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Ponteland High School
Secondary · Academy · Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Don’t send your kid here
Terrible school honestly, teachers are horrible and they don’t care about the students at all. If I could give no stars I absolutely would
So bad schhol
Erm it’s good ig not great in lessons but break and lunch is good and teachers r a joke
Horrible school
They care more about grades than anything but they’re not care to actually teach you. No respect for any students.
students mental health
had 3 panic attacks over one certain teacher being completely disrespectful and basically calling me stupid infront of the whole class, when i had a panic attack i went to pastoral and they just sent me straight back to my lesson thsi shit show of a school care more about everyone’s grades than a students mental health do not send ur kids here
Horrible care
Horrible especially Mr Balkwill Mr clausash and A Yates they care more about detentions etc than education towards students in this 3h1t hole
Terrible, a total failure to the children under its care
Horrific and traumatising place that has left me and many other students with lasting damage.
Many of the teachers were uncaring, had anger and power issues, and were completely inept at caring for often vulnerable children. I dreaded every single day at that place, and would spend all day extremely anxious waiting for it to be over.
school should be a safe and caring place for all children, and this school is far from that.
Many of the teachers seemed to enjoy having power over children who could not fight back or disagree with them, demanding respect when they did not offer the same.
They cared much more about enforcing strict uniform rules than helping children to learn, and would regularly prevent me and others from learning just to enforce these rules.
Male teachers would also enter the girls toilets regularly to remove children from them during break and between lessons.
Overall it was an extremely horrible place to be due to (many of) the teachers behaviour and complete lack of care and understanding of the children in their care.
In the real would, these teachers would never get away with this type of treatment towards others, but for some reason in a school setting, it's okay to disrespect and antagonise children, rather than treating them with compassion and care to create a learning environment where children thrive.
When I told a therapist about my experience at this school, she was not surprised and described it as a 'difficult school'
If you are thinking of sending your child here I implore you to think again, in hindsight, my mother wishes she had removed me from this school due to the damage that it did to my mental wellbeing. And I know that the same happened to other students.
Many of the teachers were uncaring, had anger and power issues, and were completely inept at caring for often vulnerable children. I dreaded every single day at that place, and would spend all day extremely anxious waiting for it to be over.
school should be a safe and caring place for all children, and this school is far from that.
Many of the teachers seemed to enjoy having power over children who could not fight back or disagree with them, demanding respect when they did not offer the same.
They cared much more about enforcing strict uniform rules than helping children to learn, and would regularly prevent me and others from learning just to enforce these rules.
Male teachers would also enter the girls toilets regularly to remove children from them during break and between lessons.
Overall it was an extremely horrible place to be due to (many of) the teachers behaviour and complete lack of care and understanding of the children in their care.
In the real would, these teachers would never get away with this type of treatment towards others, but for some reason in a school setting, it's okay to disrespect and antagonise children, rather than treating them with compassion and care to create a learning environment where children thrive.
When I told a therapist about my experience at this school, she was not surprised and described it as a 'difficult school'
If you are thinking of sending your child here I implore you to think again, in hindsight, my mother wishes she had removed me from this school due to the damage that it did to my mental wellbeing. And I know that the same happened to other students.
Callerton Lane, NE20 9EY, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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