal abuse. Each time, the school had an excuse or dismissed the behaviour. For a supposedly high-tech school, it was remarkable how often the CCTV was unavailable whenever an incident reflected badly on the school. Miss Arnell and the SENCO seemed more concerned with protecting the school’s reputation than safeguarding children’s wellbeing. The final straw came when our daughter was kicked & punched in the face during class after a teacher left the room. 5 other pupils confirmed the attack was unprovoked, yet staff reportedly reprimanded them and told us it was an “isolated incident”, suggesting our daughter had somehow antagonised the other child. When we were withdrawing her from the school Miss Arnell, the head teacher, told us that our daughter being withdrawn was for the best!!

Bad school
Power abusing staff
Do not follow even half of the things they say in the website
Bad communication with parents
Staff openly lie to parents

This school is a terrible place that would rather push your child to the brink of mental health problems and issues and put you under unnecessary pressure just to get high grades and to make the school look better

The Staff don't offer any kind of help and anyone who spends even 2 minutes reading through some actual reviews would quickly realise that this is a horrible school that would rather mentally harm your children just to make themselves good rather than help your children like they falsely advertise

its a very good school. I like it!

I was a student between 2014-2019 and have had a rollercoaster of a life at hach, i went from being a calm student to a rebellious, struggling, anxious and depressed student, i had a few good teachers and one loyal friend of 14 years but that didnt stop the majority of students and some teachers using my disabilities against me, there was two English teachers who wanted nothing more then for me to sucseed in life and always supported me when i was in a bad place but that wasnt enough, my maths teacher made my reputation look awful and made students look at me the wrong way. I was forced and pressured to come out as bisexual as bullies sensed me being different to others and disliked that. There was also a few affairs or sexual activity between teachers that majority of my peers and other school years became aware of, some were between pe teachers and English teachers.