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The Ferrers School
Secondary · Academy · Rushden
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this school prioritises the wrong things.
i’m year 11, leaving this week. Sometimes the school is great but more often than not it’s awful and draining. This is partly due to students but mainly how the staff manage situations. The teaching staff are mostly supportive however the teachers higher up and actually there for support and improving the school couldn’t give a shit if you’re being bullied, struggling with work, etc. It is clear that teachers prioritise uniform over well-being and performance. On multiple occasions i’ve been shouted at for incorrect uniform, this being the odd time every now and then and id always have a note. My grades were always where expected but the teachers lack of interest was always a knock of my confidence.
Great school but lack of support
They are a great school and are trying to make the school the best environment it can be. Education is fantastic and the facilities are good. The school is not so good at providing support for those struggling with mental health, bullying or and other issues. I would recommend this school though.
Awful school don’t send ur kids here
very shit school constantly moan about uniform most of the teachers are horrible and shout in ur face. dirty , barely any toilet paper the toilets r vile. in tech toilets there is only one available toilet out of 5 because all the others have either a missing toilet seat or no lock. awful graffiti on the walls and teachers think it’s ok to enter the toilets and scream at u for being in them and kick u out. there’s always this one teacher who stands at the science toilet doors and comes inside to shout at us to get out we can barely ever use the toilets. haven’t learnt anything in these 5 years of being at this school. care more about ur appearance than ur education.
GCSE
No, please do not attend.
I started this school in 2015 so I’m a couple years out of it now. My experience was terrible. I was bullied for the entirety of my time there and staff did the classic “stay away from them” move. I was assaulted and my head of year asked me if I was “sure” it happened, clearly because she adored the students that did it and didn’t want to get them in trouble, but we’d already contacted police about it. My Year 7 drama teacher gaslit 40 students into staying 3 hours after school for a tacky show because she had them convinced they would be “losers” if they dropped out for their physical well-being. The staff were so afraid of my mum that they refused to call her even in a medical emergency, because she shouted at one of them when they refused to see her about the constant harassment I experienced to the point of attempting suicide. The teachers left you to your own devices to a point where you were just teaching yourself from a text book. If you value your child’s life, do not send them to this school. Sorry.
It’s a terrible school I would not recommend
I’m currently a student at this school and I would not recommend it I haven’t learnt anything useful since joining and get constantly harassed about my clothes by the head teacher outside of school on top of this teachers will try and involve themselves in your personal life then on top of all this they recently implemented a no phone rule even In the case of an emergency and the school is on special measures due to its poor security and teaching
Stand your ground
The education here was “eh”. The HEAD OF MATHS (at the time) gave us questions that he had never taught us how to do, told us to “just do what you think” and then yelled at us when it was wrong. My year 7 drama teacher tried to low key gaslight us into not dropping out of a show that was quite clearly not working out for us. [Name] was assaulted, and my head of year asked me if I was “sure”. Honestly.. would not recommend, sorry.
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