Google Review:
My wife and I, parents to three girls and three boys, and have had several children at this college from age three to eleven over many years and can confirm the management has no grip on BULLYING whatsoever.
We have first-hand knowledge and maintain contemporaneous records of school children being abused by alpha males who comprehensively avoid detection at Shoreham College - thus the exodus of withdrawals in recent years.
Another child with his own set of challenges is now leaving due to the bullied child or his parents not at all listened to or taken seriously due to the lack of an effective anti-bullying policy.
When a child reports being bullied they are questioned like suspects in a police station and their concerns rejected if there are no "witnesses" to the incident.
"We need evidence" is often the response to a parent of an upset child.
Even the child of a headmaster, no less, at an academy state school had his child seriously bullied to the point of withdrawal - yet still they STILL ignored that headmaster's reports and looked down their noses at him.
Our own mild-mannered son was bullied by two problem children and when we asked specifically to have our child placed in the opposite class the following school year. Yet our email to the head of the Junior School was completely ignored (no response) and on the first day of school our child was directed to sit right next to the bully in the same class(!)...as if on purpose.
To be frank, Shoreham College is a flint fascade, first rung private school that has far less stringent admissions scrutiny than many good state schools.
I do not recall, nor have heard of any, jurisprudence in relation to aptitude tests being conducted to ascertain an applicant's mental acuity or ability to control interpersonal apathy - and certainly no due diligence conducted on the parents, many of whom are very common and/or have socially abrasive demeanours, claiming some form of social circle 'status' from their expenditures.
Thankfully we have moved our children to exemplary state schools and review of their scholastic progress revealed they were far behind key stages in fundamental subjects. We feel our children are now receiving far better educations and they certainly feel much safer. They now look forward to going to school and come home happy.
At minimum, a.change in management of the year 1-6 team is needed, post haste, and an entire overhaul of their policies needs to take place with consultations from OUTSIDE advisors before the junior school at Shoreham College can be considered by anyone seriously thinking about the precarious proposition of placing their child in their questionable care.