Holy Cross Catholic High School

Holy Cross High School is an excellent choice for education. Our child feels happy and safe here, thriving in a supportive environment that offers a diverse range of subjects. The pupils always look smart and presentable, reflecting the school's commitment to excellence. We are truly pleased with our decision to enroll our child in this wonderful school!

I am speaking on behalf of my son. Who's son (my grandson )has ADHD and is on medication for this. At first his year head was excellent and helped parents get the diagnosis and he was supported. However since she left when he was in year eight his support seems to have disappeared. He is now 16 and takes his GCSEs this year and has had little or no support. He should be given extra time in mocs and main exams but has been refused as they say he doesn't need it. He is treated as a naughty child when he has problems that are clearly linked to ADHD. And his parents have tried to explain this They have fought very hard to get teachers to understand his difficulties but very few can be bothered. They do expect him to be disciplined when he is clearly in the wrong. So they don't make excuses for this. There are situations he cannot cope with and this is not being taken into consideration. Ignoring a child with ADHD is as bad as ignoring a disabled child. Do something before you fail these children altogether!! I expected more from a Catholic school.

Had a great time there but sometimes you felt like the teachers weren’t teaching enough to you before your gcses due to other students misbehaviour. They also used to lock the toilets during break and all lessons which was terrible because i knew someone who had an accident due to this.

Right this school is awful. Teachers will call you slags,tramps and basically slut shame you if you don't wear your clothes how they want you to. There has been many occasions where teachers have lied to parents to get their child in trouble when really it never happens. They teachers here like to use their position of authority to bully their pupils and belittle them then they wonder way they got no respect from them and have them refusing to come into school. Its just a bad school do not send ur child here. (from a soon to be ex pupil)xxxx also the food tech teacher is the only decent teacher.

The teaching there is okay. Like my GCSE grades were great given the circumstances. However, the school does have its many faults. For example, the fire alarm was going off during my maths class and the teacher told us to wait until we'd finished the question to go out of the classroom. Luckily it was just a drill. This was never looked into despite all of the complaints that were put in for it. Another example is that the bullying there doesn't get sorted out. They try and then when they fail, they give up. There are even teachers that bully kids. I remember once, I was in after-school detention and the teacher was saying bad stuff about the class to me and trying to get me to join in. There have been instances where they have sorted this kind of stuff out like when they fired a maths teacher because he cheered when one of the kids in his class had broken his arm and therefore wouldn't be in school for a while. There are some good teachers there that put your education before your punishment. My science teacher was amazing, if a teacher wouldn't reschedule detention to a day that I didn't have a revision session, she'd come and get me and bring me to her revision class. The last point that I can think of is mental health issues. The school does pretty much nothing to help with this. I have friends who have taken days off so that they can get into the right mindset to be able to do the simple things not to mention going to school. And then they just send so much work home to them and it stresses them out way too much and then they're met with detentions left, right, and center. So if you're thinking of sending your child here, I strongly suggest that you reconsider. This is coming from an ex-pupil of Holy Cross. If you want your child to get a good education AND still finish after the 5 years without added on mental health issues then please don't send your child here.

Awful, got bullied for 5 years and they never did anything. Teachers are horrible to students and have even slut shamed.