Hellesdon High School

Absolutely awful school. Teachers allow the students to police it how they see fit. Bullying is part of the culture and widely accepted and explained away.

The teaching staff need to be replaced with more experienced teachers who understand a new and evolving environment for the sake of the students. Not old school teachers who think standing out side of the school gates smoking cigarettes is ok.

Wow where to start, if you are thinking of sending your children there, DON'T!! Teachers need to get a grip, when I was there ofstead said 'Needs Improving' and they haven't done one thing, the teachers give you trauma!! And no help and don't get me started on the toilets I had half of my lunch waiting in queue and one time I went to the toilet and the teacher shouted, 'Come on girls etc your wee out' like WTF!! and I never went to the toilet at school again!!

This school will ban Hoodies due to the constant use of them during lunch time, but they’re completely fine with a Year 7 in a Furry Tail walking around Also doesn’t help that they massively favourite LGBTQ students over the majority of hard working students It’s disgusting

This school has its share of below subpar aspects, but it also has many stupendous moments, too. I'm rating Hellesdon High School 4 stars because, overall, I think the positives outweigh the negatives. Almost all staff at this school are astounding, supportive and helpful. There's the odd few that degrade the learning experience (as in the case of every school), but they're definitely anomalies. The facilities at HHS are reasonable, and I do appreciate the amount of courses they offer at GCSE level. I further admire their recent implementation of new security measures, adding new fences and gates, a massive upgrade from their previous system, which relied on signs telling visitors to report to reception. I won't be touching on the inferior parts of Hellesdon High School in my review, there are plenty of other reviews on SchoolParrot for that. To conclude, is this school any good? Yes, definitely. Does this school have downsides? Yes, absolutely. Does every school have downsides? Yes, certainly.

I was a student at this school a few years ago they did not give help i needed in lessons when i ask for help they said we not lots more kids whith needs that need it and when i told them i was sad they didnt do a lot to help and made me so depressed and not happy there i used get bullied a lot when i used to tell my head of house he didnt really care in hellesdon high there was food on floor every where in the school the toliets once when need the toliets the toliets had a lot litter in toliets and also when toliets the blood and poo and wee down toliets poo up wall and pad for periods laying on the floor

Honestly i go here, and i think its pretty good

Honestly such a bad school, they treat you so terribly the teachers dont care at all about your mental health and well being, they kicked a student out yesterday because of her mental health problems saying they cant deal with it, like what type of school is that its horrible if you go to a school you will expect to be treated kindly and not horribly, staff make you cry, when you ask to go to the toilet they say no or sometimes they call on call but they never show up, last year i heard an SLT member saying they cant be bothered to collect the toilet requests because its a “waste of their time” and “the people who are naughty need the attention” like no, if someone needs the toilet, LET THEM GO!! If you teach a child not to go to the toilet for extended periods of times they can end up with serious health problems, kidney stones exc its not fair at all and if you’re thinking on sending your child here please dont its the worst ever if i ever had the opportunity to leave i will take it, the students are as bad as well, you get bullied death stares older years picking on you and just being horrible in general its not fair on little children who go to a school for an education to be treated like this, you wouldnt take your child to a school to get picked on and bullied, you would want them to be taken to a safe environment with lovely support and kind people to help them get a good education

It a great school really nice people

do NOT go to the sixth form here GOD it is AWFUL. teachers just read words off a powerpoint to you and expect you to remember it all with little help. the lessons arent interactive i literally could teach myself better at home with the help of the random bloke on youtube. and for visual learners myself theres just no chance youre making it anywhere. not only that the 6th form team are horrendous, anything “confidential” is not confidential in the slightest, say anything to them and the whole school knows about it. theyre all assholes man. complete pricks. if you dont like kids dont work at a school?? 0 respect for our mental health, if you want time away from lessons because youre on the verge of suicide, doesnt matter because “your grades are more important” realistically they just want to boast their “amazing” final grades after torturing hundreds of kids for 2 years. literally no human rights allowed here istg. not only that every single thing that happens to you goes straight on the phone to your parents, so my average day here is suffer in the dirty classrooms listening to an old man read words on a screen to me trying my best to lock it in my brain before i fall asleep, then after my minimal break time in the shithole we call the common room, i go back to the awful lessons but this time with an old lady reading words on a screen. then i go home and get yelled at by my parents because the school sold me as a dogshit student when realistically the school is dogshit. the homework expectations from some of the teachers is insane, i do not have time to study, do the 55 homework assignments i got set, work my part time job, LIVE MY LIFE, EXIST, none of that. also back to the common room that is the most uncomfortable place ever there is 0 ventilation like you cant even open the damn windows so im breathing in the rancid air other students are producing, whilst sitting shoulder to shoulder with the 2 thousand people trying to fit on the room designed for like 30 people at most. if one person in that room has a cold, the entire sixth form gets it. i swear there is literally 0 respect for the people that go here you are put into mental torture for however many years you decide to suffer here for. you never catch a break, you can never live your life like normal, youll never be treated like an adult even though this place L O V E S to advertise the “we treat you like adults” thing. im genuinely so done here please if youre planning on going here pick any other school i would rather take a bullet to my brain than spend another second here ggs

