Pros
Difficult: they try to use digital learning opportunities but generally fail.
Cons
1. Bullying: You are not genuinely valued as a teacher. If you work as a member of support staff, it is even worse. As a natural consequence of modern slavery, you are bullied. 2. No institutional background or identity: When the person in charge of a specific role changes, the actions and policies also change. Every new comer tries to establish themselves with some initiatives, which bring more uncertainty than improvement. The head is surrounded by people who always approves whatever she does. 3. Parental pressure: Simply, parents run the school. Some see the teachers as their educational butlers. Senior managers never stand by the teachers when there is an issue involving the parents and teachers. 4. Low quality catering: It looks like that a nice variety of food choices available. However, the quality is very low due to extreme efforts on minimising the cost. They sell huge amounts of junk food to kids during the break times. 5. Unreasonably high expectations and poor working conditions; staff room is small and full of gossip, which is correlated to staff unhappiness. Biscuits are home cooked by leftover, close-to-expiry-date ingredients. Coffee machines use cheap powders to dispense hot drinks. They think they have really able students, hence they expect very high exam results. Student selection process is a joke and just another way of making parents feel that they are getting their daughters into a "highly selective" school. It is also a nice income for the school: about £100 per pupil. They interview pupils but the outcome's contribution to the decision is very low. 6. ICT: The people in the ICT department work really hard and are very helpful. However, mainly due to policies put by GDST the ICT services are really poor.