The Hayfield School

The headteacher bangs on about equality yet boys can't were girls uniform e.g.
You can't have below grade three even though they want us to be equal. Not educational at all I lurnt is how to tell a teacher if I'm getting bullied I say fuck that I'm gonna defend myself and fight back like what's gonna happen I get a detention or a strike. Ooooh soo scary.

Having worked at this school I only have positive comments. Fantastic students and staff. Great facilities and a genuine care of student welfare and education.

Just ultimately not good. Never treat as individuals.

The head teacher has very abnormal priorities, valuing uniforms over quality of education. The education your child gets really depends on their sets. Set 1 classes tend to have good, hard working students and a productive classroom environment. However, the high grade students aren't rewarded even nearly enough for their efforts as rewards are focused on the less productive students barely passing. On the other hand, set 4 classes are a disruptive environment where students who want to improve can't as they are limited by their misbehaving peers. Additionally, the new mixed ability english classes don't allow a work environment where students can thrive. The lessons go too slow for high grade students and are too complicated for low grade students. Overall, very average. Not to mention the dreaded FOX NEWS. Mrs fox is so self absorbed she needs her own news channel to complain to students about every minor detail of uniforms and hairstyles. It's 20 minutes of my Monday morning wasted.

The school's quality honestly depends on what sets you are in. Set 1 classes have good teachers and interesting lessons. Students behave and perform well but higher grade students lack rewards as its focused on those barely passing. Set 4 classes are full of disruption, with students who don't care. Students in those classes that want to improve are limited by the behaviour of their peers. Additionally the new mixed ability english classes limit the progress of higher grade students due to a less productive environment. Overall a very mediocre school

I go to this school and haven’t been there long. I absolutely hate it, all the teachers are hypocrites as they say you can’t wear jewellery but they do, only aloud water as they drink fizzy pop. There have been people who want to protest because of the school as they sexualize women as they can’t have any shorter skirts than below knee length as it’s apparently “to revealing”and boys aren’t aloud a hair grade below a 3 because it’s seen as “unprofessional” and we are only kids and don’t need to be professional. It is racist, homophobic,transphobic and people bully at this school to be popular. All the head teacher mrs fox wants is good dreaded and doesn’t really care about our mental health she cares more about decoration in the school more than our mental health so I please beg you to not send your child here.

The hayfield school has gone better over the last 5 years or so,more clubs,better staff,more activities and students are so nice recommend to new students to join this school

If you value your child’s and your own mental health do not pick this school. If you have a perfect child A* with no views or any disabilities or Needing support to apply their learning please just stay away. This school has broken my child and our family with no regard when you try to speak with them they ignore you, complete disregard for having healthy parent teacher communication and support so your child can achieve potential. I have never experienced such a regime don’t work with decent professional parents so god help parents who have no understanding or correct procedures. If you ask for answers to any worries your child will suffer, it’s like a concentration camp. Ridiculous consistent punishment for minor things, children placed in isolation for hair not being cut to a certain specification, god help you if they loose or damage school uniform and you cannot replace immediately they are again either placed in isolation or suspended totally ridiculous policies. Not culturally aware, not disability supportive it is about time ofsted got into the school speak with children and parents and sorted this school out I’m sure from reading reviews children have already suffered mental health issues and not achieved their potential as there is little nurturing students to feel safe and supported.

Rules are excessive and petty and the school has forgotten these are children that need to be encouraged to learn and not dictated too with strikes, staff call-outs, reengage etc. they need to worry about bullying and physical violence over skirt length to the knee for god sake. It starts with the headteacher Mrs Fox who is out of her depth and maniacal in response t9 her own ineptitude

this school only cares about uniform and learning and couldn’t be bothered about the rest. Tell you off for stupid things , couldn’t wait to leave

I went here for a short while and I left here in 2013 halfway through Year 7. Most of the teachers I had there in Year 7 were terrible, not very nice, very problematic and didn't teach you anything. Their dinner tickets were a ripoff and not worth the money. I hated my Year 7 tutor group they so cringe and problematic. I got into a fight here with a fatass from bottom set in Year 7 which I won during lunch queue during lunch break. Their secondary school PE kits were such a ripoff and they make you buy them for PE uniform. All these randoms chavs from Finningley and other areas in Doncaster though they could fight me when they couldn't they would off got slapped by me in fight. It was a terrible school and I had depression at the time when I went to the school. Stay away from this secondary school.

From what I can tell this school used to be good but it has devolved ever since a new headmistress had been appointed from what I could gather I have seen year 7s vape along with the majority of the students being vile the rules are way too strict you can’t use our phones at break for stupid reasons and we can’t bring curtain products in. I’m soo glad I’m going to leave this school

Absolute shit tip and they don’t care about students mental well-being

if ur considering going don’t they’re racist and they don’t teach about racism properly at all and even the teachers are racist and they’re strict about dumb things like phones at break when phones literally make us happy... there’s no harm in us using them??? people use them in lessons instead. also we should be using phones and technology more in class for education because we get more information out of them and technology is whats out there in the real world. they superficially teach about racism they only want to look good so they get good ratings they don’t actually care about the students don’t send ur kids there please. and they care about uniform more than our actual grades like we should be able to have our skirts the length we want without getting isolation. it’s sexualising kids how do they not realise that and if u say we have to have them long to look smart then ur saying girls have to cover themselves up to look smart they are horrible don’t go

ok where do i start. this school is terrible. actually, i know for a fact before ms fox became the headteacher, this school was 1000x better than what it is now. the high academic results you see from this school are not because of good teachers or good support from the school, it is from the individual students’ own intelligence and will to do well DESPITE this horrible school. due to ms fox, who cares 1000000x more about minor details or the uniform(especially girls!! she pulled out every single girl, no boys, out for an assembly that took one hour of every girl’s important lesson time, even year 11s, to lecture us about all the uniform rules, trust me this wasn’t warranted by anything you would think, huge majority of girls had always been wearing smart uniform) rather than any of the huge racism and bullying in the school, she cares more about spending money on flags, house decorations, changing the school colour, the school uniform, spending huge amounts of time policing poor girls about their SOCKS. and SHOES. as in, she banned girls wearing socks that were below their ankles and even black shoes made of a slightly softer material. it’s atrocious. the english department is terrible btw. not all the teachers fault but there are only a couple of good english and language teachers. the maths department was very good at teaching but i have heard many of the good maths teachers have left for mysterious reasons. if you value your child don’t send them here. oh yeah i don’t want to forget how in year 7 i had a PE teacher completely target me when i had done nothing wrong whatsoever. she would give me countless detentions for any small things she could find, i guess it’s a mix of a terrible personality and perhaps racism targeted towards me. this school is ridden with racism. students who said the nword were ignored and teachers stay complacent. not to mention the white teachers who say the nword in their english class with pride, it’s disgusting.

People from this school are vile and represent the staff there impeccably. Never met anyone who enjoyed their time at the school and turned out mentally stable. DON NOT. I REPEAT DO NOT. Send your children there if you actually love them. They're all horrible people.

Going to this school gave me depression. Some of the teachers are lovely however the majority are rude and unreasonable. The rules they have in place are too firm it’s suffocating. Sending people home for wearing the wrong socks? Really.
The school used to be great and don’t get me wrong I don’t regret going there however it’s definitely gone downhill. No support and I just felt unsafe and uncomfortable.