Wade Deacon High School

Firstly, the staff have no regard for the actual sanity of the students. Going through something tough at home? You get an extra day to do your homework. They care more about the length of school skirts and whether shirts are untucked than the well being of children. Cyber bullying, racial and homophobic comments come second when it comes the to appearance of the school. Secondly, most teacher obviously favour more popular and outspoken students as opposed to the ones actually trying to get an education out of this hell hole. I understand if they’re struggling and the teachers feel like they need an extra push to help them, but blatantly sitting next to them and doing the work for them because they ‘can’t be bothered.’ Or they, ‘feel sick.’ Whilst not batting an eye is not something I believe you get a teachers qualification for. Also, as a girl going through my teenage years I wanted to find ways to express myself and be myself-just like how the school boasts on about us doing-so I wore makeup to school. Nothing extravagant, nothing that was so undeniably eye catching that it took the students attention away from learning, just some blush, mascara, highlighter and maybe some eyeliner, if I was feeling frisky. However, the school seemed to be opposed to the ideology of me wanting to have my own identity, that most of the time they would outwardly embarrass me in-front of my classmates by loudly pointing it out, and then forcing me to scrub my face in a bathroom that had girls looking at me funny as they vaped in the cubicles. It not only felt like a humiliation ritual, but it made me feel like I couldn’t look how I wanted to be seen. Wade Deacon High School would rather children get verbally abused in corridors then let a girl wear nail polish, which is ironic considering the ‘worse off school’ which was right down the road didn’t bat at an at children wearing nail polish or makeup and actually did something when a pupil went to them for help. On another note, some teachers actually knew what they were doing. Making most classes not only interesting but fun as well, but most teachers wouldn’t even teach us the back page of a paper because they ‘couldn’t be bothered.’ And, ‘didn’t think we were able to do it.’ When it finally rolled around to GCSE period, not only did I lose four of my teachers, but most of them just read off a PowerPoint and didn’t even bother actually teaching us, something by younger sibling could do without a teaching degree. Making me feel vulnerable and unstable whilst sitting the biggest tests of my life at the moment. All in all, if you want to go Wade Deacon, or you want your child to go. Don’t. It will make them miserable and depressed like it made half of us. In my opinion, give PnP a try, I heard they’re making a lot of great changes towards the school that maybe Wade Deacon should take notes from. The old pizza was fire though before they changed the menu.

It’s a good school, well managed. Uniform policy is too strict and misbehaving students often overshadow the other students. Struggled are dismissed if you’re not misbehaving. Other than that, high quality school, resources and teachers.

This school isn’t good for pupils mental health and all the teacher are horrible and only care about how they look and there education this school doesn’t take bullying seriously

Absolute shit school ?️

Past Wade deacon student here! I attended Wade Deacon not too long ago; I have to say the experience was nothing like it is perceived on the open evening and website. I have had dozens of awful experiences over the years that I was there, for a start, the French department is awful. The teachers don't care about you and are extremely uncaring, they are very shouty and aren't very approachable, I asked my French teacher when my mock exam was to which he answered 'Before' and I never found out the date until it was too late, I was very close to failing my French exam due to this! over the years I also came to realize that the 'Wade Deacon experience' very much relies on whether you are a favourite or not I had a very awful experience with my head of year which resulted in my having to skip school so that she wouldn't mistreat me, I was treated awfully by them and there were only a few teachers that I could confide in - one of which teaches food tech. For three years I begged my parents to let me change schools and then it was too late by the time they were willing. Unless you hate your children, I beg you not to send them here. Finally, I am a girl and during my time at this school a girl in my year was sexually assaulted, the school's response? To sit him at my lunch table - DANGEROUS!

Treated my son horrendously,don't get me wrong,he wasn't the best student but the sheer disregard for him,his grades or mental health. I had teachers lie straight to both mine and his face. And I'm not even going to go into what the school accused him of without providing any proof and simply placing blame on him,he was their scapegoat.

Im a year 10 student at wade deacon high school widnes and am just here to say that wade deacon says they control bullying when they do the opposite and they actually don’t care about anybodys mental health and it’s atrocious on how mean the school teachers are , some people may think that’s good that they are strict but if they be nice then maybe the students would consider to behave

It's bad and good tbh. I'm in yr7 and I had the worst day today at wade deacon. I was in the library today and these three boys were knocking through the glass thing in the back like where the multiple chairs are. They were doing inappropriate signs and it was so uncomfortable. After, Mrs Gallagher told them to go away and they went away. I'm so scared to go back tomorrow to the library.. I go to the library everyday and I don't wanna go there anymore. I don't even wanna go to school?

Honestly, this school is good and bad. I suggest the mentors actually do something about bad students and not just ignore them. The good students don't get shii. The RISE POINTS system is not even good bruh. The good students don't even get any rise points

Amazing school! I loved it

Fabulous school provides a great place to learn and is a nice environment for young minds to be in

It’s a great school. I don’t know what else to say

dont bring your chld here all the teachers are rude and only care about there reputation so dont bring them here

The school is an awful school to be in gerneraly. Firstly, its an increadably toxic enviroment where if you dont agree with the way they do things you get punished overly harshly, for exampe if someone attacks you both the victim and the agresser would be punished Secondly the teachers where very harsh and hypocritical for example they will often be late by over 10 minuets whereas if your late by a single minuet you will be punished by missing break or lunch Thirdly traversing the school itself is a nightmare due to the overcrowded coridoors and staircases,it is not uncommon to see people who have fell being trampled on,this even happened to me Finaly its the vanity of the school its self they only care about how they are perseved not the students unless they do sports because they bring attention to the school in that case they can get away with almost anything,they say to go to the mentors if you had an issue but they would always be unhelpful and give the same tired responces like bite the bulet The only redeming quality is that their is several teachers who are honest and open with the students and have a real passion and understanding for what they do

heavy school der yeno lad

Class of 2020 here. The school managed to cut down their entire French department down from ~11 teachers to just 3 within the span of a year due to the lack of funding (unsure of where the money was being spent) and that languages was no longer a mandatory subject. I had many issues with the French department as a whole but that story is far too long. The performing arts department is outstanding but horrendously underfunded. I have nothing bad to say about the history department as it felt like it was the only section of the entire school that made it worth my time showing up. The rest of the school’s departments are quite average overall apart from a few poor experiences with certain teachers. The ‘RISE’ point system is a sham and doesn’t really do anything for the students except encourage bullying. The school’s ‘mentors’ didn’t actually help anyone, especially those who had high grades but poor mental health. Every assembly I had somehow managed to relate itself to sports, which, while beneficial to some students, made students such as myself roll my eyes and zone out. The school’s close connection with Cronton college means that you are actually forced to apply to Cronton college. There was an incident in which my form group was not allowed to leave the room if they had not filled in an application to the college (I am not exaggerating). Also, the amount of assemblies received from the college is utterly ridiculous. Once the pandemic began and GCSEs were cancelled, I had about 2 teachers set work for my classes whereas the rest of them simply abandoned us. The school loses teachers faster than they can hire them (given the fact I did not have a stable French teacher for 6 months in year 11) and doesn’t seem to care about whether students are actually learning - they only care about how good the school looks on paper. I came to this school because of it’s outstanding reputation, however I found myself entirely disappointed when I arrived and can barely believe that the gates to this school are still open.