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Stanchester Academy
Secondary · Academy · Stoke-sub-Hamdon
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Don’t send your child, unless you don’t care about them
Little brother goes to the school (same as I did), nothing is ever done about bullying to the point students will get stabbed.
Not recommended
In my experience, Stanchester Academy is a very poor school. My daughter went totally downhill after just a few months here as there was no provision made for her needs. There is a lot of bullying and her mental health really suffered. Nothing was put in place; there was limited understanding and compassion from a few staff. They may be able to deal with your 'average' child but once there are any additional needs the response is not therapeutic or considerate.
DONT GO TO STANCHESTER
My child HATES this school no teachers give any respect only detentions. This school is OUT OF THEIR MINDS I feel terrible for the students that still have to go to this school. Do not let your child go here.
Awful
Don’t join this school
Work
Bad school hardly learn anything
Bullying really bad teachers don’t control it till a fight happens
Lots of teachers who sit around and do nothing about bullying or anything like that
Review from current student's point of view
Absolutely rubbish. I go to Stanchester and they suspend me very regularly for the most pety reasons and if someone else did the exact same things that I do then they would just get a detention or something! It is so obvious that they pick on me and give me much worse punishments for no good reason. You can get an after school detention for being 2 minutes late to a lesson! Quite often, senior employees of the Bridgewater & Taunton College Trust come into the school and see how everything is going, and it is so obvious how much the headteacher changes her attitude towards students when they are here. A few months ago, a new SLT member joined and he was deputy head & in charge of behaviour, however, within about a month he left as he realised how terrible the school is. Around 10 teachers have left the school and they have only employed about 3. They blow absolutely everything out of proportion when speaking to my Mum on the phone and exaggerate it so much. Also, when students write statements about incidents such as fights, the school don't actually take the statements into consideration, they just assume that they are always correct and never believe anything you say. Everything has gone downhill ever since the new head teacher joined, she has no idea what she is doing most of the time and if one thing happens throughout the day then that makes her be moody to every other student aswell causing lots of students to be annoyed. I don't think I'm allowed to say her name on here but I'm sure anyone that wants to know it can search it up on their website.
Bad school
In my experience with stanchester it was horrible and I was only in school for 4 months because of how poor this school was and I was constantly getting bullied
Bullies & Trash Food
I was bullied very badly and so was my brother. They did nothing about it.
The cafeteria food is also rubbish.
The cafeteria food is also rubbish.
Bad school
Honestly this school is horrible, the teachers are so strict and yell at good students all the time, too many things going on at once, they just don't care about the students to wellbeing
Sweet and Sour Stanchester
Since I’ve been there the school has gone from strength to strength.
Stanchester provides, from what I remember, a range of activities and trips for all the students unfortunately many cancelled due to the pandemic and the atmosphere can be good sometimes.
Introducing a new pointing system which I don’t find very effective as the majority of the points go to Year 7s. The school tried to enforce a new behaviour policy, recently, and the punishments has varied from teacher to teacher, so not very effective in enforcing behaviour.
Some teachers are great, they are very caring and supportive of the students others not quite so much especially in the English Department.
Mental health has been a big factor in the school, providing groups and assemblies on it, for some it has been tough to go through due to there being no trigger warning on the topic causing many people to be in tears. Also couple years ago I asked for support and I never received it hopefully now it has changed.
Food at Stanchester seems to be popular but the prices have slowly crept up so it has put me off buying from there, so bring a packed lunch to save time and energy.
Stanchester has dealt with Covid-19 greatly, establishing rules with face masks as such but for the teachers the amount of severity was different from each teacher, for example a science teacher is more worried about the virus due to knowing about pathogens compared to a history teacher. When there was a case confirmed it was decided that all years would mix back together (this was probably the plan before the case was announced) therefore inflicting fear into all the students.
To add, due to missing many months of school, Stanchester started to introduce a Raising Attainment sessions before and after school for the Year 11s, to catch up on the time missed, as they are worried about the grades received in their mocks which is good but the amount of mental strain it has put on them is damaging. And the sessions had only started a couple weeks ago and they have more to come as well so I would not be surprised if these Year 11s achieve high grades but at the cost of their mental well-being.
This is what I can remember about Stanchester
Stanchester provides, from what I remember, a range of activities and trips for all the students unfortunately many cancelled due to the pandemic and the atmosphere can be good sometimes.
Introducing a new pointing system which I don’t find very effective as the majority of the points go to Year 7s. The school tried to enforce a new behaviour policy, recently, and the punishments has varied from teacher to teacher, so not very effective in enforcing behaviour.
Some teachers are great, they are very caring and supportive of the students others not quite so much especially in the English Department.
Mental health has been a big factor in the school, providing groups and assemblies on it, for some it has been tough to go through due to there being no trigger warning on the topic causing many people to be in tears. Also couple years ago I asked for support and I never received it hopefully now it has changed.
Food at Stanchester seems to be popular but the prices have slowly crept up so it has put me off buying from there, so bring a packed lunch to save time and energy.
Stanchester has dealt with Covid-19 greatly, establishing rules with face masks as such but for the teachers the amount of severity was different from each teacher, for example a science teacher is more worried about the virus due to knowing about pathogens compared to a history teacher. When there was a case confirmed it was decided that all years would mix back together (this was probably the plan before the case was announced) therefore inflicting fear into all the students.
To add, due to missing many months of school, Stanchester started to introduce a Raising Attainment sessions before and after school for the Year 11s, to catch up on the time missed, as they are worried about the grades received in their mocks which is good but the amount of mental strain it has put on them is damaging. And the sessions had only started a couple weeks ago and they have more to come as well so I would not be surprised if these Year 11s achieve high grades but at the cost of their mental well-being.
This is what I can remember about Stanchester
Biased and Selfish school with deluded staff
This school is full of toxic people who are selfish and make you want to hate yourself. The teachers don’t even care if your doing bad they always put their time and effort on the students that are in the ‘edge academy’ which is very unfair and it isn’t good. If your luckily enough to be invited to the edge academy you will be at an instant advantage compared to the ‘normal students’. You could even get excluded for being in a fight and get head boy for being in the edge academy!
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