The Marches School

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horrible disgraceful school teaching kids to beat up others

almost killed an 8 year old boy

Cant believe this school is keeping a horrible horrible slag like lexi, lexi bonner is a vile vile girl, she beat and tortured an autistic 8 year old boy for no reason, all he wanted to do is be her friend, i hope she gets whats coming for her

Absolutely awful school all the teachers there just care about your uniform and the smart card system then you education and mental health.

As a junior student at the marches, it is not great. This can be due to unfairness with staff, pastoral team not solving issues between students and not taking responsibility for their own faults. As well as this, staff can be incredibly unprofessional during meetings, parent evenings etc. My personal experience is that one of the mathematics teachers was biting their nails, avoiding eye contact when they were called out on the issues of which we had. As a senior student, the staff act as if they’re your friends ( most of them) and everything is much more chilled out in the classroom as of course students have matured so staff aren’t stressed though back to being unfair, prom. The school have allowed students to attend prom who have been excluded for bringing illegal substances into the site and creating high risk for students where as students who are late more than once a term are banned from attending. This needs fixing. Other than these issues the school is fairly average and would recommend, though students must be able to stand up to staff when something is wrong and stand up to bullies and the staff have other things they would rather do than help out.

Poor experience. Failed to recognise a special educational need until year 11 , and only after school was pushed to do an assessment. Child felt singled out , when issue was educational needs not being met . High levels of anxiety just being on school site , but shown little compassion or creative thinking to get education back on track . All too little , too late . Methods all punitive , trying to fit child into marches school mould . Blame aimed everywhere else , not accepting or taking responsibility for child’s disengagement in school life . Only saving grace was my engagement with school trying to turn it all around . Now playing catch up , glad school experience behind us , but will stay with me as a parent forever .

Very poor experience at the marches school. Let down by school whose staff failed to recognise a special educational need . This did not come to light until we pushed the school to carry out assessment , by this time unfortunately in year 11 , so all too little, too late. Our child felt singled out in school, with friendships being blamed , when real issue was learning needs not being met . Now picking up pieces and playing catch up . Huge anxiety for child just being on school site , and very little compassion shown or creative thinking to get education back on track. Glad it’s all behind us .

Where do I begin teachers do nothing about bullying they care more about your uniform and the teachers clearly have favourite students some teachers there are nice and some are rude the science teachers are really nice and so are the English teachers but some IT teachers have ago at you for being slow even though your dyslexic. Had many problems with one girl at the school teachers only made us say sorry to another and she was bullying me and calling me names clearly the teachers don’t care and the school toilets are dirty and nasty I think they should put sanitary products in the girls toilets. Teachers don’t care if you have mental health and they make it worse I used to skip school here because the bullying was getting bad and teachers did hardly anything Send your teens to another school because there mental health will get worse.

I’m a former student of this school and am now studying in the sixth form. The overall experience of school was great for me with amazing teachers in all the departments (especially music and drama) however, bullying was such a big problem in the school. My friend was really badly bullied and they told her it wasn’t actual bullying. It took me pointing out to the school that she had been self harming for them to listen. Also, although most of the teachers are very kind and care a lot, there are some who are horrible and treat you like you’re beneath them (my worst experience with this was in the art and textiles departments) and Some who are very nice one minute but virtually bullying you for no reason the next. Finally, the school feels that the standards of grades, uniform and the appearance of the school are much more important than how the students educations are actually going. Now for sixth form: My experience at the sixth form has honestly been the best out of the whole school experience. All of the teachers are kind and treat you as an adult rather than a child, although the rules look strict once you get used to them they’re no problem , the mental health support system is amazing and it all feels very relaxed. Overall 8/10

I left this school a few years ago now and it seems to be getting worse. One of the main things in which I have noticed from the school is about the drama department and how they do not let certain people in their cast when they're doing a show. They favourite the same students every year and only cast those people as the main parts. There are a variety of talented individuals in and around the Marches School that deserve to be heard, listened to and to play a part, rather than seeing the same people on that stage each year.

