Up Holland High School

This school has many flaws indeed which start at the top down, when the head or staff are at fault and have neglected their duty of care to students they retaliate and never hold their hands up or resolve ongoing issues, they all back each other up and deflect responsibility onto you and there is always an excuse or you yourself must have got it wrong they use manipulation and tactics to cover their wrongdoing. I have found the head to be extremely arrogant, ignorant and only interested in image of the school, the students are secondary. Measures are in place for detentions yet a lot of the time they are unfairly given. They are now an academy so have more power to make their own policies and more freedom which are not for the good, and think the power has gone to their head. You wont get any understanding or empathy or any apology from this place if you find yourself needing to sort something out. Homework is over the top when you put all the subjects together it all adds up and students are penalized for not doing or not completing it even if someone has died or your ill. If you send message it is not answered even if what you have sent is important / urgent. However, if they want something of you or student got detention that's on synergy straight away, yet they say they don't have time to answer messages. There are no reviews offered for SEN, it all looks good on paper but it's not accurate and nobody follows it . After school clubs don't inform you if it's been cancelled. Nothing is done about bullying when reported, your told it's not bullying and students have been spoken to but no consequences ever given, the bullying continues it's not a safe environment in those circumstances and student don't feel safe and know their self it won't be stopped. You would literally have to get a solicitor for this school to take notice. The tutors assume and shout at students there is no respect and dish out detentions for hardly anything which doesn't teach them anything in life and causes resentment . My advise to any parent thinking of bringing your son / daughter to this school don't do it, save yourself the years of hell, there are much better run schools who put the students first and operate as they should do with happy students.

I would not recommend. Bullying is not addressed and allowed to continue, bullys are empowered, safeguarding is not addressed or reported by them. SEND isn't implemented you have to resort to external.help SENDIASS to get very basic requests put in place, SENCO unsupportive and dismissive.. They have an ADHD Friendly School Award which is laughable as they don't uphold its values , it's misleading to all parents of a child with SEND. In reality what they tell you in open evenings doesn't exist. Rewards are not given even though they boast about how important they are for motivation etc, your child will never see them for their efforts. Any complaints never get addressed or resolved, you would be lucky to ever get a response, if you do it will not change as they don't consider your point it's dismissed. Policies, they don't follow their own policies and they are not inclusive of SEND they don't alter a thing your child will be held to the same expectation as a typical child. Tutors shouting at students and they do have their favourites punitive measures will be given to one but not the favourite for same poor behaviour. There are a lot of punitive measures, detentions at breaks or lunch, full day isolation, reflection walk after school and they are tunnel vision given out, for breathing out of sync, no considerations from SEND behaviour directly linked to conditions, no underlying mitigating circumstances is considered and student never asked or allowed to give their version of events. If your child gets an isolation, which was probably given unfairly in the first place, they are then punished twice and can't attend reward trips or holidays and you won't get your money back. The Headmaster has many failings and is full of himself, shouldn't be in the position he is in and leads creating a toxic culture. There is no care for mental health or anything else all this school are bothered about is reputation and trying to stay under the radar of triggering the LA or Ofstead . Pupils health will be secondary to their false image and keeping up appearances and reputation. There is no empathy, care or consideration. All this school will bring you and your child is stress and harm. From the head down most of tutors follow this toxic culture he has created you will find you won't get a decent , reasonable human who will respond to you or your concerns they all ignore and dismiss it's a big eye opener and all this shouldn't be any student or parent experience of school, it's far from Dedicated to Excellence what they hide behind . Staff also contradict their selves and tell lies . It's unbelievable and leadership needs changing amongst many other things.

The reception staff in this school are vile, extremely condescending and totally unhelpful. The teaching staff are atrocious and do not listen to families. All in all this school is very very poor

Well firstly the teachers are bad you can't even use a single word of humor otherwise you're in a lunchtime detention. Pastoral doesn't give a sh#T about how ur mental health is. The PE facility is all full of themselves thinking that they are the main part of the school. The only part of the school I like is a new teacher in pe Im never chosen to be with a partner but he is always there for me making me smile every pe lesson making the school life less misserable. Most teachers don't even explain the work we are doing and how to do it even if ur confused about a question all they can say is c1 c2 and all of that. Classrooms are rancid like in geography there's green plants poking out a wall from the outside. History teachers are the worst constantly pointing you out and when u get summin wrong they say it very mean sometimes making tears coming out me eyes cos I'm not friends with a lot of people and I'm a deeply depressed person. Bullying is to another level can't go in a single day without worrying of someone shoving me or pushing me. Everyday I walk in and get screamed at from my form teacher most of the time. The RS block is the most serious thing sweat down my teacher is out for me always screaming at people. A few people in maths are nice but not all of them Im very intelligent in maths and my teacher always makes me feel happy and praised. Overall don't put ur child in this school I regretted coming to the school the first 6 months through this school will js make ur child's mental health decline and turn out to be a depressed person living on the dole.

this school is absolutely terrible! a gun was outside 3 schools in the district went into lockdown apart from upholland! this outrageous and ill be going to ofsted in the morning.

I saw a supposed maths teacher who could not recognise that 4a+a = 5a. I'm not joking!!!

Also, when it came to simplifying a - x/2 she came up with(a-x)/2.

When challenged she said 'I'm just trying to teach them to divide by 2. Absolutely unbelieveable!!!

should be 0 stars teachers treat students like sh1t, shout left right an centre, don't care about students wellbeing, many creepy teachers, if a student does the slightest thing that barely goes against rules they get harassed by teachers who think they have power but are just pe teachers, accuse students of taking drugs in the back of classrooms, the student never has a say, teachers have favourites in bullying situations, this school made me have panic attacks daily and worsened my mental health, made me show proof i was on medication for depression an when i shown it i got told i was lying, won't even get started on my form teacher or we will be here all day