Hinchingbrooke School

Hinchingbrooke is a lovely school my 2 children both attend and have both done science leaving primary, I would 100% recommend this school to anyone local and so far have had no issues

i go to the school, all they care about is there image, they are rated lower than one of my primarys I'm pretty sure that 'image' is ruined and the teachers give their children privileges. their learning methods dropped my grades and their highest students levels are a D!! all they care about is you turning up so they don't lose money.

the skl is a bit to strict on us students and we keep having diffent changes each skl year

My child experience severe bullying at this school and despite countless emails back and forth to so called ‘wellbeing officers’ and ‘student support officers’, nothing ever happened. I sent in evidence of my child being bullied, ranging from posts that contained threatening language about my child to showing phone calls that my child had received which told my child to ‘kill themselves’! Nothing was ever done from this, and to top it off my child was put in seating plans next to the bullies, the only advice we were given was that my child should remove social media so that they do not see the posts. The level of care is abysmal and disgusting, as is the teaching standard, none of the staff clearly know anything about their subjects or have any common sense and this school is in need of reform and intervention!

In all honesty this school cares more about image than anything else. Teachers spend more time ridiculing students on skirt lengths and what colour socks you're wearing than doing their actual jobs. Any good grades produced from that school are a product of the students hard work, not the schools. The SEND team at the school most certainly do not care about helping your child with learning and will repeatedly tell you to basically use your own resources and that 'there is nothing we can do'. Ironic for a fully funded SEND team if you ask me. The teachers are bored and clearly uninterested in their job and fail to want to help your child progress. No wonder the grades are slipping. The priorities in this school are abysmal and are in urgent need of improvement.

This school does not cope well with anything that isn’t perfect uniform and students that form a banter relationship with their teachers. I can say I was only ever fond of 1 teacher throughout my entire 5 years there, reason being that the care by your teachers and those in pastoral care don’t seem to actually care enough about students individually. The population of the school is so big that personalised care is out of the window. Of course, I cannot speak on behalf of any services they provide outside of teaching e.g therapy or behavioural management, but from what i experienced as a fairly normal kid, the care was appalling. Had one major account of bullying in year 10, contacted head of year, had one meeting between myself and said bully (went awfully) and that was the end of that. Teaching throughout COVID was one to none; primarily work sheets to fill in to teach myself the lessons, with hardly any zoom calls. Many teachers were not fit to have the role as a teacher, either being clearly under-qualified, think they have far too much power, uncaring, boring, the list could go on. I also found that as I aged and became more mature, I was still treated the exact same as that of a year 7. I was given little to no independence where it was needed, given instructions that were either self explanatory or undermining, very little help when I was clearly struggling in certain subjects, and most of all, an extortionately low amount of recognition when things did go right. It was always a how to do better or a well done to the best of the best or ‘you’ve all disappointed me in these grades’, never an in the moment thing of individual congratulations which ultimately lowered my self esteem in education more than anything. There’s really not much good I can say about this school. I could not stand another two years mentally there for sixth form so I moved to a different sixth form when year 12 came around. I realised just how much my new peers were treated differently in secondary school, to myself, and now how much differently I was being treated in that sixth form. You’re treated as nothing more than a number, with no individuality at Hinchingbrooke School.

Teaching is meh. Some of the teachers are good but not all. Some pastoral staff don’t seem to care about you - don’t help when you go to them with issues. Students aren’t brilliant - lots of low level disruption and teachers don’t control it well. The grounds are okay but a little poorly kept in places. Food from the canteen is alright, but the prices are ridiculously high.

gave no support whatsoever and had no respect for anyone’s privacy

Care more about uniform than anything but great education and history sat on the doorstep

Care more about uniform, piercings and physical appearance then students well being

The school care more about jumpers then about what’s happening within the school