John Taylor Free School

My child has experienced a lot with this school, to say the least. Although, the school tends to be a lot better than many within this area, there are still many flaws.

The school's layout is big and well-organised. Classrooms are labelled specifically and can be easily found. However, the hallways still experience a lot of bustling, despite the tape informing student where to go. My child did say that the hallways are often blocked. This causes many issues when you need to go somewhere important. Even if you have permission to go somewhere, you will always be turned back.

The teachers tend to be very biased and pick favourites. This has caused a lot of gaps in my child's learning when a teacher has gone into very little detail for obvious reasons. I can't say the quality of the education is great either. My child often experiences boredom due to already understanding this. She states the classes are practically useless and she'd be better teaching herself.

Bullying and the other students' behaviour are a huge problem within the school. The school's bullying problem has caused my child to feel overwhelmed within the environment. She often feels ill just thinking of school. She's been made fun of for countless things and nothing has been done. When she's gone to wellbeing, they've mainly turned her around. If she does manage to get in the office, they let her cry in there for about five minutes and turn her back to class, regardless of whether she's ready or not. I know this is not the first time a pupil has been felt like this which honestly makes it worst.

As a member of this school, i agree that the students get treated terribly here. All the staff care about is the way you present your self (appearance) instead of education. I am constantly getting told to put my blazer on, take bracelets off, take jewellery out, tuck shirt in, take makeup off and loads more. Normally, kids are meant to enjoy to go to school but every morning i wake up dreading it as all i do is get told off about the way i look. That is none of their business whatsoever. The way i do my hair, the jewellery i wear doesn’t affect them in any shape or form. The rules are honestly just way too strict here. You can’t even show your ankles!! This school couldn’t give two shits about your mental health. I spent half of year 8 feeling alone and scared to talk to the teachers about the way i felt because they don’t deal with things correctly. This school treats kids so unfairly and try and suspend kids at the most pathetic reasons. I once got suspended for not taking my makeup off, so the teachers would rather me miss my education that could benefit me in the future all for some concealer and blush. Things in this school need to change immediately. Their are only a few good staff members there including Miss Lucien, Miss Rodgers and Miss Trubshaw. That’s literally it. This school is a jail. Think twice before sending your kids to this school, you will regret it.

The beginning of the year is a challenging experience for both parents (especially for parents of kids in year 7) and staff. Even if Diamond bus did not anticipate their needs very well, the staff of JTFS was great. I really appreciate their involvement in solving the transport issues. The fact that one member of the staff was always present at the bus station really helped my daughter to gain a little bit of confidence. Great job!

john taylor free school have now changed to buses to be public ones, this means my child has to take 2 buses in the morning, 2 to get home. at least for my area. I think this is not ideal at all since my child has to leave the house by 7:25 to get on her buses, and then return on the buses back. not to mention, with school making the lunches shorter and starting the day 10 minutes earlier, they have shortened the school day to 3:20, but unfortunately my child cannot have that privilege because there making them wait 30 minutes for the bus to town, and then get on another bus which results to them to arriving at home at 5pm or later. this also worries me about how dark it can get in winter at 5pm. i dont want my 11 year old child to be walking in the dark on their own and waking that early. gas is very expensive so driving my child everyday to school and picking them up is extremely inconvenient. I wouldn’t recommend this school also because there never do anything about bullying except from talking to the child, my child states the chicken is often basically raw, some teachers can be unfair sometimes but at the end of the day it is quite hard to get control of 30 children on your own. i think the education is fine in my opinion, my child often complains the support team dont do much except from let you sit in there office to stop crying for 10 minutes, give you a sweet, and send you straight back to class. but im not sure how everything actually goes on because i am not there. but overall i dont think this is a very great school, especially with the bullying.

worst school ever not aloud to be yourself go mental about a tiny piercing , hair colour , jewellery when teachers wear it themselves. You will get treated unfairly and when 20 degrees or more you are still made to wear blazer or you will get a punishment when they can walk around in tank tops.

Turn up work hard be nice. That’s a joke. Perhaps some of the teachers should take note of this. The way some of them shout at pupils is disgusting. The head especially.

Students have brought drugs into school and nothing is done about it. Very scary.
I think the teachers ignore it

Terrible, the teachers do not care about mental health, there are fights every day and bullying is terrible in the school, teachers do nothing about any of this.
Need improvement immediately