Parkstone Grammar School

A fantastic school, with supportive and encouraging teachers. It enables girls to reach their potential, and to be confident.

This school is awful. The teachers lack compassion and the subject choices are very short and very stereotypical comparing to the boys grammar. The higher up staff care too much about the length of school skirt calling one girl “embarrassing” and that she should be ashamed of herself. They disallow blue denim in sixth form and no shorts are allowed even in summer on non uniform and field trips. Fix this school.

This school is not a good place for anyone who falls even remotely outside the criteria of pretty, athletic, skinny, popular, heterosexual, white, cisgender, smart, and hyperfeminine. The students who match the criteria above are praised and applauded. Anyone who doesn’t is overlooked. If you have a concern about your mental health they will usually take a long time to bring help to you unless it’s a safeguarding issue. Cafeteria food is ridiculously overpriced and has been reported to give multiple students food poisoning. Many teachers set unrealistic deadlines for students to turn in assignments. The school provides LGBTQ+ education to students, including educating us on transgender people and preferred names/pronouns. However, if a transgender student wishes to have their preferred name and pronouns used by teachers, they must be outed to their parents. Luckily there are a few teachers who let students use preferred names and pronouns without being outed, however this is only a minority.