the teachers don’t let you go to the toilet during lessons only if you have a medical card. some teachers dont actually talk about anything but the lesson and dont care about student’s opinions or ways to make the lessons more interesting and making the student want too come to lessons.

Im a student at hellesdon and it is my first year here it is not a good school. The toilet situation is horrible having to cue at break and lunch half the time i miss all my break due to waiting in line. As a girl im not allowed to go during lessons and when on period i have to tell the teacher which can be male or female. Even then i still have to wait for a teacher to come take me to the medical office (most of the time a teacher won’t end up coming) when i’m reality i could walk a minute to the nearest toilet. I have a brother and sister at hellesdon and when i went through a tough time my issue was compared to how much harder things for my siblings were which made me feel worse.I’ve had teachers be rude to me because they dislike my brother. Overall i would not recommend even if you asked me 100 times i would always say don’t send your child here

while i was attending hellesdon highschool 2 savage year sevens put me in between 2 sets of lockers and crushed me, i had 14 broken ribs and a broken femur. hellesdon has tried their hardest to cover it up with bribes but i am BREAKING THE SILENCE! do NOT send your children here, EVER!

Do not come to Hellesdon High Sixth Form, the sixth form is made up from a small group of people, these people are awful. There is such a lack of communication between the staff and students as well as this, confidentiality does not exist at all. You try and tell one of the Sixth form team about something and they either spread it to each other or tell the entire Sixth Form. As a sixth form, we as students expect staff and the sixth form to let us be independent, with our own choices and ideas, but it still feels like we are being controlled and aren't allowed to be are own individuals. As well as this, if you tell the sixth form team about anything regarding the teachers, students side is never heard. We get accused of 'bullying' the teacher for standing up to them. Unbelievable. For any 16 year olds thinking of applying- DON'T.

i’ve previously left this school due to it being awful, they don’t care about your well-being , they moan and punish you when your off due to your well being and overall a terrible school do not go there i was there from 2017-2022 it was hell. I can say that only a handful of the staff was caring (maybe about 4)

I would avoid this school..! Totally lack of understanding about safeguarding when it comes to children and their needs

People only care about your uniform or if your skirts not at their expectations they tell us we are the problem if we don’t put our 100% in because we wake up early hour 5 days a week and expect us to have the most positive mindsets. people have vapes and do drugs and other disgusting things and they punish them for that but things like using our education as a excuse to lock the toilets people with sanitary reasons to use the toilets cant they have to sit through two hour lessons or even three hour lessons to use the toilets even at break they make you line up and they give you a couple squares of toilet roll to use it’s pathetic and they give random bag searches even if you give them a good reason not to they still do it they go through our private spaces to make their school look more secure the headteachers are only nice when ofstead turns up our review should be below a “good” it’s far from good and I understand why everyone gets pulled out of school because of this and everyone in hellesdon high school will agree that this school needs some serious change.

I find it so hard to believe that the toilets in this school have no doors no hand soap, shit and period blood on the walls,it’s not fit for human sanitation no wonder the absence of students is bad because you can catch infections there.

This school is absolutely appalling ,the amount of bullying is Astounding and the fertility’s are not fit for humans I wouldn’t even send my dog there.It seems to me the teachers are frightened of the students because children seem to be Abel to misbehave as they choose.please avoid this school like it’s the plague,if you care for your child do not I mean do not send them here.if you want drugs vapes or stolen drugs just visit the boys toilets !!