This school is absolutely awful ! I most definitely do not recommend. The most important things they care about is the SMART system. The teachers care mostly about are uniforms and it’s absolutely ridiculous . I have witnessed teachers make girls stand in a line and measure their skirts with rulers to check if they were higher than 2cm above the knee. They have made students colour their own school shoes with black marker just because gold is showing.How do they expect girls to buy school shoes when every shop that sells decent school shoes has some sort of detailing on it ? Boys have been forced to go in isolation because of their hair being to short, coats with fluffy material are not aloud to be worn and you are not even allowed to take your jumper of around school unless is summer . This to me is absolutely appalling , students do not deserve to be treated this way Teachers start to favour the naughtier kids and children who are less talkative get ignored and left out by teachers. A friend of mine that went to this school couldn’t come in for months due to bad mental health and I can see why . The school doesn’t care at all about the students, they just care about grades and how the schools presented. If you are even just two minutes late in the morning to school the headteacher will be standing outside waiting to give you a detention. The head of year riddles the children with anxiety constantly looking for something wrong with them to pick on. I believe this is unfair on students ,especially the less well behaved ones as they are constantly being picked on for literally anything and other quieter students go unnoticed. The school does nothing for bullying, all my life in this school I’ve witnessed horrendous amounts of bullying and the teachers have done nothing. The only thing the teachers care about if grades and if you don’t succeed you would be forced to go to intervention for the subject. The school toilets are revolting as students don’t even have the right to have a door into the bathroom so the whole toilet block is just there smelling out corridor with cameras watching you as you go in. Students of each year group are assigned to a year zone and are banished from leaving the area at social times as teachers guard the exit. The whole school is surrounded by tall fences so it is physically jail. There has never been a assembly where the teachers have ever praised the students, they constantly pester you to do more and more things, it’s no wonder why some students have given up trying at all . They say the school experience is meant to be enjoyable but really it’s so tiring . I believe that schools are not meant to be like this and it’s unfair on the students.

they dint give you any support you need and they let bullying slide, they tell you to come back in your own time to sort it out but when you do they send you away and say its nothing to do with them and they cant do anything, when its outside of school they cant get involved but when they catch someone “smoking” and etc outside of school they will be disciplined, this school is the worst for not listening and not helping you reach your needs that are meant to be reached, especially when you need extra help and have support with you, it never happens you are always left on your own with no help/ support so all in all this school isn't recommendable

This school is absolutely awful. They do not take subjects such as bullying and poor mental health seriously, and I know this because TWO of my friends have literally been off for a year because how overwhelming this school is, and they have hardly gotten any support. When you email this school for help and support, they literally send you an email back saying ‘we are too busy’ or something similar to that. Now on to bullying. This school claims to take bullying seriously - having multiple assemblies on it and assuring students that they have it all under control, however I have witnessed multiple occasions where students were bullying others in front of teachers, and nothing was done about it. The Marches obviously cares about their reputation more than their student’s wellbeing. The education is also appalling. The Marches has a range of outdated technology (aside from the ICT teachers) and in a lot of lessons you can see that the teachers are either far too laid back (by this I mean that they do not tell off students when they are being too loud, causing a lot of students to experience sensory overload) or they are far too strict (picking on students without their hand up, not allowing them to communicate at all, etc). Some teachers also have favourites - I have even heard a member of staff at pastoral saying to a misbehaving student that they have a ‘soft spot’ for them. There are a couple of teachers that have been extremely helpful and supportive, however that is a minority for me. Now let’s talk about rules. Obviously the school has basic rules that all schools should had (don’t be disrespectful, don’t vandalise, etc.) but there is a system called the ‘Smart card system’ in which when you break a rule, your smart card log is signed in your planner, and two of these in a week will result in a detention. In theory, this sounds reasonable, however in practice a lot of teachers use this on girls with SLIGHTLY short skirts and other ridiculous uniform rules, such as not being allowed to wear socks with tights. This is contributing to the sexualisation of young girls, it is telling them that they can not do this and that, just because men can not control themselves, but if anything the men can control themselves. The boys aren’t distracted by these simple things, and a skirt that is a few centimetres above the knee won’t make you an attention seeker. The school is also not very secure either. The school’s car park is near classrooms, so it isn’t exactly the safest, and there are security cameras by the school bathrooms. Food-wise, the school does a decent job with that. The food is reasonably priced and usually tastes okay, however don’t be surprised if you get something undercooked or crispy rice in your curry. Overall, don’t go. If I had the money I would definitely be going to a private school or a public school with better staff and rules.

They praise the wrong students. All the "bad" students seem to be best mates with the teachers and get away with so many things. You do what they are doing and get 2 days in isolation. Ridiculous.

This place was awful. They wouldn't help you if you were struggling with mental health, and they certainly didn't help if you were being abused and bullied by other students. Most of the students in that school are so disrespectful to LGBTQ+ students, and I do believe it's because of the teachers letting the misbehaving students off the hook so they don't have to deal with them. Not to mention how they care far too much about the uniform. I remember being told I wasn't allowed to wear a coat with patterns on it... They said it was because it was made of cotton and looked like a jacket because of the patterns, which is ridiculous. I wouldn't send my children there if I had any.

The school doesn't help dyslexic students and they don't even help if you're getting bullied. I was being harassed for 3 whole years and the school did absolutely nothing about it. I was being called names by other students and had bottles thrown at my head on the bus. I hated my time at that school. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I got threatened by a girl and I told the school while I was crying but they did nothing about it, I continue to feel unsafe around her. School is supposed to be a safe place but they don’t care unless you’re on of their favourites who get involved in competitions and do things for the teachers. They care more about our uniform and what we look like then about our education. Don’t recommend coming here at all.

Wouldn't send a dog to this place, so many children having to be reschooled due to bullying with absolutely no remose from teachers nor safe guarding.