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Oaklands School

Primary schoolChristchurch
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2.9

Based on 18 reviews and 154 answers

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  • Education3.1
  • Activities3.1
  • Staff2.9
  • Indoor environment2.9
  • Food2.9
  • Communication2.8
  • Outdoor environment2.8
  • Safety2.7
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  • Former Student
    4.0
    21 August 2026

    Looking Past Its Reputation

    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.

  • Former Student
    3.0
    17 August 2026

    Yeah save yourself the misery...

    Most mediocre school I have ever been to. And its it the only one. Thank god I was too delusional to notice the horrible environment, If it wasn't for my lack of braincells I would have killed myself. Apart from this, I made a few good memories and friends. It didn't set me up for high school at all, despite Miss P making us say yes instead of yeah on the roll. Turns out in high school this is not important at all. Being at an all girls school shows me how sexist the boys at that school really...

  • Student
    2.0
    3 August 2026

    I spent 6 years there

    When I was there, I had this one bully and she would annoy me constantly. I Told the teachers and they just blamed it on me. Why is the junior playground way better than the senior playground? It's not fair, we weren't allowed to go to the other playground.

  • Parent
    1.0
    25 June 2026

    This school is terrible

    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

  • Other
    1.0
    7 March 2026

    stupid school

    this school won't let my son play typing club after school hours for some reason and this school sucks because of bad learning, can't prevent bullying, won't let kids have fun and use their imagination

  • Parent
    1.0
    5 November 2025

    Bad School

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

  • Student
    3.0
    2 November 2024

    Everything Average

    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

  • Employee
    1.0
    27 September 2024

    Principal is terrible!

    I worked here for a year and it was possibly one of the worst years of my life. Margaret Trotter is a horrible woman. Thank goodness for the incredible staff for getting me through, but my lord, how this woman is allowed to get away with the things she does blows my mind. Many of us have been to the ministry about her and she’s still there!

  • Parent
    1.0
    26 August 2024

    A Review From A Parent!!

    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.

  • Parent
    1.0
    20 August 2024

    DO NOT GO

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

  • Parent
    5.0
    7 February 2024

    A great start

    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.

  • Parent
    1.0
    6 July 2023

    I feel sad for the kids that go hear

    This school is really mean to my kids

  • Student
    5.0
    28 May 2023

    oaklands supporter

    Awesome, fun, this is a great i go there

  • Former Student
    1.0
    18 May 2023

    DO NOT JOIN WORST IDEA EVA

    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

  • Former Student
    1.0
    18 May 2023

    Do not join if you have leave ASAP

    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

  • Student
    1.0
    22 March 2023

    ?get high on life not on drugs

    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

  • Student
    5.0
    1 August 2022

    My experience

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

  • Former Student
    5.0
    27 July 2022

    Loved year 7 & 8

    Mr brown what a great teacher.