Testbourne Community School

Great school, Lots of fabulous teachers that are really helpful. Most of these bad reviews are just students who are unfocused and don’t like school. Teachers are strict on uniform but are understandable when it’s hot and let you untuck your shirt or not wear your tie. (If it’s really hot, you have the option to come in PE kit). There could be some improvements however everyday they are working on making the school better. Recently, they have been renovating the school it looks much better than before. If you want to succeed here you can easily, you just have to stick with the right people and ignore the unfocused students.

Worst school ever, if your child is a A grade child who acts like a Robot you may find it ok. Stupidly strict on things like uniform but bullying brushed under the carpet and what’s worse is they will lie to you about it! Tried for a year to get a meeting to no effect !

This school does not care about ur mental health at all. It does nothing about bullying and when u do go to a teacher about it they laugh at it. Teachers have favourites and if ur not one of their favourites they literally won’t help or support u in any way and give u glares.I went to a teacher about an argument where the other person was being horrible in and the teacher did nothing and said to me that she doesn’t want to deal with it. They have a really shit mental health system. They’ll put u on a waiting list but u will never hear anything back. Please please do not send ur child here

They say they care about your mental health but all they do is put you on a 6 month long waiting list with no help while you wait. Except for spending your lunch time talking about it in a group of people who you don’t even know (this isn’t good for people with social anxiety). When your stuff get confiscated some teachers don’t hand it in to they office so you have to try and find the teacher or if their in a meeting you have to collect it the next day.

Didn’t like it. Definitely could be better. Not as bad as other schools tho

It’s alright but some bits could do better

The school is not good but it could be worse. They have the car park gate open so if a student wanted to they could leave but if they got caught they would be in big trouble of course. This happened to someone in my year and they aren’t allowed to tell people about it because they don’t want everyone know which is kinda weird. My friend almost got an isolation because of a skirt. The teachers definitely don’t care about our mental health as if they did they would realise that most of the students are suffering. I understand that their are not experts in mental health but most of us are dropping obvious signs. Overall it’s pretty bad as I’ve been bullied by this one girl and they always took her side. Some of the teachers are nice though.

the school pretend to care about your mental health, when i really dont think they do, i had counselling in yr8 as i needed it and it got stopped with no explanation or anything, they are also overly obsessed with skirt length which is pretty creepy

They do not care about the students mental health at all, they are overly obsessed with skirt length (punishing short skirt length more harshly than bad behaviour) and do not serve enough food at the canteen leaving the kids at the back of the queue hungry.

Was good when I started in year 7, left in the summer of 2020 and can safely say it was pretty terrible. Largely poor teachers with no passion, bad facilities (outdated classrooms, poor sports facilities) and no help given too low achieving or average students, testbourne very much has a focus on the over achievers.

it’s disgusting the walls are peeling a walls are falling apart there’s anti semitic drawings everywhere and the teachers a to strict on homework the new head teacher over the past few years has made the school slowly get worse and worse

was okay but the first two weeks they’re strict on uniform and at random points then they don’t care 0 consistency

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