# Falconer School — Bushey, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Special
- **Parent rating:** 2.0/5 from 9 published reviews
- **Principal:** MRS C FOX

## Contact

- **Address:** Bushey, Hertfordshire
- **Phone:** 0180642040225
- **Website:** http://www.falconer.herts.sch.uk/
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bushey/falconer-school-7243

## About

Falconer School is a Special School for boys aged 11-16. We cater for boys who have a range of complex special needs including Autism, ADHD, ODD and other barriers to learning. We aim to support our students to develop the personal and emotional resilience to navigate life successfully.

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Jun 2016
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Jun 2016

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Toxic environment and rude teachers: If you love your mental health please avoid this school, the students are so rude and they use foul language on teachers, the headteacher is always letting that have their way. They are disrespectful and uncultured. Very toxic environment. They don’t even stay in classroom. They treat TA like slaves! *(Jan 2025)*
- **1/5** — Unsafe: The school is unsafe for students, there is a mixture of very volatile to very volunerable students who are often groomed into selling drugs, smoking weed in the toilets, there is no structure atall. There is no safe place to go, the building looks like a juvenile prison inside as there's nothing and what is there is wrecked by the students *(Oct 2024)*
- **1/5** — Hello: I have autism and I’m stupid byee *(Jul 2023)*
- **5/5** — Excellent Support for Complex Needs: As a parent of a child with complex needs, I was initially apprehensive about moving him to a special school. However, the team at Falconer have been incredible - they've helped him develop the resilience and strategies he needs to succeed. The transition process was seamless, and the school's facilities and resources are top-notch. *(Feb 2023)*
- **1/5** — The teachers are clowns just there to make money: Working in the school I have seen the teachers are atrocious and substandard. 99% of them are lazy and not specialised SEN teachers let alone decent teachers. I think you could find people off the street to do a better job than them. They’re scammers who know they’re getting paid to do little to nothing. I’ve been working alongside the teachers in the class and they hand out a worksheet such as a cutting out exercise or doing a crossword in maths. They then just sit there and barely lift a finge… *(Oct 2022)*
- **5/5** — Nurturing & Inspiring Environment: My son has thrived at Falconer School. The staff are supportive and understanding, and the facilities are excellent. The school's focus on emotional regulation and social skills has made a huge difference to his well-being and academic progress. I couldn't be more grateful. *(Sep 2022)*
- **5/5** — Enjoyable time as a pupil.: I finished school at Falconer’s in 1989, at the time there was no uniform, no crazy restrictions and the teachers not having to be carful about being with a pupil on their own. I was there for just over 3 years and I can honestly wait I loved every day, I always also a border, a few of the teachers were amazing and totally changed me to the person I am today, I have so much to thank for that school, yes I visited it 20 years later and it had changed a lot, some for the good, but in my opinion it… *(Jul 2022)*
- **3/5** — A Mixed Experience: I have mixed feelings about our experience at Falconer School. On the one hand, my son benefited from the school's focus on emotional regulation and social skills. However, we experienced some challenges with communication and consistency. Overall, I think the school has the potential to be excellent, but it needs to work on a few areas. *(Jun 2022)*
- **2/5** — bad review: the school was really good when the second head teacher was there but as soon as he left the school started to go down hill as the woman head teacher come along everything went to excellent to really bad. such as bad Communication and lack of support with the students all the students at falconer school. *(Jan 2021)*

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