The Sittingbourne School

i absolutely hate this school. im in year eight going into year nine and its terrible. they do absolutely nothing for mental health issues unless youre popular or act out. the teachers are rude and entitled and some of them act like they genuinely despise the children they teach. the hygiene of the school isnt much better either, the toilets always have excrement somewhere in the stalls and the bins for sanitary towels and tampons are always overflowing. DO NOT GO HERE. the only decent thing is the canteen food and even that can be bad at times.

This school and it’s head teacher Mr Smith deprive the children of an education quick to punish without taking both sides even when they have the evidence infront of them teachers are grooming children two in the last 18 months for grooming they keep it quiet think this school would be if it from new head teacher and staff

After 5 years at this school, and eventually leaving for a different sixth form, i can finally say I am happier than i ever was at TSS! When joining in year 7 i was bright, optimistic and full of life. I loved school, i had a passion for education and to do well. The Sittingbourne School grabbed every spark of creativity, every inch of joy and every prospect i had a shredded it. Every year, they would do NOTHING about bad behaviour, and reinforce the naughty kids with: sweets, amazon vouchers and trips. This made trying to get an education a nightmare. Within The Sittingbourne School bullying is rife (i understand this happens at every school) but TSS did ABSOLUTLY NOTHING about it and labelled it as "boys will be boys" and once when i was being followed home and physically assaulted, they just told me to "take another bus" (FYI, i tried that and funnily enough it didn't work). The students at this school are vile people, who are relentless and will stop at nothing until they tear you apart ripping every shred of self worth you have left. If you or your child has SEN needs, i would not recommend this department. Throughout my 5 years of education here, they didn't pick up the fact i had Irlen's and Dyslexia, it was only when i moved to my new sixth form is was discovered. As well as this, the "wellbeing team" are useless, rude and incompetent. After suffering with poor mental health, i tried to seek support and they told me (this is a direct quote) "i cant help you, I've got too much other stuff to deal with, find someone else to bother" (i had extremely mild anxiety at the time, later progressing due to the lack of support i was receiving) they then chucked me on a 8 month waiting list, for the mental health professional to literally to me to go to the GP and practise self care (don't you think I've already done that??) HOWEVER, the only redeeming thing about this school is some of the year 11 teachers i had. Some were absolute stars and did all they could to better my education and let me reach my full potential. That being said, i wanted to move to higher maths and science GCSE (after consistently getting 5`s and maxing out the grade boundary) and i was not allowed to at all in maths, but in science i was allowed to 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE EXAM, this hindered my potential to a great extent. after 5 gruelling and painful years at this school I can say that i achieved good GCSE grades, left with a few friends and appalling mental health. If your child has SEN needs, please do not send them to this school, it will NOT help them in the slightest, in addition if your child is vulnerable or has been the subject of bullying before, this is not the school for them. Thank you for reading :)

I mean, it's not the worst school to go to, but it isn't exactly the most amazing school, either. There is so much bullying & discrimination, despite there being an anti-bullying & discrimination team (made up of both teachers & students). The students are okay, depending on the year group & their friendship circle. Take the popular kids for example. They're rude to other kids, disrespectful to teachers, incredibly likely to bully the less popular kids. The violence levels from them are mind-blowing. Every day, at least 3 fights (on average) happen. The school is decently clean. The toilets are always disgusting, way too small for all the people to use them (especially the girl's toilets). The staff are typically nice, it depends on who they're teaching, though. During the whole pandemic, they've been good; sending those home without a face mask, using sanitizer consistently, trying to prevent people not social distancing, sending kids who've mixed with infected people home from school to isolate for 10-14 days. Overall, and alright school. Not the best but not the worst.

Honestly I wouldn't say the school its self is bad it's education and teacher system is quite good but there is a massive underlining bullying issue where kids are mostly gone unpunished for even largy unacceptable things such as kicking people in the head, stabbing people with compares, fighting each other, harrasment,bullying and even when online the students are usually plotting something such as coordinating a fight or coordinating the chance to jump someone in a large group and during lessons there is a lot of disruption admittedly the hygiene of the school is decently good though except from in the toilets and outside the cafeteria where rubbish is all over the floor and the toilets are clogged with toilet paper, blood on the sink and excrement on the floor honestly the school has a long way to go before ever being perfect but as long as you stick to yourself and avoid interaction with others you'll survive