Pupils at a Bristol secondary school are being ordered to smile when a teacher asks, march in silent rows and line up for equipment inspection up to five times a day, furious parents said. The new rules at Blaise High School have already prompted a protest by parents outside the school gates, with many saying they are looking for alternative schools for their children.
Blaise High School - which changed its name from Henbury School in 2018 - already had double the number of student suspensions than any other school in Bristol, but new rules applied at the start of this year have led to parents describing it as ‘a military school’. The school is run by a multi-academy trust called the Greenshaw Learning Trust, which runs schools across the south west.
Bristol Live understands all schools in the Greenshaw group have imposed the new sets of rules, and there have already been protests at other schools, including one in Plymouth. On Monday this week, a group of parents staged a protest outside the school gates and had a brief conversation with Blaise High School’s new headteacher, Nat Nabarro.
