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Stockport School
Secondary · Maintained · Stockport
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TEACHERS ARE SHIT
This school is so shit, When i come here (im a student in year 10) my teachers constantly nag me because my brother died and I took time off. When i walk around school the teachers bully me and the teachers humiliate us and don't care about our well being. at break you get shouted at for absolutely nothing and on all of that the teachers are lousy shits and the head of year bully's and hits you DONT COME TO THIS SCHOOL.
Absolutely terrible :/
Honestly dreadful. Teachers preach individuality until it doesnt conform to their poster child expectations. The school cares more about uniform and "expectations" more than a child's mental health. Slurs are used constantly, cant walk around a corridor without seeing atleast one form of discrimination. Minorities are exiled and ostracised for just existing whilst the rude, discriminatory majority of the school are praised for doing the bare minimum such as not hatecriming someone that day.
The school needs to do some serious rearranging of its morals and expectations. Minorities are seen as black sheep and its very clearly affecting the mental health of many students that are part of minorities.
The school needs to do some serious rearranging of its morals and expectations. Minorities are seen as black sheep and its very clearly affecting the mental health of many students that are part of minorities.
Overall awfull
Academics.
Teachers provide little to no support for people with learning difficulties like autism and ADHD making it incredibly difficult for these people to learn. Teachers only care about uniform and GCSE grades. And oh do they care about GCSE grades...every lesson you'll hear "this will be in your GCSEs" "it's your GCSE grades not mine."
Bullying
Bullying is absolutely rampant. You will see it in the corridors, in class, playgrounds, fields Everywhere. Slurs are tossed around like a hot potato and unless your "normal" I guarantee your time there would be worse than hell.
Teachers provide little to no support for people with learning difficulties like autism and ADHD making it incredibly difficult for these people to learn. Teachers only care about uniform and GCSE grades. And oh do they care about GCSE grades...every lesson you'll hear "this will be in your GCSEs" "it's your GCSE grades not mine."
Bullying
Bullying is absolutely rampant. You will see it in the corridors, in class, playgrounds, fields Everywhere. Slurs are tossed around like a hot potato and unless your "normal" I guarantee your time there would be worse than hell.
90% Bad, from a Year 10 Ex-Student
This is a redo of an old review I left, as I would like to expand on issues that happened while I attended.
Stockport School is brilliant if you’re fine with being a poster child and live up to the headmaster’s sky-high expectations, not for snobs despite having such incredible Ofsted reviews.
Most of the teaching staff only care about Exam results and are perfect at blaming you for your home issues. Teaching assistants are either very unhelpful and quite frankly rude or absolutely brilliant and friendly. There are only a few good teachers in this school, but even then, when you go to them for confidential support, they always tell the parents despite promising to keep the conversation private. The headmaster is, for lack of a better term, up himself, never coming out of his office and acting like a snob.
As for bullying, where do I start? Bullying is rampant, you can see that in every classroom and hallway, the “normal” kids don’t know that people who are different to them exist, if you’re apart of the LGBTQ+ community or disabled, you’ll find that the school doesn’t nothing to spread awareness or help with your issues. Speaking from my experience, as someone who is of both parties, the one club in school about an LGBTQ+ safe space really isn’t good, not much of a presence from supervising teachers and people will gawk at you from the window on the door, once someone even sprinted into the classroom after throwing open the door and started shouting. I had ONE PSHE lesson about the community, and it was indescribably horrible, kids being blatantly homophobic and transphobic, the teacher was even struggling and getting frustrated, it even caused one of the students to walk out crying because they were so upset at the ‘jokes’. As for the disabilities side, well, there’s nothing much to say as the school don’t do anything to spread awareness, there aren’t many ramps and kids with autism and ADHD tend to be picked on, fooled by kids who take advantage of them or labelled stupid by teachers. Two of the staff came and knocked on my door once because I was home, terrified of going in, and offered no support, just threats.
