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Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
Primary · Independent · Bristol
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Walahi Doctor Kyle should get locked up
The schools is not that bad but there is one teacher called Doctor Kyle who thinks he runs the place and is not fit to work in a school. He finds it funny to punish children it's honestly a bit strange. He clearly feels that mental health is unimportant just because he is old and wishes he did not live in chepstow. He stinks, and honestly he can take his skin tight bike suit (really strange walking around the school in it) and go back to South Africa. He is notorious for being a control freak and has pressured parents into giving up information he has no buisness knowing. I have Autism and he makes me feel very uncomfortable because of how he treats me and i refuse to believe he enjoys his job. All of the other teachers are fine but he really sinks the ship. Im filing a restraining order if i ever see him again genuinley he is a weird guy.
Extremely poor teacher quality, horrid for neurodiverse students.
Absolutely dreadful teacher. Dr Kyle somehow manages to make every lesson feel like a punishment. His explanations are about as clear as mud, his attitude is unnecessarily rude, and the atmosphere in his classroom is permanently miserable.
He seems to have a special talent for making simple things ridiculously complicated, while acting like everyone else is the problem. Asking a question feels like volunteering to be publicly humiliated.
Overall, one of the worst teachers I’ve ever had. If I could give zero stars, I would. The only lesson I actually look forward to is the one where Dr Kyle isn't teaching.
Another major issue is that he seems to constantly push South African culture into lessons, even when it feels completely unrelated to what we're supposed to be learning. Learning about another culture isn't the problem, but being repeatedly subjected to it as though everyone has to be interested gets irritating very quickly. It often feels less like teaching and more like being forced to sit through someone else's personal obsession. There needs to be a balance between sharing your background and actually teaching the subject.
He seems to have a special talent for making simple things ridiculously complicated, while acting like everyone else is the problem. Asking a question feels like volunteering to be publicly humiliated.
Overall, one of the worst teachers I’ve ever had. If I could give zero stars, I would. The only lesson I actually look forward to is the one where Dr Kyle isn't teaching.
Another major issue is that he seems to constantly push South African culture into lessons, even when it feels completely unrelated to what we're supposed to be learning. Learning about another culture isn't the problem, but being repeatedly subjected to it as though everyone has to be interested gets irritating very quickly. It often feels less like teaching and more like being forced to sit through someone else's personal obsession. There needs to be a balance between sharing your background and actually teaching the subject.
Steer clear
I wouldn't send my daughter here. Some really suspect characters among the male staff.
Current pupil opinion (year9)
I think on the whole that this school is very good and has lots of positives. These include the amazing sport facilities at failand and the high standard of academic teaching that happens here. However the one main downside is the RP curriculum is very Christianity based and leaves little room for the other religions to be taught. As well as this, in my three years of studying RP we have not done one single philosophy lesson. It might as well be called R! Overall it is a great school with plenty of good things about and only one downside.
QEH current pupil opinion
This school is very good but let down by mainly two subjects maths and RP in maths the teachers are boring and yap too much in the same tone as well as the lessons 90% of the time being boring excluding the enrichment lessons. On to RP the teachers hold grudges for no reason and hate on people for no reason with their views and lessons being almost entirely with references to Christianity in a mostly religion neutral school. The sport staff half are nice half are rude.
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Great for people who enjoy misery
For context, this was written when I was nearing the end of year 11 here. I know it says primary school (which I didn't go to) but I don't care.
