Urmston Grammar Academy

Best school these people have the best quality of anything

Amazing staff Amazing facilities Pleasant environment Very diverse

There's some weird kids bro ?

cares more about gcse scores than actually preparing us for life.

This is a terribly damaging environment for young people. No support around mental health or additional needs. The teaching and learning is atrocious. Pupils teach themselves. Mocking and disgust by by teachers if you are performing below a 7 in any subject. There is no compassion or care shown to students. It's an exam factory. That's all. I would not send any child. Glad that I can managed to survive...just. But the school did damage my self esteem and confidence.

Amazing school to go to

The school itself isn’t a great environment to be in. If you get anything less than a 7 in terms of coursework or exams you’re made to feel like you haven’t done very well at all and that you need to improve immediately. I understand that the school has to maintain a certain expectation from students but to ridicule them over not getting top grades isn’t very fair in my opinion. Half of the teachers can’t teach let alone control a class. Over the years at the school on several occasions teachers haven’t even bothered to turn up to lessons. Whilst covid has been going on they have cared more about whether you wear your mask properly or not more than anything else. A lot of teachers have taken it over the top and screamed at kids for not wearing one even though they don’t feel comfortable doing so. The only positive i can say really is the maths department who have some great teachers who are always nice and are always there to help.

Did nothing to handle the bullying of my son. Only cares about grades.

Recently some girls in the school organised a peaceful protest against sexual abuse and violence by writing “no means no” and “not asking for it” on their hands and legs but the school deemed it too disruptive to the year 11s and 13s to go ahead and attempted to stop the protest (it went ahead anyway). This is so ridiculous because the girls (and some boys) were simply showing that any form of sexual assault is not ok which I think many would agree with but this school did not want that happening. I was so lost for words when they attempted to stop it because why would they not want to show support for sexual harassment victims? Clearly shows they have little care for individuals but instead for arbitrary numbers and percentages.

At this school, they only care about our grades. The mental health "support" available to me made me feel severely uncomfortable, and I felt like I could only trust one teacher. They make us feel like failures if we get anything below a 7 at GCSEs, and I was literally on the verge of a breakdown this morning over it. Bullying is an issue I've not experienced personally, but have heard from other students that it isn't handled appropriately. Some students use slurs, and a white teacher said the n word when reading a book. Also, the food is concerning. I remember my friend having bought a mouldy piece of toast. This is not acceptable. The DT teacher cannot teach. He is a lovely man, but he cannot handle a class. Students are able to leave class without him noticing, and he practically does the work for us. He does not teach us what we need to know, and then gives us sheets to fill out. However, we do have some amazing teachers. The arts departments in the school always do amazingly, and I am happy with my current English, chemistry and maths teachers, as I do believe I am learning something.

Only really care about your academic result. Were rubbish with online learning. Don't deal with bullying, especially homophobia.

I would not recommend the school as it was very un-supportive and was not good at dealing with mental health issues, bullying, or racism. The school only cared about people doing well academically.

This school made my life very miserable because of the way it defended the actions of bigots and didnt provide me with any support emotionally or mentally. This school may call itself a prestigious grammar school that achieves great results however the things they sacrifice for this to happen in the process I think is cruel. Students are made to feel useless just because they aren't achieving 7,8 and 9's when in fact this shaming pushes students the other way making them perform worse. This institution also wipes all individuality out of its students and makes anyone who attempts to express themselves feel grossly uncomfortable. In general this school is not a positive environment for pupils and in the end creates an environment where students can't thrive because of its outdated thoughts and narratives.