School Summary
The Weston Road Academy
Girls: 502
Total Pupils: 991
Opened: 01-10-2011
Acting Principal: Ann Kingman
The Weston Road Academy
Blackheath Lane
Stafford
Staffordshire
ST18 0YG
Telephone: 01785413600
Website: http://www.westonroad.staffs.sch.uk/
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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":2,"text":{"text":"This school is honestly atrocious in its views of its attending children, while many of the teachers are honestly quite good at their jobs the 'senior leadership team' are certainly not. They simply refuse to listen to any of the complaints of the children under their care such as ignoring any wishes of a child to possibly change their courses during the GCSE period, they often completely ignore any signs of bullying except for obvious ones such as fights, wherein both parties are punished equally, then proceed to not attempt to limit the bullying further after the initial punishments.\n\nThe Deputy Head teacher has some bizarre voyeuristic tendencies, liking to install cameras in any place he can possibly fit them, and has since proceeded to heavily restrict the areas that the students can wander to during their break and lunch times so that they are constantly under his view, despite this fights happen frequently anyway, never mind other things such as drug use. The students are also blocked from going inside during any break, even in the winter; this rule is excepted to allow them into the lecture theatre, though it is too small to contain them all with any comfort.\n\nDespite what I said about many of the teachers being quite good earlier, the general view of a surprising number of the teachers is that only a student\u00e2\u0080\u0099s grades actually matter, not their actual understanding of the subject, never mind their mental health, many teachers will also often not properly deal with, to punish or otherwise, disruptive elements in a class and are often willing to simply give up on the educations of these students.\n\nGiving a two star due to those truly exceptional teachers who really make a great effort to teach, however it would be a lie to say that they would not be better used at another, better school.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"This school is honestly atrocious in its views of its attending children, while many of the teachers are honestly quite good at their jobs the 'senior leadership team' are certainly not. They simply refuse to listen to any of the complaints of the children under their care such as ignoring any wishes of a child to possibly change their courses during the GCSE period, they often completely ignore any signs of bullying except for obvious ones such as fights, wherein both parties are punished equally, then proceed to not attempt to limit the bullying further after the initial punishments.\n\nThe Deputy Head teacher has some bizarre voyeuristic tendencies, liking to install cameras in any place he can possibly fit them, and has since proceeded to heavily restrict the areas that the students can wander to during their break and lunch times so that they are constantly under his view, despite this fights happen frequently anyway, never mind other things such as drug use. 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I'm perfectly happy to accept when I'm not the right candidate for a role but my experience here was disgusting. From the moment I entered I sensed immideate apathy from the staff towards my presence. I was given a very short period of time to do an activity and was then told the process would end there with very weak feedback. This is unacceptable when you consider I had to take a day of work and travel a long distance when the school has obviously already chosen a candidate. Do not waste your time by going for interviews here, especially within the English department.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Time wasting interview experience.\n\nI went for an interview here for a teaching role. I'm perfectly happy to accept when I'm not the right candidate for a role but my experience here was disgusting. From the moment I entered I sensed immideate apathy from the staff towards my presence. I was given a very short period of time to do an activity and was then told the process would end there with very weak feedback. This is unacceptable when you consider I had to take a day of work and travel a long distance when the school has obviously already chosen a candidate. Do not waste your time by going for interviews here, especially within the English department.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Franz Sanchez","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/103141491399162943748\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocJ-mhb0dyqPQP3Eu4xi9oZKJmvXAcU0yIdB4BByNMGV=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-06-03T09:02:09Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"5 years ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"The school is not good, the teachers are nice but rules and uniform are way to strict, the school made me very unhappy to be there, I never wanted to go in. They care more about the uniform than pupils happiness and some of the staff are so rude, lime Mr Smith, he always would barge past through the doors and never was kind to any pupils, he's a horrible man and never seemed approachable because of his shoddy character yet he was one of the main pastoral people to talk to. If you want your child to look smart and be sad go here but if you want them to have a good education and be happy for later life go elsewhere.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"The school is not good, the teachers are nice but rules and uniform are way to strict, the school made me very unhappy to be there, I never wanted to go in. They care more about the uniform than pupils happiness and some of the staff are so rude, lime Mr Smith, he always would barge past through the doors and never was kind to any pupils, he's a horrible man and never seemed approachable because of his shoddy character yet he was one of the main pastoral people to talk to. 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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":2,"text":{"text":"This school is honestly atrocious in its views of its attending children, while many of the teachers are honestly quite good at their jobs the 'senior leadership team' are certainly not. They simply refuse to listen to any of the complaints of the children under their care such as ignoring any wishes of a child to possibly change their courses during the GCSE period, they often completely ignore any signs of bullying except for obvious ones such as fights, wherein both parties are punished equally, then proceed to not attempt to limit the bullying further after the initial punishments.\n\nThe Deputy Head teacher has some bizarre voyeuristic tendencies, liking to install cameras in any place he can possibly fit them, and has since proceeded to heavily restrict the areas that the students can wander to during their break and lunch times so that they are constantly under his view, despite this fights happen frequently anyway, never mind other things such as drug use. The students are also blocked from going inside during any break, even in the winter; this rule is excepted to allow them into the lecture theatre, though it is too small to contain them all with any comfort.\n\nDespite what I said about many of the teachers being quite good earlier, the general view of a surprising number of the teachers is that only a student\u00e2\u0080\u0099s grades actually matter, not their actual understanding of the subject, never mind their mental health, many teachers will also often not properly deal with, to punish or otherwise, disruptive elements in a class and are often willing to simply give up on the educations of these students.\n\nGiving a two star due to those truly exceptional teachers who really make a great effort to teach, however it would be a lie to say that they would not be better used at another, better school.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"This school is honestly atrocious in its views of its attending children, while many of the teachers are honestly quite good at their jobs the 'senior leadership team' are certainly not. They simply refuse to listen to any of the complaints of the children under their care such as ignoring any wishes of a child to possibly change their courses during the GCSE period, they often completely ignore any signs of bullying except for obvious ones such as fights, wherein both parties are punished equally, then proceed to not attempt to limit the bullying further after the initial punishments.