Outwood Academy Carlton

As far as teachers go, they’re SO nice. I have little teachers I dislike. The praise system is a bit corrupt as misbehaving kids get more praise for behaving than kids who behave every single lesson. Sure I may fly under the radar sometimes, but teachers know I work hard and I don’t get rewarded for it. It doesn’t bother me TOO much, but other people must be annoyed. And the same people get the awards all the time! Fights happened almost every day a couple years ago but they’ve calmed down now and school did best they could to prevent them, but I think fights are more the responsibility of the students to sort out between themselves. I’m autistic and the resource provisional unit is great! They really help me get the extra help I need but still let me be mainstream in the school. I don’t need a lot of help, but knowing I can access it when I need it is a relief! Teachers need to do more to punish the kids that disrupt lessons. I know of one student that should’ve been permanently suspended by no! Overall I think this school was a good choice for me as I wouldn’t like it in a mainstream school nor a specialist school, but there’s room for improvement! -Year 10, going into Year 11 as of September 2021

Not that great in the mental health department, they don’t give the amount of support needed however a lot of the teachers are lovely and great to work with and make the classroom environment fun. Some can make the environment negative when it comes to students misbehaving. When it comes to dealing with bullying.. they have a good system but a lot of the students don’t care about it and make jokes when they get detentions as if it’s a laughing matter.

Always at least one fight happening at lunch. If you get on with your work and don't mess around the teachers won't care about you. They say they care about student's mental health but don't do anything about bullying. Teachers favourite the students who misbehave and treat them so much better than everyone else. All they care about is the GCSE results to make the school look better.