# St John Lloyd R.C. Primary School — Cardiff, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Primary
- **Parent rating:** 2.0/5 from 16 published reviews
- **Students:** 336
- **Principal:** Claire Hart

## Contact

- **Address:** Cemaes Crescent, Trowbridge
- **Phone:** +44 2920 777690
- **Website:** https://www.stjohnlloydrcprimaryschool.co.uk
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/cardiff/st-john-lloyd-rc-primary-school-25610

## About

St John Lloyd R.C. Primary School is a voluntary aided Roman Catholic primary school located in the Trowbridge area of Cardiff, specifically on Cemaes Crescent. The school serves children aged 3 to 11, including nursery pupils, with a total enrollment of approximately 336 students. It is under the trusteeship of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff and maintained by Cardiff local authority. The school emphasizes an inclusive environment that nurtures pupils' spirituality, moral character, and social responsibility, guided by its ethos 'Christ at the centre of living and learning.' The school follows a Jesuit virtues program, focusing on developing academic, creative, personal, moral, and spiritual growth in its pupils. Facilities and curriculum details are aligned with its mission to help each child achieve their full potential with God at their side.

## Recent parent reviews

- **3/5** — not the best: I saw tons of bullying happen and nothing really fixed, teachers do nothing. terrible outdoor activites except for the pitch, small school, not much to do. food is only good lol *(Oct 2025)*
- **1/5** — Honest review: I attended St John Lloyd’s for my entire secondary education and it was horrible. I have had teachers make me cry in lessons. During a physical education class, I had a teacher shout at me for having attitude problems while she let the entire class stand in a circle around us. I once had the head of pastoral tell me it ”doesn’t matter” when I told her a pupil was telling me to kill myself. Most teachers seemed they didn’t want to be there, and often complained about all of their other classes. A… *(Feb 2025)*
- **2/5** — Not great: It wasn't the best in all honesty. You'll be alright if you don't get bullied, aren't mentally struggling, don't have medical health problems, don't ever need the bathroom, and if you just exist instead. Otherwise, just go somewhere else. Pastoral are useless, as someone who has depression and struggle with self harm and has medical issues, it was very difficult and the support you get from the people who's job it actually is to support you, it's minimal. The actual teachers and teaching assista… *(Jun 2024)*
- **1/5** — not a great school: teachers don't do much about bullying. Certain teachers favour unruly students that only interrupt lesson's resulting in many students not being able to learn. The school councillors don't get good treatment and complaints are dismissed. Although the current headmaster is a good guy, the second in head has an outrageous outlook on the students. Just before summer holiday's the school called all the girls into the hall and from what I heard the second in head told only the girls what they could a… *(Jul 2023)*
- **1/5** — Non-supportive and ableist school, I'm ashamed to have gone to: I went to this school from year 7-8, and rejoined in year 11 to complete my GCSE's due to at-home issues. I myself am neurodivergent, and was living with my grandmother at the time during COVID lockdown. My grandmother has been suffering with COPD, and has difficulties in every day life, along with looking after her underage grand-child. All throughout my school years in this school, I faced severe bullying, with little to no support from the school, I was beaten, I was taken advantage of, and h… *(Nov 2022)*
- **1/5** — Please parents, don't send your children here.: This school is awful, seriously awful. The stories I have heard from my sibling that goes to this school is actually insane. The students obviously bully, we know that by now, nothing is done about it. The only time anything was done about bullying was after the very extreme happened to a student, but only weeks later the school was back to how it was before and I still hear very horrendous bullying cases being told to me. Even worse so, the teachers are bullies themselves! Many teachers allow s… *(Aug 2022)*
- **1/5** — THIS SCHOOL SUCKS!: I don't go here, I was supposed to, but I am SO glad that I didn’t. However, I have siblings that go/have gone there and also have met people that had previously attended this school. I can say this, I have NEVER heard such bad things about a school first hand until now. Now, surprisingly the pupils actually aren’t entirely the problem. There’s a major bullying issue but I’ve heard that many pupils are accepting of other students. The teachers are where the problems start. The teachers tolerate … *(Jan 2022)*
- **3/5** — title: It's alright, they're not great at handling situations with students. Teachers weren't all wearing masks when they were supposed to during covid. The food is actually pretty decent. Wish there were more benches. *(Sep 2021)*
- **4/5** — A great school: The school and it’s staff were very friendly and helpful, but there are things that weren’t handled that well, such as bullying and some aspects of mental health. The teachers cared about all the students futures and grades, and pushed them to the best they could do. *(Aug 2021)*
- **3/5** — It’s ok: It ok but the teachers aren’t that good and bullying isn’t handeled Well *(Apr 2021)*

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