Sacred Heart Catholic High School

I`m an ex student from this school and I really do not recommend.
this school does not care about your mental health one little bit, they preach about it but they are the ones who make each students mental health deteriorate. the amount of students who sit along corridors and have panic attacks ect, is unbelievable and the teachers just brush it off and say your overreacting. the school counsellor helps at the minimum. if your struggling with anything and you ask to keep it private they will say yes but still continue to ring home. they preach and have assemblies weekly about "being yourself" but scream at you and put you in isolation when you wear the littlest of makeup or have natural eyelash extensions on. the only thing they do care about is your grades because if you get good grades it makes them look good as a school, but they don`t see the amount of pressure they put on students to achieve them. if you don`t get the grades they want you too they will constantly put you down for how bad your doing because you cant reach the standards of the "brainy top set students". it overwhelms us to the max as we then have no social life due to the amount of work load they give us which leads to having bad mental health which they do nothing to help. for example certain departments really try their hardest to help you and make sure you understand and they are severely underpaid. but on the other hand some departments do not care. when I was revising for my GCSE`s in may/June my English teacher was going over a few things and I put my hand up because I didn`t understand it and she repeatedly told me to put my hand down then when it came to doing the work I didn`t do it as I had no clue what I was doing, she came over and asked why I wasn`t doing the work and I told her many times it takes me a bit longer to process information and I didn`t get it and she just said "well you should`ve been listening" and walked away. another thing is lengths of skirts, every time I had my skirt rolled it was rolled 1 time because it was too big and they just said well buy another one but my mam refused to pay £40 pound for a skirt that was going to get used for a few months. and each time I got told off it was by the same male teacher who I genuinely thinks he finds joy at looking at girls legs. another thing is if you struggle with anything like ADHD, autism ect, and you struggle sitting still or fidget a lot so u take a little bit of blue tac or something very small to fidget with you will get told off for distracting other students. but please for the sake of your daughter please do not send them to this school.

This school has no idea how to deal with physical health conditions.
The senco does anything she can to avoid doing her actual job, meaning girls with disabilities are left with no support that they are entitled to.
It was very common to see girls crying in the corridors, usually over bullying which has been reported yet ignored. The schools response to this is they ‘don’t want to get involved in arguments’, basically meaning they can’t be bothered to deal with it.
The senior leadership team were absolutely useless, I was treated like a problem rather than an actual person.
There is also a massive accessibility issue, which the school claim they are not responsible for, as it’s an old building. Yet, they won’t make any reasonable adjustments (such as moving classrooms), so I spent most lessons in a small room on my own.
A substitute teacher made a ‘joke’ about my disability, we reported it but never received an apology from the teacher.
I had no personal emergency evacuation plan, so (unknown to us at the time) I had no way of getting out if there was a fire (thankfully there was not).
Racism is a massive problem for most students, yet ignored as the school seem too scared to deal with it correctly.
An English teacher refused to let me leave lessons early (I had a pass for a medical condition) and made me feel embarrassed about my condition in front of a class. The same teacher refused to send me any English work for a year when I wasn’t well enough to attend school, so I was left massively behind in lessons. She then gave me a very low grade at the end of the year, despite not sending me any work or even letting me sit the assessment.
I have been left traumatised from the way I was treated there, and am glad to have finally left.
I really hope sacred heart improve, as I don’t want anyone to go through what I did. No student should be made to feel like an outcast for having a disability they cannot control.

this school gives off a spooky feeling. it could be the girl as they are all wrong in the head.
a lot of them are pregnant or have had too many sausage rolls at Greggs.
please improve your food cause it makes me feel ill.
I don't like the fact everyone here haven't been in the shower.
also they don't give any shits on bulling.
lastly I saw ants in one girls ants so please make that your top priopoirity or i will not be able to sleep tonight.
awful school

Most of the teachers are racist. Because today I have been told to take of my MASK, when I didn't felt like doing it. And told me and my Friends to not go on the grass while white students were walking on the grass. Most of the teachers DID NOT even CARE about our education but what we wore in school like some people chose to Wear a mask .

Teachers bully students high rate of trans boys in the school

This school is awful. I don’t know why I didn’t leave sooner to be honest, I have pretty severe bpd and the school did not help whatsoever. I had psychosis and I got screamed at by the head of pastoral for not being in my lesson LOLLL. Go to UTC it’s so much more fun. All I learned from sacred heart is...

