Holy Rood RC High School

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Its a poor school with racism

I agree as someone who goes here, the school is totally nonense aka a nasty building configuration, just go to some local school over travelling hours on the buses plus the local bus service to holyrood could be better

Community space is heavily restricted due to the private-public partnetship Teachers are clearly uninterested The name Holyrood & perfect Statistics has 0 meaning Holyrood is good /decent as portobello down th road is way better!!

This school should be embarrassed the they are not nice! The teacher’s as gaslighters and close ranks then are not able to listen to pupils. They don’t support pupils who require extra help. They ridicule dyslexic pupils!!!! They ignore the significant drug issue they have within the school and Calvary park. They don’t take safegrauding off children seriously I would go as far as to say they don’t care. The school largely lie about events to cover their run backs and to protect the educational ratings. They don’t answer the phone nor call you back. They don’t notice when kids are absence and use as out of date policy. The school has a significant racism problem including its outdated system for dealing with racism which involves giving the perpetrator a green card. Three green cards would equal a consequence other than that racist behaviour is largely ignored. It’s embedded in the school culture.. one year group of children even organised a blacks versus Whites football game. This was the white pupils versus the black pupils.. this was not even used as a learning to and showed how embedded the racist culture is within the school. Avoid sending your children to the school at all costs underneath the surface. The school is a toxic and dangerous environment..

genuine dogshit, accused of racism several time, school only cares about attendance, ignores when students show clear signs of bad mental health and the deputy head teacher as well as the year heads all bias the staff over students in all situations no matter what, receptionists are aggressive and barely listen to pupils. disgusting place that needs to be demolished. The education is the only thing that actually is good about this place.

Holyrood Rc Highschool is truly a horror school, racist teachers, homophobia everywhere.The teachers claim our mental wellbeing is the most important but this school could care less about it. This school only help the students that have an attendance over 90% the ones below are treated like prisoners in a cell. HORRIBLE

Currently an s4 student, I’m just starting this off with saying the year heads are brain dead. The head teacher likes preaching to us that we’re a “proud school community with dignity” when the girls bathrooms have missing locks and doors and it’s a hotbox of vape fumes in there. The only reason we wear uniform is because we’ll get yelled at for it, not because we love “upholding the school code” Teachers are a mixed bag. Most are nice, some just don’t know how to teach. I’ve had maybe two I enjoy seeing but most don’t do anything to make the class environment the slightest bit nicer for anyone who isn’t a stuck-up chav girl. They’ll genuinely giggle or laugh hearing those groups of girls gossip about some new victim. Speaking of, all the chavs and gangsters in this school is abysmal. I genuinely hope they do something about those clones wandering about the school. You know how insanely annoying and humiliating it is being in the bathroom just to have your door kicked in by one of those ugly rip-off barbies that’ll end up in some low-end street on London begging for money?? I can’t even will myself to get my attendance up. The school is depressing. The food isn’t too bad, at least. About attendance, year heads also like shouting at you to get it up and say they’ll bar you from going into s5 if the attendance is too low. What did you people expect, genuinely? Having to be in an environment where the main school body is either blondie clones, 13 year old groups of boys that make you feel like they’ll try something when you walk past, or just outright weirdos who can’t practice regular hygiene, no one would be tempted to keep up perfect attendance without needing a mandatory for the sake of mental health. In any case, thinking about this school gives me a headache, so I’m ending the review here.

worst school i have ever been to in my life. forced to wear smart uncomfortable clothes. attendance/head teachers dont give a shit about how you feel they only care about attendance. was threatened by council becuase of my attendance. i think i speak for a few people when i say the school is terrible. only thing i look forward to is seeing my friends and then going home. i would say the only good thing about this school is the education.

This school is fantastic

Fantastic School! i would absolutely advise you to go there. I moved from queenferry community high school and holy rood was SO much better

Pupils subjected to bullying and threatening behaviour from several senior teaching staff. Causing mental health issues to pupils concerned. Real lack of empathy. Not interested in non academic pupils. False accusations made against pupils. No apologies given when the accusations are confirmed as false. Pupils then victimised further to prove their accusations are confirmed. Sadly. There are real concerns for the pupils at this school as a direct result of senior teaching staffs behaviour.

st augustine are allowed to wear bonnets and durag etc.. and this holyrood do not respect black cultural accessories. st augustine even made a assembly saying you can wear it but this school well call it a hat which is very disrespectful to black people. am in class doing my work and the head teacher walks in and says “take off that hat” i didn’t want to but she didn’t leave until i took it off. this is very unfair and they should respect black people. i feel like people need to be educated about our black cultures and the things we wear,the reason we wear bonnets and durags is to protect our hair, so i don’t think that it should be a problem to wear it in school. there shouldn’t be a problem with black cultural accessories. am in s3 and i can’t even move school because am not allowed

very sexist, boys can wear joggers in pe but girls cant? boys dont get in trouble for wearing joggers or jeans during school but girls get noticed straight away. head of maths department is very racist, he got suspended but why not fired? the school building isnt very good either, floods inside easily. canteen workers are quite rude and food there isnt the best. i do not recommend this as a pupil in the school atm.

absolutely horrible

Head of maths is a racist who picks on students for his own entertainment. This school employs terrible staff who cause mental health problems for majority of their students. As a students I do not recommend.

racism, homophobia, bullying, sexism ect. as a pupil i don’t recommend

The headteacher is so racist. My year head is racist and the policeman is racist. The school does not care about their coloured students at all.