Standish Community High School

My time at Standish was life threatening, I found something that will haunt me forever. It was hazardous. While being on lunch time detention with my fellow friends I uncovered a dark truth. This wasn't just a normal school it was a ritual being held infront of our eyes. While sneaking into the science building and almost being caught we made it to the bathrooms downstairs. Nearly getting caught by a teacher snooping to see if there was any students. While entering, we uncovered a GURT, a u known worm that led up to a secret room within these walls. He rushed us in a showed us the truth. A GURT wall, the wall where the teachers workship. He told us he owned this school years ago and was now seeking revenge upon the ones who walk in his school. The teachers were frightened and made a deal with GURT that they shall not harm their students but to be strict and horrible to them instead, punishing them to the max and not allowing earrings in their seconds. I now work at this school and still have nightmares about GURT, I avoid the bathrooms at all costs in fear of awakening GURT again...

as a student, this school is a fucking disgrace, like i was getting bullied until i recorded what was happening, then the bullies got no punishment yet i got a detention even after they checked the CCTV and changed the story of what happened, and the bathrooms? oh lord they dont ever unlock 90% of them EVER, and at lunch and break theres only 3 for the whole school, some friends broke a bone and gkt told to sit back down and write, LIKE WHAT THE HELL

Very good school. Food portions could be much bigger as I got more in primary when I was like 6. Friendly staff. Good. :D

Ok school! Teachers are an absolute slay ? Need to update the building though it’s gone a bit mouldy. Also the computers need a clean they are #dusty #slay #stanny #stannyvibes #grade9school #fifi

No wonder the kids in this school are depressed. He secretly smokes e-cigarettes through school to relieve stress. The school does nothing about it despite reporting such behavior. They send social services to children only because the child is sad, so they tell social services that there is violence at home. My daughter came to school smiling and left feeling depressed. For example, it was understood that the phone could not be used, but the daughter's spam number rang and she had to stay after school for an hour and do extra homework. she got detention. She came home crying that it wasn't her fault. Daughter has exams abroad and she did not get authorization for fly even though she attended school diligently all year round. The someday after making a surprise for my daughter and picking her up from school, I saw a student who had her leg in a brace. she couldn't go from school she was crying and the two girls next to her were helping her. terrible view. If you have a choice, 6th graders, avoid this school like the plague and choose another one. They put up posters of super passed exams, but not the ones that are important. you will leave this school without a sense of life. for the school, it's not you that counts, but the number so that they can get money for your person.

I hate it there. Everyone is rude including most teachers (who most likely hate kids and decided to be a teacher for some reason) and we don't get given enough food at lunch/break. So many people are actually MISERABLE there. Outside is NASTY, (old yoghurt splashes all over a wall and still not been cleaned, chewys all over the walls and floors and etc) and obviously the seagulls are so annoying, they crap on anyone and anything they can. People don't get the proper help they need (whether mentally or physically) and there is a unisex bathroom (which is alright in my opinion) but for some people they can feel uncomfortable. The only thing that place likes is the money they get. It is so annoying because they all care more about the money then children (yes we are teenagers but still). I absolutely hate it there. And half of the time people are getting told off for literally no reason (i mean it, like people could just breath and get sent out of the class) {one time we had this substitute for a few weeks and he sent someone out of the classroom (she has a time-out pass so she can go out of classes and to the head of year or someone) so she went to the head of year and the teacher on- called her when she had done nothing, (the only thing she did was not know the answer to a question and it WAS a hard question) he was so rude and disrespectful and then acted nice(-ish) when another teacher came in to check on that class}. Anyway the point im trying to get through is that iHATE that school and im sure i am speaking for almost everyone else that go there too.

I think that the school is alright but the teachers should be a WHOLE lot less moody and we should also get either bigger size portions of food or a cheeper price for the portion amount we have now. The school might get better through the time i have left before i leave. Less homework aswell and provide more help for students with autism/ADHD/anxiety/social anxiety/etc

I went to this school 10+ years ago. I got bullied at this school for being a different race and was called racist slurs. No one did anything about it and staff did not care. They don’t have business studies as a subject which is one of my favourite subjects. Outdoor and environment is ok but when I went to this school I saw littering on the floor. Indoor was alright. Teachers are ok, not that friendly the ones I had. The food was ok. The only thing I enjoyed about this school was being a school prefect and I was part of the school choir. Not much support for dyslexic students so I found the subjects difficult. Made a few friends but no longer friends with them. I regret going to this school. I wish I went to Deanery High School like my sister but everyone’s experience is different. Mine was just not good.

Nobody deserve to go to such a school, Not only does everyone shout at you for little things (including students) the personality of the people there is not “out standing”. As a parent I hate to see my child come home everyday crying over something that happened at this school. The food is an absolute disgrace and how much they charge is absurd. £1 for a cookie? Please! I could run co op and get my daughter 4 cookies for £1! Who do they think they are? Not everyone can afford this! And also the way they deal with bullying is ridiculous! My daughter was being builled for things she can’t control yet the teachers did nothing but say “thats just how life works” when my daughter told me this i was disgusted how they didn’t care about her or anyones well being, although they only care about homework? Do you know how much pressure my daughter feels when she has a mountain pile of homework to do and knowing she had to do it otherwise she will get shouted at? Care about peoples wellbeing and become better Standish High. I do not recommended this school at all. Send your child to this school if you want them to be crying all the time.

