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Heolddu Comprehensive School
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Shit school
Bollocks school
Shit school they care more about uniform than the students they don’t let you wear a coat even when it’s pissing down with rain and you must keep your blazer on at all times even in the scorching heat
This school is hell
Before I start this I would like to say I’m only a teen and VERY dyslexic and a lil dumb so I will try and spell everything correctly and do correct grammar but it’s not going to be perfect so I apologise.
This school was hell. I am a person who had ptsd anxiety dyslexia dyscalculia and in the process of a autism and adhd diagnosis I also regularly suffer panic attacks due to ptsd and I have friends with disabilitys as well the staff are HORRIBLE with helping although I have met some genuine staff who have been good all but 2 have either been sacked for no reason or left cuz how thay’d been treated and the staff/ lsa who are horrible get kept I once had someone who’s ment to be working with the kids who had autism refer to kids as low functioning and high functioning which if you don’t know is EXTREMELY disrespectful to people with autism, this same lsa left a room full of flight risks on there own and would just genuinely not do her job bc why not. I am transgender by the way and for the whole years of end of 7 and whole of 8 I was bullied and it hasn’t exactly stopped since I’ve just started avoiding people which is horrible and shouldn’t happen I had people open the locks gender neutral toilets and scream names at me and bang on my door trying to open that (basically the toliets are one room that has a lock on it with a single stall thats also lockable and then outside of the stall in the room there’s a sink) staff and students constantly calling me she TWO YEARS after I had came out. during year 8 I was going through a hell of a lot and I had told the school how much I had been struggling and it was brushed off I then tried to take my life and I was asked why didn’t I inform a teacher or speak about how I was feeling, again during this year I explained that I was struggling and didn’t want to be here and nothing really was done AGAIN. Again during year 8 I had told a counsellor that I really didn’t like my step-brother and he made me uncomfortable cuz I thought he was Werid I then had a phone call home saying he was sexually assaulting me.. later that year (cuz for some reason I hadn’t learnt my lesson) I opened up to a different school counsellor about thinking I’d been sexually assaulted by someone but didn’t really know how to know for sure, I then had a phone call home saying my mother was sexually assaulting me… that was not what I had said at all, like I said I suffer with panic attacks and this one time I had a big panic attack and my friend was comforting me and we were told to go to lesson and we refused (mind you at this point I have a pass saying I can stay out of lesson for a bit) my friend eventually goes but I still refuse I then had to deputy head force me to go into my lesson and told me “he had no time to run around after me.”.. WHAT?? I had just been sobbing two minutes ago. At one point I was in a really low place as my best friend had just took his life two days ago and I had just found out the night before and I told a lsa that I basically was feeling extremely suicidal and depressed and wanted to join him her advise was to have a breather and take a bath good thing I didn’t cuz I would have drowned myself she also said at some point there’s nothing u can do to bring him back so don’t cry he wouldn’t want that and I don’t know if she thought that was comferting or something?? But let me tell you now it certainly was not. Heolduu will try and lie and claim that thay care about mental health but thay don’t thay only care when ur in a hospital bed and then after like a week there over it and it’s like it never happened. There’s so many more story’s that I could add to this I genuinely can go on for hours the only thing that made this horrible school good was the few friends I made and the scraps.
