The Gryphon School

I was heavily bullied at this school my parents sent emails upon emails and they did nothing at all I was threatened by kids older than me when I was in year 7 and the teachers did nothing at all to help me with my anxiety that I developed from this they do not care about the kids here the education is poor they do not have enough support here for kids who are struggling with mental health I wouldn’t send your kid here

Had a good experience sometimes good sometimes bad.

Shame on you! I have had students come and tell me that your locking bathrooms and trying to control when they can need the toilet. I am absolutely disgusted at this it's unacceptable and abusive to take away a basic human right especially if you want students to respect the school. I can understand monitoring them because of graffiti and such but it is Down right petty to lock them just because you can't be bothered to clean up maybe they should shut the school down if they can't handle the children and want to take away their rights! On top of all this can I just say there is no logic in what your doing you rely on someone locking and unlocking the bathrooms and not to mention no one knows which ones are open and if they will manage to get to them in time. You are going to have students with dehydration and bladder problems before long the students will be dropping like flies. On top of this there are students who are supposed to get lunch at school and are now trying to take food in so they don't have to buy it because they'd rather search for a bathroom and hopefully make it in to go than eat food and hydrate themselves. Your supposed to be helping some parents to feed their kids and this isn't happening if they do this so they can get to go to the bathroom instead of queing for food and drink. Your going to have kids arguing back, vandalizing the school more and having accidents because they aren't reaching the bathroom. Also the kids on buses, in after school clubs or with a long walk home are screwed over because your locking them at 3.00 this is absolutely unacceptable and I expect you'll fix it. Although it's more likely you'll just brush it off considering I have heard you've tried to justify what your doing by saying " the students aren't respecting what we have here so now we have the right to peer pressure them" and "well teachers don't get to go to the bathroom during lessons" when I'm pretty sure they have and continue to do so these are pittiful excuses and I am disgusted at this behavior. Students shouldn't be afraid to drink or need the bathroom in your school fix this or close down!

Even though this was the local secondary school from where I lived, I could never go here unlike the rest of the people from my primary school because I needed Learning Support which according to my parents, this school couldn’t give me if I went here and when my parents asked how I would manage getting round the school as an autistic person needing support, the school said I wouldn’t have any. And hearing about the Learning Support at this school, THE BLUE ROOM!?! That’s the best name you can come up for a place where students need extra support!?! This is why people with learning needs have limited choice on where they attend school because of places like these which can’t give the right support without a good reason.

The school doesn’t help you! I was there for 4 years and yes there is some nice teachers but if you go to them with any issues they would just push you away instead of listening

As a student in times like these, you would think that a secondary school would have more sense of knowing that some people have hidden needs and they need to be noted so staff know that they are exempt. Bullying policy is outrageous. Yes they have one but do they use it? NO! This school needs to sort themselves damn well out.

Bullying policy is crap. Teachers don’t really care about you. Whole covid system is rubbish no one actually bothers to make people wear masks and sanitise. I suppose the education is okay there but really depends on who your teacher is

The pastoral care and support system they have is amazing. They have groups or singular counseling sessions whichever you're comfortable with. Honestly can't recommend gryphon enough.

They blatantly don’t want autistic folk there so I was never welcome ?

school doesnt deal with students