Newtown High School

Disgusting school , destroys children ! Breaches in confidentiality to students from staff, teachers mocking students if they have a disability or health issue. Lots of teachers create a class within a class , favouring the more intellectual students.

The school runs John Beddoes school in Presteigne and it’s run horribly. There’s so many needless and unexplained rules such as not being allowed to go over the road for a coffee before lessons have started but at the same time not being allowed into the school before lessons start. The separation of year groups within the school is ridiculous because we all go on the same buses and sit next to each other. Some teachers are incompetent, such as one subject teacher who can’t even control a class and fails to get a class to do simple tasks because he can’t assert his authority over the class and people feel they can just muck about all lesson and get away with it, which they can. I am concerned that because this teacher can’t properly teach, a lot of people will fail this subject. Also, when I picked photography as a GCSE I wasn’t told anything about the course, wasn’t told what teacher I would have or what the course involves, and I’m at a disadvantage now after picking a subject that isn’t right for me. When teachers leave, we never get told anything about it, there’s been numerous occasions where teachers have mysteriously left without a trace, and we never get told anything. We were promised a trip every term when we were year 8, but we haven’t had one since the end of year 7. I’m year 11 now. The school also promised that we’d be able to buy things with points that we get given by teachers, but everything has been ‘out of stock’ since I started. When I asked a teacher about it, the teacher said that if we perform well in our classes they would restock it. That was two years ago.