Richmond Park Academy

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Chamber Rating
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Heidi Swift
May 6th, 2022 -
Tara altaiee
Oct 18th, 2022 -
Crunshible beetlejuice
Aug 6th, 2022 -
Gabriela Ursu
Jun 20th, 2022 -
JagerTM
Apr 2nd, 2022
Contact Info
- (208) 876-8891
Questions & Answers
Q What is the phone number for Richmond Park Academy?
A The phone number for Richmond Park Academy is: (208) 876-8891.
Q Where is Richmond Park Academy located?
A Richmond Park Academy is located at Park Ave, London, eng SW14 8RG
Q What is the internet address for Richmond Park Academy?
A The website (URL) for Richmond Park Academy is: http://www.richmondparkacademy.org/
Q What days are Richmond Park Academy open?
A Richmond Park Academy is open:
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
Monday: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Q How is Richmond Park Academy rated?
A Richmond Park Academy has a 3.1 Star Rating from 64 reviewers.
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Richmond Park Academy
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As a parent of a former pupil at RPA, although I could comment widely backed by comprehensive documentary evidence on numerous past serious failures at RPA, I have limited my review around the points below that I believe the public should be made aware of:
ATTENDANCE: My experience of the management of attendance at RPA was that staff were focused entirely on the pursuit of attendance statistics by putting up barriers to absences and lateness, without any apparent regard for, or understanding of, the risk to sick pupils from doing so; and resorting to off-rolling if unsuccessful.
My understanding is that these failures have since been addressed by the Trust. Additionally, the local authority has claimed oversight of attendance at RPA through its Education Welfare Service, which should be reassuring to other parents, as it removes the opportunity for RPA staff to disregard professional advice given to them on the management of attendance for sick pupils, as has happened in the past, and thereby putting pupils at extreme risk.
BULLYING: Other reviewers on here mention bullying at RPA, a concern I share. Again, it should be reassuring for pupils and other parents to know that all RPA staff and governors have been mandated anti-bullying training through a court order; and subsequent advice from an independent complaints investigation panel recommended an independent review into the quality and effectiveness of anti-bullying practice at RPA.
GOVERNANCE: In my experience, past governance of RPA was weak and ineffective, i.e. relying on assumed integrity of staff whose actions they were meant to scrutinise and hold to account. This enabled RPA staff to propagate and embed false narratives favourable to themselves, leading to damaging and dangerous responses being formulated and implemented, and thereby putting pupils at risk.
Our personal data was withheld for nearly two years after it was first requested despite it being an organisations obligation to release it as soon as possible making it difficult to counter false, inaccurate, and misleading narratives as they were put forward by now former RPA staff. I believe the approach has changed since.
The previous board repeatedly failed to follow RPA's complaints procedure, even when warned about serious operational failures within the school, simply handing complaints back to the very person complained about, resulting in the issues brought to the boards attention not being addressed, leaving pupils at continued serious risk.
In our case, it was not until the Trust got directly involved in overseeing complaints of misconduct against RPA staff, starting in December 2018, that staffs actions were scrutinised and held to account. Serious failures at RPA were finally being looked into over the subsequent months. Despite what was a slow take-up at the start of a prolonged process, it seems to me that the Trust has now come round to having a good understanding of recent past failures at RPA. The main staff member in question is no longer employed at RPA.
This review was first posted in August 2020, and received over 10,200 views before being removed.