Raroa Normal Intermediate

This school is unironically the worst I have ever been to. The only good part is DPE and the Enrichment things they do. The teachers I had in Year 8 were really bad. One of them would yell at the whole class over something like only 2 or 3 people did, and one of the other teachers was quite creepy.
I feel bad for anyone for has to learn here. at school the teachers would not bother teaching us anything insteed they let the class be noisy and let them do anthing on the chromebooks. this left me and many other students unprepared for High School. I would say I learned more maths in Years 6 than I did in Year 7 and 8 combined. If you want your child to actually learn something, send them elsewhere. Please. At least there aren't too many bullies, at least from my experience

Horrible school. The teachers look the other way towards bullying. I got beaten up by another kid in front of a teacher and they told me to deal with it. Seriously don't go there. Newlands is better

Quite good facilities, out-of-school opportunities, and a lovely library, but teachers need a total refresh— never there at the right time and unnecessarily imposing competition where it was never needed. The "education" is essentially just catching students up from primary school and severely underpreparing them for high school. Good for children who enjoy sports or enjoy being overbearingly sociable.

This school looks good and talks a good game but just doesn’t deliver. Both my kids have attended and learnt very little. Teachers think they are experts on adolescents but they really aren’t. Most of them seem to be on a power trip. Bullying is not dealt with at all well and the pastoral care is laughable. Avoid unless your child is super sporty and/or sycophantic towards teachers.