Queen Margaret College

Best school in New Zealand. The school has changed our daughters life.

Extremely expensive and highly competitive school. Hated it

I believe that QMC is a terrible school. the teachers bully their students and do not care about their mental health or mental stability. the teachers have serious social issues that they choose to take out on their students. the teachers only seem to care about the "popular" or "their favourite" student and neglect the others in the class. we give this school so much money and they can't even fix up a classroom that has a leaky roof, or a window with a very large crack running through it. instead, they choose to spend our money on buying pathetic corner fans. they think that it is okay to just pretend that they are the best school for your girls, but I warn you, they are NOT. the environment of this school has damaged my daughter's mental health greatly. students are vaping in the bathrooms daily. they say no makeup, and yet people walk around with huge fake eyelashes on, and what do they catch you out for? they choose to catch you out for having navy socks instead of them being black. I think that this school blows many things out of proportion. the amount of money that we pay this school is way too much. they lost over 40 teachers in 2018 so they had to find lots of new teachers during those school holidays meaning they wouldn't have had time to get the best they could. and I can tell that I am right. the school handles bullying terribly, especially because it is from their staff. the uniforms cost too much money and are ugly and uncomfortable. they make us pay so much too much for uniforms then on a non-uniform day, we have to pay again! they have a well-being program that makes people feel worse in the school environment. during these sessions, other students judge each other and make people feel uncomfortable to share their point of view. they try and control their student's opinions and get angry if it is not how they want it. there are students in some classes with learning disabilities such as ADHD just have to sit in the class and have no extra help or support. Students are going home in HORRIBLE mental states. then having to act like it's all okay when they are home. students are encouraged to be independent but then don't have the instructions or help that they need to be more independent. the school has no grounds for their students. they have a tennis court and no field or grass that can be used to enjoy lunchtime or be active. they say that you shouldn't be on your phone but that doesn't make students not go on their phones it just teaches them to be more secretive. the school only cares about how others view them and not how their students actually feel. the girls at QMC cant express themselves in any way. they can't wear any jewellery, I can understand no rings but a necklace is under their collar and wouldn't be seen in any way. the school tries to make Christianity superior to other religions. they say the pronunciation is wrong and the explanations for other religions are incorrect or inaccurate. I strongly believe that QMC is an absolute waste of your money and time. they put you in a maths class depending on your grades. the people with less good grades get worse teachers. I think that this school is not good at all and I DEFINITELY DON'T recommend it. this school has wasted my money. the teachers are biased and use favouritism in every lesson. the pe teachers point out unessasary things in a particular team. the pe teachers also make horrible comments to students such as "you don't know how to use your legs" and make people think that if you can't do a sport then you will never be able to do the sport. the teachers also try and get into students' business and ask about who their friends are or why they don't talk to other students. the teachers pick on specific students in their class and then try and patch up the humiliation that they caused for the student. they think that it is okay to make their students come home crying and saying that they don't want to go to school or live any longer. this really hurt me. I feel as though this school has changed my daughter for the worst. they also don't respect people's prefered names or pronouns, the Religious Education teacher doesn't use what people prefer. the educational help is not good. most teachers just sit at the front of the classroom and speak instead of getting involved with the students in their class. please don't go to QMC, it's like murdering your daughter's mental health.

a friend of mine is a student here and they came to me and a few of my friends upset because they had been accused of being a pedophile because of your lack of communication they have detention after school, let me explain a bit more. So my friend lets call them poppy they took a photo of their friend and it happened to have another student in it, now insted of this student going up to poppy they went to the principal and twisted the story to make it sound like poppy was taking photos of like under their skirt and stuff. Now your awful system makes poppy feel afraid to come to school. Completely not okay, fix your mistakses

Very expensive school and in my opinion a total waste of money. Should have gone to a state school.

Best school ever have never loved years more than my time there made friends for life and teachers go above and beyond to help you. Had a teacher come into holidays for a week to help me finish my chemistry and another email my friend who was struggling everyday w the assignment she had to do to be able to pass the year. Senior management questionable but the students and teachers 373939% make up for it HIGHLY RECOMMEND

I hated this school so much. I left in 2019 when we had lost 50+ teachers in one year. Teaching is awful (probably because they needed to find 40 teachers in the 2018 summer break). The school creates elitism. Handles bullying terribly. Worst years of my life were at this school

it sucks don’t go there it’s not worth all the money

Teachers all turned to s**t after we lost 40 of them in one year. There is a huge sense of elitism in the school - and a huge popularity contest. The principal is bad. The school has gone down hill massively. They r mean.