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The Wavell School
Secondary · Maintained · Farnborough
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terrible, don't recommend
like all the other reviews here, i can guarantee all of them are accurate. all the teachers don't really teach you and I always feel targeted by other pupils. staff dont do anything if you're sick.or going through a bad time. one of my friends was feeling horrible and the receptionist told them off for something they did. i don't wanna go into detail really. and I couldn't come to school for 2 weeks due to an injury and school demanded i go in and I could stay in the library. keep in mind, my walk home is around half an hour and i couldn't walk that far due to it. my parent requested to have me taken home by one of the minibuses, however, school refused saying the minibuses were not for that purpose. i cannot believe the lack of care the staff have for students health, especially mental/emotional health. to wavell, health<education which is absolutely wrong. if i had a child i would not put them through what I was put through. ofstead is completely wrong because everything is fake and false when ofstead comes, so don't trust ofstead reviews, trust our words.
dont send kids to this school ☠️☠️
i go to this school, these couple of years have been the worst of my life, wavell is horrible. The teachers dead name or use the wrong pronouns for trans people (p.e department). They constantly have the need to sexualise kids by looking at our bums and saying "roll it down". They allows skorts but not rolled up skirts?? there are fights all the time and they think one day in iso will do it. My classmates and others saying racial/homophobic slurs all the time and all the teachers say is "write a statement" and then they dont even do anything about it. Wavell doesnt care about mental health either 🥰!!
Not a good place to feel welcome
I suffer with bad anxiety and depression and the school has done nothing but make it worse because of My mental health I have been of school for a while and keep getting in trouble for not going somewhere I feel welcome I constantly have slurs thrown my way and it's not okay!!!
What I thought
Teachers might aswell have had no GCSE’s and hardly ever had control of students whether it be in lesson or during breaks. Mr Fern his a donkey
find another school
only giving it two stars for all of the amazing english and history teachers, rest of the school and my experience was terrible, the teachers honestly have no care for you and as others have said, it is literally a bullying hotspot. i received such a lack of support from this school and developed such a severe depression and dreaded everyday, even having to skip coming into school so many times because i just wasn’t prepared to deal with the dreadfulness of everything. the teaching was okay, definitely could improve a lot except the english teachers and history teachers. i received 0 support and had to learn everything through a tutor, im just lucky i passed my GCSEs because of my amazing tutor despite having to learn everything the night before every GCSE because of the lack of education given. so many students were horrible and school did nothing about anything, even putting the blame on me plenty of times, got given detentions for no reason and just an overall horrible experience that i wouldn’t wish on anyone. if you’re considering coming here or sending your child here, find a better secondary school please, it’s horrific and they only care about telling you to take out your nose stud or take off your coat in class despite it being minus degrees outside and having to have the windows open due to covid. literally they couldn’t care less about your well-being or education, im just lucky i had such an amazing english and history teacher to look forward to seeing 4/5 times a week, forgot to mention, they also don’t let you sit inside and make you sit outside for lunch and break in freezing cold weather
Assemblies.
Once had to endure an assembly where the slur "f-gott" was used at the same level as "nerd"! You go, Wavell! Also got told - in that same assembly - that gay people aren't allowed to reclaim slurs. What a cool day! Love the History and English departments, though.
not a whistleblowing school
if you are looking for a school to send your kid to, wavell isn’t the best choice.
i just want to start by saying that the ofsted inspections are completely wrong. we’ve been described as a “whistleblowing school” and a “family” which is honestly completely wrong.
i especially dont recommend coming to this school if you are apart of a minority group. i have heard homophobic and transphobic slurs on the daily. i cannot count on my fingers how many white people i’ve heard say the n-word, and most definitely if your child has a mental disability, wavell is not the school to send them to. almost every single one of them gets picked on for the way they act.
teachers. one math teacher only pays attention to people close to their desk, and a science teacher hasn’t taught us anything. i was apart of a top set group and nine of us passed the test, and she blamed it on us not focusing, when the majority of us were passing in our other top set classes. also another science teacher i had brung up teenage puberty saying that girls got sexy, which then he started talking about his daughter which felt completely wrong. don’t get me wrong their are nice teachers, but not enough to write about.
fights. there is a fight nearly every day; once there was 13 in a week. students feel like they can just go around starting fights because the only punishment is getting put in isolation for the rest of the day. multiple of my friends and i have been scared to show any one of our opinions or seen different because someone could easily beat us up.
mental health. i can guarantee you that wavell does nothing about students mental health at all. all they tell you do to is get some fresh air and exercise. if you are going through things such as anxiety, depression etc you just get to go to the therapy-sort place where they just give you a little fidget toy and send you on your way. i remember once i was having a horrible day and just broke down in class and the teacher sent me outside, and she emailed all of my teachers saying that i was upset and should have a close eye on me. and the next day when i went to my form class, my tutor started laughing at me about it like it was some teachers-lounge-gossip.
