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The Cracks

 Hello, Ex-pupil here. Attended said school until I “graduated” (cheers, Covid) in  2020. Among pupils at [edited out] there is a general consensus that the teachers themselves are great but the leadership is terrible. For us, the cracks really began to show following the implementation of high performance learning (whatever the f*ck that is). The senior leadership desperately trying to peddle this teaching structure/mindset (whatever you call it) that probably cost an arm and a leg and had absolutely NO use at all apart from making the school look good. I know HPL became a joke amongst teachers and pupils alike, and it was something many of us could tolerate although it clearly demonstrated the priority of the senior leadership to maintain a perfect school image rather than make any actual changes to learning itself. Many of us have long said that the current principal treats the school as a business/advertisement campaign rather than as a community of teachers and pupils of wh