This school has forced me and a friend of mine to be pulled from the system and either move to a new school or be home tutored.
If you’re a parent, I advise you to please not send your kids here if they are marginally different to the norm.
If you’re a teacher, I suggest brushing up on your dreadful schedules and stop turning up ages late to lessons.
If you’re the headteacher, I recommend you resign, because this job clearly isn’t for you.
And if you’re a student, become a better person.
Stockport School is brilliant if you’re fine with being a poster child and live up to the headmaster’s sky-high expectations, not for snobs despite having such incredible Ofsted reviews.
Most of the teaching staff only care about Exam results and are perfect at blaming you for your home issues. Teaching assistants are either very unhelpful and quite frankly rude or absolutely brilliant and friendly. There are only a few good teachers in this school, but even then, when you go to them for confidential support, they always tell the parents despite promising to keep the conversation private. The headmaster is, for lack of a better term, up himself, never coming out of his office and acting like a snob.
As for bullying, where do I start? Bullying is rampant, you can see that in every classroom and hallway, the “normal” kids don’t know that people who are different to them exist, if you’re apart of the LGBTQ+ community or disabled, you’ll find that the school doesn’t nothing to spread awareness or help with your issues. Speaking from my experience, as someone who is of both parties, the one club in school about an LGBTQ+ safe space really isn’t good, not much of a presence from supervising teachers and people will gawk at you from the window on the door, once someone even sprinted into the classroom after throwing open the door and started shouting. I had ONE PSHE lesson about the community, and it was indescribably horrible, kids being blatantly homophobic and transphobic, the teacher was even struggling and getting frustrated, it even caused one of the students to walk out crying because they were so upset at the ‘jokes’. As for the disabilities side, well, there’s nothing much to say as the school don’t do anything to spread awareness, there aren’t many ramps and kids with autism and ADHD tend to be picked on, fooled by kids who take advantage of them or labelled stupid by teachers. Two of the staff came and knocked on my door once because I was home, terrified of going in, and offered no support, just threats.
This school has forced me and a friend of mine to be pulled from the system and either move to a new school or be home tutored.
If you’re a parent, I advise you to please not send your kids here if they are marginally different to the norm.
If you’re a teacher, I suggest brushing up on your dreadful schedules and stop turning up ages late to lessons.
If you’re the headteacher, I recommend you resign, because this job clearly isn’t for you.
And if you’re a student, become a better person.
how I feel
The teachers care more about uniform and there reputation as a school more than students mental health. When u do something wrong they never ask why u did it they just punish u straight away. We understand they want the best for us and are trying to help but in the same way there destroying us as people and are making us feel unhappy all the time. When we try to talk to a teacher about how we feel to them we’re just “over reacting” or “that’s just being a teenager” when in reality it’s not. The teachers talk to kids as if there nothing, the students try there best and they don’t notice but we do the smallest thing wrong and u get a big punishment. No one should go to school thinking “same thing different day” or “here we go again” yet I know I speak for a lot of students saying this that’s how we feel waking up realising we have to go there.
That’s the truth..
That’s the truth..
Terrible for mental health and support.
Terrible with handling mental health, I got told I was faking and teachers made me feel bad for it. Forced to leave in year 10 as I couldn't handle it and even my mum didn't want me going there from how bad it was effecting me. Got told by a deputy head that I'll never do triple science cos I'll never pass it when he new how passionate I was about science. I got no support from this school and continued to suffer from severe anxiety and depression.
