Outwood Academy Acklam, Middlesbrough | Fees, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

terrible, teachers are rude and disrespectful. Spitting in my daughters face when their shouting at her. They don’t give a dam how your feeling or anything. Also stupid reasons for c4 and 5, daughter got a c5 from miss mitchell for eating at 12:25 when her lunch ends at 12:30. Also are way to strict on punishments, permoded my daughter who’s y7 for having 1 fight and minding that it was her first fight and mr skidmore the new head is awful also liars saying that they’re gonna get teachers to ring me about what’s gonna happen and not give me answers for 2 weeks. My bf and daughter went down the school to ask and the receptionist was being so rude. Wow

I recently had an interview at Outwood Academy Acklam. I went for the position of pastoral support officer. As I have a level 3 and a bachelors in policing, I was qualified for this role but this was not appreciated by any of the staff I encountered. There was 3 other candidates for this job role. Two of which had experience in schools, with one working for the same academy. Once the vice principal, Luke Chapman, heard this, his ears sprung up and completely ignored me and another candidate who was also a recent University graduate. He focused his whole attention on the two more experienced candidates. After a brief tour of the academy, and still being completely ignored by Mr Champman, we where then told to complete a written assessment. This consisted of multiple choice questions, some questions I found extremely difficult as I had no experience in working in a school environment. After the written test, it was time for the interviews. However, I was never interviewed. I was instead instructed to a small room where I was told I failed the written test and that I would not be interviewed. I drove 40 min to attend this interview during morning rush hour traffic after I had finished a night shift. None of this was even considered. I had just been told I failed and had to leave the school. A few hours after this, Luke Chapman phoned me to discuss feedback. I told him I was appalled by how I was treated during this time, I was never given any time to talk about myself of experience. I was simply marked on a multiple choice quiz, it felt as though I was one of the students. The feedback was not at all helpful. Luke Chapman explained that I was not in proper dress for an interview. I was wearing trousers, a shirt with a black and white jacket over the shirt. As graduate working in retail, I’m not in a financial position to purchase certain clothing. I believe what I was wearing was smart and comfortable. You should not be graded on a person’s clothing, he acted as though I was wearing jeans and a hoodie. Further feedback was even more useless. My answers I gave on my written assesment where correct but not in enough detail and some of the terms I used where not official. For example I put “senior member of staff” not the official job title of that person. So my clothes and terms where poor enough to cut my interview early. I find this treatment appalling. I don’t understand why I wasn’t given a chance. For a school that promotes chasing dreams, mine where crushed today and for no good reason!

I love this school.That one time i was in an English lesson and someone behind me was messing with a water bottle.What happens next is that someone puts in on my table,i put it back then he puts it back and i put it back again.The next time he was gonna put it on my table i tried to stop him and he spilled the water on his table.The teacher,after having so many people seeing what happened,decided to give ME a C4A and gave him a C4A too.Like how the hell was it my fault for him spilling his water bottle??!! And it was on his table too.

This is not a school!! It’s a military regime with over proportionate punishments for pupils. They’re having to delay detentions & consequences because rooms are too full to implement. There’s just that many pupils being punished! The particularly nasty one is consequences. Children in consequences are exempt from learning, as Mrs Smith quoted ” the principal believes that when your in consequences you lose your right to learn!! I find it diabolical that children are refused the right to be educated!! Surely this is against the law!

I got a C4 for snapping a DISPOSABLE cup as it was school property and vandalism. It’s just a bad school. They say that “we will pull you out of lessons if you are on a c1 c2 c3, because you are interrupting learning” they then proceed to yell as loud as possible distracting everyone in the corridor. Just no