West Kirby Grammar School

this school is very bad.

i wouldn't say there's anything exciting abt it, it's really boring. someone poured a whole pot noodle in one of the toilets the other day, most teachers are annoying and boring. there's only a handful of nice ones. when you join in year 7, you don't get to pick what languages you do, you just get assigned with 2 and then everyone does latin. i was assigned german and french but wish i could've gotten german and spanish instead as now im stuck doing latin because i dropped french in year 8. there are literally no nice subs other than one and like i said before toilets are minging. canteen food is good, year 11s always push in the queue though and teachers do nothing abt it. they're really unorganised when it comes to end of year exams, mine are in 2 weeks and we've only been given 5 revision lists out of 14 exams. so all in all, school is average, boring, minging, and teachers are annoying. but what can you expect from a british secondary school ??

Absolute madness at this place. Headteacher is not too bad but you'll never speak to him anyway. Lots of the teachers are crazy and unhelpful. The pastoral/ wellbeing support couldn't be worse. Had to wait 6 months alone for 6 weeks of counselling. The wellbeing manager is just insanely bad. She doesn't give one. The uniform is so strict. Days too long. None of the computers, keyboards or printers work. Toilets don't have proper doors anymore because of vaping which is a pain. A lot less than you would expect for a grammar school. Most of the maths teachers are phsycos or creeps, except for a few. Science is even worse. Most of the work is easy enough. Don't know if I recommend. There's a library? The house point/reward system is ignored. House events are a pain. Holes in the ceiling. Honestly it is my idea of hell but worse. Teachers either say nothing or waffle. The students are barely considered. Don't go to house assemblies there a waste of time. Can't remember my last school trip. Chemistry is just painful.

Mental health stuff isn't great, the mental health worker is known to be bad at her job and I have also experienced this but overall a pretty good school, the headteacher and head team are amazing and really supportive too

the only good thing about this school is some of the teachers are dead funny. don’t expect good support if you are disabled, are LGBTQ+ (especially if you’re transgender), or have mental health issues. the mental health specialist is not good at what she does tbh, and far too much pressure is put on students to succeed. also the food was so expensive when i was there like i am not paying £1.50 for some lentil chips thank you. ?? so yeah long story short don’t come here i did not have a good time at all.

It’s not bad overall, but because they expect everyone to be well behaved those who aren’t aren’t monitored very well so bathrooms etc are always a state; new stalls were recently added though which are nice at least for now. Teachers are on a whole amazing though, but because the school is a grammar they expect everyone to achieve high so they give little help, making many struggle.

it's alright, if you go there there's a lot of pressure to be good as it's a grammar school. as you might expect, some lessons are good, some are bad (this includes the teachers). the headteacher is great, but the support system for those with learning support needs or mental health issues isn't very good, for example the weekly appointment I attended at the LSC (Learning Support Centre) wasn't much help, and as we were in a group it was a bit awkward. Also the mental health specialist is well known for being bad at her job. the food is good, but the cookies are overpriced. £1.35 for a cookie.