Penrice Academy

I have just joined 1 month back in Year 7 and the school is ,so far, a 7/10.One thing I found weird was lunchtime.WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS ISNT HUNGRY AT 1:15?DO YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO STARVE???.The lessons are fine,not top-quality but up there.My favourite lessons so far are Science(I did very little Science and boring Science at that in Primary school),P.E(Always loved it),Music(I just like music)and Drama(DRAMA IS MY THINGGGGGGG).Clubs are amazing,Year7-10 aren't even allowed in corridors.Outside is fun,we can just party(sometimes).It is a big school and I have learnt my way thanks to the grace period where the first 2 weeks you line up after each lesson and the teacher takes you there.Some teachers are nice,SOME ARE DEFINITELY NOT!!!!!

It's okay. It's just kind of unhygenic and has a lot of 'badmen'. But the teachers are nice.

This school has damaged my mental health. As a transgender male, I have been forced to use female facilities and they did nothing about me being bullied or called slurs. The teachers are lovely, but the school overall is preposterously awful. We weren't always allowed to go to the bathroom, and autistic children get very little support. I regularly got physically harmed by other pupils in this space where I was supposed to be safe. All they care about is the Ofsted ratings, and the school is getting stricter and stricter. It wasn't like this in the 90s - early 2000s, yet they claim it was. Also, my key worker would berate me for my Russian accent and claimed it "intimidates" other students when it isn't my fault. The food in the canteen is rather unhealthy and expensive. Do not send your kids here unless you want them to be depressed and get bullied. - Ivan

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Penrice isn’t anything like people said it would be. One of the worst things is the toilets. Apparently they spent a hundred grand on them but they’re absolutely disgusting and rubbish. Don’t get me started on the phone policy, even if you get a notification by accident, you loose your phone for TWENTY FOUR HOURS! is that even legal because my parents did not sign a consent form for this. You get detentions if you don’t have the correct equipment and if you have an “extreme haircut ” you have to be in internal isolation until it grows to an “acceptable length ” Basically the school is terrible and only a few teachers are actually nice.

Authoritarian headmistress exercises power by control. True leadership involves manage trust. The relationship of trust between the school and its pupils has broken down and it needs new leadership.

I had a highly intelligent child that went to this school, who despite both of us trying very hard, never got help for their problems, and many very serious mistakes made, including safeguarding issues/ breach of trust. Perhaps, unfortunately, you get bullying at every school, but it is the way it is dealt with that really matters and Penrice seem to care more about keeping the bully in, than protecting their victims- one of which was very badly attacked. I’m glad it wasn’t my child on that occasion, but the bully did enough to my child make sure enough psychological harm was done to probably last a lifetime. Services for children having problems, problems caused and exacerbated by the school, is appalling, despite fooling the awarding officials with paperwork and prepared answers. If you have a nice child who behaves and wants to achieve to the best of their ability, find another school or join a homeschooling group if possible. If I had my time around again, none of my children would have gone to Penrice. Their understanding of the need to nurture and care, is non-existent. They just want money for your children, hence obsession with high attendance (so quick to jump on the termtime holiday ban when the council were being more understanding) and its dictatorial rule over better behaved children - like lining children up just do to a uniform and sock check- yes, they check their socks even, very prison-like whilst not tackling the children with anger and power issues to any sort of best ability, in fact, they gave this particularly nasty bully power until she had to be excluded due to her extreme actions. It should never have gotten that far. True results of a good school are happy children who are excited about the future, that’s what this school struggles to do with its focus on money.

great school, currently going to it and takes great pride in the school

absolute violation, shite.

Maybe instead of making the female students cover up and not show any skin because it “might distract the boys and the male teachers” they should teach the other students that we aren’t objects here for a males pleasure, and they shouldn’t look at us as such, I also wish the teachers would stay in contact with students that have left, especially those of us who missed out on our final year and prom and never got our end of secondary assembly’s or celebrations, simply checking in to see if we were doing okay in college would be enough.

This school is not safe there have been many incidents when other students have done something that effects the rest of the students like stabbing, drugs in lollipops and displays that have fallen on a kid and more but some teachers have just been dam right rude and all they care about is if the school has there uniform like a robot and that we can’t have any skin showing and that we can’t show who we are to the world and we just have to look the same the teachers think that students and teachers are gunna get distracted by some ankles, more then one piercing on each ear or our hair being to short. I don’t recommend it I only stayed there for my friends to support me through bad times and when I’m anxious about exams coz the school don’t care about that.

Terrible. Don’t come here.

Too strict and student don’t feel safe