New Plymouth Girls' High School

The teachers at New Plymouth girls high school are horrible. They don’t care about the students and don’t teach them what they really need to know. If any issues with other students come up, they don’t care and make the students just “ignore them”. Students have to have passes to go to the toilet, they can’t have any privacy. The teachers also make learning boring for the students and don’t make an effort to try to make it fun so the students will want to engage. the classrooms are dirty and cold with no good heating. They are run down and gross.

some of the staff are amazing and actually support you, while over half of the teachers at NPGHS treat students with absolute disrespect and take out their anger on the students and will talk down to you like you are 4 and don't know how to go potty. yeah, the vaping is bad but where does that not happen, how else do u expects the teens to manage their anxiety while at school. this school is full of catty girls who have no regards for others and no self-respect. the cafe is also very expensive

The worst School ever. My math teacher who i will not name, exposed all my personal information to my class mates and nothing was done about it and the teacher just ignored me for the rest of the time i was there. We had smoke alarms going off nearly twice a day everyday for a month because of people vaping in the bathrooms. People there are so toxic and disgusting and draining, mentally draining. The mental health system there is shit and the educational system is fucked and they choose to only praise the “smart” kids there when there’s lower class people like myself struggling with no help from teachers even when asked for and no well done once i’ve figured out a problem. This school is shit for new plymouth and this school is shit for your kids to attend to. There are or were a couple good teachers who made it worth while the security was shit, people ditching classes left and right. nearly every time i walked into a bathroom it stunk really bad, nearly made me throw up a few times.

This school is particularly not the ideal school for culture or prosperity. The amount of rasicim that happens on campus and classrooms from white female/male teachers is absolutely disgusting and deans,principal and the board do not take enough care into students well being let alone any, students who suffer greatly over mental and physical illnesses are not supported to what the school make out for them to be,many students self harming themselves and none to which are received any help from waiora (school public nurse ect) other than to go back to class and suck it up. The fight rate in this school is disgusting and npghs allows it because they never do right by students and blame victims to abuse from others on them. Students who defend themselves are stood down and potentially kicked out due to the fact that they have been on watch already because of their background and ethnicity, This school is a descust to the community who edge parents to send their daughters here and “gaurentee” their motto to ensure safety for students who do attend, plenty of girls don’t get the opportunity to speak up for what’s right because if you do your straight to a pink slip in the deans,that shows npghs does not let their students speak for themselves. You walk in that school you cannot gaurentee your safety everyday. There is a reason why spotswood college is thriving and excelling within school because they care about all students and allow them to embrace their race aswell as bloom their strengths. As a former New Plymouth girls high student who has gotten many awards through school aswell as lived both a day girl and boarder it is safe to say I would know about these facts I have givin. Manipulation, tedious lies and false information from npghs is what you receive. Being a day girl is a complete different story to being a boarder and I can definitely say the two are not level, fights stealing betrayal contraband abuse all take place in the hostel aswell as school, a whole drug business was being run inside the hostel and the school didn’t do anything about it,girls getting rushed by other students for small reasons it’s not okay. The principal is the problem not the students, all these high expectations from her onto students, being singled out,having to deal with racism when you put ur foot through the gate when we’re supposed to look to our teachers for help and support except we receive nothing back in return. If your daughter is being bullied abused stuck in sticky situations from the school, you will not receive the support in any way from Mrs brown herself alongside her peers eg the board of trustees and the teacher on grounds. I hope you all make the right decision for your daughter/daughters and choose them over the effects they will endue in their time at npghs
Yours truely, former year 13

This school is only for the smart popular students, otherwise you get no where. It’s obvious most teachers hate their job and working with kids. It’s very hard to get a hold of any staff member to talk about bullying, course changing ect. They are a money grabbing school and the classes are only catered to the top few. The buildings are falling apart, the courses need updating ad there’s never any information. Counsellors and Medical staff are definitely underpaid for what they deal with, I will say that there are 1 out of 15 teachers that enjoy their job and listen to the thoughts of their students. The school as a whole does not take mental health as seriously as physical health when a student cannot do something. If you’re not athletic, dyslexic, struggle with mental health or are neuro diverse save yourself and go to a different school.

The school does not really care about the environment and how the teachers act towards the students and whether the students are actually being taught what they should know to pass ncea