Bullying leaders need challenging
There are some fabulous teachers and other school staff who are wonderful people who care about their jobs and the people around them. The pupils get a really good deal on the whole, its the staff who can suffer. The problem is the culture of lies, favouritism and bullying at the top of the school. This bullying is played out in public with public telling off of or sidelining usually female staff who the leaders have a problem with. Its very uncomfortable to see people targeted and makes people scared, maybe thats the plan.
mixed opinions
As a teacher at Stockport school, I can say that the student's wellbeing and thoughts about school are completely disregarded and unlistened too. There is no platform for students to raise concerns about their learning and their own safety at school. The school is run like a dictatorship. A certain assistant headteacher bullies students who he deems as 'stupid' and has even publically humiliated them in front of an entire class, I have had students say to me that they are terrified of going to his lessons. However, not every teacher is like this. Our school also has some amazing teachers who really care about the student's wellbeing and not just their grades which is exactly what a good teacher should be. Another thing I've noticed is the lack of mask-wearing by the teachers, yet the students are expected to wear them. The teachers are putting vulnerable students at risk by not even wearing a simple mask. Half of them wear a plastic visor which offers little to no protection of corona. This shows what some teachers attitudes are like towards those who are at risk.
gcse
teachers abusing their power
High percentage of teachers don't wear masks, including the ************ ****. Yet students are expected to wear masks and are screamed at for not wearing one even with mask exemption. You can't have one policy for students and another for teachers. People call it a school but I call it a prison. Poor teaching in many subjects but some teachers are amazing. KS4 pastoral is awful and unsupportive towards many students compared to the KS3 pastoral team. Uniform is way to strict and unreasonable for many students, year 11's are forced to stand in the cold weather where as the other years get the privilege of the canteen. The one way system is ineffective and not covid safe especially with teachers not wearing masks or just wearing a plastic visor (which newsflash has minimal protection against covid).On the flipside there are some teachers who care about the students and don't take the easy way in teaching and always go the extra mile for them. But this isn't all teachers as some can't be bothered to even mark our online school work or help students when they ask for help (cough cough an assistant headteacher). The same assistant head has called multiple 'stupid' for failing a test which if anything shows his lack of good teaching. He's made fun of students with anxiety in front of the entire class, and if a student did this then it would be classes as bullying and would have faced sanctions. Yet he can abuse his power because he knows he will get away with it. The history department however is amazing especially with letting students out on time so they don't get referrals from their next lesson, also has always offered the students help when they don't understand.
Shittest school
School is most toxic place there. Can't wait till 2022 so I can get out of there
Give me mental health issues
They think that mental health doesn’t exist and tell you to just ‘stop crying and go to lesson’ which is a thing a teacher actually said to me, some teachers are nice and understand but most don’t.
Velis et Remis
I completed my GCSEs a few years ago and managed to get decent grades but that isn't the only thing school should be there for. It took until ks4 for school to realise my home life was in chaos but until then I had to deal with social isolation, depression and many concentration problems, problems teachers should pick up on as signs of domestic abuse or at least they should have investigated it. Although I do have to state that once social services did intervene in my family the school offered full support and cooperated very well in terms of extra help, I just wish that they had noticed these problems sooner so that I didn't have to put up with it as long as I did.
In terms of teaching staff it is clear that the teachers care greatly about the pupils they teach, they just might not always handle the pressure well and therefore appear frustrated, its normal for teenagers to have this effect anyway so I understand that teaching 30+ pupils requires god like patience. The quality of lessons can range from highly engaging to being given a textbook to work from (I will state that only 2 teachers went to this extreme). One thing teachers mostly got right was stopping hate speech whenever a student would use it.
A negative of the school policy is the over-restriction of uniform, I understand that they try to level the playing field in terms of clothing in order for students to not be subject to bullying but when I once had improper shoes because I couldn't get new ones for a few months I got in trouble. The idea that parents have to spend a fortune on a uniform and its called fair and equal upsets me, though this is more a systemic British problem than anything.
Another negative is that students cannot eat in lessons, if its not science where food can be contaminated then I believe that pupils should be able to, there are many that go to school hungry for many factors like poverty and just the fact that they don't have the energy to wake up that early (most teens dont), they then have to complete 2 hours of lessons before they are allowed to eat. This isn't fair on teachers either that will subsequently be punished if caught allowing pupils to eat in lessons.
