School Summary
St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy
Girls: 531
Total Pupils: 1074
Opened: 01-10-2014
Ofsted: Serious Weaknesses
Acting Headteacher: Karl Mackey
St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy
Oxford Road
Dewsbury
West Yorkshire
WF13 4LL
Telephone: 01924527000
Website: http://www.stjohnfisher.org.uk
Acting Headteacher: Karl Mackey
St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy
Oxford Road
Dewsbury
West Yorkshire
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Telephone: 01924527000
Website: http://www.stjohnfisher.org.uk
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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"11 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Like being in prison full of junkies.\nTruancy rampant.\nBullying happens pretty frequently.\nWhenever the students complain about rules being tight, they have the audacity to say its much worse in other schools and that this is a nice one (reviews say otherwise, from here to 2017) Fire alarms pulled a lot\n90% of the teachers are miserable gits (especially the maths ones)\nCan't be in lesson without it being disrupted about 50 times\nEven B block smelt of weed not too long ago.\n\nIt needs to be shut down honestly.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Like being in prison full of junkies.\nTruancy rampant.\nBullying happens pretty frequently.\nWhenever the students complain about rules being tight, they have the audacity to say its much worse in other schools and that this is a nice one (reviews say otherwise, from here to 2017) Fire alarms pulled a lot\n90% of the teachers are miserable gits (especially the maths ones)\nCan't be in lesson without it being disrupted about 50 times\nEven B block smelt of weed not too long ago.\n\nIt needs to be shut down honestly.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Stormcloak Guard","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/110904496040114162459\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjVpfOi_7KV8_419n6g6o-0fYHSmRie1ndPu4RMnhYi0E2E=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-10-29T16:51:48Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"10 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"nothing really punishing happens to people spent money on a new Astroturf that half of it they don't own and made the toilets have no door and put cameras in there fights at breaks and lunches almost every day yet every so often the change the behaviour system and say its major when it changes next to nothing its not like there going to read this anyway. new update to the review new head nothing changed and now you get abused by trying to be a normal person standing in a line to get food.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"nothing really punishing happens to people spent money on a new Astroturf that half of it they don't own and made the toilets have no door and put cameras in there fights at breaks and lunches almost every day yet every so often the change the behaviour system and say its major when it changes next to nothing its not like there going to read this anyway. new update to the review new head nothing changed and now you get abused by trying to be a normal person standing in a line to get food.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Shroom_","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/115878574217000621610\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjUyDu-rsx6sPp3pK8gh8cSnLUjbmYcL1PolBuXuLDz975g=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-11-30T16:34:11Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"teachers dont care if ur naughty, mess around or even lob scissors around the classroom all they say is \u00e2\u0080\u009ceven if your doing this doesnt mean i dont get paid\u00e2\u0080\u009d lol","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"teachers dont care if ur naughty, mess around or even lob scissors around the classroom all they say is \u00e2\u0080\u009ceven if your doing this doesnt mean i dont get paid\u00e2\u0080\u009d lol","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"MG","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/102234140748566705930\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjXJb0w-SO-ZHNYoNNAElno6T7SViNYPyzEmr6RTL0aNlsE=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-09-21T14:42:29Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"4 years ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Absolutely terrible. Where to start really.\n\nStaff are ignorant to basically everything. They won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t accept responsibility for a consistently poor quality of teaching provided to students, the constant stream of supply teachers and poor decisions regarding the behavioural \/ correctional system. If you complain they\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll insist you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re wrong, possibly tell you off or evade the issue completely. Prior to inspection days we are told to say only good things rather than be honest (by most teachers) because this school is apparently good (Ofsted states otherwise). The censorship is like that of a typical dictatorship.\n\nIf you struggle with a subject they\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll constantly tell you \u00e2\u0080\u009cit\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll click\u00e2\u0080\u009d.\nStudents are blamed for not doing well but when a whole class fails teachers are never held responsible.\nWay too many supply teachers who aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t qualified for the subject they are teaching or not qualified for higher level. Particularly at higher levels, students cannot and \/should\/ not be expected to teach themselves a large amount of a course, especially for a facilitating subject.\n\nThey couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t care less about students opinions. The student council, house captains and sixth form committee is more or less an arbitrary role, like a monarch rather than a minister\n\nMental health services \/ support is a joke. However, if you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d \/like\/ to develop a mental health problem please go here, you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll find it very effective.\n\nTeachers are literally obsessed with mocks. Mock here, there, everywhere. No wonder people are burnt out by the time they actually see a real paper.\n\nAiming high doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t exist here, instead your teachers actually\nencourage students to lower their expectations while not helping them constructively while struggling. They don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see a disparity between targets and end grades as a problem but are rather unfazed by it instead.\n\nFinally, when you leave school with your results.\n\nThere is so little advice or help or given to you throughout the school year specific to people who don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t make the grades or aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t sure what to do, you have to research this yourself. Everyone deserves a second chance to start again and a break if they need it but somehow students are dissuaded from going to start again elsewhere or those who need some time off for their own health and well-being.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Absolutely terrible. Where to start really.\n\nStaff are ignorant to basically everything. They won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t accept responsibility for a consistently poor quality of teaching provided to students, the constant stream of supply teachers and poor decisions regarding the behavioural \/ correctional system. If you complain they\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll insist you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re wrong, possibly tell you off or evade the issue completely. Prior to inspection days we are told to say only good things rather than be honest (by most teachers) because this school is apparently good (Ofsted states otherwise). The censorship is like that of a typical dictatorship.\n\nIf you struggle with a subject they\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll constantly tell you \u00e2\u0080\u009cit\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll click\u00e2\u0080\u009d.\nStudents are blamed for not doing well but when a whole class fails teachers are never held responsible.\nWay too many supply teachers who aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t qualified for the subject they are teaching or not qualified for higher level. Particularly at higher levels, students cannot and \/should\/ not be expected to teach themselves a large amount of a course, especially for a facilitating subject.\n\nThey couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t care less about students opinions. The student council, house captains and sixth form committee is more or less an arbitrary role, like a monarch rather than a minister\n\nMental health services \/ support is a joke. However, if you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d \/like\/ to develop a mental health problem please go here, you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll find it very effective.\n\nTeachers are literally obsessed with mocks. Mock here, there, everywhere. No wonder people are burnt out by the time they actually see a real paper.\n\nAiming high doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t exist here, instead your teachers actually\nencourage students to lower their expectations while not helping them constructively while struggling. They don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see a disparity between targets and end grades as a problem but are rather unfazed by it instead.\n\nFinally, when you leave school with your results.\n\nThere is so little advice or help or given to you throughout the school year specific to people who don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t make the grades or aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t sure what to do, you have to research this yourself. Everyone deserves a second chance to start again and a break if they need it but somehow students are dissuaded from going to start again elsewhere or those who need some time off for their own health and well-being.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"zara z","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/106807046835552731088\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocLXErRhw9JgHsIfNNuvAQFb5ZM5JQPa48xkAdamv6OJ=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2019-08-16T01:48:26Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":3,"text":{"text":"I am now on my 6th year of attending this school and I must say that some of the staff make this a very comforting environment, especially the P.E. teachers. Some of the staff, however, are very unpleasant to be around.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"I am now on my 6th year of attending this school and I must say that some of the staff make this a very comforting environment, especially the P.E. teachers. Some of the staff, however, are very unpleasant to be around.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Democrias","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/107692010360389380605\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjVJ749UM-9aVNIwbLjRslcHgc4twfEQSHnGd5_Dr9tRkQ=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-02-07T14:45:57Z"}]
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