Twynham School

This school is an absolute shithole and I'd actually be smarter if I left now. I absolutely adore maths (not the bullshit torture they call maths) and I can't study it without teachers making me close my book, even in maths lessons when I've finished all my work. Let me reiterate that. I get punished for finishing early and reading maths books in maths. They don't want us to learn. All they do is gaslight us into thinking that this shit is important, while ignoring anything useful we could ever learn. I considered suicide in year 7 because of this school. I still have shitty mental health. Uranium isotopes would be impressed with how unstable I am because of this. Back to curriculum, this part might be too personal. The maths curriculum is something I'd expect them to give us in year 5. We spent 2 lessons on negative numbers. 2 hours doing bullshit questions like "-5 x -7". It may seem like I'm exaggerating about this, but we did these for what I'm guessing is about an hour and 15 minutes, with no variation whatsoever. All we fucking get as homework is the exact same tedious shit that we already did. They don't appreciate anyone special. They do nothing to try and help, and the only teacher who did is gone. Now, let's talk about the bullying situation. This is where shit hits the fan, if it didn't already. So, teachers are always there when you're playing with your friends and doing stuff that doesn't even resemble fighting to tell you off, but what happens if someone steals your football and refuses to give it back? The school doesn't give two shits. They're completely fine with theft as long as it doesn't involve them. Bullying only becomes an issue to them when the person being bullied actually tries to do something to stop it. Not when it gets to the point where the person being bullied tells the head of year, making it get worse since the bullies won't give a shit. Not when they start self-harming because of it, but when they try to stop it because the school sure as hell won't.

The extra-curricular clubs in this school are actually not bad, they are the only good thing about this school, so instead of complaints, this section is going to be positive, since there's actually not many complaints I have. Overall, the extra-curricular clubs are quite fun and great things to attend. I have no complaints about these and honestly, they're the only good part of this school.

This school, as much as it hurts me to say it, is actually quite decent in terms of academics. It's nothing special, but it's not like attending this school will automatically trade years of pain for Oxford, but it's also not terrible.

However, my last big issue with this school is the homophobic teachers, but that's an issue for future me in my next revision.

Overall, 2.5/10. Hell, but with a chance to get into a good uni.

This school never understands or listens to the students.they care more about there grades than there mental health. Coming from a student I have never ever felt so unsafe and anxious in the outside world.the teachers here are absolutely horrible and have no consideration whatsoever. If I were a parent who cared about there child I would not send them to twynham school.

Alright for the first few years, however I am in year 11 and and it’s the worst time. Can’t blame it on exam season either, it’s the school. You aren’t allowed inside at break or lunch, even in rain or cold weather, and yet there isn’t any seats or anything outside. Most of the teachers have left/ are leaving so we are stuck with either no teacher turning up, or a supply teacher doing nothing which does not help us as year 11’s. They do assembly’s and talks about mental health and how to cope with revising but continue to tell us we will fail unless we do minimum of 4 hours revision every single day. They also say that we can go to student support for help with stress or any issues yet they are always too busy and full prioritising younger years so we are just forgotten. And not to mention how the teachers are not encouraging, or helpful, or even take an interest in the students. As I mentioned, all of the good teachers have left due to the new headteacher who has made the school go really downhill, and therefore any teachers who actually cared and we relied on, are gone. If you ask any twynham students of year 9, 10 or 11, they can all positively tell you that the school is rubbish, we are forgotten about and only younger years are prioritised.

Hi. I previously wrote another review, but I'm taking another look at this school and as a student, I'm just disappointed.

I got a lunchtime detention for running in corridors ONCE. Some of the teachers are unnecessarily strict. The rules are stupid, and the rules that actually make sense are almost never enforced. Honestly, you'd probably get a longer detention from being punched than for punching someone in this school. When people who they have high expectations for do one bad thing the get a detention. What happens when people who repeatedly to bad stuff do something else bad? Nothing.

Some of the teachers are really nice, but if you get the wrong teacher you'll hate the subject. I personally hate English now, which I used to like because my teacher is extremely annoying and strict. The 2 stars I'm giving are generous.

The subjects overall are slightly below standards except for art, where they expect us to be Leonardo Da Vinci reincarnated or something. History, R.E and Spanish/French all have actually challenging standards. In maths, I literally have to read math books in class to learn from it. Nothing against my maths teacher but everything is too basic. There's been a false alarm and an actual problem in the past ~3 weeks and the fire alarm actually didn't work during the actual problem. I have nothing against the nurses there; they're good but it doesn't matter because they're not allowed to pull off basic medical procedures except in an emergency.

