Neale-Wade Academy

Absolutely horrendous school. If you have any choice at all, choose a different school for your child.
Read the ofsted reviews and be warned.

The food. You do have quite a few options but they're mainly pastries and breads and not much healthy things, like sausage rolls, bacon rolls, pizza slices, Paninis, you do get pasta and or spaghetti which is half decent and on Wednesdays they do chips they're gone in about 20 minutes. The prices though are abit rubbish. 1 chocolate cookie for 40p which is the size of my 6yr old brothers hand palm. I could bring a pack lunch with a whole pack of cookies for like £1 and have 20 cookies but in the canteen it's £1for 2 cookies, prices r stupid parents already have to pay a fortune for uniform then scamming us out of lunch money. On average meals comes to about £2 for break then another £2 for lunch, about a fiver every day for a normal school lunch The education is alright if they've been working there for a while but the substitutes r a nightmare. i had english one with a tall dark buffed up man and some kids where playing around and they burst in and said i need a pencil trying to be funny and he immediately got up and got in their faces saying dont come in my face like that when they werent they were at the door no where near the desk and they stepped outside the door and they were saying what r u gonna do such and such and he was not backing down the teacher was slapping his chest shouting come at me come I dare u to touch me. I was so scared sitting in my chair with my friends I went quite . They left and about 30 minutes into the lesson he hadn't done the register and we were silent reading and I asked if he could do it as i didnt want to get marked not here and he said later but he was ,want to ages ago! Its goverment documents. I kept asking him and I ended up getting a c3 as he felt i was annoying him. Im sorry I'm just making sure my attendance doesn't go down bc of you and everyone gets marked here and not 10 teachers have to walk around the building looking for us when we r acc in the classroom?so then got a c3 which is relocation to another room and detention the next day. But before I got sent out he brought up the kids again and I said if u was to hit them do u think that would be right and he said yes?!?!? Because it's 'self defence' how. He said if a kid touches me I can hit them back . no?!?! Thats assault?!?! Your a grown man wanting to hit kids. He ended up calling head of year and we could all see he was so nervous trying to explain himself while the rest of us tried telling the head he was threating to hit kids. He ended up being okay and got away with it for the rest of the lesson (register wasn't signed btw at the end) but must say one the worst experience ever. oh and he hasn't come back ever since that day. So teachers r okay , subs r scary, foods over priced along w uniform, BUT BULLYING. They don't care theyll have a chat with both of u but won't put the bully is inclusion or any sort of punishment even if it's completely their entire fault. Messed up school wouldn't recommend but tbf all schools can be like this but this one is the worst, would recommended home schooling for the safety of your child .

My experience in this school is absolutely horrific, the teachers do nothing if you are getting bullied, the teachers in send told us that they would close send down and force us all back to lessons. All the teachers are leaving which means we have substitutes mosty all of our lessons and the substitutes are horrible to the students and call them names and swear at students. i would not recommend this school to anyone it is horrible!!!!

i currently attend nwa, and have been bullied non stop since i have started, after the first incident they put me back into mainstream and the same thing occurred, but even worse this time. a teacher tried to deal with my incident and then got fed up with it and asked someone else to deal with it. i am now being forced into mainstream. recently me and my friends are being picked on and we said ONE thing back and got put into seclusion and the bullies got nothing done to them. i wouldnt recomend this school to anyone!!!!!!!

i am a student here at neale wade and my personal opinion on this school is absolutely shocking there's teachers who c3 you for absolutely no reason its just a massive L never send your kids here

Food most of the time is cold or raw and also my mate has had food poisoning from the canteen multiple times. Only 2% of teachers make lessons engaging and most of them left.

My grandson has gone on the disneyland paris trip today. What a nightmare for all the pupils. Expecting a meal after the river cruise ..oh to be waiting over 20mins and lots of the pupils went and bought their own McDonald's food. Not good.

Sick of the bullying an nothing done about it good well behaved kids can't get on in class an learn for stupid unruly ones getting away with it still nothing done if your kids good they well be kicked aside an rude brates aloud to get on with what ever their doing place needs new management all round

Absolute L school, especially if you have ever needed to go to the toilet.

Don't even bother sending up kids here teachers r disrespectful and full of false promises, there's is very few good teachers, the head of school is wonderful but the staff are let downs, so if u want Your kids to fail this is the place to send them

I am a student here reading these reviews and i am afraid to say everything people have written is true. Teachers dont care about bullying and have no respect.

dont send your children here

Honestly quite bad, there are shop barriers on the bathrooms cause the students kept kicking down the doors. The police are there every day and the ambulances have blue lighted and backed up the the school doors 5 times in the past half term. All of the students skip class and the police have to be sent out. A few people have been busted for carrying a knife. Bad resources for sixth form too. Not one decent physics teacher and teachers are always leaving. And unbearable amount of homework. Teachers have been arrested for being a pedophile. They don’t bother approaching the massive uniform issue. Regular fights where the teachers don’t intervene.
A teacher threw a glue stick at my brothers head.
One kid also got pinned down whilst another one stomped and kicked him in the head, the teachers did nothing (he had shoe marks on his face afterwards and had to go to hospital).
The teachers literally bully the students,
A teacher has threatened my mate with a month’s seclusion cause she refused to do PE in her bra (she didn’t bring her pe kit).
One teacher was fired for asking a student for drugs in the street.
Nothing is done about bullying.
The maths department is very strong though, brilliant teachers, understanding and easy to talk to, they know their stuff but that’s the only good part about the school.

