Wellington East Girls' College

Lots of the students and people there are very judgemental and clickey and stick to theirs groups. Classes get boring fast and barely any support for people who have to miss a lot of school for sickness or other reasons. Some teachers are incredibly kind though.

This school is terrible and racist with unqualified teachers and a lazy (and racist) principal.
Granted there are some great teachers that I've met. But as a black hijabi with social anxiety, diffinently don't recomend this school if you are POC

It was an absolutely horrible experience, I was bullied for a few years and when I had tried to inform the staff, They didn’t do anything about it so it kept happening.

personally love the school! some teachers are a bit iffy and some i would call creepy. but then there are others that openly share how much they care about you and how they want you to succeed and support you. the hauora staff are useless though and always manage to make situations worse. the new building is the worst space to learn in because its so loud and echoey, the learning support at east is fab though and they have really supported me with my learning dissabilities. east only has a couple good maths teachers the rest are awful. in 4 yrs of going to east i have pretty much had to get taught the maths elsewhere.

it's not necessarily an issue with the school more so the system. Their learning method needs to be improved. If your dyslexic, ADHD or just get bored they don't do a great job at keeping you engaged. If you ask for support they are good but so many people need help in class, many students fall behind bcs of this. If they taught in a way that suits everybody there would be fewer questions. The subject selection is weird too. if you chose a subject that isn't what you thought it was you can't really change. you're stuck with the subject for the whole year. The people are not super welcoming either it's hard to find the right people a lot of them are always going on their phones and are pretty self-obsessed. lunchtimes are really boring not very many people talk to each other or interact. There's not a strong sense of community. The school has a song about how great it is. No other schools do this unless there private/private wanna be schools. there's nothing special about this school- the song reminds me of colonisation to be honest. it's an old school so maybe they still think they are superior. but hey if you like the states you'll love this school. who doesn't love a selfish separated individualist culture *insert sarcasm*. some of the teachers are good but most of them don't get the students to take breaks during long classes. for most students neurodiverse or not after being bored/doing for ages your brain stops working and your processing time/work quality goes down a lot we need to take breaks. breaks that keep people engaged and enjoying the class. if they did this students will get more work done more efficiently. they should have a room where students can go if they don't want to go to class or their feeling low. they have wellbeing but it's not somewhere where you can hang out and talk to people. sure then people will just skip class people already skip class! normally bcs the class is overwhelmingly boring or bcs they don't understand. the school needs a social or worker or it needs more social workers and counsellors. they have nice spaces for people with severe mental health issues but we all struggle and have a hard time in our life so there should be a room like that for normal people to go to relax/talk. a lot of the students are educated on human rights to an extent and the school is multi-cultural wich is nice but they should cover more books written by POC in English and they should cover sex ed, racism, sexism, LGBTQ in ako (home room) but they don't.

its a great school and I love going every day

it’s a good school but some of the kids are doing dodgey stuff and are bullies but the teachers are amazing and always want the best for you no matter what

Did nothing about me being bullied, zero learning support for me being disabled. Didn’t care when I was mentally ill and in hospital, only cared about when I would be back at school.