Swakeleys School for Girls

As a student who left scaleless school for girls in 2026. I have taken it apon myself to share my dreadful experience at this school. First lets talk statistics when i joined swakelys it was an outstanding school since the new head teacher we have gone down. The teachers are awful and learning everyday was a challenge especially the maths department, the head of maths ( who was my teacher) was awful and didn’t know how to teach. The school does not care about your mental health and i would NOT recommend this school for children with any sort of special needs, you get zero support with anything. The only good thing about this school is the English and science department they were lovely and boosted up my gcse grades tremendously. AS SOMEONE WHO ATTENDED THIS SCHOOL PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE. And the food is awful

The school has no regard for bad behaviour. They give out sanctions unfairly and ar e too harsh with them. It takes them about 2 to 3 weeks for something to be dealt with and sanctions given. Also there are quite a lot of teachers who are racist and purposely ignore you. Also thing is that they put teachers that barely know anything about the subject in it when their department is something else. For history, I had an Art teacher who simply know nothing about the subject and most got low grades . A teacher has been reported many times and still is there, once she said "You should just run off a cliff."

It’s not the best school but isn’t the worst The girls there are rude for no reason whatsoever and if they make a joke about you they will just say it was a joke… Like girl at this point your whole life is a joke! When you get food literally EVERYONE will push in front of you. Even that one girl who you met like 2 years ago will come find you, and bribe you just to push in front of you There are some girls who are nice and will be your friends! But there are still loads of people who have never heard of manners in their life. Teachers are nice sometimes there are a few teachers who will be your friend and will support you Example of my favourites- One of my maths teachers and my geography teacher and one lady at pupil desk There are a few teachers who punish you for literally breathing or just not having a pen and some who don’t give a damn and are basically blind. The strict teachers lecture you for basically nothing and the ones who are lazy it’s completely pointless of them being there They don’t even teacher properly or don’t even teach at all but they haven’t been fired yet. How funny! But the teachers who try ‘help’ with bullying don’t help at all they talk about how they are against bullying and will do anything to stop it but if your crying they will tend to you but tell your parents to sort your problems out as they can’t help anymore? But I’m sorry is this some free trial?! I am a student here so I SHOULD be helped! Now for majority of this review it has been negative. So here is some positive feedback! FAB week is good as you get to have a nice trip with your friends but if your friends don’t get to go with you don’t worry you can’t go together! And culture day is really cool but they limited the ice cream options for some reason Apparently it’s so ‘it’s more efficient and easier to let more people buy it!’ Lady this school is full of people what are you expecting? Nobody will buy it? That the kids will magically disappear? But now the magic isn’t working so you need to limit it to three ice cream options? And the days honestly go by really quickly idk if that’s just me! There’s also this REALLY cute dog that the schools neighbours own he is very fluffy and looks like a cloud he sits at the back way and gains all the attention! (So cute!) Tbh The best part of Swakeleys is the friends you make if they are complete baboons and idiots who bully you till you cry that will ruin the WHOLE experience if you make good friends who actually support you and won’t let go of your side it will make your experience better. Honestly in a place like this it’s extremely hard to find genuinely good and kind people. I think of myself as a kind person but people might think otherwise because they are rude and annoying (especially the mean girls who make jokes dryer than the desert ?) But there will be some teachers who are really kind but I can’t include names sadly :( But those kind teachers will support you and teach you properly. Those are also the teachers the mean girls target so beware. If you come to this school beware of annoying girls that push and shove you as they don’t know what manners are And the long lunch lines that everyone pushes into and the teachers who hate humanity. Thanks PS: I got charged for two yogurts when it was but one get one for free with the yogurt and after a while term I haven’t received the money back ? PPS: also why have a field that we can’t go on? So useless? That’s all from a long review Bye!!!

This is my honest review of Swakeleys. If you’re looking for a school to send your daughter to, this is not the place. I could go on and on about why, but I’ll mention a few reasons why this isn’t a good environment for your child. Firstly, there is one teacher (I won’t name names) who seems to target hijabi/Muslim students. I’m speaking from experience. Every time she held someone back, I noticed a pattern: they were usually wearing hijabs. Secondly, some teachers give students detentions or keep us back after lessons for no clear reason. Again, this is from experience. A few people might be talking in class, but instead of addressing those individuals, some teachers keep the entire class back. Thirdly, my class and I had a movie afternoon as a reward because we had the highest attendance. We all came in excited, thinking we could still leave at the usual Tuesday time (2:15). I even asked a teacher beforehand if we could leave at 2:15, and he said yes, although we wouldn’t be able to have another movie afternoon if we did. I was fine with that. When we arrived, we got snacks provided by the school and settled down. Hardly anyone was actually watching the movie. Around 2:07, I asked the same teacher if we could leave soon, but he said no. Another teacher in the room asked who wanted to stay, and only one person raised their hand. She then called the class ungrateful and disrespectful, and even criticised how our parents raised us, which felt very inappropriate. One of my friends needed to visit her newborn niece, who had been born in a hospital three hours away, but because of this situation, she had to go way later. We also had a maths test, so she didn’t have time to revise. Finally, my friend had her Pandora bracelet, which had many charms, confiscated. When she went to collect it at the end of the day, the teacher had lost it.

