Tapton School

the teachers treated my child horrible and give detentions for no reason. they dont care about your mental health or if the students are feeling sick all they care about is attendance. they dont care about the students opinions or feelings. teachers are unfair and dont treat every student equally. they scream and sah mean stuff not caring anout hiw the student feels

In my few years at that school there have been 5 suicides. That statement alone says enough about the climate of that school,I have been told to starve by a member of staff whilst having a mental health breakdown, told to 'not go round talking' about my possible mental health conditions, left for MONTHS without any support after coming forward about suicidal thoughts. I have been called a freak for standing still, pushed by fellow students and repeatedly bullied with little to no punishment for the cruel. Vulnerable students are often ignored and harmed by the school as their focus is grades and nothing else. I have had the leadership team make my friends cry and shame them for their (diagnosed) sensory issues and block me from using the toilets during break-time (with no valid reason behind this). The only reason this is 2 not 1 stars is because almost all the regular lesson teachers are lovely, even the strictest teacher does genuinely want the best for you, most are funny, well trained and engaging, I love my teachers and they keep me at the school <3

Terrible experience there back in the early 2000's. A lot of bullying coming from staff. Pam Leon (Maths teacher) was the most bitter and awful teacher that I've ever had the misfortune of being taught by.

i always found myself repeating myself with the teachers and never got the support or help i needed!! i was bullied alot and still just got told to ignore it!

awful don’t recommend babes x

The school doesn't care about mental health, only grades. There were 2 suicides in my year and apart from mentioning it and saying that they are there to help, they didn't do anything

Hate it. Don’t go here, deffo not for sixth form. You are treated with no respect and they only care about keeping order which just causes more chaos, they don’t care about you as an individual which has had a massive negative effect for the mental health of many students. The teachers are mostly lovely but the leadership is very bad, they confuse the teachers, pupils and parents by constantly changing how the school runs, it is increasingly a very negative environment to be in and it feels they only want to get rid of bad behaviour instead of praising the good. People are made to feel worthless and like bad people. it needs a new head teacher. It praises being kind but the leadership are far from that. sixth formers need to be treated properly they aren’t there to mess around but the school still shut them down they only want good grades and fail to produce happy pupils.

Not good. The lessons are ok but the teachers can hardly handle a class.

The school in general is okaybut the way they deal with mental health needs to be so much better. There are many issues going on within the school however the school does nothing about it. Many students have been told over and over to come back if it gets worse and never get the support they need. Furthermore students are given resources they can only use on their own time and likely need WiFi for. We are pushed by teachers to get the work done and pressured by them using talk of exams very often and it is quite damaging to mental health. Very few teachers understand mental heath so it often feels like there is no place to turn to. The environment is built to support the certain students who act out and if you are a 'good' student you are ignored and never checked up on, sometimes 'good' students are placed next tho those who act out to keep them under control which hinders their learning. It is not fair to those students. They have also not had an ofsted review for almost 9 years and I can without a doubt say it wouldn't be as good, provided they actually talked to students. It does not feel like a safe place to be yourself, there's homophobia transphobia and many more issues and school rarely does anything about it. Their values of valuing everyone caring for each other and achieving excellence are not being applied. Students talk about having to survive school. Our brains are naturally wired to want to learn. This is not learning. This is a memory test on a bigger scale. This is not right. Tapton needs to do better. There's a good video by Prince Ea called what is school for and one called I sued the school system by the same person. I suggest watching them

good teaching but the school don’t do loads about mental health. students are the ones who have to reach out and ask for help if you need it. the main teachers put lots of stress on the students that is unneeded and continually remind them to get their head stuck into school work. we have multiple eating disorders and mental health is a massive thing and isn’t addressed enough. the teachers may seem like they care but when they think you are better some teachers won’t keep checking up on you- it’s like one chore is ticked off and never looked at again. Don’t get me wrong, there are some amazing teachers who are lovely but the school really need to start caring about the children and their mental health instead of their grades.