Northampton School for Boys

Sep 21st, 2022

me like, but no woman
Aug 1st, 2022

I luuve the schoooll sooo muche because the help me so much luvee drinking alcohol with me mate and that is why teachers incourage this so good job! Luve the hedtecher he makes the studenns smarrt and make ggood d spelling so God really gooodd
May 27th, 2022

I attended this school as a student from around 2010. I joined this school with a diagnosis of ADHD and Autism. I am now 24 and finally understanding what it was I was going through at school. I had been stuck in a pattern of behaviour that, in hindsight, should've been immediately noticed, especially due to my close contact with the SEN team. 12 years later I am finally able to understand and make progress. My opinions and requests were regularly ignored and I was forced into a cookie cutter plan. This involved forcing me to sit with an assistant in class, which made me a prime target for bullying. I regularly brought this up and made it incredibly clear that I did not want or require it, and the effect it was causing. No efforts were made to understand or improve my mental health issues. Instead I was regularly moves to "isolation". A small room where students could be put out of the way and forgotten about. From the get go I was relentlessly bullied. This has had ongoing effects on my confidence and mental health and has had lasting repercussions in my life. The year I left this school Rod Goldswain had been made acting Head Teacher. This was a change, but for me, not pleasant. This man is incredibly proud, and not on the positive way. He came across as much more interested in the schools and his outward facing image than he was in the underlying problems in the school. He made it his mission to have anyone deemed a "problem" removed from the school and often had a less than professional relationship with his students, where he would show favouritism to those who actively made the school look better, whilst holding long lasting grudges against those who crossed him. To have such thin skin and fragile ego is not a good quality, especially when working with teenage boys.
May 21st, 2022

Feb 22nd, 2022