Sure, the academic side of this school is decent. However, Ms Fenner is the most apathetic, power hungry bastard in this school, and should be fired effective immediately. I and many others (perhaps even some teachers) agree that she does not deserve any form of happiness in life, as she refuses to let anyone around her enjoy their existence. I got an 8(A* equivalent) in an end-of-topic exam once, and she wrote, "Disappointing". She literally refuses to let anyone have any kind of break in her lessons, even if it's the last lesson before the summer, or any holiday, or if there is an exam that day she will not let you have even a second off. If she catches you not studying for even a microsecond, she will call you out for not working, and if you have finished the work, she will immediately tell you to revise for exams, regardless of when they next occur. Moving on, the school dinners are an embarrassment to the human race. They built an eyesore of a box in the dining hall, which takes up an obnoxious amount of space and limits the capacity of the hall. To add to this, the unimaginable amount of new pupils they are accepting into year 7 is outrageous, and this increase in population is crippling the older years as they take up so much space that could be used for other things. Also, they decided it would be a good use of money to improve Failand, a disgusting sports field with an even worse pavilion. The improvements didn't touch the pavilion, and instead added 3 tennis courts and 2 football pitches. The rest remains a simple field. This cost £2.7 million, for a few courts. Meanwhile, they continue to let us use 15 year old laptops which can take literally the entire lesson just to log in, and use outdated computers and classroom tools. This school normally costs £15,300 per year (unless you have a scholarship and are already smart, or a bursary), which is vile considering that extra fees for school lunches and trips can be applied. And with around 600 people in the school, they must be unbelievably rich but still refuse to use the money in useful ways. Instead, they spend it on a 4k 50" TV that simply displays the logo and a few statistics, to exaggerate their wealth when you walk in, or reducing access by adding 3 giant steps in 1 of the 2 entrances. To this day I cannot figure out why they did this, as it provides no purpose. Finally, some smaller issues I have with the school:
-unless you are insane enough to stay until the sixth form, it is only boys, which I am strongly against. This is great, but only if you are a gay male
--They advertise their diversity, and yet most people i see are white boys. I cannot think of a single teacher who isn't white
-The steps
-The bell is ridiculously loud, so loud that in some places they had to cover it in tape to quieten it
-There is no plant life whatsoever. There isn't a field for the Junior school to play in, only a brown, stone yard. There aren't any trees, any bushes, nothing. It is dead
--They take year 3 - 13. 11 years. The junior and senior school are in the exact same place. I cannot imagine being limited to this one building for my entire school career, and I feel sorry for the boys who have stayed for the entire 11 years.
Sure, the academic side of this school is decent. However, Ms Fenner is the most apathetic, power hungry bastard in this school, and should be fired effective immediately. I and many others (perhaps even some teachers) agree that she does not deserve any form of happiness in life, as she refuses to let anyone around her enjoy their existence. I got an 8(A* equivalent) in an end-of-topic exam once, and she wrote, "Disappointing". She literally refuses to let anyone have any kind of break in her lessons, even if it's the last lesson before the summer, or any holiday, or if there is an exam that day she will not let you have even a second off. If she catches you not studying for even a microsecond, she will call you out for not working, and if you have finished the work, she will immediately tell you to revise for exams, regardless of when they next occur. Moving on, the school dinners are an embarrassment to the human race. They built an eyesore of a box in the dining hall, which takes up an obnoxious amount of space and limits the capacity of the hall. To add to this, the unimaginable amount of new pupils they are accepting into year 7 is outrageous, and this increase in population is crippling the older years as they take up so much space that could be used for other things. Also, they decided it would be a good use of money to improve Failand, a disgusting sports field with an even worse pavilion. The improvements didn't touch the pavilion, and instead added 3 tennis courts and 2 football pitches. The rest remains a simple field. This cost £2.7 million, for a few courts. Meanwhile, they continue to let us use 15 year old laptops which can take literally the entire lesson just to log in, and use outdated computers and classroom tools. This school normally costs £15,300 per year (unless you have a scholarship and are already smart, or a bursary), which is vile considering that extra fees for school lunches and trips can be applied. And with around 600 people in the school, they must be unbelievably rich but still refuse to use the money in useful ways. Instead, they spend it on a 4k 50" TV that simply displays the logo and a few statistics, to exaggerate their wealth when you walk in, or reducing access by adding 3 giant steps in 1 of the 2 entrances. To this day I cannot figure out why they did this, as it provides no purpose. Finally, some smaller issues I have with the school:
-unless you are insane enough to stay until the sixth form, it is only boys, which I am strongly against. This is great, but only if you are a gay male
--They advertise their diversity, and yet most people i see are white boys. I cannot think of a single teacher who isn't white
-The steps
-The bell is ridiculously loud, so loud that in some places they had to cover it in tape to quieten it
-There is no plant life whatsoever. There isn't a field for the Junior school to play in, only a brown, stone yard. There aren't any trees, any bushes, nothing. It is dead
--They take year 3 - 13. 11 years. The junior and senior school are in the exact same place. I cannot imagine being limited to this one building for my entire school career, and I feel sorry for the boys who have stayed for the entire 11 years.
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