Overall I believe that the school will get you through your exams and your teachers will dedicate both in class hours and outside of that to helping you do your best, however you may not automatically be referred for help in terms of mental health and family stuff so if you are in a position that you can talk about it, you need to. Hope this helped :-)
In terms of teaching staff it is clear that the teachers care greatly about the pupils they teach, they just might not always handle the pressure well and therefore appear frustrated, its normal for teenagers to have this effect anyway so I understand that teaching 30+ pupils requires god like patience. The quality of lessons can range from highly engaging to being given a textbook to work from (I will state that only 2 teachers went to this extreme). One thing teachers mostly got right was stopping hate speech whenever a student would use it.
A negative of the school policy is the over-restriction of uniform, I understand that they try to level the playing field in terms of clothing in order for students to not be subject to bullying but when I once had improper shoes because I couldn't get new ones for a few months I got in trouble. The idea that parents have to spend a fortune on a uniform and its called fair and equal upsets me, though this is more a systemic British problem than anything.
Another negative is that students cannot eat in lessons, if its not science where food can be contaminated then I believe that pupils should be able to, there are many that go to school hungry for many factors like poverty and just the fact that they don't have the energy to wake up that early (most teens dont), they then have to complete 2 hours of lessons before they are allowed to eat. This isn't fair on teachers either that will subsequently be punished if caught allowing pupils to eat in lessons.
Overall I believe that the school will get you through your exams and your teachers will dedicate both in class hours and outside of that to helping you do your best, however you may not automatically be referred for help in terms of mental health and family stuff so if you are in a position that you can talk about it, you need to. Hope this helped :-)
Mental health doesn’t exist
Staff don’t care about kids mental health they say just stop worrying and walk away and forget. Mental health doesn’t exist to some teachers
Pathetic. rude staff and rules! shoes with no more than 5 lace holes no trainers or patent shoes
No jewellery tight school pants or makeup no coats inside of the school one way system for students only face coverings for students only teachers are never in the wrong.
No jewellery tight school pants or makeup no coats inside of the school one way system for students only face coverings for students only teachers are never in the wrong.
Staff are obnoxious
staff are rude and are basically bullies. does nothing for mental health
Bad Bad bad
Worst school going failed me numerous times and tell us all to be outstanding students for just one day and put up a fake front for ofsted this school really needs it’s true colours revealing.
From a year 10 student
The new one way system has overcrowded corridors, making it impossible to get to class without having to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone that is not in your year group bubble, and it has also sent a teacher into a panic attack for an hour because of how loud and crowded it is. Students are left out of conversations about things that could better their learning and are only told when it is decided if they are going to do it.
Some teachers don't wear masks or face coverings then scream at the students when they don't have masks. The over-policing of uniform makes it harder and harder to find suitable things that make you comfortable in school. The only place we really have to stand at break/lunch is on the field or crowd on the little patch of concrete when they decide that the mud has become an issue for them and not just us.
Some teachers don't wear masks or face coverings then scream at the students when they don't have masks. The over-policing of uniform makes it harder and harder to find suitable things that make you comfortable in school. The only place we really have to stand at break/lunch is on the field or crowd on the little patch of concrete when they decide that the mud has become an issue for them and not just us.
Poor staff, untrained & ignorant.
Where do I start? ******** goes around shouting at kids - making their lives a misery. Some teachers are nice and some are out to get students.
Some staff don’t wear masks yet tell students to wear them. Double standards (almost like Covid doesn’t affect them!)
Some staff don’t wear masks yet tell students to wear them. Double standards (almost like Covid doesn’t affect them!)
ignorant staff & non confidential discussions
numerous issues with double standards, non necessary policing of uniform and all round unwillingness to help when students are not doing well.
COVID restrictions!!
Teachers speak to students with poor attitude and COVID 19 rules in which was set in place have not been stuck to.
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