The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School

i didnt have a very good experience there. lots of the staff are very old fashioned and "confiscate" your phone for a week if you get a text during school. this happened to me on my first week of school in art and it was the week of my birthday and i couldn't take photos of the animals at the zoo. i also had to walk home alone with no phone which is ridiculous. my parents went in and they refused to give it back. parents if you're reading this, its not a terrible school but youre better off sending your children somewhere else because they will most likely complain.

The school is horrendous for lgbt students as they have outed a student over rumours, when criticised about it merely said "you don't know my experiences" and proceeded to make themselves the victim, some people and I reported a student for calling us multiple slurs and being downright homophobic and the school failed to fix this issue only giving them internal for a couple of days, has employed teachers that make homophobic microagressions. Not to mention the absurd amount of racism among teachers. One defending a student being racist, one saying "all lives matter", one teacher saying calling out racism is bullying and another saying the n word. Their mental health services dont help students at all merely making things a lot worse most of the time. They ignore students coming in about bullying saying that its a disagreement and drawing up these contracts that have no real impact. Overall there are a lot of major issues within this school and if you truly care about your child dont send them to bishops.

A much improved school Was a bit crap a couple years ago but with the radical staff and policy changes it’s now on the road to a bright future for the school and students