Ormiston Chadwick Academy

I wish I could give this school a minus 10. But unfortunately I can't. I just hope and pray that some poor parents sendng their children here read this and send them anywhere else. Where do I start.. if your child has any issues I.e mental health/adhd/bullying they just turn a blind eye and brush it under the carpet or basically ignore you. Teachers being attacked. Students being attacked and a permanent ambulance or police cars parked outside due to violence. Violence that goes unreported as they don't want ofsted to know ? The amount of children that have experienced violence in this school is unbelievable. The queue of parents waiting to speak to the head teacher is out the door at the end of the day. To be told you need to make an appointment and they will ring you back. Amazingly. They never do. One example. My child was being attacked by 8 different children and had to be locked in a room for their safety. The teacher was attacked in this process. All the head of year cared about was my child having her phone on to me because they were scared. Perpetrators got a day in isolation ??Believe me. You would be better off sending your child to a school in Syria.

If you are academic the school will live you. If any additional challenges they aren’t on the ball at all. It’s a constant battle to get support. They also reward bullies and even provide them excellence awards. The ethos seems to be that so long as grading well the bullies can get away with it. They also try to avoid the bullying pathway so don’t have to declare to offsted. Their website claims don’t live up to the reality.

teachers have fun making a child feel judged while they are in distress, teachers will gossip with the students about drama that's gone too far. teachers worse for gossiping than the students. teachers attitudes are disgusting. made my child feel as they had no one and no help and that they had no hope left. the only positive thing with nothing wrong with it was the school councillor, genuinely helped and felt cared for unlike the rest of the teachers in school.

Awful school, students are horrendously bullied , jumped and harassed with teachers full knowledge. A call to the parents is the only way they deal with it and nothing else they care about nothing but reputation and let their students struggle with bullying and do absolutely nothing about it.

It’s ok, if you don’t work hard you won’t like it very much though, they expect so much and make us stay behind if we get 2 1/2 out of five on a Spanish test. Also cares about whether your phone is turned off as you’re leaving the school. Even in the car park they tell you to turn your phone off. Also fights aren’t handled in a great way nor bullying. They say “I talked to their mum/dad/carer” and it still continues. They also expect everyone to be friends literally don’t understand how young people work.