Noadswood School

Genuinely feels like an unsafe place to learn. The students are horrid, full of smoking and bullying and constant harassment if you stand out in the slightest. The punishments are minimal and you are crucified for standing up for yourself and are encouraged to just shut up and take it, as I did for five years. The teachers are actually nice but the counselling service isn't great. She is nice, but it doesn't feel beneficial. When I was year 7, I was walking round with a lollipop and a year 10 offered to light it for me, thinking it was a cigarette. I think that just about sums up the quality of the pupils that come out of this school. It just feels dangerous, for years I had to wake up riddled with anxiety at what grief I would face. Posters on the wall encourage expressing yourself, but any attempt to do so will result in a firestorm of harassment worse than anything I could imagine coming out of a grown mans mouth, let alone that of a child.

It’s a good school that gave me good grades but they are very, very tough on uniform. You could get sent home for having an extra piercing in your ear or for having the wrong type of shoes. Ridiculous if you ask me.