Thomas Gainsborough School

if i’m completely honest the school is dreadful, first things first if you where to laugh in isolation you would get removed into a office or suspended fair enough we shouldn’t be laughing but it’s a natural thing for a human to do it would be abit concerning if you won’t laugh a something funny, ima student and mr appleford said to my face he’ll call social services if my mum don’t pick up the phone what if she was busy or had no service just have some patience mate and anyways if you don’t do something your not told within 2 seconds you’re getting screamed and again have some patience i have more stuff but at the end of the day that’s the main stuff, i ain’t telling you how to manage you’re school but i’m just telling the facts.

My experience is excellent.

Ohh dear! As a parent - I’m finding my experience with Thomas Gainsborough frightfully disappointing. They have fantastic facilities and it should be an amazing opportunity for any child. Whilst some of the teachers are responsive; most of my experiences have been negative. I find they use their guidelines in an often psychologically repressive bullying manner and have even tried their tactics on me - A parent! At worst their stance is arrogant and quite often unfounded. Sometimes behavioural incidents are blown completely out of proportion to try and generate an allegiance with them over the child. This is without them investigating circumstances or using their own initiatives fully before involving a parent. When asked how your child is doing academically. There is a lack of knowledge from the teaching staff which is infuriating when your child is preparing or starting their GCSE’s. The school runs ARD days - Academic Review Days - which basically turn out to be BRD days - Behavioural Review Days - where they want to discuss how many times your child had a shirt untucked, dropped their pen, spoke in a lesson …. It goes on. It is a naming and shaming session and not an academic review day with any useful information where you can help support your child through their education. Sadly this is known as one of the best schools in the area. I dread to think what other children and parents are suffering during this critical time of education. Buyer Beware!!!!!

COMMON L SCHOOL they dont care about you or how u mentally feel

L school didnt care about you or how you felt,made you feel like you was practically in a army of ants with the way they controlled what you did,teachers did not care about anything apart ur uniform,racism and sexism was overlooked,but they did look after bullying quite well.overall quite poor

Hated my time there all the teachers are rude and arrogant with the exception of a few teachers (Mr Alexander, Mr Chiang) The school also hardly cares about student well-being and safety with many fights happening, alcohol and other drugs being used in the school. Yet the school overlooks all that and focuses on school dress code and it’s reputation when I can turns up then really wanting to help students. The school also has an access room for people with learning difficulties and the teachers are so rude to the kids and other students that I am not sure how she still has a job. The food at the school is also terrible and overpriced with many students going hungry and if they ask the school for money and bring in the money the next day the school denies them making them go hungry instead. The teachers are rude, mean and downright weird and disturbing with some teachers some teachers purposely dropping whiteboard pens and telling girls to pull down their skirts cause it’s “distracting”. And don’t get me started on the hygiene in that place it is very dirty and most cleaners will just Hoover and wipe the walls without doing any cleaning. I remember leaving a lighter hidden behind an obvious place in the school to see if had been cleaned over the summer holiday but it hadn’t and the lighter was retrieved. Overall the entire place is terrible and I would never want to send my future kids there ever

Awful. A boy in year 11, (year 12 now) sexually assaulted many girls IN CLASSROOMS. During school time. When brought up to the school, they didn’t do anything about it because they didn’t want to ‘ruin his future’. His parents are also involved in the school, so no wonder they didn’t stop this boy. He continued to sexually assault girls because the school didn’t do anything about it. Aside from that, the school don’t care about mental health or health at all. When on my period, I wasn’t allowed to go to the toilet as ‘I can wait until lunch’. No, I cant wait until lunch, I am bleeding. The building is cramped and dull, as students you are not allowed to express yourself AT ALL. Have the school considered perhaps that some students can’t afford traditional school shoes? Because many of my friends got pulled out of learning time because their parents couldn’t afford school shoes. The food is insanely overpriced, and bad. The staff are rude and only care about their reputation as teachers. Girls are constantly sexualised, being asked to stop wearing skirts that are too small because it’s ‘distracting’ for the boys. Excuse me? Their toilets are also in the open, meaning there’s no coverage of sound between the girls and boys toilets. The school let blatant homophobia and racism slide, creating a borderline offensive atmosphere. With only 3, 100 minute lessons, you’re stuck in a room for that long, to only then get 20 minutes break and 40 minutes lunch. The school barely helped any of my mental health issues, in fact worsened them. When I had a panic attack, I was sent to lesson anyway because I was ‘over reacting’. Do not send your child here if they are in any emotional and mental health situations, the school will only look after them for a couple months in year 7 to keep them there.

While attending this school I was emotionally manipulated my certain members of staff for example and angry Scottish teacher. The school care more about there uniform then there students mental health. I once found a ginger hair in my food yet non of the diner ladies are ginger, when I went to discuss this with them they picked it off and carried on scooping up the hot meals. However, the sub lady was the kindest person ever. I have been mentally abused by the school libation who thinks she’s well ard and will chuck you out of the library for the smallest thing. Once she chucked me out and I had to wait outside for my mum alone in the dark on my own with no phone battery. However, after stating this to the libraryan she was having non of it and threatened to call SLT on me for the day afterwards. I would not recommend sending your children to the Thomas Gainsborough school community unless you trust despise of your children. ITS A TRAP.

This school cares more about there representation rather than the education of the students. The school are so picky on the tiniest things for example skirts... they care more about the length of your skirt than your actual education. I was advised to move schools by my teachers when you would bring something up that the students didn’t agree with for example you could not go to the toilet in lesson times under ANY circumstances even when the girls were on the periods. The school how ever manages bullies very well as my whole time I have been there I was never bullied by a student despite being an easy target for my differences, you may be wondering why I say students and this is because some of the teachers are the rudest people I have ever met for example the science teacher Mrs Beer who would tell you to shut up and straight up bully individual students which resulted in the school getting involved which didn’t do anything as they think they know there teachers.

The school is good academically but not in many other aspects. The uniform is so strict that i was told to move schools because i had an extra piece of jewellery on and it was not visible unless you physically moved my hair and looke at my ears. Teachers tend to focus more on uniform than they do the actual education for example many of my friends would get pulled out of lessons for having the 'wrong' skirt when the skirt was as it said in the planners. They tend to find a problem in anything and everything they can