Tanbridge House School

Teachers couldn't care less about what happens. Sure, they get annoyed about people misbehaving in class, but they don't care about students' experiences in school. A lot of people like me get bullied or attacked for seemingly no reason and the teachers don't do anything about it. They even locked the toilets because of some students' misbehaviour which is very unfair to the students who haven't done anything wrong as they seem to believe "punish everyone because of a small group of people's actions". Also they say we should all be treated as equals but the bullies don't listen, they keep on doing what they're doing, purposefully to hurt others. I also wish we had more non-uniform days because it sucks having to wear a uniform all the time. Overall, I've had an average to negative experience here.

I skinned one of your teachers alive

The school has introduced a system where students scan QR codes to sign in to clubs. While we can ask teachers to sign us in, they ask us what mobile phone we have and why we can't scan the code, trying to look at the phone. This makes students with no phones or more basic phones feel left out.

Lessons also encourage us to use social media - the opposite of what should be taught.

Lessons at this school are taught very well, but this is the only good point. Students are taken out of class and spoken to if they do not have their top buttons done up, but when a boy fell over while playing football, the teachers continued talking and
came to him after a few minutes.

The school also encourages students under 13 to use social media despite giving lessons on on-line safety.

The school's slogan is 'Care, Kindness & Achievement' but the only one of these that exists is achievement. The teachers believe uniform and grades matter more than bullying. They are also hypocrites - they tell students that blue and pink 'are not boy and girl colours' yet paint the very dirty toilets this way. In addition, they give many assemblies about wellbeing but do nothing to help it.

this place is a place no one should even want to go to i bet all other students wake up and think 'time to go to hell' that's the first thought the days go by to slowly and personally you should just run while you have the chance so do not enter the school just run away as far as possible and never come back cause this school will drain you mentally and physically and they do not have a single care in the world on our mental health. good luck surviving you might not make it through year 7 though

A particular incident always springs to mind when I think of my time at this establishment. For somewhere claiming to be oh-so socially concious, they sure did drag several trans men into an assembly about skirt lengths intended for female students, wherein a male staff member prattled on about it being "unfair" for male staff to have to not stare at underage girls at their job. If you wore trousers? Had transitioned to become male? Didn't matter, you still had to sit through this.

Also, in agreement with other reviews, the toilets in this place were in absolute shambles. Not to mention the fact that as of when I left, the canteen charged £2.10 for a panini that was barely ever filled enough,or £1.00 for what often amounted to less than 10 chips.

Eh,

To start the toilets can be classed as biological weapons, some guy pissed in a sink once and that's just one example, most people did everything in their power not to use them.

Your subject excellence really depends on the teacher, one year I was so far behind I felt I could have learnt more from the amount of stuff written on our desks than class, the next year I changed teacher and was back on target again.

I don't think the teachers realised that putting anti bullying posters have the same effect as washing the dishes except there are no dishes and you're just eating a shoe box instead because they do nothing about bullying and god forbid anything mental health.

Overall, going to this school is like doing a line and rolling a dice to decide your fate, either you get lucky with some good teachers and students or you experience mind numbingly boring hell, either way it'll be bad.

Side note, didn't meet a single person who said they enjoyed English.

Although the school seems well-prepared and students leave with overall good qualifications, your experience differs too much depending on the staff you have to deal with and how much you learn.

A lot of the male teachers are much too aggressive and over react to the simplest of situations, this is the worst with male students.

The toilets there rarely ever have toilet paper or soap in them and the sanitary bins are always over flowing, and it is hard to find a toilet that actually flushes.

The theme of respect is so pushed, and the students are always told they need to respect there teachers but we do not get the same attitude.

Doesnt treat mental health or bullying appropriately at all.
Homophobia was treated as something we should just get used to for me and my friends, as was bullying.

It’s a good school but the toilets are awful and so are some of the teachers and students

Run away. Run now. This place will suck your soul from your body and throw you out as a shell of a human doomed to face this ugly world for the rest of your meaningless life.

It’s amazing and going into year 11