Outwood Academy Valley

terrible, i had the worst experience here and i have a terrible case of sleep paralysis and i had an episode and they shoved me in a locker to calm me down i have had enough they made me eat a spider because i didnt do a c4 ????????????

hell on earth ever since covid my mental health severly declined but this is because of this school a lot of stuff has happened such as other students trying to jump us and they also caused one of my friends to have a mental breakdown in another one of my friends house and other the other students kicked down the door to my friends house this was all on halloween and the school did NOTHING to discipline them even though we had names and footage of what happened there is also A LOT of overt racism , homophobia and transphobia and they don’t do anything they only care about grades and that is utter bullshit they also just don’t care about the students in any way shape or form

I left valley this year and I regret going there. They do nothing to help people with anxiety disorders, when I had a panic attack at school they put me in small cramped room so I was out of the way and the the teachers made me feel guilty about having it. Valley does nothing against bullying. They just tell you to forgive them and then let the bullying continue. I was bullied through my whole experience there dues to being queer, disabled and how I look. Staff/slt did nothing about that and they didn't care. They only seemed to care when it was their favourite student who, from my experience, was usually the bully. Not to mention their teaching is terrible I hardly learned anything in lesson and the teachers got angry when I didn't understand or asked for help. Plus you get detentions for being like 5 seconds late, they seem to enjoy giving out detentions

This school is a total catastrophe!!!. Teachers not listening students and parents. They ignore them. Teachers give detentions and suspensions for almost everything. I am a parent and I am considering to move my child away from this horrible school.

Absolutely awful. Consequence system is stupid, so what if im late 2 seconds? Im still getting 30 mins after school. Also the staff are so annoying enjoying giving people c4s and ruining their day. Also the bullying is huge and they're doing nothing about it so people have to deal with it themselves. They dont give a shit about people and lie a lot, once i was ill and they told my mum id be out at 12:00 but they let me go at 13:00 without telling my mum. Siuuuu Stupid school, hope it gets shut down.

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, THE TEACHERS COMPLETELY DISREGARD WHAT THE STUDENTS SAY, THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT WHAT OFSTED SAYS ABOUT THEM AT THE END OF THE YEAR. BULLYING DOESNT GET RESOLVED AND THEIR BEST EFFORTS TO PREVENT BULLYING IS TO MOVE SEATS. THEY DO NOTHING TO HELP THOSE WITH THERAPY (C.A.H.M.S) THEY FEED THEM WITH LIES TO MAKE THEM BELIEVE THE SCHOOL IS GREAT BUT ITS ACTUALLY THE EDUCATIONAL EQUIVALENT TO THE BEHIND OF A DONKEY. WOULDNT RECCOMEND TAKING YOUR CHILD HERE AS THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN OR THEIR SAFETY. “STUDENTS FIRST” MY ARSE.

In this school unless you are the beauty standard or can run fast in PE/good at sports nothing is done for you. They do little to help unless you force them too (with doctors notes etc) but if you don’t then they don’t believe it’s a problem. As well as this if you’re from anywhere other then England(eg Poland) even if you speak English youre very likely to get bullied. Even so, I was bullied for my entirety of year 11 after the whole year found out I was LGBTQ+, you may think did I report this? Yes yes I did. I reported it 3 TIMES. The first time they even knew who it was before I said names so they obviously knew it was happening but were doing nothing about it. At one point one person got me in a corner on my own after PE after the teacher left and threw a ball so hard at my face it left marks and I was sobbing. They didn’t even do anything about this either. Even besides all the things the school lets slide the school is toxic as a whole as it forces mountains if works on its students with little to no help unless forced, saying this is for “helping in the real world”. All this school cares about is the grades so it can show how “good” it is academically. It does not care about the students. After all this the meals at valley are so over priced and a lot of the time taste bad unless you get something as simple as chips. Making it hard for some to eat some days.

Did not help or even try to provide support for mental health, have been told to “deal with it” when panic attacks have occurred. They don’t care unless their reputation is at risk.

Most of the teachers are relatively kind and good at their job, however the school is overly strict about many things, especially uniform

not to bad depends on how you act to be fair it’s just boring

awful, so strict and teachers are way to harsh about uniform