Oasis Academy Brightstowe

I made some great friends here, and the food is okay. However, communication with parents is terrible and we still don’t have lockers which is annoying. Some teachers are good, but most of them don’t send anyone out (who deserves to go) meaning that the people who want to learn can’t. Girls toilets are always filled with people vaping, doing makeup, or just chatting with their friends. I don’t know what the boys toilets are like but they seem fine. Uniform is ok but the ties are kind of ugly. People are meant to be set for lessons, but they still put disruptive people in top set which is very unfair. Corridors are still full of pushing people no matter how many precautions they have. Assemblies seem unnecessary, and get bribed with sweets for attendance which seems to be one of the only things they care about. We have really long tutor sessions in which we do no learning and once my friends got cheese sandwiches lobbed at her head. If you want to go there, fine, but it is not great.

this school is the worst place i have ever been too it has destroyed my mental health and i dread waking up to have to go to such a shit environment. i really would not recommend this school to anyone and i really feel for the year 7s that are there now and the future year 7s as they have no idea where they are going to have to go and they will not realise how much this environment ; unsafe shit will destroy them mentally. do not send your children here.

DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT SEND YOUR KID TO THIS SCHOOL. This school makes me have the worst mental health and a lot of other children aswell. And they have a behaviour system where they will put all the students in a room and they have even started locking the door. It makes us feel like we r loosing our minds and it doesn’t help but make us students angry. Half of the time we are in there for stuff we didn’t do. This school doesn’t help with bullying at all and doesn’t care about any students mental health. They also take your phones off you even if u say it is an emergency. Imagine u got your period or something and u needed your mate or your mum you ain’t gunna wanna say that to a teacher let’s be real. And let’s talk about the fact we had a different head teacher every 4 years that just shows no one wanted to stay in the school. It is horrible and the way they treat students it actually horrible. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE UNLESS U WANT THEM TO HAVE A SHIT SCHOOL LIFE WHICH THEY WILL

Pls don't go to this school first off its absolute crap they have high expectations that are sometimes nearly impossible to follow they barley let you use the toilet only lunch break a girl even committed sucide there a momoral in the art corridor near the stairs it's a picture of her art work I'm a student there I wouldn't recommend going I accidentally got into this school I already knew about the rumors so I was literally crying also its gotten to the point where I literally cry in the bathrooms pls just listen to me beg your parents to not let you go show them the ratings also show them my review pls don't go pls follow my advice show them other peoples stories thank you for listening have a great day also people will humilate you at that school and bully you

Ridiculous food prices and lots of bullying

School is shit no work gets done the kids just run around like crazy and the food taste like ass

There are so many things I could say about this school but I don’t even know where to begin.
Oasis loves to praise themselves for being such an outstanding school, but they’re not, they are mediocre at best. In reality, half of the students are bully’s and the rest are bullied, the teachers couldn’t care less, so long as the attendance is high.
The food is inedible and sometimes raw and the school hygiene is abhorrent.
The teachers are underpaid and the students are overworked.
It felt like a prison.
In conclusion don’t go to this school, unless you want serious mental health issues and terrible gcse results

Crazy on how people can actually think it’s a great school
Girl passed out on the field in the summer because they gave no one water except
runners but them as a school should be able to provide water for all children
and even after that still wouldn’t let students get any

Food prices are ridiculous £1.65for a pizza and in my local Lidl I’ll get one for 50-60p most food is non halal and don’t even taste good

Bullying is horrendous at that school they really don’t care about you only there to collect a wage
Racism is also not good in my opinion if your being racist to some one and targeting them for it then you should be there but still so many of them

No rights are selfs all ways being told what to do as we should but still when they do it it makes no sense like why is it so important that we have to wear a blazer and not wear hoodies or jumpers even if it has no writing on it
And make us wear dirty clothing and never look like they been in the wash
All the good teachers have left and I see why

And the fact student that are bad always get so many chances is silly how are you getting kicked out then allowed back 4times and even people that haven’t got kicked out is so obvious about it all the good student get no support and we can’t learn with a bunch off fools that shouldn’t even have a set

How do students get away with smoking selling weed or vapes and you can’t even find out about it and then you got people that bring in knifes like if it’s a toy and the people that truant get away so easy I see more people truant then teachers

The fact that some one claimed in and me keys had to chase him around was a laugh on how some of us good of got attacked so simply now if a group of grown adults with weapons hopped oven what are the teachers doing nothing to save us (every man for them self)

They talk about on how they want us to learn but the 2 mess ups and 3 lessons gone explain how that makes sense for 2 mistakes half of your learning for that day is gone

And fix up your toilets broken every weak stupid

Terrible school, it needs investigating urgently!

The best school I have ever been to.
All teachers are lovely.
Very clean.
Calm.
Love the library.
Great Curriculum.

