Schools in Darlington DL2, UK

“I am lucky to be leaving this school this year. Throughout my time here, the systems in this place have bullied students into silence, making us fearful of…”

“Overall, the teachers are good at what they do and they want you to achieve the best grades possible and they try their best to do so.”

“What an absolute hell hole. I won't hold back on my thoughts on this so called school. What a horrible little dump that school was.”

“I have ASD (autism) and I've found because I am a girl and I don't have any severe needs due to masking the school has made no effort to help me in any way.”

“Students are treated okay for the first few weeks but then teachers, in particular student support, seem to make it a not so nice environment and make you…”

“I feel unsafe every day at this school. nothing is done about bullying, threats etc. students openly and honestly talk about drug use and staff couldn't care…”

“Teachers only really care about students with high predicted grades. Poor handling of bullying, but very strict for minor behaviours, such as chewing gum or…”

“QE had a major impact on me in terms of education as well as my mental wellbeing. All the teachers I had were absolutely wonderful, and would never judge or…”

“I am currently studying at this school and about to finish year 10, for some background information for this to make sense I currently suffer from…”

“Was fun, had friends, teachers were cool, work was good. Would go again if I could. 10/10 Some of the teachers were very funny Cool sports teachers.”

“Absolutely lovely school. Hugely bothered about the children’s happiness; not just exam grades. Lots of time spent outside, especially in the earlier years.”

“I left this school a few years ago and although I was only there for 9 months, it was pretty good.”

“I like Mowden because the staff are wonderful! But the school meals aren’t that good I hope for a change”

“My year 5 teacher was mean to me and all my teachers got pregnant but it was fine”

“There is a lot of bullying in this school. They handle it by letting them off or if they hit the person you go on the wall in front of there class.”

“Poor education. Culture of defensiveness and lying. Head doesn’t have a clue what goes on. Assistant Head makes all the decisions and they are very poor.”

“Hi. I'm just here to tell you how horrible you treated the yr 6 boys last academic year. You were being horrible to us when one child lost the football- we had…”

“Was an awful place, full of bullying and the staff didn’t do anything about it. Students with mental health and learning disorders got little to no support.”