Shenley Brook End School

As someone who went to the school in secondary and finished sixth form there a few years ago, I’d say there are a couple very good individual teachers but overall the school lacks any kind of well-being support. Many of my friends struggled a lot and the system completely failed them. They did absolutely nothing when my friends were h@rming themselves despite knowing about it, and none of them realised that one of my friends was extremely autistic and refused to accommodate her and instead treated her poorly. One of the teachers was fired a number of years ago for holding child p0rn. They didn’t do anything about bullying, despite it being prevalent, and there were regular stampedes in the corridors from the lower years. That being said I enjoyed sixth form more as I was taught by some very good teachers.

Shenley had a few pros, they had teachers that were good educators, and they care about your grades but MANY cons, as a former student I experienced a lot of racism/micro aggression not just from students but partly from teachers that co-signed a lot of what happened. Not to mention I was sexually harassed by another student at that school and reported it, yet none of it was taken seriously. That school was a hell hole for many people of colour, and it is swept under the rug a lot. They have their priorities wrong, they focus so much on appearance (how students look, hair and uniform wise) rather than tackling the real problem at that school which was sexual assault/harassment and outward racism. Shenley is not the place to send a child of colour. I’m choosing to share this now as I have had time to process my time there, and when I reflect I think about all the negative experiences I had rather than good ones due to the severity of what happened to me.

I currently attend the school and it is awful, the food is decent but is very expensive and is often not much for the price. Some of the rules are ridiculous, such as having to have your learning passport on you at all times, and not being allowed to wear your coat inside. Another thing is that you are not allowed on your phone at all, I was calling my mum because my grandad had just died and mrs potten in the ICT department took it away and gave me a 40 minute detention.the staff are often unjust also, there is a lot of bias to the girls in most departments, and also on top off that, they always look out for untucked shirts and collars untidy, but not the obvious vape deals going on. Most of the toilets are locked apart from at break time, meaning there is only one option to go during lunch and all other times. I often wished that I just chose hazeley

Quite a fair amount of teachers pick on students to the point the student cries. Well-being staff were great. The food is pretty bad. There have been multiple times where fruit had mould and food was undercooked, I recommend bringing a packed lunch. School did nothing about stopping the male students from harming female students; safeguarding I’d say could be a lot better. Not really a positive atmosphere in there, I’d rather forget my experience.

The school is close till Christmas now