They are a bunch of bozos only one good teacher BIG UP MISS SHINNIE

They are the ultimate pooper scoopers

l used to go to the school but they started kicking out all the people who are basically going to fail so they can have high mark in exam to look like a good school the only reason it has a such high mark and good review is because it is a academy but if it was still just port way it would of been shut down in a heart beat the teacher cant control any of the students they constantly out of lesson and truanting. Some student actually do illegal substances such as weed , cocaine , and speed while in school times and there are even people selling nicotine product and selling weed in the premises and they are mostly sold to the years 7 and 8

Whilst generally I attempt to set aside my biases when writing about topics I may be opinionated about, and hope I can be successful in this review, please keep in mind that 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥.

Beginning with personal satisfaction, and as a tl;dr: Considering the funding that most public schools get, and the administrative nightmare that is presented when running a school in a socio-economically deprived area, I find it hard to hold this school to account for many of its shortcomings. In general, my experience at this school was... fine. It's remarkable, even, that it's stuck around for so long. However, it can be guaranteed that you will not receive anything above average in terms of your experience at this school if you decide to come here, at least for the next 2 years. There's nothing at all special about anything that goes on here, apart from MAYBE the PE department, which I can't speak on from personal experience.

The academics are, you guessed it, average (to my knowledge). I've been able to succeed to a desirable degree, in most of my subjects, with just a bit of hard work and application of skills. It is important not to conflate my anecdotal academic success with the school generally allowing academic potential to apply itself, however, as this is not necessarily the case. I am not an expert by any means in the analysis of the academic potential a school has, of course, so take this with a grain of salt.

The floors are clean within the school, and fights are uncommon both inside and outside of the institution (to my knowledge). The school boasts a large field and tennis court. I dunno, you could use it for football or something. This is not a great review for the physical side of Brightstowe, as you may be able to tell.

Security? Well, one guy jumped the fence last year, and watching Mr Keys have to take the place of the security guards and chase him halfway across the field was world class theatre. I get uncomfortable when I'm around the students who go to our school, though it may just be my intuition for danger flaring up around future criminals.

Some of the teachers are good, some of the teachers are bad, some of the teachers are great. They're all kind and caring people, it's just that some are FAR more engaging than others. Just a shame they're all leaving this year (oooooor not!)

Should I even mention that when one of the students at our school was bullied to death last year (rest in peace), the principal got on his puny little chair in his office and told us that "she would want [us] to be working hard."? Are you kidding me? How heartless do you have to be to push productivity when a CHILD HAS DIED DUE TO YOUR INACTION? He "left" later (got fired, let's be realistic. A year and a half at a school and you suddenly "leave" without notice? Why even try to lie to us?) probably because he wasn't doing what the higherups wanted him to be doing.

I'm running out of time, so I'll quickly go over the following:

Food is meh. Edible at least.
Communication was always annoying and bad. Underfunded, I'd bet.
Discipline is awful. A kid broke his leg(s?) the other day because someone was running in the halls. I wish I was lying.
School "culture" makes me uncomfortable at all times, and it makes me even more uncomfortable when the school tries to act like we're a "family" even though I wouldn't be too saddened to never see most of the people at my school ever again. In fact I'd be happy.
Personal development was always ineffective and pointless. Senseless posturing; a waste of time.
It was challenging to find a reason not the dislike the school, if that's what they mean by that.

In conclusion, there are almost certainly better options. Don't come here unless you have to.

Right, let me start out with mentioning that I left in 2020, one of the coronakids who never got a final GCSE exam, and I went through Y7 to Y11 without the quarantine stuff of course. Things might be different now, and this is my own experience with the school.
Overall, it's okay, I think the staff did the best they could to support the kids - even working with organisations like Brook and Off The Record at one point (which was a big help for me, as a teen who had severe mental health problems). They had no issues with me going out of lessons for therapy, and they had time to support me when I was catching up on my work. The real issue are the kids, parenting of some of them honestly outstands me - and I guess the school isn't well equipped to handle entitled and loud problem children. Admittedly you could call me biased as I was one of the quiet kids who wanted to get on with it and work.

As an immigrant child, who comes from Poland, I experienced no issues with xenophobia or anything like that. I actually had a wonderful experience with programs like 'Reader Leader' (or something like that), when helping other foreign students learning how to read English. Also had an opportunity to do a Polish GCSE, got a level 9 which probably looks good on my CV.

Safety and security is questionable, but there were no major issues when I was there. We had practice sessions for the fire alarm like usual, and intruder practice (although it was never put to use thankfully). The problem with security came again from the students - how about the parents teach the kids it's not okay to try and bring alcohol (got confiscated fast) or knives into the school? Control your kids, man, not that hard.

Outdoor and indoor areas were... fine, at best. There were always complaints of not having enough places to chill out at break or lunch, and pupils were even asked to not stand around corridors (despite the lack of seating). This was especially the case in winter times, where the small building got packed with students. Teachers started opening up their classrooms at lunch only when I was in Y11, not sure if they still are today - this helped with congestion a bit.