Do your mathswatch on time or you’ll get pure rinsed, and if your skirt is not below your knee you will be burned at the stake.

Also side note the Sixth Form is wayyyyyy better they actually treat you like a human there.

Just no entire experience was horrible i would not go back

I go to that school a womann called miss Lewis is rasisy

i haven’t even started doing my gcse’s yet and this school has already been the most awful experience ever, i honestly don’t even know where to begin.
i will start by talking about the staff there, there are a few departments in the school who are actually kind to their students, like the music, RS and IT departments, who are really helpful and understanding towards their students. however, most of the staff departments are unfriendly to their students and treat them like robots, only the students who achieve really high grades and are in top set get any attention, but they are also completely overwhelmed with work and stress put onto them by the teachers which leads to poor mental health and no social life due to the amount of homework they get. the lower sets are constantly reminded that they are not clever enough to be in top set and are picked on and told off for the simplest of things, anyone in between with average grades is just ignored. the work and lessons are overall honestly really boring and tiring so they are not memorable at all for exams. all students are expected to behave in the exact same way and are not allowed any individuality although the school preaches the message of “being yourself” but continues to ban any self expression like wearing any makeup, or having your hair in a different style etc, they also sexualise young girl’s bodies as soon as they start school there by creating a strict rule of them having their skirts knee length at all times and giving them literal detentions if they dare to roll them up even once which is a complete waste of time and makes no sense. also, the school preaches about having good mental health but students often have panic attacks in school and the teachers completely ignore it, there is a school counsellor who is really unhelpful and ignores and pushes aside any worrying behaviour from the students who seek advice from her. there is also a massive problem with bullying, racism and homophobia in the school but the staff are more bothered about the length of the student’s skirts or whether your phone is switched off than those major issues which happen everyday inside the school. there is also a weird rule where no one is allowed to go to the toilet during lessons and get told off just for asking to go, this doesn’t make any sense as it is an all girls school so they literally expect you to bleed through onto the chair if you are on your period in class. also, because the school is all girls none of the students there now know how to interact and socialise with boys which is not helpful for when they go to college, university or the working environment where there is a mixture of males and females. basically all the school cares about is their reputation so anything bad that happens it is always covered up, which is probably why everyone seems to think it is such an amazing school, but from my own and many other students experiences, it is clear that it is not. the school does not have a happy atmosphere and i really do not recommend that you go to it.

How this school manages to escape Ofsted every inspection I have no idea. The teachers are rubbish and the school has a massive bullying and mental health problem, the maths department is a complete failure and the counsellor either isn't fully trained or she's just completely incompetent. The amount of academic stress is ridiculous and it's not uncommon for there to be girls having panic attacks in the corridors, especially during March (GCSE Mock week takes place then) and May-June when the exams are. Bullying is never taken seriously and I have had friends be victims of sexual harassment from other students and the teachers just brushed it off. The music and art departments are the only two who are actually capable of being nice to their students, and the RS department has repeatedly traumatised me, other girls in my class, and many girls throughout the years due to using extremely gory and sexually violent case studies as part of the Ethics course in Year 12. High-achieving students are pushed beyond their limits and low-achieving students are constantly berated for their poor grades, while anyone in between is ignored. The dress code is supposed to make the school seem professional, but instead it sexualises the existence of girls as young as 11, as the students are expected to have their skirts no higher than their knee, while teachers can prance about wearing whatever they'd like, including short dresses with no tights Underneath. There is also the ridiculous restriction of students not being allowed to go to the toilet during lessons, which is entirely detrimental to their wellbeing considering this is a girl's school. You are literally expected to bleed through your skirt and onto the seat if you start your period in class. The school has a terrible phone policy that is turned into a complete double standard as the teachers are allowed to use their phones in class, but even having your phone go off or be seen in a pocket on the school grounds will result in it being confiscated until the end of the week, or if confiscated on a Thursday or Friday it will be kept until the next Friday. The school evidently has no consideration for its students who live far away or who have anxiety, autism, ADHD etc. as if they did, they would allow the use of phones in order to help these students regulate themselves and aid themselves in getting through their day.
Do yourselves a favour, find a different school for your daughters. St Mary's is actually competent and provides socialisation with both boys and girls, which this school does not, which is a major disadvantage when the students leave and go to university or enter into the world of work.