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The South Wolds Academy & Sixth Form
Secondary · Academy · Nottingham
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2 years of my daughter complaining (left in year 9)
first of all, this school hasn’t helped my daughter she gets bullied and I have reported this multiple times and according to my daughter is still going on. she got pushed into a bush by two boys and she reported it to her head of her. GPS said that they had had it on CCTV and still nothing deal about it. No consequences or anything. I’m not happy about this. My daughter got stopped to lesson by five girls which were having an argument with her and she got upset and she didn’t want to go to lesson so she went to her mentor and her mentor wasn’t there so she went to the bridge and they told her to come back at break at lunch, but when she went back at break and lunch, they told her to go out and come back at the next break as they were ‘busy’. I have also rang the school multiple times and they always told me that they deal with bullying and they do not tolerate it. The consequences my daughter gets for talking in a lesson is not the consequence she should be getting if someone pushing her into a bush gets no consequences, especially since the bush she had fallen in and she came back with loads of scratches on her leg. The school have rang me multiple times to say that her behaviour is not good in lessons and that apparently she is screaming at other students. I have asked my daughter about this and she said that she wasn’t screaming at them she was telling them to shut up and she stopped saying stuff to her and this turned out to be boys. I had asked the school if them boys had had a phone call as well or have been spoken to by the teacher and they had said no as the boys were not overheard saying anything to my daughter. Sometimes my daughter come to says that the teachers were nice to her today, but that’s only a few of them. Most of the teachers are sexist and do not listen to girls point of views. My daughter abso reported loads of times about how her mental health was getting worse since people were being horrible and then you just told her because she was going through puberty and that she’s being emotional. now onto the behaviour chart system, my daughter was sometimes come home with C3 and I asked her about it and she says “03 people got a C2 which means if I get a C1 then I would get automatic C2 and then I told the boy to shut up because he started laughing at me for getting a C1 (automatic C2)”and she got a C3 for it, but the boy got a C1 even though it was meant to be an automatic C2. also, I had asked my daughter to ask her head of year for a C2 pass so that if she gets laughed at when she gets a C1 and she retaliates then she can go outside for five minutes. She came back home and told me she had asked her head of her year he said “that he would ask head of behaviour and the head of behaviour said no she doesn’t need it because she doesn’t have problems my daughter then said to her head of year because she was with her friend “ well how come she gets to have one when she doesn’t get as much C3s” and her head of year said “because she has problems with focusing”. One time my daughter was having trouble with a girl in her year and she had just moved into year eight which means she had a different head of year so that head of you had no idea what was happening in the year before and how the people in his year were like. My daughter got caught up from lineup and the head of year said to her “ you need to stop getting in drama and just keep your big nose out of it” when he doesn’t know how that girl that my daughter was having trouble with acts which just shows that head of years do not speak before they move year groups. I would not recommend this school to anyone I have had to move my daughter out of this school as she was coming home every single night complaining about it and I’m sick of it. This school also changes your kids personalities a lot and my daughter is not the person she used to be more. Do not send your kids to the school it is horrible and they do not do anything about bullying. Before I end this my daughter got a expensive lipgloss for her birthday and she let her friend borrow it in a lesson and her friend dropped it and the person she was having trouble with picked it up and gave it to the bully of the year and there is videos of that bully smashing her lip gloss on the floor I do not tolerate this and the school did nothing about this. Please do not send your kids to the school it’s for your own best.
Great school the kids aren’t that great tho
This school is a great school except the fact that kids get excluded everyday because off stupid things but some are reasonable I heard about this group off girls in yr9 that got permanently excluded for setting the school field one fire and then a lad that speaks about r@p1ng a girl on the school bus and then another lad got permanently excluded for a knife being carried around south woulds but other than that this school is BRILLIANT!!!!!
Horrble .
The south wolds academy has been a horrible experience and just to get started they don’t do anything about bullying I probably over the years done over 100 bullying reports and nothing got dealt with I struggled with mental health and all they did is told me that I was just going through puberty and was physically pushed into a bush and nothing got done to prevent it happening agin and got screamed at by teachers and if your naughty in year 7 they will blame u for very thing through the years and I would cry and all they would do is sent me to lessons and then say come back at break or lunch but would not be there at lunch or break it was the worst 5 years of my life.
I want to leave this school, it has ruined me mostly
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.
Additional needs
This school really has no idea when it comes to additional needs they have no clue how to support children with Autism and ADHD the teachers really need training in ADHD and Autism please don’t consider sending your children to this school if they have additional needs they will end up failing your children and affecting your child’s self esteem and mental health .
school makes be depressed
school is awful language block and language teachers the toilets in languages are disgusting
absolutely horrible
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!!!
only been here half a year already hate it
this school is awful im a student in yr7 and they dont help with getting angry easily they escpically dont help with anxiety ive tried to ask for help they have done nothing i hate going to school i cry every night i need extra help they just dont understand im sick of this place the head teacher is mean and rude to every student that strugles she locked me in reciption bc someone was lying and said i was threating them!!!!! DO NOT COME TO THIS HELL HOLE
5 years in Hell
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.
Mental illness nightmare
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.
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.
Helping with depression and anxiety
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
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