Heritage High School

As the other reviews say, yes, the bullying is appalling and the teachers don't do a great deal about it. They are incredibly strict about uniform and it does disrupt learning when they check every second. This causes students to not be able to properly express themselves individually. However, some (not everyone) teachers are certainly amazing! Not only are they there for you but they cheer you up when you need a laugh. Yet, some teachers are sometimes racist and shame you for not being in the same boat as some people on an educational level. I am a current student at heritage and i have made some amazing memories and have yet to make some, but its certainly somewhere i wouldn't recommend for other students. They are not the best on mental health and the safeguarding team in my opinion are not to be trusted. The main team of teachers are quite hypocritical if i'm being honest. They tell us to maximise learning, however they introduce 'welcome sessions' which take up the entirety of 1st period. This causes us to miss out on a bunch of learning which is vital to our GCSE's. Some teachers clearly favourite others and some have gender preferences, which adds on to misogyny and also light sexism. Most male teachers act nicer and more accepting to male students, whereas female students like myself are often ignored. This can be said for the other way round. It sometimes makes the students often feel targeted by certain teachers which isn't very helpful as this causes outbursts, again disrupting learning.

SLT are useless and never communicate anything which causes massive issues and stress. Students are horrible and don't have basic manners. Never work here!

Tbh this school is rubbish girls are aloud to wear skirts without TIGHTS but boys can't wear shorts

Im not grading it coz what do you mean the teachers have permission to unlock the toilet door if your child is too long on the toilet!!!

This school makes me shake my head (the low taper fade meme is massive)

This school is shocking! It is on this SA list. They shout at you when you don’t get a question at they say “you wasn’t listening” or “you can your just being lazy”. They need a new headteacher and definitely a new change! I got bullied for being emo when I went there and nothing was done. Someone got pushed down the stairs and got two days isolation. They don’t have anything fun like non uniform and I will not be sending my child here when there in secondary school. They make out that they only say “kind words” yet none of the students there (apart from a fair few) are nice. They make the children act smart when offsted come in and tell them to be kind to offested and also say “hi” and say that we are the best school in the country. You get a sanction if you don’t have equipment and yes I know you get in trouble if you don’t bring your equipment to work but there children. They have enough stress with school work, tests and GCSE and ontop thinking what they want to do when they leave school. Yr 7 and 8 have to do line up and end up missing about 5 or 10 minutes of learning yet they complain that if you go to the toilet during lesson you disrupt others learning and miss there own learning. They have to go to the toilet during break even though they have only one block each which have six toilets for about 60, 70 children plus more because they have to share break with other years. At dinner year 7 and 8 have to sit in the dining hall with there form and not there friends and if you move tables to sit with your friend you get a sanction. Tjey are forced to come up to the front and say an appreciation before they can go outside and talk to their friends. Me and my friend spoke to ofsted and told them all the bad things yet ofsted still told them that there the best school.

This school is a complete and utter disgrace. The teachers are clearly underpaid and overworked. The students are rude and never seem to listen or do their work properly. The facilities are old and falling apart, and the food is barely edible. I would strongly advise against sending your children to this school, it is a complete waste of time and money.

this school is rubbish don't send your child as they will come out with crippling depression and have brain damage>

Can't believe children are getting away with bullying in this day and age. I've heard multiple accounts of bullying and the punishment being worse for forgetting equipment than what it is for the bullying! Surely the severity of bullying and the safety of children and them wanting to go to school and having a good time in eduction would be more important than forgetting a book or a ruler.

This school is absolutely TERRIBLE! I had been sexually assaulted by another student, and the school did absolutely nothing about it. The other student is actually still allowed to roam around school, capability of harassing other students. The education is genuinely quite good but their way of dealing with harassment is in fact, horrendous. I could make a whole list here of the things wrong with this school, everything is wrong and disgusting about it. I hope nobody else ends up like me.

New behaviour policy is welcomed. My child has better lessons now as they can concentrate without the disruption. Uniform is much smarter. Changes made for the better and will continue to improve

No, not a great school, rating it two stars because some teachers there are decent, Acting headteacher changed rules to everyone needs a black bag and clear pencil case, why you may ask? Because it improves our learning- It doesn't, I also deal a great amount of teasing in class I don't like and the teachers watch it happen They favourite the sportier kids And they say your not seated for pe but you can really tell it is as all the sporty kids are in a higher set then the not so sporty Brunch has been cut to 20 minute, and the wait line is around a 10 minute thing if your at the back. First period will now be 80 minutes so the kids can read for 20, they also don't help with mental health, they just say, oh it's cause your not paying attention to lessons or lessons will keep your mind of it

DO NOT BRING YOUR KIDS HERE… the staff are appalling , rest assured your child will come to this school being as intelligent as anything and leave with no knowledge . my experience here was terrible incidents are dealt with terribly, people are wrongly punished for the positive things , and bullying is ridiculous , in my time at this school i have never once felt safe and always had my guard up, there’s a reason this school has a 2.5 rating and i think we can all agree it should have less.

genuinely was such a hellish experience. mental health was at the worst it’s ever been & no one at the school cared. ended up being out of school tutored which was provided by cahms & the school never sent me any work, just seemed that they couldn’t be bothered. bullying was awful too & the pastoral staff were useless. the only teacher that offered any support was mrs hughes & without her i would not have made it through the 3 years i was there. the school is just awful with mental health issues & only cares if you’re getting top grades. would never recommend.

The school is alright, but the bullying at this school is terrible. Teachers don't do anything about it, they are just there to do their job, really. There was one time someone put milk on me and my friend, my mum phoned up the school and they said they would do something about it, but they did nothing. A couple days ago, A group of boys shoved one of their heads into my arm while I was trying to avoid them. Also, being a year 7 sucks too because they get the most bullying. The older years always target them. They also have strict uniform policies, particularly for the girls. Your skirt has to be at knee length, but then the PE skirt is just below your bottom, which doesn't make sense. Recently, they changed the school logo, so parents had to be out of a lot of money trying to replace the blazers and PE kit. I would not go to this school, but it is the only school within miles of my home, so I have to go there. Pretty much the only reason to be there is for an education, nothing else is actually good about it.

This School is a absolute JOKE!Your child has to be bullied for at least 3 months before they so something then do NOTHING!I'm not even going to give it 1 star should be a minus 5 tbh!They let bullying go on in class and ignore it! DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO THIS SCHOOL!

Honestly this school is the worse left 2 years ago was bullied for 4 years told to suck it up and in recent events they won’t let a child who is suffering from hair loss due to medical reasons and illness they won’t let her wear a cap or hoodie to improve her confidence even if it was personalised for the school would not recommend sending children here