Just coming to the end of 8 years with Interhigh, it’s no longer the school it was and presently in the exam years couldn’t organise the proverbial piss up!
to qualify this, I’ve been a huge supporter of the school but since it’s latest change it’s no longer pupil centered, some students as late as this weekend have found out their exam centres in other countries are shut and they can’t actually sit their GCSEs this week
the teachers have been fab and often go above and beyond, we find the new lesson format and class size excellent but the administration has failed
an example of this is exam timetables. I have 2 dc taking exams this year, one at inter the other at a state school
state school has long since emailed an exam schedule for that dc. Interhigh has yet to do so and exams that we have to travel long distances for start this week
most of DC’s classmates didn’t even realise there were any this week as the exam board changed the date 2 months ago after travel plans were made, remember some actually have to fly into the uk for exams
as for socialising, it actually was very good in years past but for some reason any student over 18 was barred from attending their own prom this year
Dc was subject to a rape threat by another student in an online discord site, school didn’t consider this a safeguarding issue and the safe guarding lead essentially told them to get over it
would I send another dc in the future? Not unless admin was massively improved and safeguarding stop using a victim blaming approach to stop complaints