Armfield Academy

Bad school
Apr 27th, 2023

I work at this school, and 4 out of my 6 children come here. Yes it has its difficulties. However the teachers, support staff and senior lead team work incredibly hard and put in a lot more than they should have to trying to ensure students and staff happy.
Apr 27th, 2023

First I would like to mention that the school is extremely overpopulated, with approximately 1000 students, there is simply not enough classrooms, the dining hall can comfortablely fit 150 people, max 200 people. The problem is, there are around 500 students eating at a time, the school has now opened the memorial hall (assembly hall) to eat in too, this hall however only has around 5 tables , that's around 50 seats, this leaves us with 250 students left, where do they go, you ask? Outside. What if its raining, you ask? Tough luck. The ques for school food are horrendous, so much so that the school had to extend lunch due to people not getting food even though they lined up from the start of lunch, however this did not fix things, out of your 30 minute lunch, you can guarantee you will end up with maybe 5 minutes to eat. Because of this, many puch in these ques and nothing is done about it. The food it's self is relatively nice, inside you can get warm food, sweet treats + fruit and drinks, outside you can get the same. In the memorial hall you can get cold foods, such as sandwiches, salads etc. along with sweet treats, fruit and drinks. The school also has a 5 spending limit a day (you pay for food via your pin code you are given, to put money in your account you can do it online or with cash using a machine in the canteen). Let's move on to the bathroom situation, during lesson time, the bathrooms in the main block and art block are locked, the only way to get in these is if you have a key or pass, however the person responsible for the art block toilets often forgets the keys. The bathrooms in the pe block are often open, due to the pride center being located in that building too. During break time, the toilets in the main block are opened on the ground floor and first floor, during lunch they are only open on the ground floor. The 3rd floor toilets do not get used. Each floors girls bathroom holds 1 disabled stall and around 8 regular stalls, however the bathroom on the ground floor only has 5 working stalls with 3 usually taken up by people vaping or on phones. As a result the que for the bathroom is extremely long during lunch, most of the time you have to choose between queuing for the bathroom or for food as you won't be able to get both.Moving on to the classrooms, they arnt anything specific if a little small. Every classroom has a desk that has an adjustable hight incase a wheel chair user needs it.The teachers. I'm going to try and make this as short as positive but it's gonna be a long one. Let's start with the fact that several students have left the school due to the teachers. One teacher being sacked in one situation, but not before the student felt the need to transfer. There are teachers that are extremely nice and good at there job but there are also teachers that will lie. They will exaggerate the situation lie to patrol so they can have a "reason" to remove a student from the lesson. Many teachers abuse there power with patrol and as a result, many miss out on a large amount of education. For example a student was sent to a day in isolation (isolation, iso or ifty) for telling the teacher to, quote "go away", the teacher then radioed patrol as a student had "assaulted him". Isolation- quite literally a corridor that students get locked In, inside the pe block, they are not expected to complete work and are often allowed on there phones. This leads to large education loss. Patrol (behaviour management) work well with students and do help quite a bit but can definitely be a tad harsh, for instance, a student was once screamed at (and I mean screamed at) for disrupting the lesson (going on his phone to check the time). He was told , quote "you are a disgrace *name*, you really are pathetic! Get here now! *name* Get your bag now! You too *name 2*!"
Feb 9th, 2023

Jan 19th, 2023

This school is an absolute disgrace! I go here myself and teachers will pressure you into admitting to something you haven't done. They lock the bathrooms because students skip school in them, which is understandable, but when there are teachers roaming the halls non-stop? I don't think so. I witnessed a 15 year old throw up on his English book because of this. Do not come here until last picks!
Nov 26th, 2022