Isca

I just wanted to thank everyone at Isca: so many ppl have really supported me and I now know what I want to do when I leave school. I have so many friends here and won’t want to leave next year

If your a parent with a child with additional needs. You don't hear from the send team unless, you go to the year head. The reset system, is shocking. You miss lessons, which are needed for there gcses. They care more about rules, which some are ridiculous. Always challenge the school if your child struggling. And read their policies thoroughly

My child has a Special Needs Statement, so when looking for a school that would best support him I chose Isca Academy. Being the smallest school and their Mission Statement it really did look like the best choice for him. Sadly this has not been his experience at all. Bullying has been an ongoing problem, repeatedly reported to the school. I have been given nothing but platitudes from all levels at this poor excuse for a school. My child’s experience is decidedly more disturbing. After constant verbal taunting, insults and physical attacks my son is understandably distressed. So what have the faculty done to support and protect him? Their answer has been to continue the torture he is suffering, by treating his distress with a barrage of detentions and lesson exclusions. This place had a lazy and toxic culture towards my son, counting down the few months he has left before his exams. I should have moved him a year ago, but foolishly believed their assurances. I hate to imagine how many other children with Special Needs are also suffering. If looking for a school with a child needing support, please do not put your child through this terrible place.

My daughter attends this school and has been completely brainwashed by rules. Do you really think uniform is more important than learning ? This school obviously thinks that way. Detentions or having to wear second hand shoes for non polish able shoes although they look absolutely fine . My daughter got a detention for not having a pencil, absolutely appalling . This school is full of gimmicks, instead of students, pupils , etc they call their students “scholars” . They seem to be very determined as they are renaming everything to scholar ……. It’s out right stupid, there’s no reason to do this. It’s an OK school - it’s not the worst in the country, but it seriously needs a new head teacher to stop all these “scholarly” gimmicks.

Do not send your child to this school If they are neurodivergent. The teachers and staff are ableist , abd yiur child will leave the school with out an EHCP and feeling suicidal.

Worst school ever if you’re thinking of sending your child here think again I hate this school so much and it’s the teachers fault they only care about uniform and jewellery than anything else they don’t care about our education at all I hate the head teacher and all the people that make the stupid rules I feel physically sick everyday before entering that school because of how nervous it makes me. They don’t care about your mental health as long as you have the right uniform and are doing what you’re told.

I joined as a yr7 student in 2019. At that time it was considered a great school and had a good reputation, but since then it’s completely gone downhill. First it was completely banning phones for no apparent reason (they mentioned something about how phones stop us socialising or some other total bulls*** like that), which most other secondary schools don’t do anyway. The uniform policy has also become a lot stricter, we have to wear uncomfortable leather (or vegan leather) shoes with a fully buttoned up shirt, tie and blazer / jumper, and if you don’t have a solid reason for disobeying the uniform policy then you either have to replace what’s missing (shoes, tie etc) or get a full day’s reset (reset is just a nicer way of saying isolation). Because, obviously, looking presentable is much more important than actually learning. If you’re late then you have to miss tutor / form at the start of the day, then get another hour long detention at the end of the day, as well as write a long paragraph saying how “as scholars, we believe that every second counts”. Because obviously, punishing students into being purely obedient is much more important than actually learning. Speaking of the world scholar, that’s what they call us instead of students or kids or anything normal which, I guess, is supposed to make us feel better about ourselves except it backfires and just ends up sounding patronising if anything. As well as this there’s also more teachers leaving that aren’t being replaced, just this term before the summer holidays a lot of teachers left and my whole last week was mostly supply teachers. Im not sure exactly how many left but if I recall correctly there’s only 3-5 teachers in the school who’ve been here for more than 4 years now. I don’t blame them though, if it’s this bad for students I can only imagine how tough it is for a teacher who’s barely paid enough to afford a weeks worth of food, though that topic is for another time.

worst school , was so good for a couple years i had high expectations and good staff , new staff came in it got really strict and spoke to us all like children even yesr 11s that are pretty mature and also young adults , so rude and even half the teachers didn’t want to be there even spoke to parents and older ls like kids , honestly just a horrible environment and bad for mental health i really struggled at this school

worst school ever I absolutely hate this school and the teachers there they care more about the length of our skirts and if our shirts are tucked in then our actual education the headteacher is the worst thing to happen to that school and the others that joined when she did.

So bad l want to jump of a bridge

Awful school. Would not recommend that anybody work there.

They don’t say what they are going to do even if they are told be upper management and they always let you down

Teachers never show up, the head teacher can't run the school properly. So many bully's and I never learnt a single thing as we were just expected to copy the whole lesson off a board. There are always broken windows and toilets which take months to get fixed

It is not a good school, out of everyone in the school only 2 staff members care for my mental health. The rest are no help at all towards it and it sucks

Go to exeter prison at least you can go tolet when ever you want, the school only cares about its reptiaation, go here if you hate life.

A few years ago, this school was amazing. Teachers, behaviour, extra-curricular, etc. Over a very short period of recent time, it has become oppressive, coercive, and really really unpopular. Significant staff turnover and what looks like recruitment problem. Pointless alleged and compulsory ‘enrichment activities’ mean longer school day. Overly oppressive teaching expectations means teachers use scripts and pupils are expected to give scripted responses apparently. Just weird. Deputy head seems just to scare everyone, . Headteacher just been sacked, she is probably responsible. But is it really her fault? Just following trust policies?

Adult school bullying was not sorted atall was told to shrug off now left with crippling mental health so that brilliant would suggest to not go honestly traumatising.

so i have been going to the school for 2 years now. I wish I that could be back in year 6 and be able to choose a new school not only are most of the staff bad but they are also rude they do not deal with bulling neither do they care. PLEASE DO NOT GO TO ISCA

All I'm saying is that you should probably just not even do anything BC most teachers don't even respond and you will get in trouble for the most pettyest things.