# The Wavell School — Farnborough, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/the-wavell-school-6641 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 2.0/5 from 18 published reviews - **Principal:** null ## Contact - **Address:** Lynchford Road, Farnborough, Hants, United Kingdom - **Phone:** 01252 341256 - **Website:** http://www.wavellschool.org.uk/ - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/the-wavell-school-6641 ## About The Wavell School is a dynamic learning community whose ethos is “We care to challenge”. Our School is built on Respect and Aspiration. Students, staff, parents and governors, work in true partnership to achieve the many accolades bestowed upon us at County, National and International level. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Oct 2012 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Oct 2012 ## Recent parent reviews - **2/5** — Not inclusive, but increasingly woke: I am sure that this school has had its strong points. Regretfully, my experience is that this school has embarked on an increasingly woke trajectory in recent months. The effect of this is that some are more 'included' than others. God helped you if you may hold 'politically incorrect' views, accordingly to them. The senior leadership team bows to external expectations all too easily. Their goal is to try to please too many people, hence they become stretched into impossible positions. Financial… *(Oct 2025)* - **3/5** — Former student: I went to the Wavell school from year 7- right to the end of year 9. When I started Wavell in year 7, I was a bright, happy and funny young girl who behaved in a well manor. Within the first few months, I got bullied for the way I looked and my personality. I always hung around with the more or less popular group from when I started, bringing more attention on me from other students from either my year group or the year above causing more of the bullying. My mum reported the group of other stude… *(Oct 2024)* - **1/5** — terrible, don't recommend: like all the other reviews here, i can guarantee all of them are accurate. all the teachers don't really teach you and I always feel targeted by other pupils. staff dont do anything if you're sick.or going through a bad time. one of my friends was feeling horrible and the receptionist told them off for something they did. i don't wanna go into detail really. and I couldn't come to school for 2 weeks due to an injury and school demanded i go in and I could stay in the library. keep in mind, my wa… *(Aug 2023)* - **1/5** — dont send kids to this school ☠️☠️: i go to this school, these couple of years have been the worst of my life, wavell is horrible. The teachers dead name or use the wrong pronouns for trans people (p.e department). They constantly have the need to sexualise kids by looking at our bums and saying "roll it down". They allows skorts but not rolled up skirts?? there are fights all the time and they think one day in iso will do it. My classmates and others saying racial/homophobic slurs all the time and all the teachers say is "write a… *(Jun 2023)* - **1/5** — Not a good place to feel welcome: I suffer with bad anxiety and depression and the school has done nothing but make it worse because of My mental health I have been of school for a while and keep getting in trouble for not going somewhere I feel welcome I constantly have slurs thrown my way and it's not okay!!! *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — What I thought: Teachers might aswell have had no GCSE’s and hardly ever had control of students whether it be in lesson or during breaks. Mr Fern his a donkey *(Apr 2023)* - **5/5** — Friendly and supportive environment: The school's emphasis on respect and aspiration is really inspiring. My daughter loves attending the school and has made some great friends. The Christmas concert was a wonderful event, and the staff were all very friendly and approachable. *(Dec 2022)* - **2/5** — find another school: only giving it two stars for all of the amazing english and history teachers, rest of the school and my experience was terrible, the teachers honestly have no care for you and as others have said, it is literally a bullying hotspot. i received such a lack of support from this school and developed such a severe depression and dreaded everyday, even having to skip coming into school so many times because i just wasn’t prepared to deal with the dreadfulness of everything. the teaching was okay, def… *(Dec 2022)* - **2/5** — Assemblies.: Once had to endure an assembly where the slur "f-gott" was used at the same level as "nerd"! You go, Wavell! Also got told - in that same assembly - that gay people aren't allowed to reclaim slurs. What a cool day! Love the History and English departments, though. *(Sep 2022)* - **1/5** — not a whistleblowing school: if you are looking for a school to send your kid to, wavell isn’t the best choice. i just want to start by saying that the ofsted inspections are completely wrong. we’ve been described as a “whistleblowing school” and a “family” which is honestly completely wrong. i especially dont recommend coming to this school if you are apart of a minority group. i have heard homophobic and transphobic slurs on the daily. i cannot count on my fingers how many white people i’ve heard say the n-word, and most … *(Sep 2022)* ## Other schools in Farnborough - [Cove School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/cove-school-6640) — 2.6/5 (18 reviews) - [Farnborough Hill](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/farnborough-hill-6669) — 3.6/5 (10 reviews) - [Salesian College](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/salesian-college-6685) — 3.2/5 (7 reviews) - [Cove Junior School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/cove-junior-school-6435) — 4.8/5 (4 reviews) - [Pinewood Infant School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/pinewood-infant-school-6449) — 4.6/5 (4 reviews) - [Southwood Infant School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/farnborough/southwood-infant-school-6484) — 4.5/5 (4 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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