The South Wolds Academy & Sixth Form

I go here, and I am sorry to say, but overall it isn’t a very nice place for me. I have been attending for about 2 to 2 1/2 years, it has been the worst time of my life. I got bullied in my first year, and you realise when you first go there, that people will be aggressive with you and specifically at that school. I have to a lot of issues with loud noises, and teachers there do a horrible job at keep the class calm, and even if you try to go to a member of staff for support, they just brush you off. I have had multiple teachers being weird, mainly in the languages department too. It harms my learning usually, and I get scared to even step on school grounds sometimes. It’s not worth what I have gone through. I only like two to three teachers there anyway, and it’s always in subjects I have the least (like technology and computer science, and art, we have computer science and art once every two weeks, which isn’t wonderful really), in general it’s not a wonderful school, and it can be quite unfair with how they treat students or act around them mainly. Disappointed with what issues I currently have at this school. It doesn’t help how hostile and toxic other students here are either, with a horrid way of talking with each other, I have constant slurs thrown at me, words I never thought I would hear at this secondary school which was meant to be held in such high regard. I have seen so many petrifying things, the teachers don’t listen when you try and talk, it’s just horrible, I wish I could leave but I am not allowed to leave this school anyway. Terrible school, had left me with so many issues.

school is awful language block and language teachers the toilets in languages are disgusting

this school is absolutely terrible. getting bullied? they won't do anything about it except say "just ignore them". have bad mental health? they make it worse, they care more about your looks and personality then ur education. I got told off for saying I had a headache and in year 7 I had a bad eating disorder and when I told one of the members of staff about it and they told me I diagnosed myself with it.i have problems with multiple other students in my year and they always say its always my fault because I have bad anger problems. I got put in isolation because someone said something bad about my friend and I told them yet the person who said it while saying multiple other things about her got no punishment , acted the victim and got away with it im sick of this school if your thinking about coming here please don't!!!

If you have a child that suffers with their mental health I highly recommend you do not send them to South Wolds. I suffered massively during my time here and was bullied relentlessly which they never attempted to resolve. The teaching staff do not know how to deal with students with mental health issues and have even once given me a detention because I left the classroom because I was having a panic attack and I didn’t want to have one in front of everyone given I was being bullied enough as it was. The ‘support staff’ will put you in a room for 5 minutes to ‘calm down’ then send you back to class thinking it magically solves all your problems and don’t attempt to actually help the students in any way. Honestly was the worst years of my life at this school and I’m glad I’m no longer having to deal with it. The only thing I enjoyed about the place was some of the subject teachers (art especially) who actually helped when I was struggling.

It really is sink or swim here, either you toughen up and adapt or you get bullied. The headteacher pushes way too hard for good grades, to the point of mental illness. Year 7-9 is a breeze but anyone past year 10 is guaranteed to have depression, anxiety, or both. The student support is minimal, mostly because there’s so little resources put into it that they can only focus on kids who are openly trouble AKA more hidden mental problems like depression, anxiety, and substance abuse are left to fester. The fact that that the vast majority of the support of I got from school was from when I personally came to teachers is terrible. I had to rely upon the kindness of teachers, not as a part of their job, but as a part of their free time and as one person to another. It is frankly ridiculous, and I think the head should be ashamed of this. We are children. We cannot deal with this. When you have 15 year olds hooked on alcohol and drugs. Just terrible. And they’ll deny it, but from first hand experience it’s a real issue. Not as bad as when a kid got stabbed, but it’s still bad. The only redeeming thing is that a lot of the teachers are great despite the terrible nature of the school. Some teachers aren’t, but the fact that most are at least passable is pretty good. You’re almost guaranteed to get a teacher who’s nice, or one who’s good at teaching. If you’re lucky you’ll get one who’s both. As said before, I’ve had a lot of really nice teachers help me out with issues completely of their own volition, and I am hugely grateful to them.

They were really bad at helping with my anxiety and depression and when my mum tired to do something they would always ignore her and when she took me out they said i cant go anywhere