Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School

Unfortunately the school staff and SLT struggle to deal with the spectrum of students that attend the school. The quality of teaching is patchy and the level of pastoral care is bad in most cases - average in others. If I had our time again I would search for an alternative - you have been warned!

Lovely school which teaches the girls not only the value of academia, but also independence, worldliness and how to thrive in the world beyond QE. I have two daughters at the school and have been particularly impressed with the sixth form. A couple of small criticisms would be a tendency to be very cautious with H&S which prevents the girls from playing on their lovely school fields for most of the year and a lack of decent school trips.

— I write as a student at this school, I come as an immigrant, and this was my first school I joined. As I was completely new, excited, and scared, the school had an amazing reputation online, and I mistook that this school would be amazing to join. —My first day at the school was.. pathetic. No teacher had a look out for me, and I wasn’t explained about the school rules, structure, and how things go on in school. The structure of the school is a literal maze, and it’s so unsafe to walk through corridors as students are running, fighting, or pushing each other. I didn’t know where or which class I had to go to, and I literally had no one to help me. —The teachers really didn’t care, and neither did the students. They completely ignored me. I was mentally tired of the situation I was in and also experiencing cultural shock. I thought I would get support from the teachers or the students, but they lived in their own world, without any care. I got lost multiple times at school and later thankfully found a nice friend that helped me out when I really needed it. Those days I was happy once I made a friend as it was all I needed to survive. —Later I experienced severe racist bullying by my own classmates and they themselves started acting like victims… the teachers were very slow in escalating situations like this, and were really careless about bullying and biased to students (they always supported fun popular students who had more confidence to speak up and were their favorite students) —the teachers gave a “kind of didn’t care” vibe and were here just for the money, (said by a teacher) and just wanted to make us forget about the problem instead of fixing it. After months, the students who bullied me were supposed to receive detention but didn’t. I had a teacher who allowed phones and vaping when it isn’t allowed in school whereas all students favored him because he was the cool teacher. —The situation with the fire alarms was so horrible once, that we experienced 3-4 fire alarms in a day and about 10 a week that was really annoying and disrupted the lessons and learning for a month. We had an insane shortage of teachers that disrupted the learning pattern. —In year 9, I didn’t learn anything from that entire year and I got really disappointed at the lessons as the teachers were more inclined about gossiping about their personal life and shows they watch. The students still are found to have no care (in studies and academics) and talk a lot about vaping, drugs, looks, bullying, hating on teachers, and other stupid things. — The food is stupidly expensive and the wait line is long as they aren’t organized. Many year 7 and 8 students are given a lot of freedom and go rebellious and have no discipline and this affects their attitude in their later years. —As a student, I see 80% of the students bringing their phones to school even though it’s not allowed. It would make more sense if the school allowed phones to be taken in and given after class instead of creating a “hide your phones from school before it gets taken away” —During lunch and break, we’re not allowed to come inside the building and they lock the doors and it’s really hard for me to stay outdoors in the winter. We are allowed to sit in the hall for lunch sometimes but I don’t believe that should be the only solution, there is a lot of litter left and it stinks. —Everything is very unorganized whereas the heaters and boilers malfunction a lot. The only reason the school is still running is because of the funds. I don’t know if it is a normal rule for schools in England but when it’s so cold, we are normally forced to take our coats or jackets off. This has caused me to be sick quite often. —The school's hygiene is horrible! The toilets are normally locked, whereas the school is filled with sick students everywhere, coughing and sneezing. It just feels depressing and sick to go to school normally. —Being in set 1 for maths, I received regular bad behavior points for my bad handwriting, whereas people in set 2 get behavior points for being very rebellious and homework reasons. There are many stupid school rules and it’s too tiring to be complaining about them. —This isn’t a big problem, but the cover teachers utmost do nothing in the lessons as they are clueless about what is supposed to be taught. —These issues haven’t been brought up much and like me, there might be many other students planning on applying for this school, thinking, it would be an amazing choice to join. I hope sharing these issues will help parents understand what’s really going on at the school so that action can be taken to improve the overall experience for students.

a lot of the teachers are rude and annoying , the school rules are too strict for no reason , you can't have phones because of a little situation that happened probably a decade ago. the lessons are boring as hell and i don't learn anything because i can't engage , the food selection is bum and the prices are unreasonably high :|

PLEASE READ: This school is the worst school ever. As a student who went to this school and is now 20 I was bullied a lot. I was beaten up in my English class by this girl in front of the teacher and 30 other students for no reason whatsoever believe it or not. The students were shocked as much as I was. I was taken out of the room and I called my mum via my phone to tell her what happened my phone then got confiscated by them (SLT) as ‘ I was not abiding by their rules’ the punishment for the girl is exclusion for one day ! Can you believe it one day ! My earrings were ripped out of my ear and I was left with bruises and the girl was excluded for one day only ! I went to the hospital straight after this incident. My parents couldn’t believe it! The reason as to why I couldn’t leave the school was because I was doing my GCSES therefore I had no other option other than to stay. My parents had to call the police on this girl as she was so aggressive and violent and was not raised right. They never changed the abusive girls class from mine and I just felt in danger. The year 11 head at that time was Miss Barney and I’m telling you she is so inexperienced and so unprofessional. She does not know what she is doing. Stop the bullying or if you can’t at least have it under serious control because my mental health has deteriorated after this incident and it was the schools lack of help and support and carelessness that caused me to feel very unsafe. I’m begging you don’t go to this school please don’t even consider it as they honestly do not care about the health and safety of the children.