SecretHPS

Speaking honestly about life at Holland Park School

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The end of another academic year and favouritism at HPS continues unabated. Three parents attended the end of year staff party, welcomed by Dame Sally, to the dismay and discomfort of teachers and staff.

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One Y7 coach did not turn up for the London Zoo trip. Those students remained at school and watched Madagascar.
Thorpe Park was intended to be the highlight of the week. Y7 and Y8 students were told the afternoon before the trip that it was cancelled, leaving them all crushed.

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Grade for Activities Week?
C- Must try harder.
Y10 on work experience, some without a placement. Zero follow up.
Some Y9 were excluded from the cinema trip for being ‘over excited’ and timings poorly planned so that an activity was cancelled without warning.

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Y9 departure from Thorpe Park was delayed 1 hour, everyone left waiting on the coaches. Then students were dropped off on the wrong side of Holland Park.
One Y8 coach to France missed the ferry, causing a two hour delay.

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Maybe you should advertise for a proof reader as well?

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Yesterday years 10 & 12 were informed that they will not have any lessons on Thursday. Why? Years 7, 8 & 9 are having their Sports Day at the Linford Christie Stadium that day. Parents and older years are not welcome.

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Parents are not happy that Holland Park School, a non religious school, is now introducing compulsory RE GCSEs for all students. Is this what happens when secular schools become part of religious MATs?

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Parents receiving inaccurate GCSE schedules for their children.

United Learning slides riddled with mistakes. Students laughing at the inferior quality of UL learning materials.

Who is keeping an eye on all of this?

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More than a dozen staff are expected to make up the shortfall with voluntary redundancies and reduced hours.

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Last accounts of Holland Park School 2021/2022 show a reserve of £3,258,000 with ‘no significant key factors that are likely to affect the Academy’s financial performance or position’.

I am now hearing that the school has over spent by an estimated £1,700,000.

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One year on from the highly contested take over of Holland Park School and we are all still waiting for the promised capacity. The pool remains derelict. Students do not conduct science experiments. What has increased? Exclusions.

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Two years ago the swimming pool at Holland Park School became inoperable. @JonColes01 told parents that it would be one of @UnitedLearning’s top priorities to get it repaired. Nearly one year on from the contentious take over and nothing has been done.

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What happened here?

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⁦@UnitedLearning⁩ busy plastering their corporate logo on Holland Park School. Shame that the money couldn’t be better spent.

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Future compulsory RE GCSE, dedicated prayer room, optional am prayer for teachers - some of the changes United Learning have introduced. Swimming pool remains inoperable. Internal exams have decreased from 3 times per year to 2, reducing the opportunity for students to move sets.

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Just before term break, during a school fire drill, Executive Head Dame Sally Coates was overheard calling year 8 students “idiots”

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Prospective parents have been told that United Learning plan to introduce compulsory Religious Education GCSEs for Year 10s.

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Holland Park Business GCSE classes have been merged after one teacher proved to be inadequate in the role. Up to 60 students will now be taught in the main hall by one teacher with the inadequate teacher in a support role.