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Rossett School
Secondary · Academy · Harrogate
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Full Time Student 2013-2018
My story as a student *mentions of self harm, suicide.
My personal experience
I get very stressed at school and kids are very annoying
Brilliant
Amazing school. My kids did amazing her.
Don’t send your child to Rossett
When I was in year 6 applying to go to secondary schools Rossett was my first option because it was known as a good school and good for sports. It is not. Over year ten and eleven I was on the girls netball team and we only attended three netball matches, which we lost because of poor practises by the PE staff, who rarely attended practises or showed more attention to the younger year groups. In year 7 there was a boy in my form with tourette’s and autism who would make rude remarks about the girls and even try look up their skirts, he was removed from the form group but throughout the years he has continued to make disgusting sexual remarks about staff and students, but he has admitted he says it because he knows the school will let him get away with it because of his disabilities. One of my friends in year 9 had to leave school because of the bullying and school did not help, the police were even involved at one point but nothing was done on schools side to help. Over my time doing GCSE’s which has almost finished, I have struggled severely as a lack of support from teachers following the pandemic. My grades in subjects such as maths and science have dropped significantly because the teachers cannot support me and other students who struggle with the basic comprehension of mathematics. When OFSTED come to school they remove the “challenging” students to create a better atmosphere for the inspectors. The previous headteacher was rarely seen at school except for inspections and leavers assemblies, my science teacher even admitted she once saw the head sat at her desk with her bare feet propped up on the table snacking on a tube of pringles. They had to close the sixth form and send the students to the grammar one this year, informing them a week before exams, the deadline for most colleges and sixth forms already closed because they did not have the numbers. The only time assemblies were ever focused on anti-bullying or treating others kinder was when there had been bullying claims made by a parent. In my PSHE class last year my teacher rarely showed up, if he did he would either send us to the library to do the work ourselves or could not teach it because he would find it uncomfortable to talk about. It’s a piss poor school and you should not send your child here.
Rossett School former pupil
Whilst I’ve left Rossett with great grades and friends there are a lot of things wrong within the culture of the school. Firstly, lower graded students are put in the sets with the worst teachers and little is done to overcome poor behaviour which doesn’t help them progress any further in their grades. Racism, Homophobia and other remarks are hardly dealt with sufficiently by staff- in fact they care more about shirts being tucked in than hatefully directed comments. The headteacher knows little about any of the pupils and is very rarely seen. Behaviour has been downhill since the last head left. Whilst these are just some of the negative things i’ve encountered there are many good things. For instance many of the staff are genuinely caring and there for you, extra help is given where is asked and the SSOs provide excellent student support which shouldn’t be overlooked by some of the issues within the school culture.
homophobia at rossett
since coming to rossett school i’ve experienced and witnessed homophobia on a daily basis and surprise surprise nothing is ever done. teachers will just stand there not saying anything never punishing them. i haven’t seen one detention given out for it. wake up everyone a hate crime is a criminal offence!!!! not punishing them leads to them thinking it’s ok to do in the outside world, despite reporting it multiple times it has always been ignored. they care more about uniform than their students well-being
wouldn’t recommend
after 5 years and no mental health help i have finally said farewell to this horrific school, would not recommend sending your children here in fear if their deteriorating mental health
Rossett school is overall a decent place.
Well, Rossett is great for sports. However, Maths, English and Science Is okay. I feel like the teachers just settle with mediocre teacher. They don’t push us to our full potential and let other children disrupt the class frequently.
The Real Rossett
It appears to be a nice school when you’re shown it. For our last Ofsted inspection the excluded “challenging” pupils to try make themselves look better. The school has lost complete control over students especially year 10+. The headteacher is barely seen by her own staff and student leading to mistrust. The consequence system is futile as detentions are seen as an extra hour with friends. The school can not provide safety for students as drugs and weapons are regularly left undetected by staff, these are usually carried by Leeds pupils who act with a gang mentality which often leads to violence with unknowing students. Fight prevention is no existent and is normally broken up by older students as the teachers stand and watch radioing rather than helping. The set you’re in will determine your final grade not what you put in. For example set one math student who was receiving high grade was offered one on one tuition with a sixth form pupil to boost their grade and they never attended whereas a set 2 people who dedicated themselves was ignored. The school is more concerned with high grades than individual pupils. The main problem is lack of respect from students but also teachers. The school should be harsher to repeat offenders with behavioural patterns and remove them but instead the head is more concerned about her own image. I didn’t feel safe and I couldn’t speak out because the staff wouldn’t listen. The saddest moment at school was when my teacher broke down on me, a pupil at the time because they felt powerless in their own classroom and rather than the senior leadership trying to help they blamed the teacher or brushed it off as a bad group. For this school to turn itself around we need a new head with a new vision because our current one is respected and adhered to less than the cooks. It’s time for change. Stop the Leeds pupils coming to our, already over crowded schools, replace the head and reinforce the new changes.
Don’t go there
RUDE, Racist teachers don’t really care abt u just ur uniform
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I was undiagnosed with autism all throughout my school years, despite a psychiatrist from the harrogate hospital team coming into discuss them allowing me to have an assessment as for some reason we needed schools sign off / approval, the director of the bridge decided she was a self proclaimed autism expert and denied my psychiatrists view, telling me innapropriatly after she had left the meeting that they "dont believe her" and that i'm not autistic, well guess what? i have been diagnosed for 5 years now. It doesn't stop here; not only was i socially exluded and bullied with me often feeling like i was being outsided by even the teachers [ PE TEACHERS I AM CALLING YOU OUT SPECIFICALLY, STOP "MAKING FRIENDS" WITH YOUR STUDENTS IT IS INNAPROPRIATE AND CREATES A HIERARCHY IDEALT WITH MY WHOLE EDUCATION. ]
The biggest kicker and the most painful event aside from me being beaten up and jumped by girls that the school refused to punish despite it being on school ground *per their policy* we had to get police involvement for any disciplinaries *which did not happen still* was when this school, rossett took away my Art GCSE. Im tearing up as i write this as an adult, because i believe this changed the course of my life in a deeply negative unforgivable way. The school had somehow messed up my corriculum which then meant i wohld be forced to quit and leave my art gcse so they could do an essential, there was no care or thought given to the fact that ART WAS MY ONLY PASSING GRADE AND PASSION. I was battling at this time suicidal thoughts, attempts, self harm and depression all of which this school was AWARE OF AND MADE AWARE OF they still decided that this would be the best course of action, my plan was to go to arr school and they knew this, from that day forward i began to skip school and my attendance was quoted "the worst in their history". I attempted suicide 15 times [all on nhs record] that same year, i still have many scars on my body from the attempts and the self harm, it is something i will never 100% recover from. They stole my dream from me.
This school completely let me down as a student and it feels like a backhand when i read the success for everyone
Success for everyone, unless you're an autistic outsider like me who isn't important clearly, my art and my future career choice meant nothing to them. I was at the mercy of this school and they never showed me a glimpse of it
If you think this review is dramatic, i would advise you to go ask many people who attended if they believe me or not, many would should they have graduated around 2016-2019.
This was not an uncommon story and rossett, i will never ever forgive you. How on earth could you treat any child the way you treated me? How could you quite literally crush my dreams before they had even really began.