St Laurence School

TERRIBLE pupil management! They take advantage of the fact they are an academy to off-roll children to suit their own needs as a school. Duty of Care is non existent if your child academically lacks their standards...they thrive themselves upon attendance & behaviour and tick boxing whilst hinding behind the fact that they lack over all Duty of Care for your child. It's an insestious school with every teacher working together to bully and set your child up to fail, focussing solely on the poor childs weakness that have SEN to adhere to their own needs, unless of course the child is academically well suited and ticks all of their boxes!

This school is a horrible school, teachers don’t help with bullying at all. Many students had to leave to be homeschooled due to many traumas. Teachers don’t help with mental and physical needs (anxiety, dyslexia ect). Very dirty school nothing is ever cleaned and is just very dirty overall especially in the toilets. Students aren’t listened to and respected. Food is overpriced and gross (£4 for a small, raw sausage roll). No after school activities. No safety, people have ran out many times including people not in stlaurence have walked into the school. Grades are so low due to poor education. Please do not send your kids here.

During my time at st Laurence I received no help whatsoever whilst getting bullied. Many students left this school as they had an awful experience as staff wouldn’t help. Headteacher is very rude and shouldn’t be qualified as he gets down in students faces and screams at them whilst they cry. Also the food is very overpriced and raw. Personally I would never recommend this school to anyone. They also wouldn’t help less gifted people who struggle with mental health and only prioritised the ‘smart’ people who make the school ‘look good’

i had an awful time as a student at st laurence. the excellent academic reputation of the school puts the teachers on pedestals and they will stop at nothing to uptake it, at the cost of many students' mental health. the behavioural system is nothing short of barbaric and is heavily infantilising towards older students. there is no sense of pride in the school and reinforcing a strict dress code has not aided this, opposing the outdated belief by senior staff members that it does. grouped punishments are a favourite amongst staff members, blanket bans frequently put into place due to small groups of students bending rules. the interior of the school is crumbling in areas, and the money that should be going towards fixing this is going into converting the school into a devoutly religious institution. accessing mental health support will take you to a building which quite literally does appear to be falling apart, and this is the sole space for wellbeing on the school site. everyone i've known who attended st laurence jokes about being traumatised from their time there, however this does appear to border on a truth. if you are a teacher reading this, i'd like you to do one thing. take your foot off the gas for a day. every single one of your students is exhausted. trust me, i've been in a 30-strong classroom. nobody is happy there.

Ur all twats xx the food is mank and over priced I'm actually so fed up w having to go to here it's full of nonces and bullies ? fr driving me mad do better x

Lots of homophobia and abuse towards students less physically gifted. But also a good system of teachers to talk about you mental health or things at home to

This school doesn’t handle bullying at all. They don’t deal with raciest comments or homophobic comments whatsoever. It’s a horrible school awful with manage movements. Teachers will yell at students and not even try to listen to their reasons for actions. They cause stress on the students not understanding their mental health. Overall a horrible school and not at all a good recommendation

the teachers were nice but the students... ?

It's an alright school but they should be doing more about mental health and to connect with the students instead of jumping to conclusions and assuming they've done smth wrong then leveling them

about to leave and very happy about it, ever since joining this secondary school suffered with depression and been anxious due to stupid rules and ruthless teachers. The school says they care about mental health when they clearly don’t, they only care about uniform and grades - why does having earrings in effect your learning?! Received no support from the school after then being informed of being on antidepressants and suffering with depression , only given extra time for an hour a eeek to do homework, no councilling, nobody to check up on me and teachers forgotten after a week. So happy i’m leaving.

lovely school with good teachers, however they are lacking, as most schools are, in good mental health support.