The only fun place left except for the music room is the field, and I got told by a teacher that we're not allowed to run there? They just make up rules as an excuse to punish students. The amount of homework is ridiculous and we don't even learn anything from the tedious and repetitive homework. We get a 60 minute detention for missing 3 pieces in one half-term. Just so you know, one half-term here is usually 7 weeks(35 school days and 49 days counting weekends). 3 pieces of homework in 49 days, or 1 piece missed per 16 days, and what do you get for bullying someone repetitively after excessive teacher interference (which is actually hard to do because the teachers almost never care)? The same amount of time.

I saw one of the teachers pick up a piece of litter with whatever it is and when they dropped it, they just didn't care. They saw that they dropped it. This school may act like it's exceptional, but it's very much not. And remember the English teacher I mentioned a long time ago? She isn't even that good at English.

I've seen her make basic mistakes. Also, the fact that she asked one of us to come up and write the word apostrophe on the board and when I did (I was the only one who put my hand up) the class acted like I just wrote Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. This was in year 8. Year 8s were surprised that I could write apostrophe.

Overall, if you want to send your kid to a good school where they won't be depressed and stressed, choose the Grange. It gets higher test scores on average, they're better at sports and it's better in a lot of other ways I don't want to get into because of how long this already is. If you read this, thank you so much.

I am still a student of Farnham school and I have spent a couple years that, so far I have been given a a handful of great experiences but a few nightmares from teachers who power trip

I am a former student. I suffered from extreme depression during my time with multiple suicide attempts and i never had a stable home. My only stable home was twynham. They were supportive but i had to fight for the support that i needed. I am gay and non binary and i’ve had some teachers not respect my pronouns and i paraded a pride flag around school and one of the teachers told me that it was inappropriate and something the school won’t tolerate. However other teachers are the sweetest humans on the planet and will jump over mountains for their students. Handling of any student conflict was poor it led to months off school. During exam periods they will put insane amounts of pressure on you but never show you how to revise properly. Senior leadership are unhelpful and homophobic. Assemblies felt like twynham propaganda what a waste of my 20 minutes every monday morning. Twynham has exception teachers with such good intentions but it’s the rest of the school that lets it all down. It looks pretty as a school but it puts unreasonable pressure on students mental health which lead them down a path of bad mental health.

In terms of academics, they are a fairly average school. You can do well if you apply yourself but they won’t go out of their way to help you improve. Typical state school in terms of study, teaching was hit or miss, some utter gems and some teachers were appalling individuals.

The environment and culture their is authoritarian to say the least (in terms of students and rules) They have a serious bullying problem and the power dynamics between students was shocking. Bullied for 4 of the years while I was their by students and teachers, senior leadership never dealt with it or even cared. The teachers were more concerned with strange uniform rules (having to wear your blazer in class when it was 30‘c) and checking logbooks signatures than developing young people and providing them with the skills to compete in the modern economy

I came out with decent GCSEs (by no means amazing) but was always quite good at school. College was absolutely incredible compared to this place, really put twynham into perspective. I suppose Im grateful for the battle scars from my time here but I really left ill-equipped for the real world as twynham is so large and has a distinctive culture, it prepares you for a life in academic institutions and nothing else. Personal development classes were shocking with some dreadfully uninformed drug use and sexual Health information.

Management and admin was also really chaotic and head of years were delegated too much power which lead to strange inconsistencies in rules and the whole heggarty situation really does shine a light on some of poor staff background checks within Leadership. They focus on PR and image more than actually focusing funding into areas of improvement. Still milking their off-season outstanding rating from back in 2013. it’s really wierd as they have a fantastic reputation locally but it’s built on fabrication and the school is nothing like it portrays.

The mental health support for typical students was non-exsistant, tutor sessions everyday we’re typically just registers or the odd presentation. Students are put under immense pressure without given the resources or guidance to improve. Their was a suicide in my year at the school after mock exam season (probably unrelated) but after the mock exams which the teachers had universally inflated the grade boundaries to lower everyone’s grades so they felt they needed to work harder.

Don’t go to this school

alright school, weren't that great. can't forget the herity situation. classic heggars that was x

they don’t care abt the students they don’t listen... they might be good when it comes to academics but when it comes to making sure their students are okay or making sure their students aren’t overwhelmed or making sure their students have good mental health. they fail miserably at that

School is amazing! The SEN department especially now Mrs Miller has taken over! The staff really care but they struggle as there is not enough funding for anything! I have an EHCP and although they don’t fulfill it, they try their best to do what you need! Academically they support you brilliantly!

I’m not going to say they are perfect, but they are a brilliant school for me.

Absolutely shit. Never gave me support (SEN) and told me I would fail all my lessons. Went to a new school and passed 5 GCSEs in a single year of learning because I learnt nothing at this school. Never go there is you have SENs or if you don't. They wont take you seriously and, even if you have an EHCP, they will not follow it.

A good school , a few issues with bullying (there is also rasist and homophobic comments made in class) however on teaching I think that it is at a okay level.