The Library was FANTASTIC, Miss GG - a blessing. She is the most wonderful librarian, and inspired me to read so much, even going as far as to supply the library with the book series I was reading and getting a new set when I moved on. Surprisingly has a good manga section. If your child actually enjoys reading, then this is a pot of gold waiting. Librarian is involved and interested in reading, there was an after school club for creative writing at one point - which I adored, and now enjoy in College.

Teachers are hit or miss really, I've had some wonderful teachers who are passionate about what they do - and I've had some worse ones. However I have heard of recent staff leaving and people getting lots of supply teachers - which actually started when I was leaving. Science, English, and subjects like DT were most affected. In fact, a staff teacher left in the middle of a GCSE course, making the DT students suddenly switch over from DT to Photography and having only 1 year to do their GCSE coursework (affected by Covid in the end).

The houses the students are put into are very sports-based, with Sports Day probably being the biggest event. I remember it being a lot of spirit, and actually enjoying it (unless the weather turned bad on that day). PE was varied, and we did sports like cricket, netball, badminton, and tennis, along with gymnastics sometimes. It was okay, even for a student who doesn't enjoy PE.

Food was okay, I actually quite enjoyed the school lunch - even if the waiting times were quite long (there are a lot of kids, and only a small canteen + assembly hall when it gets opened up). Price for the meals is fair, and they're good quality, sure - the breaktime snacks (not main lunch) were on the pricier side and the bacon was more fat than meat but I loved it regardless. Fingerprint system didn't work sometimes but we can forgive new technology once in a while - was never a huge issue.

History department was AMAZING when I was there, Miss Norman (God bless her soul if she still works there), was the best teacher I've had so far in life. Her passion and love for the subject fuelled me so much, and I ended up with a level 9 in GCSE History, we both cried when we saw the results! School trip to Belgium was great, (although sometimes soured by OTHER STUDENTS), and generally was well managed. The history department at that time carried the school. Not sure if she still works there now however.

Here's a list of staff (in no particular order) who I found great (publicly available names): Mrs Eyenon, Mr Symes, Mr Clayton, Mrs Stebbings, Mr Thie, Mr Keys, Mrs Wright ♥, Mrs Playfair, Mr Mattson ♥, Miss Jessiman ♥, Mr McBride (all the kids love him), Mrs Darby ♥, Mrs Ashiwn, Mrs Lane♥♥, Mrs Gardener-Graham ♥, Mr Chapter, Mrs Harris, Mrs Iredale. These guys carry the school on their damn shoulders and backs - especially with the constantly changing Principle.

Oh, and my year group pretty much never had a prom due to Covid, probably never going to, which is fine by me - but probably was a shame for others.

I was here since year 7 I have been bullied and the school does nothing about it and it’s the worst neaver take your child here it’s disgusting the worst school you get bullied and they also make out they’ll do stuff about bullying but they don’t I got bullied since year 7 I think it’s absolutely vile and disgusting

•Firstly the teachers are very strict and do not want to help students
•Secondly they don't let students use their phone even if it is an emergency call
•Thirdly they allways do assemblies about you should stop Bullying and listen to the teacher but they don't do anything about you or someone else getting bullied

Saw this site advertised on Instagram so I thought I’d jump on and give my old score a quick review. For the record, I left in 2019.

The school likes to believe it has good safeguarding but hasn’t. Often when I got detention (which wasn’t that often), the school would not clarify the reason for them to those at home (which, with hindsight, they should have done) and sometimes they wouldn’t even notify those at home that I was there which is supposed to be procedure.

Safeguarding issues continue when it comes to bullying and harassment. The school did the bare minimum when it actually took the time to combat these issues with myself and others. There was a mob mentality and the higher-ups did nothing. It wasn’t a safe environment when it got really bad. And of course, the presence of knifes and weapons are becoming more and more present.

Now - safeguarding out of the way. The teaching! I was taught by many teachers over the years, naturally, with the most changes being in the English department. As every year passed, all but one teacher would leave that department leading to oftentimes inconsistent teaching and a profound lack of stability. The school acknowledged this but it was too late for my year group as we faced the brute of the problem throughout. As for other subjects, the science department were pretty good in all honesty. As for Maths, it was hit or miss but Mr Greenup was a gem. All of the other subjects were inconsequential to me but I do admire the consistency the Geography department had found in 2018 which I believe they still have.

The school didn’t prepare me sufficiently for college nor adult life but thankfully I was independent enough to fulfil this by myself. The extent of their help was to find us our college places and that was it - and even then that was only one (or two - optional) twenty minute meeting!!

The extra-curriculum activities are vast but don’t be fooled by the green grass and the concrete court: The facilities are not good for sports and there are far better in local schools across Bristol. Football was fun but games were few and far between because of the pitch quality (it’s practically unplayable between the months of November and April).

I hope this helps. I can’t recommend it but if it’s the only option you have - go for it. You’re in for a ride and issues aplenty with the higher ups.

Why don't they help the year 10s and why do they lie they don't care about the students