School Summary

Discovery Academy


Boys: 665
Girls: 665
Total Pupils: 1330
Opened: 01-09-2011
Ofsted: Good
Principal: Jayne Schofield
Discovery Academy
Discovery Drive
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST2 0GA
Telephone: 01782882100
Website: http://www.thediscoveryacademy.co.uk/

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HeadFirstName: Jayne
HeadLastName: Schofield
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SchoolCapacity: 1500
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SchoolSponsors (name): ALPHA Academies Trust
SchoolWebsite: http://www.thediscoveryacademy.co.uk/
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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"10 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Students on a daily basis walking home and kicking ten bells out of my fence, had to had it replaced twice, knife pulled out in front of my 5 year old when challenged. Great standards of behaviour.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Students on a daily basis walking home and kicking ten bells out of my fence, had to had it replaced twice, knife pulled out in front of my 5 year old when challenged. Great standards of behaviour.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Janine Dixon Godwin","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/105604623480797056322\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocLIQE125T2TPRtshNsuAfLEMjmHfkpL2D4T_Jc3vbw=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-11-23T11:25:28Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Mr Kelsall once said in assembly that this is the best school in Stoke-on-Trent I think he's having a laugh, me and my mates have had keyrings stolen from our bags, and I've gotten bullied and threatened at this school and they have done absolutely nothing! All they care about is attendance and if you miss a single day you suddenly get a letter straight to your house!","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Mr Kelsall once said in assembly that this is the best school in Stoke-on-Trent I think he's having a laugh, me and my mates have had keyrings stolen from our bags, and I've gotten bullied and threatened at this school and they have done absolutely nothing! All they care about is attendance and if you miss a single day you suddenly get a letter straight to your house!","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"0_0","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/102665443594699712448\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjWDvwLUMCubxnXs1za6ryhlocRQ523dloCvwqS0OwaGK3c=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo-ba3"},"publishTime":"2022-06-04T19:32:13Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"10 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Don't send your children to this school-! This school doesn't care about the children's wellbeing they don't care about giving children who need extra support the help they need they don't safeguard the child they don't care about the children's mentel health whatsoever","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Don't send your children to this school-! This school doesn't care about the children's wellbeing they don't care about giving children who need extra support the help they need they don't safeguard the child they don't care about the children's mentel health whatsoever","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"rhys","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/103711845008164683407\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjWMOwlqi9GCTQvMVZh2n7ixvz4S1AIUwwkbTHzsex59AlU=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-11-08T16:22:27Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Absolutely horrible. Do not recommend. Teachers are horrible and don't care about your mental health at all and don't deal with bullying properly at all it's disgusting.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Absolutely horrible. Do not recommend. Teachers are horrible and don't care about your mental health at all and don't deal with bullying properly at all it's disgusting.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Dog Woof","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/102904264047374497403\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocJ4GFmmwACq_VeBINBmwpuL6h_yWw0uijKzjWZOBmC9=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-04-25T23:22:43Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"7 years ago","rating":5,"text":{"text":"My Experience of the school is that the school only cares about how good it looks , such as in year 11 2016 there was a maths trip that took grade c and b students to different collages to make them improve but the grade d and below were left at school doing \"LITERALLY\" nothing and this went on for about 4 days. \"Some\" teachers at the school are really nice and are easy to talk too but there are more teachers that are absolutely a waste of time. There is a certain English teacher that is just a \"Ill go to school and make my students write 6 paragraphs in 15 minutes and if that is not completed ill make them do it at home whilst setting another 6 paragraph piece of work and normal homework , ILL STILL GET PAID\" On a lighter note , the facility ( Building ) is a really nice atmosphere with everything you could ever want in a school.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"My Experience of the school is that the school only cares about how good it looks , such as in year 11 2016 there was a maths trip that took grade c and b students to different collages to make them improve but the grade d and below were left at school doing \"LITERALLY\" nothing and this went on for about 4 days. \"Some\" teachers at the school are really nice and are easy to talk too but there are more teachers that are absolutely a waste of time. There is a certain English teacher that is just a \"Ill go to school and make my students write 6 paragraphs in 15 minutes and if that is not completed ill make them do it at home whilst setting another 6 paragraph piece of work and normal homework , ILL STILL GET PAID\" On a lighter note , the facility ( Building ) is a really nice atmosphere with everything you could ever want in a school.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"FantasticPoet42Sucks","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/115671081470718697932\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjWyWJt8450k6D53t88fW1GSrs0CFuOewTIN5dKun-gm2A=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2016-04-10T20:29:17Z"}]