# Westholme School — Blackburn, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Primary
- **Parent rating:** 1.4/5 from 10 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Wilmar Lodge, Meins Road
- **Phone:** 00000000-2328
- **Website:** https://www.westholmeschool.com
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/blackburn/westholme-school-8263

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Terrible treatment: Only the elite need apply! Your child is offered a place one day then phone call next day offer retracted. Great for my child's wellbeing. So lucky escape I guess . O and you get to pay for the privilege. *(Sep 2023)*
- **1/5** — Dr Robsons Forehead: would leave a 0 star if i could. absolute joke of a school *(May 2023)*
- **1/5** — Don’t send: Awful Poor teaching by some - complained for years before maths teacher was got rid of Pupils miss lessons and staff no idea where they are - so dangerous New head is bad - staff are treated badly and paid less than in state schools Bullying ignored *(Apr 2023)*
- **1/5** — Awful school: The most horrendous experience with this school. Cares nothing about a child’s mental health. Many excellent teachers but the management is truly awful, complete bullies. ‘ *(Mar 2023)*
- **1/5** — Awful school: My child was at Westholme for 10 years until Year 8 and then I decided to move. The school do not create a happy and caring environment and certainly they have their “favourites” and who get picked for every leading role there is! The school are not proactive with any sort of bullying issues - you are basically told to get on with it! They don’t encourage harmony between the children. I found quite the opposite - no discipline whatsoever. The new Head is so arrogant - which is so laughable since… *(Feb 2022)*
- **5/5** — Good for learning disabilities!: It really helps people with learning disabilities. It has a really good teacher which will help you with the work instead of falling behind! *(Jul 2021)*
- **1/5** — Really quite a damaging place: I totally agree with all the other negative reviews here! I left Westholme in 2011, part-way through year eight. It got so bad by the end that my parents took me out of the school two weeks early as I simply couldn't go in. I've never fully come to terms with my time spent there (age 5 - 13), but reading about these other people's experiences and now doing Teacher Training myself, I realise the extent to which the school let me down, both academically and pastorally. I've always known that my lo… *(Jun 2021)*
- **5/5** — Such a good school: Amazing school love it *(May 2021)*
- **1/5** — Utter dogsh*te: Student here for 15 years, recently left. I knew the school was bad when I was a student but didn’t realise how bad until I left and started university. This school is full of nasty middle class snobs who’s parents are all up their own arses. Most teachers are awful and A level results are shocking. £18,000 sixth form for what? The favouritism for white students who do sports is so obvious and embarrassing. The school allowed me to be bullied by older students for years and didn't bat an eyelid.… *(Jan 2021)*
- **1/5** — Shiteee: Terrible school. They do nothing to combat loneliness/isolation, bullying and other social issues. I was bullied for a total of 4 years and when reporting this matter and explaining it to the head of year they simply told me to ‘ignore it’ which was extremely difficult when you were in the same classes as most of your bullied; they were not proactive in their approach, did not give any useful advice and did not take the matter seriously therefore the bullying continued. When asking for help on a… *(Dec 2020)*

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