Windsor High School and Sixth Form Richmond Street, Halesowen B63 4BB

"Windsor High School and Sixth Form Windsor logo.PNG Motto Excellence for All Established 1939 Type Academy Headmaster Stephen Lanckham Location Richmond Street West Midlands B63 4BB England Local authority Dudley DfE URN 136618 Tables Ofsted Reports Staff 90+ Students 1,600+ pupils Gender Co-Educational Ages 11–18 Houses Tudor, Stuart, Lancaster, York, Hanover Colours [Badge] Yellow, Blue, Red and Silver. [Ties] Yellow, White, Red, Green and Blue. Coordinates 52°27′5.5″N 2°3′31.9″WCoordinates: 52°27′5.5″N 2°3′31.9″W Website Windsor High School Windsor High School is a secondary school with academy status located on Richmond Street, Halesowen, in England. Contents 1 The school 2 The library 3 Careers library 4 Physical education 5 References The school Windsor High School is a comprehensive school in Halesowen, West Midlands. It is among the largest schools in the region, with capacity for 1,600 pupils aged 11 to 18[1] and is heavily over-subscribed.[2] The number of admissions for the year commencing 1 September 2007 was 280, which became the approved admissions number[citation needed]. The school has been awarded Artsmark Gold and Sportsmark Gold as well as the National Achievement Award for Improvement in Examinations in recent years.[citation needed] Windsor High School is currently one of the top schools in Dudley LEA. It is currently ranked 3rd in Dudley, behind Old Swinford Hospital and Bishop Milner Catholic School[citation needed]. In 2005 65% of pupils at the school achieved 5 A*-C grades in their GCSEs. This was topped further by the following year of pupils in 2006/2007, where 90% of pupils achieved an A* grade, this is yet to be achieved by any other academic college, and boosts Windsor's positioning in the Midland school ranking into number 2.[1] The school was erected during the 1930s by Worcestershire County Council as Halesowen County Secondary Modern Boys' School - a secondary modern school. Girls living in the local area attended nearby Halesowen County Secondary Modern Girls' School. During the late 1960s and early 1970s the school was known as the Halesowen County Secondary School for Boys (HCSSB) or more colloquially simply as 'The Boys' School'. The school colours were maroon and yellow. In September 1972, the schools became "Richmond Boys' School" and "Walton Girls' School", initially as secondary modern schools providing education for pupils aged 13–18 years following a reorganisation of education in Halesowen which saw a switch to three-tier schooling. A reorganisation in September 1982 saw both schools convert to 11-16 age range, with the sixth form being abolished in favour of a move to tertiary education which saw all of Halesowen's post 16 education facilities incorporated into an expanded Halesowen College. In September 1983, the first "Windsor High School" pupils joined, co-existing with the pupils from last two years of Richmond High School for Boys. Windsor High School came into full existence in September 1985 when the two single-sex schools fully merged into one mixed comprehensive, after this period of dual-school name. This marked the end of single sex state schools in the Dudley borough; all the other remaining single sex schools had been axed in July 1975 to make way for mixed comprehensives from September of that year. The new school existed entirely on the site of the boys' school, though with substantial extensions. In the early 1990s Windsor High became a Grant Maintained school. The Walton site on Bundle Hill was taken over by Halesowen College, who used it as an annexe until July 2003. It was demolished shortly afterwards and replaced by a housing estate. A sixth form centre opened at Windsor High in September 2010 - marking a return of sixth form facilities in Halesowen secondary schools after an absence of nearly 30 years."

"I was recently told by a friend that the best hotel in the area was windsor (ahead of earls) so I packed my bags and visited as soon as I could. However I soon realised that the staff were very rude upon my arrival. One of the receptionists even told me to tuck my shirt in. Anyway after that i was soon shown to my room. However the room was packed with schoolchildren and there seemed to be no place to sleep or pack away my clothes. I became very confused as I told the receptionist that there must of been some sort of mistake, however this time she threatened to "report" me unless I went back to my room. This was very worrying. I asked where the toilets were and she directed me to a public toilet that was shared by the whole hotel, a rather disgusting way to run a hotel indeed. On my second day I was roaming the grounds of the hotel when a certain mr morley approached me, he then started interrogating me with random questions such as "where are your school shoes?" and "what lesson are you supposed to be in?" These questions disgraced me and I ordered to see the manager however I was denied to do so. The dining experience overall was lacklustre and was more like school dinners than fresh cuisine, also the "cafe" was packed with more of these schoolchildren which I found odd as it was supposed to be a romantic quite dining hall. Also there seemed to be no waiters/waitresses only "dinnerladiez" Overall I would discourage anyone from visiting this terrible hotel."

