Newquay Tretherras

Awful school, they care more about tucked in shirts and what shoes the kids are wearing than delivering a positive learning experience. Kids all look the same, leave your personality at home it's not welcome in this school

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from what ive heard mr not naming is pretty weird ngl and some other staff also but other than that slay queen go get those men

I would like to give an informed review of my experience at Newquay Tretherras. This is going to be fairly based and with all perspectives considered. Bare with me.

Hey, I'm Jaxon

I believe that Tretherras' staff have a can't be asked attitude. They seem to brush over and are oblivious to anything going on around them. This was especially apparent when I was in the lunch queue being kicked in the shins and pushed to the side. After I was barged infront of, the TA who was present at the front asked those boys infront of me were there in the first place. Obviously, they said yes and continued on. Unfairly, Unresolved and Unjustified.

Are the actual teachers good? Yes. They are. I met some of my favourite History and Science teachers whilst I was there in that school. However, regardless of how good the teachers are, if it is not a great environment then there is no point trying to learn as you won't. You need a safe, caring and enjoyable environment in order to learn at your peak-performance.

I also believe that the staff members have lost all discipline and as I said earlier, the majority of the non-teachers infuriated me as they are oblivious to what is going on around them. I have had too many experiences of people generally treating me and others here badly. Here, I will name a few specifically: my nickname was germ free boy as I said I did not want to touch gum underneath the table to one of my classmates. (Pretty normal if you ask me)

That's fine, I don't really care about petty name calling, But then, several people proceeded to lick my bag on a daily basis as they thought it would be a funny joke. This happened in front of several staff members who seemed to either not realise or not care.

When I was in Year 7, A few year 10's who I could name if I really wanted too were able to come into the Year 7 only zone. They then proceeded to ask me why I always 'had my arms folded'. Granted, this situation was different and a teacher did eventually realise. However, they persisted most days of the week because the staff clearly lack communication and they never mentioned these boys to each other.

I also had situations when boys would fight me. Of course the majority of these were never noticed despite being on the playground.

Generally speaking, the majority of students have a gang mentality and the ones who don't are mostly too afraid to do something about it and they let themselves become ridiculed.

Now you may be asking, Jaxon did you ever tell a teacher?. Yes, Yes I did. Did it help? slightly but not enough. And plus, the biggest and longest fight I got into which was in the corridors was broken up and then we were sent to 'the top of the stairs'. Then we were asked by the deputy head what happened. As I tried to explain, she shouted at me and sent us to a different room to write our 'statements'. The worst part about this is that situation was 'not going to be chased any further' and was dismissed before they even read my statement.

The boy was later expelled for trying to trade a bag of weed for vape with another boy from our school. We were in Year 8.

As I said, I told teachers about the issues I faced multiple times and nothing changed. I am now in a completely separate school and when I came here I was incredibly shocked by how well the staff as a whole act and how kind the students are in general.

Terrible school I was bullied very bad and the teachers did nothing I was taken out of lessons because of this and was basically isolated my grades where good before this now them slipping down like my mental health I snapped after a bit I had to just leave a lot as I couldn’t handle it this school destroyed my mental health and self a steam the head of year was useless I got my parents to move me to another school this school was horrible after haf a year resulting in getting a managed move back to Tretherras I couldn’t handle it there I panicked when I went there I had to just walk out as I was having several panic attacks a day in school my head of year cancelled my manged move back after being told in 2 weeks I’ll have my anti depression tablets she ignored I was sent back to the other school I never went in I finally after year 9 missing year 10 with the manged move then I finally was able to do online school in most of year 11 I didn’t pass GCSE and re taking some in collge , Tretherras all they care about is grades if u look at other reviews your see the staff here are a joke

Genuinely the worst era in my life I've ever had to put up with. There was never anywhere I could go at break/lunchtime, which is too short anyways, because everyone was shoved into one of two halls that could barely fit a preschool in, let alone like 3 year groups at once. Outside areas are just as bad, the students never respected anything anywhere so I always found tossed trash, bins laying on their side and gum plagued the place. I never felt safe at all there as the students would bully me constantly. Teachers did absolutely nothing to help and somehow I got in trouble whenever I tried to get out of a situation. Awfully set up clubs and even worse equipment, items used in PE or instruments always felt like they were gonna break. Depressed and moody teachers who do nothing to help the class, and all one supply teacher did was stare at the computer screen eating food, keeping us in complete silence and shouting atop their voice if someone else was eating. Each week there was a dumb LGBT meeting where some guy came in and a few other students talked. I was sat next to someone in a science lesson who said he was going to shoot up the meeting with a s**t eating grin on his face. Very close to the teacher and they didn't bat an eyelid. The PE teachers were always your typical coach who just stands around yelling at people with their hands in their pockets. And GOOD GOD THE FOOD IS AWFUL. THEY PUT SPINACH IN *EVERYTHING!* It was always greasy, raw and very hard to eat. Cyber security was also a massive joke, one student brought down the entire system and hacked into the CCTV on a later date. Lastly, COVID hit us at the worst possible time and I had to miss out on my GCSE exams. The school gave me 1s in every single subject besides science, which I was failing at before. I was working at a level 5-7 in everything else. The only challenging thing about this school was resisting the urge to off myself while being here.

Tretherras academy (Newquay) I guess it’s an okay school but there are two things wrong with it not aloud to go toilet (AT ALL ), next thing is u have the same time table all year so it’s rly boring and maths and English are rly boring and drag along as they don’t make it fun or engaging.

While some staff aren’t the best, generally I felt well supported and was encouraged to succeed. Considering the location and the general depravity in Cornwall the school still offers a high quality of care, despite this middling ability students tend to be overlooked, but there’s resources available to all students to help with both mental and emotional well-being.