Ysgol Dinas Bran

awful school, i’ll start off with the uniform policy, even in 25 degree weather you’re still only allowed to wear tights as girls which is absolutely ridiculous and if you do come to school in socks you get all day inclusion. Second thing i’m going to mention is the education system in that school especially with the welsh forms, if you are in the welsh form you don’t have welsh, english, maths or science separated into sets it’s one lesson with your form even in your GCSE years which means a lot of smart students aren’t learning more stuff and the work is to easy for them and the kids who have difficulty in the lessons have to do work they dont understand, asking the teachers for help doesn’t do anything they just repeat the same thing they’ve already told you and get mad when you ask more than once, this is quite possibly the worst school in the area please do not send your kids here if you want them to succeed in life because even in the english forms they still just aren’t very good teachers if i’m being honest, they don’t explain properly and get mad when you ask for help more than twice max. They treat kids who have misbehaved once differently for the rest of their time in that school and never let them forget it, if your misbehaving one year and try change the next they won’t let you forget it, your being good for months but then you do one little thing that for someone who has never misbehaved would just get them a detention or a telling off all day inclusion or exclusion but if your child does behave they just get completely ignored and the teachers don’t care about them. Please get this school shut down and don’t send your children here.

The school is very poor and incapable of safe guarding students. The possibility of reaching academic targets is low, as is students making good progress. SLT need to take responsibility for damage done to students due to weak leadership. Estyn should be doing an urgent inspection of the school. The correct support needs to be in place to ensure student safety.

This school is the worst. I've experienced multiple situations where teachers have shown zero respect towards their students. For example, I was told I'd fail my English exam and degraded because the current books we were working on were extremely triggering with past experiences I've had. This was by the head of English... While my head of year watched while she did this, even while I was sobbing my eyes out. Not only that but while they claim to look out for those mentally ill or suffering, they are completely ignorant and uneducated. My friend had HEALED scars on her legs and she was told to cover them up because she may influence others to self harm too and that she was showing them off which is so stupid. People with self harm scars still have to live with their scars and there's almost no way to get rid of them so it's disturbing to tell children that they should cover up something like that when they've healed. The amount of times I've been told to 'ignore' homophobia and transphobia in my school is disgusting. It also shows how little of an understanding these people have of the kind of effect being dead named, misgendered, having slurs shouted at has. If you care about your childs mental health, do NOT send them here.

I go there now, I'm in year 10 and this school sucks! They do nothing about homophobia, transphobia or bullying or any of that stuff, instead they just give a kid a gentle slap on the wrist and tell them no, in year 9 alone I suffered sexual harassment, abuse from an ex, sexual assault, assault and much more, I talked to the school about this and all they did was talk to the children! Not even call the child's parents or anything! It's not recommended unless your going to bully everyone - grace

Experienced bullying, fit told I was lucky to have an eating disorder by a member of staff who were supposed to be trained, and got told my disability was attention seeking.

I went to Dinas bran from 2016-2021 if I could give it a 0 I would honestly their was some nice teachers like 2 but they were just awful otherwise awful safeguarding awful emotional support and no help with bullying if you require anything don't bother asking cause they won't help you, the bully was awful and the fighting was constant and un punished also for student of low income there's no support and the free school meal you can barely survive on the money they give if you want breakfast you cannot have lunch you have to choose, I want to say my re teacher best teacher in the world tho Mrs Griffiths made my school time more bareable

Absolutely shocking hate it teachers ain’t understanding what’s so ever . Can’t cope in that school . Teachers there ain’t nice I only know like 3 nice teachers in the whole school honestly shocking .

Teachers allow bullying and some have faviroutes, also if you wear a hoodie or trainers expect to get eliminated by the SLT department

I have moved on from this school and it has been the best thing I have ever done, same for my sibling. They are now top of there year in there new school and dinas bran ruined there mental health. Same with me, I will carry these memory’s for the rest of my life. I was sexually harassed for three years and they did nothing. They made me sit in a room and shake hands with the boy who did that. They didn’t help me with my special needs and the ridicule you get off fellow students just for being slightly different is ridiculous, the homophobia and transphobia is high. I was kicked down a hill nearly everyday for 4 weeks. They didn’t do anything now my ankle gives way when I walk. I will give credit to Mrs. McDonald, Mrs Griffiths Re and Mrs Griffiths Geography, they made that school so much better. Without them I would not have made it out of there.

I don't go to this school anymore, thank God, but I got bullied and harassed for my sexual orientation, my gender identity, and even just how close I was with my friends, and the only teacher who tried to stop it only did because she was personal friends with my mother, although this did nothing. Teachers watched ad people shouted slurs at me and they did nothing.