Timaru Girls' High School

It's a great school and there's a wonderful teachers.

There was very little amounts of LGBT acceptance grouped etc for those of the LGBT community like myself until my final year of highschool, and only because a friend and I really got cracking and started to advertise our group. I was bullied a lot during my first few years of high school and felt that I couldn’t go to the teachers for help at all because they never gave off the impression that they would have been of any help. I was stressed all the time, constantly wanting to leave and falling into depression, but there was good things too. the library, my final year in school we got a new counsellor and she was the best person on earth i loved her so much, she really helped. a couple teachers there were good as well. but they could do better in trying to sympathise and empathise with students, becoming a friendly face instead of the harsh authority figures you had no choice but to listen to without getting consequences, help with lessening the pressure of NCEA and Exams and making sure kids who don’t identify as female get treated as such and to make them feel comfortable around them. it took me until almost half way through my final year of highschool to come out to my teachers as non binary and almost all were supportive, but it’s a scary thing to do and i think if the school openly expressed that, it would help the kids feel less stressed about coming to school every day. I also think there needs to be a better way to secure the school, considering in year nine my bike was stolen off the bike racks on school grounds and I was told there was no security camera footage because they didn’t face that way.

This school is foul.My child and her friends hav all been accused of vaping because they’ve gone in the bathrooms after a group of children who have and some of them have even been stood down.I’ve even been told from my child and many other parents that some teachers are very creepy and can get touching this is disgusting sort it out tghs.

Spent all high school there, uniform is terrible and the rules can be very restricting so students can’t feel comfortable or express themselves. Very limited classes and not everyone is friendly.

Went there for all of about 6 weeks in yr 11. Absolutely terrible. The teachers are rude and dont change there ways if people learn differently. The environment is not welcoming at all. Uniform is expensive and uncomfortable. The rules are to strict and the class options are not great.