Absolute ridiculous, they lock the bathrooms, give you bad points for the stupidest reasons, and the teachers are absolutely nasty to the students, absolute disgrace

Absolute disgrace of a school. A school that locks the bathrooms throughout the school and only opens one for the entire school at break time. One were staff can be verbally abusive to kids who are trying their hardest, a certain teacher of science in particular is a disgrace. Treating all the kids like they're the same. No individual pupil needs are met. Bullying isn't taken seriously at all more like a problem they want to brush under the carpet. So long as the school looks good for Ofsted then that's all they care about They will send you a mental health bulletin every week, the irony is the school is actually incompetent at handling any child's welfare beyond that of a grade. If you have a sensitive child, no let me rephrase, if you have a lovely well mannered kid this school will ruin them. My daughter's mental health is on decline because of the staff and pupils at the school.

treats people like shit and doesn’t give people a chance to tell their part of the story

That’s the worst school that can exist in UK We are foreman family and the most racist area is here around Manchester they don’t even hide! My son is bullied at school (shevington high school)coming back all covered in mud in a horrible mood. Then after don’t ask where the hate’s come! We will move soon but that experience will be remembered and told to everyone so the people going to know how parents grow their children specially in Wigan! The drugs are all around in here,children left outside till late time as 23:00 and I speak about 12-13 years old children!!! Police are never seen checking anyone. What century you people live in? We’ve been all around Europe and never experienced such a bad behaviour! Worst place we’ve ever been and seen. Shame on you English government for not taking any action about that!

I was expecting more from this school people say that its the best school in Wigan. The teachers always talk about the Standish Way and the school only care about grades, not making the students happy. The teachers are so arrogant and saying that they are going to do stuff rather than actually doing actions. In PE they only want to do rugby and football. In the open evenings they just tell a bunch of lies. A good thing is student services, they are the only department that actually cares about the students. Finally, the behaviour in this school is dreadful, many students make it hard to concentrate in lessons. PLEASE IMPROVE!

the school is not that great at the moment all the teacher care about is the standish way they take your earrings off you for no reason al they care about is iso they also lock the toilets and won’t let you go and some of the teacher are horrible i mean most of them are nice but some there so nasty and don’t treat you nice the school is bad it’s no longer outstanding ahaha i wonder why my child comes home everyday complaining to me about a school she comes home in tears most days. when i was applying for standish high school was meant to be the best school in wigan and she has told me to write all this down btw fyi standish high school is not outstanding it’s bad

This school is absolutely disgraceful. These teachers are not right to the students they don’t particularly like. And they don’t ever let you go toilets when all the toilets are locked at break and lunch

Cares way way way more about grades than mental well-being. As a grade 9 student I was consistently encouraged to over work until I reached burnout, for example we were told to memorise English essays and stories in advance so we just had to regurgitate it in the exam, which obviously gave us great marks because the teacher could control what we wrote, but it was a massive, unbearable and unachievable demand to force students to memorise that much. Equally, their way to help us with out mental well being were naf assemblies on how to revise effectively etc.. Also had a lot of nasty experiences with unprofessional teachers being rude towards me despite me (a nerdy type) being, imo, polite. Despite this, some teachers genuinely cared about students and would do everything they could to help out, but this mainly revolved around academics e.g. going out of their way to do extra revision sessions. A lot of these sessions were mandatory meaning you wouldn't get lunchtimes, time after or before school because they threatened to not let you go to prom if you didn't go to revision sessions which I think was unfair because personally I learn better with independent learning anyway. When I started at the school, Mrs Barker was new and hadn't had much of an impact meaning the school was still great and attracted lots of young enthusiastic teachers who cared a lot about their subject. By the time I left, the school was falling apart and was very understaffed, particularly the science department which left my year group (during GCSEs) being taught by supply teachers for both years of GCSE. bullying was also a massive issue, I was never subject to any of the problems but a young boy I knew was very affected by it to the point that it was a very sad ending and nothing angers me more than how preventable that was yet nothing was done to help him. Sport was good, they were top of a lot of things but they were very sexist and elitest. If you weren't the very best at the sport, you were chucked in the lower sets and forgotten about. The girls never did football or tennis or rugby, just netball and rounders and vice versa.

The school only cares about grades and don’t know how to handle mental health at all. Teachers are allowed to talk badly about other students in front of students. they practically encourage bullying. certain higher up staff members consider skirt length and one way systems (pre covid) more important than children’s welfare. teachers are incredibly biased. you get a few good teachers but they’re a minority. there’s never enough supplies and a lot of the school is incredibly outdated.

Honestly Standish is a great school but they could handle the Pandemic much better...