# Risca Community Comprehensive School — Newport, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Primary
- **Parent rating:** 1.2/5 from 8 published reviews
- **Students:** 700
- **Founded:** 1977
- **Principal:** John Kendall

## Contact

- **Address:** Pontymason Lane, Rogerstone
- **Phone:** +44 29 2044 6446
- **Website:** https://sites.google.com/riscacom.net/rccs-virtual-school/home
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/newport/risca-community-comprehensive-school-25737

## About

Risca Community Comprehensive School is a secondary community comprehensive school located on Pontymason Lane in Risca, near Newport, South Wales. It serves students aged 11 to 16 (school years 7–11) and was officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. The school emphasizes core values such as community, teamwork, aspiration, and resilience, with a motto of 'Making the Difference' and the phrase 'Resilient Minds, Achieving Together.' It maintains behavior principles of being 'Ready, Respectful and Safe.' The school has shown recent improvements in attendance and academic results, particularly in English Literature and Mathematics GCSEs. Facilities and curriculum focus on fostering a positive learning environment and community engagement.

## Recent parent reviews

- **2/5** — Staffs poor attendance: I’m a Y8 currently at this school and one main thing that I can give is that the staffs attendance is one of the poorest I’ve ever seen. And the subs are only aloud to give posters and worksheets that have nothing to do with what we’re leaning. Currently in assembly’s all the supposed “head of year” is talking about is attendance and that us pupils could all do better while the staff are taking vacations with their close family and making lousy excuses on why they were gone. In Y7 I had a scienc… *(Nov 2024)*
- **1/5** — Teachers are bullies: Teachers bullying children when confronted lies are made and children excluded for saying what was said to them absolute joke *(Jul 2024)*
- **1/5** — my experience at risca: my experience at risca has not been very good. i’ve been bullied by multiple teachers and my education has fell behind which has caused me to have to move school and leave my friends. *(May 2023)*
- **1/5** — absolutely horrific: i hate it. the teachers do nothing about bullying and if you have had previous issues with someone they do not care at all. they dont consider your mental health either. children who dont learn quickly are treated like royalty but smarter kids who need to progress to actually stay smart are left to rot and just told to teach the class for the teachers. everything ive been taught there i already knew. *(Feb 2023)*
- **1/5** — bad school: terrible school, teachers don’t care about anything apart from putting a powerpoint on. doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the work. nothing done for mental health, maybe one adult in the school who actually helps. please dont go to this school, or send your children here! send them somewhere good because this is a horrible school. *(Apr 2022)*
- **1/5** — Awful school. No support.: The school I currently attend is appalling. They ignore the fact that students are bullying other people. They also don’t actively care about the student’s mental health. Nothing ever gets done over the topic of bullying at the school. I am a victim of bullying at this school myself, i have been for the last year. I’ve talked with the teachers about the bullying and harassment multiple times. After I’ve mentioned these things to the teachers, the teachers claimed that the situation would be hand… *(Dec 2021)*
- **1/5** — Horrible school: School doesn't handle bullying at all, blames the victims instead of dealing with the harasser(s). *(Dec 2021)*
- **1/5** — Awful: mental health support is appalling *(May 2021)*

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