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South Charnwood High School
Secondary · Academy · Markfield
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Shockingly insensitive school that fails to equip students with a holistic education or basic knowledge on the wider world. This is partially due to the staff consisting of only one permanent teacher of colour and a complete disregard to issues students would like to be educated on. Due to the remote location and poor teaching on societal knowledge provaledged children remain uneducated by privileged and clueless teachers.
Bringing up any issue of injustice is met with accusations of being over political or controversial. Stay away if you'd like your child to develop any sort of knowledge of the wider world outside the uncultured whitewashed and monotonous trance of countryside south charnwood
Facilities are sub par with only one poor DT teacher, one drama teacher and rigid Fine Art teachers that only appreciate realism and put everything into plastic wallets. This is partially due to an extremely underfunded arts department with PE departments being favoured
Lack of range of subjects offered at GCSE and lack of extracurricular clubs outside of sport
Bringing up any issue of injustice is met with accusations of being over political or controversial. Stay away if you'd like your child to develop any sort of knowledge of the wider world outside the uncultured whitewashed and monotonous trance of countryside south charnwood
Facilities are sub par with only one poor DT teacher, one drama teacher and rigid Fine Art teachers that only appreciate realism and put everything into plastic wallets. This is partially due to an extremely underfunded arts department with PE departments being favoured
Lack of range of subjects offered at GCSE and lack of extracurricular clubs outside of sport
South Charnwood High school
This school was a great school I really liked my teachers especially my CIT and Music teacher. Would strongly suggest to attend the school.
Good overall, but with some major issues.
The school deals with bullying quite well, but it does have a few glaring issues. For one, they have never taught about any minorities other than gay people and black people, so a lot of the students know nothing about genders, Asian history, etc.
Another problem is how they deal with the budget, as they “can’t afford” simple stationery like glue sticks and scissors, but they are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a football pitch, even though they have been promising to build a new sports hall for over five years now.
Also, the school has far too many students, so every classroom is cramped and due to the layout, there are normally over 100 students trying to fit through a 2m wide hallway which connects most of the classrooms in the main block, so if there was a fire, students would struggle to get out, and covid-19 spreads rapidly.
On the subject of covid-19, the school implemented a one way system around the school which sounds like a brilliant idea, but in practise it forces students to walk around the whole school and come in contact with people of all years instead of simply walking 20m in a different direction.
One thing they have done well, however, is splitting the year groups into different sections of the school during break and lunch, as it not only slows the spread of covid-19, but also prevents older students bullying younger ones.
The main issues with the eduction are that they do not let students choose which language they want to learn, as the school only teaches French, and the students only start doing their GCSE options in year 10, so they don’t have as much time to study them.
Also, the school gives students no freedom over what they do until year 10, which causes problems when they suddenly have to organise every themselves later on.
The school supports equality, but can be quite sexist when it comes to PE. For example, girls are not allowed to do contact rugby but the boys are, and instead the girls do subjects like orienteering. Also, once when the boys not doing GSCE PE and the girls doing GSCE PE were together for sports, the boys were told to “be gentle because the girls are very delicate”.
The school teaches the students what to do if they see a stranger in the school grounds, but it is still unsafe, because there is a public footpath going through part of the field.
Another problem is how they deal with the budget, as they “can’t afford” simple stationery like glue sticks and scissors, but they are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a football pitch, even though they have been promising to build a new sports hall for over five years now.
Also, the school has far too many students, so every classroom is cramped and due to the layout, there are normally over 100 students trying to fit through a 2m wide hallway which connects most of the classrooms in the main block, so if there was a fire, students would struggle to get out, and covid-19 spreads rapidly.
On the subject of covid-19, the school implemented a one way system around the school which sounds like a brilliant idea, but in practise it forces students to walk around the whole school and come in contact with people of all years instead of simply walking 20m in a different direction.
One thing they have done well, however, is splitting the year groups into different sections of the school during break and lunch, as it not only slows the spread of covid-19, but also prevents older students bullying younger ones.
The main issues with the eduction are that they do not let students choose which language they want to learn, as the school only teaches French, and the students only start doing their GCSE options in year 10, so they don’t have as much time to study them.
Also, the school gives students no freedom over what they do until year 10, which causes problems when they suddenly have to organise every themselves later on.
The school supports equality, but can be quite sexist when it comes to PE. For example, girls are not allowed to do contact rugby but the boys are, and instead the girls do subjects like orienteering. Also, once when the boys not doing GSCE PE and the girls doing GSCE PE were together for sports, the boys were told to “be gentle because the girls are very delicate”.
The school teaches the students what to do if they see a stranger in the school grounds, but it is still unsafe, because there is a public footpath going through part of the field.
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Most of the staff are rude to the students there has been many occasions where I’ve heard teachers calling students stupid to their face and telling them to shut up and go away when they were only asking them a question. They only care about your grade and not your mental health because as long as your getting a 6 then it’s impossible to be struggling in school.
The punishments are harsh for such little things and when you raise your voice at a teacher after they’ve done the same to you you get sent into iso for being disrespectful and rude. The staff are hypocrites and are unwilling to take the time and help you with any issues.