This school was hell. I am a person who had ptsd anxiety dyslexia dyscalculia and in the process of a autism and adhd diagnosis I also regularly suffer panic attacks due to ptsd and I have friends with disabilitys as well the staff are HORRIBLE with helping although I have met some genuine staff who have been good all but 2 have either been sacked for no reason or left cuz how thay’d been treated and the staff/ lsa who are horrible get kept I once had someone who’s ment to be working with the kids who had autism refer to kids as low functioning and high functioning which if you don’t know is EXTREMELY disrespectful to people with autism, this same lsa left a room full of flight risks on there own and would just genuinely not do her job bc why not. I am transgender by the way and for the whole years of end of 7 and whole of 8 I was bullied and it hasn’t exactly stopped since I’ve just started avoiding people which is horrible and shouldn’t happen I had people open the locks gender neutral toilets and scream names at me and bang on my door trying to open that (basically the toliets are one room that has a lock on it with a single stall thats also lockable and then outside of the stall in the room there’s a sink) staff and students constantly calling me she TWO YEARS after I had came out. during year 8 I was going through a hell of a lot and I had told the school how much I had been struggling and it was brushed off I then tried to take my life and I was asked why didn’t I inform a teacher or speak about how I was feeling, again during this year I explained that I was struggling and didn’t want to be here and nothing really was done AGAIN. Again during year 8 I had told a counsellor that I really didn’t like my step-brother and he made me uncomfortable cuz I thought he was Werid I then had a phone call home saying he was sexually assaulting me.. later that year (cuz for some reason I hadn’t learnt my lesson) I opened up to a different school counsellor about thinking I’d been sexually assaulted by someone but didn’t really know how to know for sure, I then had a phone call home saying my mother was sexually assaulting me… that was not what I had said at all, like I said I suffer with panic attacks and this one time I had a big panic attack and my friend was comforting me and we were told to go to lesson and we refused (mind you at this point I have a pass saying I can stay out of lesson for a bit) my friend eventually goes but I still refuse I then had to deputy head force me to go into my lesson and told me “he had no time to run around after me.”.. WHAT?? I had just been sobbing two minutes ago. At one point I was in a really low place as my best friend had just took his life two days ago and I had just found out the night before and I told a lsa that I basically was feeling extremely suicidal and depressed and wanted to join him her advise was to have a breather and take a bath good thing I didn’t cuz I would have drowned myself she also said at some point there’s nothing u can do to bring him back so don’t cry he wouldn’t want that and I don’t know if she thought that was comferting or something?? But let me tell you now it certainly was not. Heolduu will try and lie and claim that thay care about mental health but thay don’t thay only care when ur in a hospital bed and then after like a week there over it and it’s like it never happened. There’s so many more story’s that I could add to this I genuinely can go on for hours the only thing that made this horrible school good was the few friends I made and the scraps.
DONT ATTEND
this school SUCKS its so bad all the kids that struggle with mental health are not helped at all and are made WORSE by this school and a lot of them are incredibly suicidal because of this school and the teachers. children with mental health fear coming to this school as the mental health team suck at their job and lash out at the kids.
the food is rubbish and takes like its come fresh out of a science lab its all chemical no real food to it.
the classes suck and their is a big issue with bullying.
Religious Education needs to be looked at as the teacher is never in lesson and always leaves the class unattended. in my time at this school i probably had the teacher in my lesson for full at most 10 times. they always go off to gossip next door.
bullying is a big problem and nothing is done to sort it, and the punishments are always going to the victim rather than the bully.
DO NOT GO.
the food is rubbish and takes like its come fresh out of a science lab its all chemical no real food to it.
the classes suck and their is a big issue with bullying.
Religious Education needs to be looked at as the teacher is never in lesson and always leaves the class unattended. in my time at this school i probably had the teacher in my lesson for full at most 10 times. they always go off to gossip next door.
bullying is a big problem and nothing is done to sort it, and the punishments are always going to the victim rather than the bully.
DO NOT GO.
English
Don’t like it
Teachers are mean I got threatened isolation for newly peeing my self so I walked out and I do it again I’m in isolation
Every class
Heolddu is bollocks
This school doesn’t care about their students they care about presentation rather than their actual students especially mrs Poole and miss dacey
Former Student
Heolddu Comprehensive School care more about how your uniform looks than how you’re feeling. They say “express yourself” but then when we do, we get put into isolation or sent home. I was getting bullied up Heolddu and when I went to a teacher for help, she told me that it would result in everyone (including me) being excluded, even though I was the one begging for help. When I told the teachers I was moving they told me that “there’s many other kids they would like to see go before me” but still do nothing about it.