"This school is ram packed with chavs, at lunch and break you can always see them at the edge of the field under a tree and it's so obviously they're smoking because the amount of smoke drifting around in the air is the equivalent to a fricken' chimney! Staff just look at them but they don't bother doing anything and that amazes me. If you're bullied, then God help you because the school for sure won't. All you get at assemblies is rubbish talk like "Don't ever retaliate, come tell the teacher and your problems will be sorted". Phhh. People are getting harassed right in front of staff but they're too lazy to intervene. May I also say that the set system is atrocious. I'm not going to be too specific, but last year in one subject I got respectful grades which were supposed to determine my set. I did better than most people in my class but NOPE, I'm the one who was at the bottom while the ones who got lower levels moved up. It's not just me, everyone's complaining about the set system. It makes NO sense. I remember two years ago when the snow was ridiculous yet we still had to go school and the pathway leading to the entrance of the school was covered in slippery ice and I remember everyone falling and banging their heads and I fell once and broke my glasses. YET..the teachers STILL had a go at you and gave you detention for being 4 minutes late.....and then after at like 10 am they were like "yeah the weather's pretty bad go home now". It took me 40 minutes to get home and I was very ill the following day. That really annoyed me. The toilets. ........... The toilets are horrifyingly disgusting, urine on the floor and even the damn wall, most of the taps don't work and the things people throw into the urinals are horrible. The place is literally falling apart, it stinks and all the big special chavs have to make sure they have a quick smoke in one of the cubicles before lesson. It amazes me how approximately 800 boys have to use this heap of extremely unhygienic rubbish. Another thing is the students, especially ones older than you, are complete bullies. If you walked through a group of year 10s and you were in year 8 or 9 I guarantee you they'd push you around, stand in your way or throw something at you. If you bring in a ball at lunch and try to play on the field then the year 10 chavs'll come and nick it. They'll blast the ball around until lunch ends and you can't do anything about it even though the ball is RIGHTFULLY YOURS. You'll be late for your lesson trying to retrieve the ball because one thing's certain; staff ain't gonna help ya'. It's not just a ball, it's anything you bring in. The chavs are so loud and they just blabber incoherent "slang" terms and they don't care about their education, not in the slightest. One thing which drives me and my friends crazy are the STUPID "door rules". At lunch you can't go through the double doors to get to the canteen; you have to go all the way round, and sometimes you can't go through the reception corridor or the MFL corridor which means you have to go an alternate route which makes you late for your lesson. Some staff can be friendly at times but one thing I learned is to never waste your time going to a teacher to tell them about a problem you have, because it is literally a waste of time. Some students are okay, it's not too hard to make friends, and that's why I didn't rate it 1 star, because I have plenty of people to hang around with. Don't send your children to this school, because Windsor has really went downhill, despite all the teachers trying to brag about how they're "the best in the borough"."

"full of bully's and no support for people with learning disabilities glad to have left, there is one block of toilets for all the pupils of the school which i can only describe as reminiscent of a slum bog with period on the walls and only 2 toilets working , i was scared of catching diseases using those toilets, when it snowed we were forced to walk down the steep hill to school which caused many injuries and when i was violently sick they were still umming and arring about whether to let me go home even though i had threw up everywhere and all over myself. the bully's at this school are actually dangerous not only causing verbal harm but physical harm, in my last year at the school i had trouble with a group of boys who kept harassing me, one lunchtime it became too much when they kept throwing stones at me and my friends i told a high ranking member of staff who assured me she would make them stop but nothing was ever done. Asthma sufferers beware! it seems the anti smoking rules don't apply to this school expect to have your lungs ruined by second hand smoke especially in the girls toilet which is so full of cigarette smoke that you cannot see. i'm amazed ofsted have not noticed these issues, and when we left school the school didn't invite some of the people that had gone to other colleges such as Halesowen College and King Edwards Stourbridge to the end of year award ceremony which i think is despicable. rant over"

"You have no idea how annoying it is to go here, we are forced to come in during snow - where people are constantly falling and/or inguring themselves on the way there and back. Even the teachers here are chavs, not to mention more than 99% of students. During my time here so far, I have learned nothing. I am in the top sets for most of my lessons, minus maths, and that is because I study at home so that I am able to get a job when I leave. There is no possible way to describe the toilets here as 'acceptable'. I doubt that they have ever been cleaned. In the toilets furthest from the door, smokers gather. Which leaves a wonderful layer of ash all over the walls and near the windows. Now, we would use the other toilets so we wouldn't have to breath this in, but the girl's toilets are either broken, or the doors are unable to close. Many of them have no toilet paper, and most people try to stay away from them. And a 'sports' school? Not at all. They spend most of the funding for our school on new equipment that we will never use. And while we have new equipment, we are still using the older items that, if I'm being honest, are completely unusable. Most of the tennis raquets are broken, footballs are so soft that they hardly move when you kick them, and the trampolines? You can't even use them properly because the staff are not trained for that. The teachers here are another problem, some of them are unable to teach the subject they are given. Meaning that, not only are we being fed wrong information, but we are also hiring the people that know nothing. Many of the student teacher we have here are better than the ones that actually work here. All of the good teachers leave after a year, when the chav students make them feel uncomfortable. So, we have only covered a few of the problems they hide from parents and school officials, and there is plenty more. Thank you for reading if you have read down this far on a random person's ramble. I hope you have been educated on what this school claims to be, and what it actually is. "Exellence for all" is not for all."