St Gabriel's RC High School

I am an adult woman in my thirties and am still haunted by my experiences at St Gabriel's. The sadistic bullying I suffered was beyond horrific, and teachers were more bothered about sucking up to the psychotic, brutish 'popular' kids than they were about protecting those being tortured nonstop. I felt in danger every single minute of the day and left feeling utterly worthless, suicidal, and uneducated. I have absolutely no happy memories of my teenage years and have subsequently struggled to establish myself as an adult due to the significant traumas I endured. I still have debilitating panic attacks to this day and was last year diagnosed with PTSD. St Gabriel's has put me off ever having children of my own. Do not listen to any of their marketing material. Bullying is not nipped in the bud. I cried myself to sleep every single night for five years and exhibited clear signs of severe mental distress and exhaustion throughout my years here. Not one teacher took any meaningful action. Nobody helped me. Not even when fellow pupils would shove their hands up my skirt as a 'joke' in full view of teaching staff. Please do not send your kids here if you want them to grow up to become happy, well-rounded adults. This is a cruel, grey, uncaring place that stamps out any spark of individuality, joy, or potential.

extensive bullying and inadequate teaching has always been a problem before, and innapropriate ways of dealing with it. the new head teacher has destroyed any sense of community there once was.

Shit. NEVER and I mean NEVER send your kids here, I still have trauma.

School with lots of bullying and bad teaching but not sure if you’d find any better in the area!

Terrible school, had an assembly which one of the points made were "if you’ve got things going on at home put it to the back of your mind and just focus on your GCSEs" appalling

The teachers and lessons were hit and miss to say the least, bullying is high and many students told it’s part of life and part of many schools. The troubled students and high level students gain special attention the rest left to fend for themselves. Choose wisely about schools or it will set a kid up with trauma.