poor environment and quality
This school give me and my friends hell they cared more about what you wear than your mental health they don't support you with your mental health and then question why most of the kids in that school being disrupted or leaving school premise's they put you down as being a bad kid if we are struggling with homework and inform them about it they have a go at you the school in general is disgusting the sealings fell off in front of me and it nearly hit me on the head they put the blame on you without knowing the full story they accused my friend of drug dealing which isn't true my friend got straight A and they believed she was drug dealing without no evidence to back it up they are lazy teachers that scream at you and expect you to take off your coat when it is raining really bad out side the school uniform is terrible such as got to wear dolly shoes, not aloud to wear a skirt even if its boiling, got to have a blazer on at all times even in the heat, they will take your school jumper of you and send it to reception even though it has the school logo on it, they provide you with no equipment and no recourse's in over all this school put me and my friends through hell shout out to miss price, miss miss mills, miss bibey they was the only ones that treated the kids with a bit of respect and didnt shout at us for random reasons those teachers deserve the world and if you go to this school you will understand the hell they put the kids through
Don't go Here
Absolutely awful one of the teachers who taught bullied one of my close friends and made him have bad mental health he suffered ptsd serverly and extreme anxiety where he hasn't left his house in two years teachers need to be punished here as he has turned to extreme depression 2 years along the line he's not sociable and I was one of the pupils there who witnessed this happen as I was always there.
Do not send your children here!
Probably one of the worst schools I have ever attended in my life. Some of the teachers were brilliant and extremely helpful however they tend to care more about what you look like than your actual education. At one point my trousers had ripped and I wore black jeans which were completely unnoticeable compared to the normal school trousers and yet I was pulled aside and screamed at as if I’d just committed a crime. They have absolutely no incite into mental health issues and do not take them seriously. A few of the teachers continually caused me to have panic attacks and one teacher actually mocked me after I’d had a panic attack! The ceilings were collapsing, the corridors were full of ants, the toilets were always dirty. The food that was served was absolutely not enough to nourish a growing teenager. At one point the pasta pots were reduced to one layer of pasta (about 8-9 pieces) and a laughably small amount of sauce. My mental health had decreased so much to the point were I had to have some time off and they actually fined my single working parent who works 3 jobs £500. I hated my entire time here and I wouldn’t wish the absolute hell that was heolddu on any other person.
Heolddu review
This school is ok however they care more about what our trousers look like than our education. When half of the teachers were off we just had general supplies that didn’t teach us and mainly just looked after us. Other than that the school is ok for a small town but a lot of us would move if we could.
I had the time of my life here!
Loved it at Heolddu! The food is pretty good, the staff are lovely for the most part (more on that later) and there is enough space that you can breathe and find yourself a place away from people if you need it. If you read my review of St Gwlady's, you'll know that I hated it there but Heolddu was the polar opposite for me. The science program is really interesting, the mathematics is taught in ways you can understand with many different methods taught so you have more chances of succeeding, the library was exquisite (only downside being a small budget for new books), the tech department taught many skills that I do actually use today and the art classes were well taught and I did learn a thing or two despite not being much of an artist. English teachers were superb and I did thoroughly enjoy German for the one year I did it in year 7. Sports facilities are excellent which is to be expected with them sharing a space with a leisure centre I guess, the performing arts classes were so much fun and informative while the drama teacher was there. I actually made friends that I still talk to there and would not pass up the time I spent there for the world. Of course there are downsides which I'll get into quickly. The main problem with Heolddu is the old space it's in; many ceilings, walls and doors are damaged from the years and there has been 2 instances in recent years when the students couldn't go it because the ceilings collapsed from weather damage. Second issue I have is how tight the budget is all around, a maximum of £200 going to the library for books and a lot less for the performing arts department who has had to just deal with broken instruments for years. I also don't care for the new head as they have taken the freedom from the students completely. They have made it so we are not allowed in any corridor or any classroom (even unused ones) without a teachers permission and attendance, only in the main eating hall or library which was closed most of my Year 11 due to flood damage. We are also not allowed to use our mobile phones for any reason without a teacher's permission even on our break time so we just have to stare at the wall with a raging headache due to the noise of the entire school cramped into one room when raining. Heating was also not turned on in the morning unless it was in the minus and we were forced to take our coats off as soon as we walked in the door (even though we still had to go outside again due to the dumb one way system) and not wear them in class even if we were freezing and had a cold. I managed to find my own solutions to these problems which I won't be sharing mainly in case the management reads this and sees flaws in the power the new head is trying to grasp at. I still appreciate this school though, they taught me most of what I know now and (for the most part) encouraged my joy for a certain activity that, if mentioned, will kind of make the whole anonymous feature of this website redundant. I do recommend it as it is probably one of the best schools personality wise in the borough.
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