This is a brilliant school

As a parent who was very supportive and keen to have my daughters attend this all girls school I have to give my honest review. The school looks great and talks about support and safe guarding, respect but these are not followed and practised, both my daughters had a very bad time at the school with bullying and some teachers being very abrupt. My daughter joyed the school as a confident young girl and I had to remove her from the school as she stopped eating and sleeping due to constant bullying in the school. This has left my daughter with anxiety and panic attacks. She still suffers from the trauma hence the need to share and post a review. The school supports a certain religion who dominate throughout the school, teachers seem to be terrified of them as they hold protests if they do not get there way, some girls are forced to learn about Islam as a mandatory subject which is not right for anyone not wanting to study this faith as a GCSE subject. Overall very disappointed with the school and more so the girls that attend the school and body shame others. They need to address these topics urgently rather than brush them under the carpet.

THIS SCHOOL IS RUBBISH they never talk to parents in meetings and never let parents ask questions they punish people way too extreme they don't take care of problems properly they make u write tons of forms to sort out incidents TOO MUCH DRAMA All the girls do is fight and argue

Swakeleys is one of the WORST schools my daughter goes there and is in year 8 and we should have checked it properly and listened to people before I sent her there. The teachers are SO biased, the school doesn't care about bullying and always supports the wrong side of the argument in incidents. They never engage with parents because they "aren't allowed to" and give APs for smaller incidents that deserve less harsh punishment. My daughter should be moving schools by next year but SWAKELEYS IS A HORRIBLE SCHOOL.You might think it's better with all girls,it isn't mixed schools are so much better and there will always be problems in an all girls one. Fights happen all the time including physical. You cannot trust teachers with personal problems and absolutely not safe with the "friends" you think are your friends at the start of the year on your first day. NEVER SEND YOUR DAUGHTERS HERE SAVE THEM FROM THESE PROBLEMS. And help all of us to shut down the school it seems "okay" but it isn't an okay school AT ALL. You will be grateful later if you don't send your daughter's here. DON'T GO TO THIS SCHOOL!!

The school is terrible to start of with they have the idea that the staff is always right over pupils even when there is proof. They give big sanctions for small incidents and vice versa. I have heard someone from that school got “suspended” for 5 or so months and put on an online school program which did not go well and they refused to change anything until so many months. And just in general they DO NOT give a shit about you..

Big no no teachers r cruel but the students r a vibe ?

Terrible school teachers don’t care about mental health or anything

swakeleys is not a good school at all all firstly the staff are racist to black and brown students and do not take care of children who are getting bullied only to the point were the child has got jumped or hurt really badly and all they can do to that child is put them in isolation not even an exclusion or expelled a friend of mine got jumped really badly and the whole school went against and the teachers did nothing for u and your child sake do not attend this school for your wellbeing and if your homophobic do not attend . thank you :)

Swakeleys was okay for me , I mean the teachers are good , the only issue I had was that bullying is not dealt with properly and also don’t be fooled by the fact that this is an only girls school so since it has no boys the school is a safe and quiet and friendly place , that’s what I thought and it turned out to be completely the opposite, the girls are not nice and the teachers will only believe u if u cry , they make u write tons of statements and In the end they always support the wrong side of the fight/ argument and overall in terms of academic performance it’s good , however they only act like they do tons to stop bullying whereas they dont, and also here’s a friendly piece of advice : for your options in yr 8 don’t choose health &social care and childcare and also never talk back to the mean girls and also beware of the teachers in the English and maths department ( those are the worst teachers) and the food from the canteen trust me will be the worst food you’ll ever have and also another thing I hate about this schoo is that even if it’s super cold outside unless it’s not pouring heavily outside they don’t let students come inside the building whereas the teachers chill out in the warm heated staff rooms and the rules about your phones is super strict .. hope it helps

To begin with it was alright I guess but it’s really gone down hill, such a toxic environment the girls are very bitchy and I can’t count the amount of times I’ve dreaded going to school due to the people. I’m sure most all girl schools are similar but I would not recommend it

So as some one who's has studie in swakeleys I strongly believe that this school have so many lin teachers hy don't specify rules enough they give out detentions for no reason and Its a really bad school in general I think this school should be shut down ASAP the teachers are all fake and there put on an act for parents and for new year 7s on there first week when actually is a real bad school please don't sign up your making a big mistake and help those who I still in swakeleys by shutting down the school

the school is actually horrible, the people and teachers are disgusting. teachers dont care if you get discriminated and dont do anything about it. someone had tk get plastic surgey due to a bad injury but the school didnt expell the girl whom did it. lets guess, shes white. all i tell my mum is that i want to leave this school but she believes the media which brings up swakeleys is outstanding which is not true at all. its very bad. i wish i could move, the school is just disgusting and ruins ur mental health.

This school has some really worrying and troubling policies. Teachers don’t have their priorities in order and prioritise the wrong things. Such as breaking up friendship groups because it’s seen as ‘intimidating’ when we’re not even doing anything wrong. With some teachers, they leave without notice for the pupils and when we ask what to do about the missing work so we don’t fail exams, we’re told to deal with it and there’s “not much they can do” this school needs to be governed better and overall I wouldn’t recommend.

The school has pretty problematic students and recently those numbers has rising, many students just pure rude. On the other hand staff are very ignorant and lacks communication with each other or with the students. However, I guess many staff are lgbt friendly and help out a lot regarding student's education, especially with older students who will have their exams and help us to achieve our best grade.

The teachers got big problem everyone complaining same thing Ofsted need to step in Many of the staff are garbage they don’t do anything about bullying but if you say anything to them there very quick to protect them Main blame is families most out of marriage kids Patients