personally, from wavell i think i’ve turned into a worse person as all i was taught that i should not express myself, mask my emotions, pray someone doesn’t beat me up and then on top of that, deal with idiotic teachers
i just want to start by saying that the ofsted inspections are completely wrong. we’ve been described as a “whistleblowing school” and a “family” which is honestly completely wrong.
i especially dont recommend coming to this school if you are apart of a minority group. i have heard homophobic and transphobic slurs on the daily. i cannot count on my fingers how many white people i’ve heard say the n-word, and most definitely if your child has a mental disability, wavell is not the school to send them to. almost every single one of them gets picked on for the way they act.
teachers. one math teacher only pays attention to people close to their desk, and a science teacher hasn’t taught us anything. i was apart of a top set group and nine of us passed the test, and she blamed it on us not focusing, when the majority of us were passing in our other top set classes. also another science teacher i had brung up teenage puberty saying that girls got sexy, which then he started talking about his daughter which felt completely wrong. don’t get me wrong their are nice teachers, but not enough to write about.
fights. there is a fight nearly every day; once there was 13 in a week. students feel like they can just go around starting fights because the only punishment is getting put in isolation for the rest of the day. multiple of my friends and i have been scared to show any one of our opinions or seen different because someone could easily beat us up.
mental health. i can guarantee you that wavell does nothing about students mental health at all. all they tell you do to is get some fresh air and exercise. if you are going through things such as anxiety, depression etc you just get to go to the therapy-sort place where they just give you a little fidget toy and send you on your way. i remember once i was having a horrible day and just broke down in class and the teacher sent me outside, and she emailed all of my teachers saying that i was upset and should have a close eye on me. and the next day when i went to my form class, my tutor started laughing at me about it like it was some teachers-lounge-gossip.
personally, from wavell i think i’ve turned into a worse person as all i was taught that i should not express myself, mask my emotions, pray someone doesn’t beat me up and then on top of that, deal with idiotic teachers
This school ruined my mental health.
This school is undeniably the worst school I have attended in my life, and probably will continue to be for the rest of my life as well. I started the school as a year 7 and safe to say my experience wasn’t the one they advertised when doing tours of the school. Within my first few weeks at the school, I was heavily bullied by my classmates for months. One of my bullies sat directly behind me in form and I would have panic attacks every morning unable to speak when attending form. Obviously, I asked to speak with my form tutor to move seats to the empty one at the back of the classroom because I thought I’d have a better experience. What did he tell me? I can’t move to the back of the class because he likes his students to sit in alphabetical order. He preferred for me to have a horrible experience every morning just to keep his alphabetical order intact. This wasn’t the only teacher who disregarded my mental health. I spoke to my head of year, my science teachers, my english teachers all about my situation and their only piece of advice was to go to the “drop-in”. After going to the drop-in, I would be given a flier and a small toy to help with my anxiety but the people bullying me received no repercussions. I even got sent a letter by students telling me to kill myself with their names written on it and showed it to my head of year. He did nothing. This school does not even have an ounce of care for their students going through problems at their school. I left the school after only attending for a year and a half because I couldn’t take it anymore. This experience still brings me harm to this day as I’ve continued to have severe anxiety and depression due to the bullying I faced at The Wavell School.
All great apart from the maths department
Wavell was a great secondary school in the long run however I did have a problem with the maths department. Not going to name anyone but this one teacher didn't know how to control the class and whenever I would ask a question she sometimes wouldn't know the answer.
I failed my maths GCSE however I luckily passed maths at college just goes to show that FCOT's maths teachers are wayy better than wavells.
Apart from the maths department. The rest of the wavell is great specifically the science teachers. Would recommend
I failed my maths GCSE however I luckily passed maths at college just goes to show that FCOT's maths teachers are wayy better than wavells.
Apart from the maths department. The rest of the wavell is great specifically the science teachers. Would recommend
claims to care but doesn't :/
the school claims to care about our mental health but all they do is tell us to be kind to eachother in pshe lessons. they don't do anything helpful to sort out problems and they can't control their students. i hear sexism, homophobia and all sorts of horrible things like that every day, and nothing is done to prevent it. if u r here to look for a good school, don't pick this one
Mental health issues and bullying
I was an average student, well behaved, did work, but was ignored by everyone and all teachers. They make up this thing called the “wavell family” but as other reviewers have said the place is a bullying hotspot. Caused me to develop severe depression and anxiety, which the school counsellors and staff did nothing about. The school only cares about the really smart, and the really bad
TL:DR - go there if you are a bully, if you are not, you might leave with mental health disorders like myself
TL:DR - go there if you are a bully, if you are not, you might leave with mental health disorders like myself
School
Bullying School Hot spot
Got bullied and the school turned a blind eye. There education scheme was awful. Teachers never knew how to deal with a situation apart from putting their pupils in isolation. I moved to Heath end in Farnham which is an amazing school 10X better than Wavell
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