Oaklands School

Personally, I had a pretty decent experience at Oaklands. I made many friends and many many memories throughout the eight years I had spent at Oaklands. My earliest memories at this school was certainly not the brightest, given that i was a shy, five year old girl starting at a brand new school in a foreign environment. Thankfully, i was placed in a very welcoming home room with an incredibly kind teacher. He was patient and soft spoken to all students. Unfortunately he did move away after a term and was replaced by another teacher, whom I was not a big fan of. She was quite the opposite of him; rude, mean, and would often scream at me for not understanding her. Gosh forbid a girl doesn't understand english, let alone a 40 year old lady screaming at her! Other than that, the teachers I came across throughout my time at Oaklands were generally very kind.

Shout out to Mr Reed, he made my time at Oaklands more enjoyable and became a father figure to many of us.

Naturally, bullying is inevitable at any school and will happen despite trying to prevent it. From my knowledge, the teachers I have encountered during my years have definitely tried their very best when it came to dealing with issues like bullying. However, whether the bullying ultimately stopped purely depended on the students involved and how they responded to the situation.

Everyone's experience is different, and a school's reputation shouldn't automatically define what it is actually like to attend there.

Ok so
My friend called me to pick up her son who is in year one ok
When I went to pick him up I couldn’t find him I told the teachers and they were looking later I found out that he had left the school and had crossed two roads and was almost at his house
The teachers didn’t even care to look or pay attention to him
He left the school and was 20 meters away from school already when I found him
The teachers don’t even pay attention to the kids and there are way to many bullies at this it’s terrible

This school is terrible. So many mean students and bullying. Students have been excluding others and damaging other people’s things.

Nothing special really it has a lot of online bullying but as long as you surround your self with good friends the teachers are nice if you are nice to them.some teachers are a bit creepo so stay away from them.in the past year it's definitely gone down hill though and things have just become a bit dull since mr brown left

As a mother you only want the absolute best for your child when starting school. Sadly we were in zoned for this school (it meant moving houses for better options for schooling) and we had just arrived in Christchurch. The learning at this school is very outdated and poor. I found the teachers to consistently put the blame on the children complaining instead of offering parents more support, and a plan in place to help better the child’s needs. Most of the teachers and stuff here were very rude and unpleasant to deal with. They are very poor when it came to dealing with bullies. Disgusting behaviour really they write down a statement of what’s been going on between the child and bully and then do absolutely nothing about it. You never hear back from them with an update on the situation or what there plans are to make sure your child is happy and feels safe at school. This went on for a year. The school has 4 entrances that were always easily accessible to anyone and gates were always left wide open having anyone use them throughout the day while children were onsite. Countless times you’d have people just going through the gates to take a short cut to past by streets. The security wasn’t good at all. In the end we moved homes and to a better school. This school was just terrible in all areas, from the outdated learning resources, poor security, unpleasant teachers, old indoor environment (needs a major upgrade) only a playground and old swimming pool.

I HATE THIS SCHOOL THE TEACHERS ARE KARENS WARNING DO NOT GO OR ELSE. THEY LOVE ALL THE GIRLS BUT HATE THE BOYS

Our daughter has been at Oaklands for a year, starting as a new entrant year 0. She is loving it and has been well supported by staff and has made many friends.

Awesome, fun, this is a great i go there

to much karens stay as far away as possible from this school it is the worst ever do not sign up your just signing a torture contract to meet the karens

shit school 🫶 there was this one pedo teacher who would throw only girls in the pool and refused to throw boys in. The school was ramraided a couple times and people kept threatening to bomb the school, so we'd always have lockdowns lol Teachers didn't teach properly because once people finished primary they'd be behind on workk

also the principal should be sacked because she let kids almost kill someone and didn't do anything about it

Oaklands was an amazing school to grow up at, kind teachers, good ethics, who could ask for more?