Tomlinscote School

Genuinely can't comprehend how this is one of the top schools in the area. Almost all of the teachers hate their students, hate their job or obsess over girls' uniform to the point where it really makes you question whether or not they are pedos. Their way of 'helping' students struggling with mental health is calling your parents without considering your situation or ever checking in on you again/addressing any issues.

The education itself isn't the worst. Most teachers are boring but teach you what you need to know, although a few lack any competence in the subject they teach.

The entirety of the first year is just spoon feeding you stuff you already know, until you get to your second year where you get an obscene amount of homework for the rest of your time at the school.

Honestly such an awful school filled with weird teachers and a mediocre education which wastes 5 years of your life. Tbf though the school trips are class if you have friends going with you.

ok, so hear me out, theres this teacher whose name will remain anonymous. a girl told a boy to "go back to where you come from" boy says "go back to doing dishes" girl starts first but gets absoloutely nothing and boy gets ISR internal suspension room. teacher is biased as hell and does not care about how a boy (who is being bullied) calls us bad stuff but cares how we speak back. theres a lot of bad/negative language going around. if you think this is biased, this is a 3rd person point of view.

When telling the school about questions regarding mental health concerns, during my time at Tomlinscote, I hadn't received help for 4 months prior to needing this. As a previous student at this secondary school i felt like i was being ignored when it came to other concerns aswell regarding the teachers treatment of me during lesson and the other students poor treatment of me throughout my years. All i wanted to do was to do as best as i could in my school life so i can be much happier within my academics, however the school fails to recognise these types of students and mostly care about their outside surfacing of what their school looks like to other parents, offsted and other individuals who are looking to work at the school. One of my past experiences at Tomlinscote was when i whent to student support to ask for help in the midst of having a bad mental health day. However during this i was stopped and told of for my eyelashes which was highlighted at the time as "more important." This significantly suggests that the school rather cares about the students and schools appearances are to the public rather then care about the students as a individual. Positively some teachers have been great to be in a class with as they have helped me with my studys.

It was horrendous, they failed me then and they failed me greatly now as an adult later in life.

They could have helped change everything for the better and they didn't.

I am still suffering the after effects of what happened there and how they today claim to not have any information on my attending there as well with not a care in the world to help me.

Only a couple of teachers really cared and the rest just wanted to cover their asses by looking the other way when I was being abused.

They can go fudge themselves.

I'm absolutely loving Tomlinscote School! The staff are fantastic and my child is really enjoying their lessons. The Gifted and Talented program is a great initiative and I'm confident they'll make the most of it.

Pretty strict for a public school but handles bullying and other things very well. They even created an app for it.

There is little to nothing good about Tomlinscote and they don’t care about mental health. They say oh we love to go on trips but the only trip I’ve been on is to a stupid zoo! I had a teacher who said anger issues and depression don’t exist and to get over them

I'm pleased with my child's progress so far at Tomlinscote. The pastoral support is great and they're really engaged with their subjects. The only thing that would make the school perfect is a bit more parental involvement in the school community.

I'm so impressed with Tomlinscote School! My child has made great progress and the teachers are supportive. The iPad scheme is fantastic and has really helped with their learning. Highly recommend!

This school claims to help you when bullied, sad, struggling with mental health etc. but when you actually tell them about it they do nothing and try to tell you it’s not happening. They also set way to much homework for 11-16 year old. They say each price of homework must last 30 minutes but I have had days where teachers have set five pieces of homework.

In the summer of 2022 two pupils (one of which was my friend) had wrote to the head master on serious issues that had to be fixed. When they eventually got a meeting with him (after 4 months of asking) he went of track of the problems and didn’t talk about what the girls originally wrote about and instead talking about non existent issues. This clearly shows that he is trying to exclude the issues right now (they wrote about skirt length and behaviour of staff).

The teachers here are literally perverts.I’m the past 5 years around 4 teacher have been fired due to pedaphillia. And even then the girls had to beg them to fire as it was considered “to strong if an ExUsE to fire someone” there are serious issues here and trust me you will want to kys after the first two weeks.

Just trust me as a student the curriculum sucks and so does the school, there are two many silly rules that it may aswell be a private school plus the cost of skirts and uniform.

I was a parent here a few years ago and my child had a good experience. The facilities are great and the teachers are knowledgeable. However, I feel the school could do more to involve parents in the school community.

As a student of 5 years at this school (left summer 2021) I find I have a mixed opinion about it, the teaching can be very thorough although the quality of education changes between each department, I found a lot of favouritism from the staff and a lot of bias between different students and people of different academic ability.

Staff wouldn’t give troublesome students a lot of leeway if they were actually doing work and if they were misbehaving they would barely ever act to stop the group stopping the entire class learning, this would happen a lot.

In terms of rules, this school is way too strict for a public school, a lot of the time, staff were more concerned about what we looked like than how good we were learning and handing out detentions form things like not having a pencil, which served as a real added pressure and stress to doing GCSEs that wasn’t needed. I also feel female students were massively discriminated against with skirt length and hair colour, hair style, and over vanity options and a lot of higher members of staff seemed to carry very discriminating views against how the young female students of the school should act and look etc.

The student accessibility to mental health help is atrocious.

I won’t drone on anymore but essentially, the school is very old-fashioned in a lot of its core values and the modern outlooks from it seen by the rest of the community that it tries to project are merely a facade as a lot needs to be re-assed about this school before it can call itself ‘outstanding’ again.

Yeah the iPads are a good tool for learning but there to expensive to be controlled so much by the school it’s almost like it’s not yours it’s the schools but u have to pay and take care of it, so glad they got rid of the yellow sock rule they were getting a bit to serious about uniforms and silly little things about them and to be honest to many rules for a public school like having to ask to take of your jumper.

As a student with extremely bad mental health they did nothing apart from call my mum to tell her what she already knew and did nothing more. Only help the kids who have the best of the best knowledge and some teachers are a little creepy. Decent teaching as long as you focus. some teachers cannot understand what they are saying due to either language barriers or difficulty.

Went there for 5 years and can say that unless you're middle class and "academically gifted" the school won't do anything to help you. They don't know how to help with students mental health and I once had to explain to the school councillor what hyperventilating meant.

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I don’t really like this school since they only let you have one pair of STUDS in your earLOBE which is quite upsetting, and you’re not allowed to dye your hair an “unnatural” colour, I might be “overreacting” but really they just care about the length of your skirt (keep in mind that it costs around £ 40) If there are so many rules then why don’t just make it into a private school?

It’s a good school and they do help you to become a better version of yourself. Your not allowed phones there but they do give you iPads which is a very effective tool. Overall it is a good school with good staff

Really bad with handling bullying. Care a lot about skirt length, especially the male teachers. Bad with mental health. Good education but bad experience.

ayo i hate it here like not even capping the school therapy is a load of 💩 like i canny even do nothin n they call in ma mam tellin her i gonna kms

Terrible response to bullying, mental health issues, equality and equal rights. Very classist, unless you are a white British upper class student with an iq of 140 then you are worthless to them. If you have mental health issues and require help the school will call child services. Terrible staff who care more about the length of your skirt than your education. Would give 0 stars if I could.

ass i stg nothing in this school is good like u ask to speak to a teacher privately n they call ur parents saying ur gonna kys