Millais School

I am a former Millais student who left this year and all I can say to describe what this school is really like is I wouldn’t send my worst enemy here. This school is awful beyond words they do not care about your child’s safety or wellbeing at all. All they care about is how the school looks in every situation and not how there students actually feel. All this stuff you see at open evenings about the school is complete rubbish. I have experienced so many awful and some can even be classed as traumatic events at this school. The bullying from students AND teachers to the daily toxic shouting from teachers, to situations I cannot even speak about on here. It is a disgusting place. For instance if your child is struggling with mental health or just in general the school will take no notice to it at all and it will be forgotten about within a week. Another point I would like to address is how they lock almost ALL the toilets and baring in mind this is an all girls school. Girls have periods and need the toilets to be open. But they have been shut because of vaping and ‘vandalism’ it is not good that children are doing these sort of things in schools but that does not mean everyone else should suffer. For example when I was attending this school they gave 1 small toilet area to years 8,9,10 AND 11 and gave year 7 a massive toilet all to themselves. Absolutely unbelievable. The teachers in this school are dreadful most of them will not listen to your child if they are struggling with the work and will just say “we’re you not listening?!” Or things like “This is not good enough” very very horrible comments would be made and this is a daily occurrence I saw happen with loads of students including myself. However, if you have a child that is smart they will get treated completely different to the ones that have more of a difficult time learning and picking up things. If your child struggles at learning they will be the ones that receive them down grading horrible comments. Another thing I would like to add on is the whole skirt situation. I get that there is a limit to skirt length and some of the girls skirts are stupidly short however that does not mean letting male teachers look at our skirts daily is a good thing and should not be happening. If your child receives bullying at this school the school will take hardly any attention. And if they do it will be more towards the bully then the actual victim of the bullying. They do not know how to handle ANYTHING in the right appropriate way at all and they never have. This is why the school went from outstanding to good and why there were hardly any new year 7s. Do not go to this school please it was the worst choice of my life. I am so beyond happy to be out of that horrible miserable place.

Lots of focus on drama, which is fine apart from the fact that they claim to focus heavily on STEM even though they do not offer engineering or computing GCSE (just IT national award level 2). Not great with dealing with behaviour/bullying.

i thank god every day that i left this school for my own sake. i struggled for 18 months with my mental health and i was in a crisis. they just continued to dismiss it and not take me seriously. then i couldn't attend class anymore so instead of addressing a problem and listening to me, they put me on my own in a different section of the school for a year. ive now left the school and im at a new school where my self asteem and self worth is being lifted and im finally being taken seriously. i wish every student at this school the best and remember it gets better.

girls here get away with everything no punishments. bullying and fights happens all the time.. safe to say this school is the worst place ive ever been. staff couldnt care less about sorting issues. please dont send your kids here xoxox biggest regret was coming here all girls schools dont work.

This school is awful! I hate it so much! I go here right now and hate it! The teachers don’t care about anything and bullying is so common! Every year it gets smaller and smaller and that shows how rubbish this school is!!!!! Don’t send your kids here pls!