Gaynes School

May 4th, 2018

Apr 9th, 2018

I have left the school this year. Some of the teachers where very nice and helpful and you could talk to them and have a laugh. But other teachers where horrible or just couldn't be bothered to teach us. The school does nothing when it comes to bullying and they just let things go down hill I really wouldn't want to make a child go there.
Jan 26th, 2018

My daughter started mid year 11 the school seem to be more bothered about attendance and punctuation reports more than there level of education they achieve by student or provided by teachers
Jan 16th, 2018

It's a great school with amazing morale, they have ideas in all the right directions, however, these 'solutions' usually end with more problems. I am a year eight student currently (nearing year nine) and I can tell you I am not leaving this school even if I get the choice to, it has lovely teachers that have(a great sense of humour and teach really well (e.g. Ms.Sharp, Ms Fenn, Mr Whiteman, Mr umenylora, Dr.Esky, Mr.Campbell,Mr.Preston), but building off my old point, many of these good teachers are being replaced/ have been replaced, such as Dr.Esky, a great teacher with an amazing sense of humour that liked all of his students, also having PHDs and such, was replaced by a French teacher incapable of doing basic geography. Another example would be Mr.Preston, an amazing English teacher that was replaced by the aforementioned French teacher that is also incapable of understanding a lot of basic sentences (a real life example from me: 'sir can you change the slide as it has important information for the questions', his answer: 'no you do not need the last slide as you should have remembered it'. The information from the slide was vital for the entire lesson and was left on the slide of 5 minutes for us to read through once). This is a problem at gaynes that was presented simply because 'if we use teachers that work here as substitutes, we can save and fix our money problem). Alongside these problems, depression is one of them; some people even resorting to drugs such as marijuana and tobacco to relieve stress, as of the amounts of sudden homework given and set for the following day, the dank colours of the school (green, white, ugly grey with water stains, bage, black, etc.) and even the fact that they 'encourage' healthy eating, but the main menu includes foods such as: pizza, meat baguettes with butter, meat pies, pasta, chicken in a sub and meat/cheese paninis. As you can see gaynes is not the best school, with many substitute teachers, bad choices but good teachers overall, I wouldn't recommend, but if given the choice between a school with low GCSE success rates and this school, pick this one. Sincerely, A year 8 child that will not reveal his identity, as another year 8 student (Grace Bradbrook) got a detention for having freedom of speech.
Jan 21st, 2018