North Bromsgrove High School

This is just one opinion out of many parents of children who have attended this school. It started well. Good range of subjects. Then COVID. Some teachers were diligent and delivered work during lockdown and were available for questions. Some not so much if at all. My child didn't have some work marked at all, how were they to know if they understood what they were learning if their work wasn't marked? My child said that classes were often unruly and in one subject saw the teacher only a handful of times although had lots of subs. How are you supposed to pass a GCSE with no subject teacher time? The school should have arranged for another subject teacher rather than spending money on ineffectual substitute teachers. Bullying. My child was bullied and followed. It was reported to the school, bullying continued. It seems that if are a not a well behaved pupil that every resource and opportunity is given to you, but if you are a good pupil, then it's ok to have to put up with bullies. It takes courage for pupils to take a leap of faith and tell a teacher that they are being victimised. They don't want to feel dismissed and have to badger staff to take action, or to find out what course of action is taken. The victims want to see that bad behaviour will not be tolerated. Not for a wishy washy excuse as to why someone has not been excluded. Some teachers are awesome and brilliant. Some teachers need improvement. The Head Teacher appears to delegate discipline responsibilities to their deputies and assistants, but as a parent there are times we would appreciate reassurances from the Head Teacher. It would be nice if parents could actually make an appointment to see the Head Teacher their self and not just their esteemed colleagues. The cafeteria is small and my child when in last sitting didn't have time to eat their dinner. The only bit of cover is the year 11 playground. Lots of pupils have to stand and eat. Not ideal. However, ParentPay is good.

the school is terrible, yeah it turned around but they need to spend more money on the more important subjects like maths and english and music

the school has really turned around, used to be bad but new head teacher has really give the school new opportunities and much better facilities

I got severely bullied. Followed home and shit like that and the teachers didn’t do anything about it. The actually teaching is behind in the curriculum and the teachers are slow and unable to control the noisy and obnoxious students in the classroom. The lunch is expensive for such small amount and will let child go without if unable to afford. The first aid consists of ice pack or plasters. I fell and sliced my leg open and all they did was give me and ice pack. However there’s a large dance studio, two sport halls and a large field at the back of the building.