St James Senior Girls' School

Its an amazing school. We love it. My daughter was terribly bullyiend in her pre prep school. She arrived to SJ completely broken. This school gave me my daughter back. It is a very caring environment. It’s small so the staff and teachers know each girl. The academics are very good as well. It works for families tgat want their girls to be cared for and protected.

Homophobic school, I was asked if I was a lesbian when I attended the school as a student. My form teacher and deputy head asked me questions for an hour about if I was a lesbian with a girl a year older than me, we had done nothing. Asking very inappropriate questions. Also as a hindu I was not OK with dissection but I was forced to stay. This school gives it students crippling anxiety, I still have nightmares about this school, I'm 26 now with ptsd! Also I was kicked out of all science and language classes(except English) so their gcse scores looked good, I wasn't the only one this happened to. Also the teacher made us say the n-word when reading aloud from to kill a mocking bird and singled out the only black girl in our class asking her opinions, making her very uncomfortable. They also employed an unqualified alcoholic sports teacher (head mistress told us this fondly in assembly on his last day) he shook so much, he could not even draw a straight line. He would walk into the girls changing rooms backwards. There was a male physics teacher would get changed in the girls changing and would come in whilst we were still in there, he excuse was there are no boys changing rooms,the other teachers did nothing. I could go on.

It’s mostly an amazing school! The only problem is that teachers very clearly have favourites.