\n\nThe Deputy Head teacher has some bizarre voyeuristic tendencies, liking to install cameras in any place he can possibly fit them, and has since proceeded to heavily restrict the areas that the students can wander to during their break and lunch times so that they are constantly under his view, despite this fights happen frequently anyway, never mind other things such as drug use. The students are also blocked from going inside during any break, even in the winter; this rule is excepted to allow them into the lecture theatre, though it is too small to contain them all with any comfort.\n\nDespite what I said about many of the teachers being quite good earlier, the general view of a surprising number of the teachers is that only a student\u00e2\u0080\u0099s grades actually matter, not their actual understanding of the subject, never mind their mental health, many teachers will also often not properly deal with, to punish or otherwise, disruptive elements in a class and are often willing to simply give up on the educations of these students.\n\nGiving a two star due to those truly exceptional teachers who really make a great effort to teach, however it would be a lie to say that they would not be better used at another, better school.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Yer_Nan M8","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/111535185291152075751\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocJD6I796XZAVe7Owy765hHoD-exNlVGbKo-OUzJu48y=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-09-24T22:10:28Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"10 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"the school has around 9 toilet facilities for pupils yet only allows them to use four of them between over 900 students. in one of the two girls facilities they have removed a door of the toilet and another has no toilet paper ever so there is only two working cubicles for them to use, in the other toilets for the girls they only allow two in at a time when there is four working cubicles. the boys only have on toilet which once again they only allow two in at a time and the other toilet facilities is for both genders of which always stink of wee and are not cleaned very well at all. they lock all the other toilets so you can hardly ever actually go to the toilet. they don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t let us go in lessons and you can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t even go at lunch because there are huge queues down the corridor so it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just a waste of your time. they blame all of this on trying to prevent vaping but most of us literally just need the toilet.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"the school has around 9 toilet facilities for pupils yet only allows them to use four of them between over 900 students. in one of the two girls facilities they have removed a door of the toilet and another has no toilet paper ever so there is only two working cubicles for them to use, in the other toilets for the girls they only allow two in at a time when there is four working cubicles. the boys only have on toilet which once again they only allow two in at a time and the other toilet facilities is for both genders of which always stink of wee and are not cleaned very well at all. they lock all the other toilets so you can hardly ever actually go to the toilet. they don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t let us go in lessons and you can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t even go at lunch because there are huge queues down the corridor so it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just a waste of your time. they blame all of this on trying to prevent vaping but most of us literally just need the toilet.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"aidin box","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/104821575556926693327\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocK3wqLHKsjlyBHRggqOw0f_5XNpWw9A8Sbs_fJyiF5o=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-11-05T14:36:27Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Time wasting interview experience.\n\nI went for an interview here for a teaching role. I'm perfectly happy to accept when I'm not the right candidate for a role but my experience here was disgusting. From the moment I entered I sensed immideate apathy from the staff towards my presence. I was given a very short period of time to do an activity and was then told the process would end there with very weak feedback. This is unacceptable when you consider I had to take a day of work and travel a long distance when the school has obviously already chosen a candidate. Do not waste your time by going for interviews here, especially within the English department.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Time wasting interview experience.\n\nI went for an interview here for a teaching role. I'm perfectly happy to accept when I'm not the right candidate for a role but my experience here was disgusting. From the moment I entered I sensed immideate apathy from the staff towards my presence. I was given a very short period of time to do an activity and was then told the process would end there with very weak feedback. This is unacceptable when you consider I had to take a day of work and travel a long distance when the school has obviously already chosen a candidate. Do not waste your time by going for interviews here, especially within the English department.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Franz Sanchez","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/103141491399162943748\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocJ-mhb0dyqPQP3Eu4xi9oZKJmvXAcU0yIdB4BByNMGV=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-06-03T09:02:09Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"5 years ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"The school is not good, the teachers are nice but rules and uniform are way to strict, the school made me very unhappy to be there, I never wanted to go in. They care more about the uniform than pupils happiness and some of the staff are so rude, lime Mr Smith, he always would barge past through the doors and never was kind to any pupils, he's a horrible man and never seemed approachable because of his shoddy character yet he was one of the main pastoral people to talk to. If you want your child to look smart and be sad go here but if you want them to have a good education and be happy for later life go elsewhere.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"The school is not good, the teachers are nice but rules and uniform are way to strict, the school made me very unhappy to be there, I never wanted to go in. They care more about the uniform than pupils happiness and some of the staff are so rude, lime Mr Smith, he always would barge past through the doors and never was kind to any pupils, he's a horrible man and never seemed approachable because of his shoddy character yet he was one of the main pastoral people to talk to. If you want your child to look smart and be sad go here but if you want them to have a good education and be happy for later life go elsewhere.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"MN SHP (MNSHP11)","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/117437335814728632398\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjVhwT6jbT0g2x-tUmdoViVxxJvdaO422SwgEnf7fKEKvA=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2018-06-25T09:39:57Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"11 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"if i could rate 0 stars i would the teachers were nice some couldnt control the class frequent fights horrid 5 years ever","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"if i could rate 0 stars i would the teachers were nice some couldnt control the class frequent fights horrid 5 years ever","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Morgan Smith","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/111567258035198295602\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjVfTVEmWjJ4g54Uwo-Al_QKlNF1YkS0CZVW2mZgMK4N0NU=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-10-19T12:18:59Z"}]