Birkenhead College

Everyone is super welcoming and the teachers are willing to put in effort and help

Birkenhead college has and will always accept bullying. They have no want to stop it. I've seen posts online about it from numerous other parents and I got blocked from their official page for saying something about it on their "stop bullying" post. Do NIT bring your child here.

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I stg this school is so cheap someone has got to donate or something, I get this school isnt the richest but that doesn’t excuse the dirtiness and the smell.. You don’t have to be rich to be clean and hygienic. The walls and floor has dirt on it that hasn’t been cleaned since i first saw it and everything is just unorganised and dusty. Not to mention they reused plastic bottles once. I got a cola fizzy drink from an event there but it was in another flavours bottle meaning they just filled it up… It honestly makes me want to move schools and what annoys me is the fact that we have cleaning products i’ve seen them but no one does anything about it.

I am completely and utterly disappointed. When I enrolled my daughter to this school I had high hopes all for them to be destroyed with all the stories she has told me about this school. My daughter has always had a rough time expressing herself, it had taken her years for her to find out who she really is and what she liked and I thought this school would be accepting of that but no. Instead of being accepting and allowing students to be who they are they just take it all away! No jewellery, no piercings, no unnatural dyed hair, no false lashes or makeup, no painted nails, and all the boys have to shave. These rules are so out of date and so unnecessary, tell me how anyone in this school is meant to express themselves fully! And tell me how ANY of these things will affect the students learning? Are their painted nails going to distract them? Are their facial piercings they can’t even see without a mirror going to distract them? The answer is no! I’m very upset with this school and these outdated rules. Not to mention it’s only for the students, the teachers wear full faces of glam, they wear dangly shiny earrings and some even have multiple facial piercings, this isn’t fair for our children and it isn’t teaching them anything good either.

As soon as i walk through those gates i feel like i need to take a shower. I get the cleaners are trying their best but come on this is horrible. I walk through the science block and the walls and floors are covered in something, the brick walls have cobwebs and holes in them and i swear some places in this school are growing green stuff on it. Even the classrooms like come on, some advice for the teachers is to CLEAN YOUR CLASSROOMS! I go in and there is dust, gum under tables, dirt on desks, stains on the carpet, and it just makes me feel gross. Not to mention the students oh my gosh, they need to bring everyone in for an assembly about hygiene cause i cant even go through a hallway without gagging at someone who doesn’t know how to wash or put on deodorant. A few days i watched a student cough their phlegm on a wall and no one’s cleaned it so it HARDENED UP. If someone’s reading this and wants to get a job as a cleaner apply at BC please i beg.

As much as this school preaches about self expression and being inclusive Birkenhead College actually lacks this. My 13 year old daughter has rashes all over her face and it has taken a lot of her confidence. She found that wearing makeup to cover it up helps her become more confident. My daughter is beautiful inside and out but as a mother I let her wear as much makeup as she wants as long as she feels comfortable and confident is all. I picked up my daughter from school and I had seen her quite upset and her rings and bracelets off of her body, I ask her why and she replied and said “My teacher told me to take them off since it is apart of the school rules” This rule seemed understandable to me at first until my daughter had opened up and said “At assembly they said girls were not to wear heavy makeup, nails, jewellery or eyelashes. A boy turned over to me and said “yea *insert my daughters name* he’s talking about you, rash girl” I tried to hide my tears” This comment made my daughter extremely upset as she already has enough insecurities. As a mother I am quite upset with how BC has restricted all of these things that make girls and boys feel beautiful. Let kids be who they want to be. Let them express their identity. This is not 1980’s anymore. Does it really matter if they are wearing black socks with one stripe of white?

This school limits self expression. I am not allowed to wear any facial piercings any earrings or dye my hair. How am I suppose to express myself when it’s limited. Art teachers are not the best, last year one of the teachers had talked about me and my friends to my other friend saying that we are “unreliable” a teacher shouldn’t have a say in what her students are. The school is run down and there is parts of the school where it’s mouldy and covered in webs and just looks foul.

Great and friendly staff, clean and tidy classrooms, although the school is very limited when it comes to career opportunities/choices and activities.