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Please do not send your children here! I went to Coleridge and finished there in 2017. It was the worst experience being a student there. I was bullied all those years being there and the teachers and headmasters did nothing about it. I only gained support from my maths teacher who I’m forever thankful for. All the kids there, were so foul. They bullied me, some of them were even Muslim girls and gave me a hard time just because I took my headscarf off, after being made fun of for so long. I gained no support and the teachers ignored me. All they recommend was to go to an antibullying club at lunch time, which did absolutely nothing to help. They just sit and talk to each other and that’s it, no advice, nothing. Some teachers even enjoyed picking on me when I was struggling with anxiety, and couldn’t answer questions. I was always picked on by teachers to answer questions and when I couldn’t, the class would laugh. I later on suffered with an eating disorder because I was always bullied for my looks. I do not recommend going to this school. The discipline is ridiculous. They’d make you stay way past school ours, and wouldn’t even tell our parents. The teachers were always screaming and shouting at the students, they had no control over them. We always had a substitute teacher because of how bad the students were, teachers kept coming and going. Lots of people failed their GCSE’s because of this.

After Ramadan, I was told on Eid day that I wasn’t allowed to go home to celebrate after my exam. One of the rude ladies at student services claimed I was lying, even though it was Eid and all the other Muslim student were allowed to go home, but I wasn’t. They really enjoyed making my life more difficult, and I was not allowed to go home. I will never forgive Coleridge for the hell they put me in. The teachers even allowed students to post embarrassing photos of me in the leavers video, without my permission. I was traumatised when I saw the photos during the leavers assembly. I was crying in almost every lesson, and gained no support. Thank you Coleridge, you truly are a disgusting school.

This is a good school, teachers and TA have good communication with parents and we trust school can help students to build up their confidence.

Worst school i have ever seen. My child hates it here. Absoloutley awful.

Honestly a terrible school kicked me out and completely left me as if they forgotten about me also gave me a bad name from what i can remember majority of the students hated the school due to the teachers becoming more stricter and stern with the rules also made me feel targeted if i got in a situation in which they would take the other kids side but not mine ever since ive been kicked out ive been focusing on other things but id thought id write a review to let other people know how i feel and to let others aware of a school can affect a student mentality and physically.

Please please do not send your children here. For the sake of their mental health and well being. The school used to be good but when united learning became part of the institution, it went extremely downhill.
It is extremely clear to many of the students here that this school cares more about rules than the mental health of its students.
I have sat in classrooms where people have had literal anxiety and panic attacks and the teachers have done nothing. I have experienced my peers and myself feel as if our happiness and well being has been completely taken away from us due to the school’s horrific amount of pressure they put on us.

I have struggled with severe mental health issues since the beginning of January 2021 and the school have only made it worse, invalidated it and broken trust with me. Not only have I had this experience but many others have as well. They create this persona, giving the impression that they care, when in reality, they do not. All they care about is how the school looks.

Students were happier, getting better grades and behaving much better before united learning and the new leadership team. Now, me and other peers have had to revise and re learn stuff profusely at home because of the terrible organisation and teaching. (This is not directly the teacher’s issues but the leadership teams).

We are not learning. We are only learning to be quiet and obey the borderline dictatorship mannerisms of this school.
It is not fair on us. Not fair on our future which is being ruined by this school.

They strip us of our personality and sense of expression with ridiculous uniform rules that benefit no one but the school’s pathetic ego.

Year 11s are struggling to find time to actually revise due to the ridiculous 2 hour a night homework schedule which often finds itself to be 3 hours. Even younger years are struggling – It has become a norm to see new year 7 and 8s being so scared of the dumb punishments for perhaps, losing a pen, that they are crying and constantly anxious.
So please, if you care about your children – DO NOT send them here.
I could write so much more but I do not have the time so there you go.