We've been at Neale-Wade for a year now and while the staff are generally lovely, I do feel that the school could do more to engage with parents. The facilities are great and the sports centre is a bonus, but I've not always found the communication to be clear. I'm hoping things will improve in the new year.

please send your kids here it is wonderful

I have been nearly ki##ed in your school and you done nothing I've could of end up in a hospital and I have witness is lily I have told her most of the things what Jess has done she has done it 3 times and threatened me today get your school together or I will call the cops on her

I'm a student at Neale-wade and I recommend not sending you children there i have a friend that has been threatened and strangled numerus times and the school only talked to us and didn't even check the cameras and didn't give the student who straggled them any consequence but when said student started crying and says stuff about us the teacher gave us a warning. Said teacher did give the student a warning however no further action was taken. also the student, who strangled my friend, has said mutable times to kill our self and has hit and hurt us but complains when we do it back and goes crying to a teacher and getting said teacher on her side.

I have been kicked out of this school for sticking up for myself against a bully, they do absolutely nothing to the bully’s but soon as someone turns around and sticks up to there self’s they don’t like it. They have no respect towards the kids, but the kids have no respect for the teachers either it’s a battle everyday at that school. The head teacher would rather be your best buddy than a head teacher. They have moved me to Thomas Clarkson academy which I am very excited to go to. Hopefully I can get the respect and grades that I would had never gotten at that school.

this school is terrible noah church bullys me everyday he calls me alssya and call me a ginger n word and miss read u hotty oscar morris is a nob.

it is bad and the school is horrible

We've been at Neale-Wade for 3 years now and it's been a fantastic experience. The staff are always approachable and supportive, and the facilities are top-notch. We're so grateful for the British Values that are embedded into the curriculum, it's wonderful to see our child grow up with such values.

The school is trying to make positive changes, however, there has been a significant decline since the previous Head of School left, when it was accredited a 'Good' Ofsted status from it previous 'Requires Improvement' status. Subsequently,this Requires Improvement status has returned under the new Head of School. The school is top heavy with management who are attempting to introduce significant changes without viewing the larger picture or being given clear guidance and future vision from the current Head of School. This leads to ineffective behaviour policies being introduced which do not address the underlying causation of behaviours, attendance or mental well-being. Unfortunately, many quality teachers and support staff leave after a short period at the Academy due to inconsistencies and lack of support from management.
I personally would not send my child there if there is an alternative, however, now the school is under the Ofsted gaze I'm sure improvements will be implemented but question the longevity of these changes.

Do not send your child to Neal wade.the teachers can't control most of the pupils they have no respect for them then wonder why the kids have no respect for them .my child was pushed and referred as that from teachers .they know my child has problems but do nothing to help but push her so they can't cope .bulling is awful and if your child sticks up for there self they are the ones punished.i have removed my child twice and they will not be going back the school .thanks Neal Wade for letting my child down and others down .

My child attended Neale-Wade from 2018-2020 and I couldn't be happier with the education and values they received. The school's active learning approach really worked for them and they thrived under the guidance of the staff. I'd highly recommend Neale-Wade to any parent.

We are students at this school and its actually terrible!
Firstly there is ***********, she is actually so annoying! if u turn around she will literally shout at u louder than a plane taking off. If u do something wrong she will literally go "sad face" I MEAN WHO SAYS IT OUT LOUD!?
Secondly there is*******. He is very ragey and he spends half the lesson talking nonsence.

Also the food is quite terrible, HAIRY CHICKEN!! But the sausage rolls are good.

We have had an issue with bullying though. The other kids are sometimes horrible, also i have food thrown at me all the time at my break.

The toilets... I have had people kicking the toilet door down on me while i was in the toilet and it was actually horrible, I am now scared to use the toilets at school because of the girls there.

Thats my review, i hope i never see u at my school bc otherwise you have made a grave error.

TURRNNN BACKKKK NOWWWWWWWW....

They literally have not put soap in the girls bathroom for over a week. Only one toilet door works and there’s rubbish and dirt all over the bathrooms. The school has a really bad lack of organisation, for example with year 11 revision sessions over half terms, several of them clash because the subject heads could not be bothered to talk to each other. Of course there are some nice teachers but overall the teaching and supply teaching quality isn’t great. I would nOt recommend you go here. Kids don’t respect it/ or the staff but there’s a reason for that.

Heard NWA Yr 11 students ha da day where peoples track and trace apps kept giving them messages. And no one did anything about it and all kids are still attending school! Outrage!!

Worst school I’ve ever seen. No precautions with COVID, no care for their students, teachers are bully’s to the students.

Awful teachers, Horrible learning experience, little to no preparations against COVID-19

Worst school ever would not recommend sending your child here

the worst school, I wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemy teachers do not care about the children in there care, I say care although I thought that was key in a school now I know it is key in a functioning school, which this school is not!