Woodford House

As a former student at woodford I will say education wise it is a great school. The teachers are incredibly passionate about the subjects and truly care about their students doing well. However in recent years the SLT have been putting profit above students and overcrowding has become a major issue. A big reason I was sent there was the small class sizes meaning more one on one time with teachers. As the school has attempted to increase the role size, classes have become very crowded and the school was not built to hold so many students which has overall caused a lot of issues. The mental health and well-being side is awful to put it bluntly. One of the old school counselor treated students sessions as gossip and many students had some extremely private information spread by them and the school chose to ignore the issue. Any student who had disabilities wether that is mental health or physical were ostracised by many of their peers and this also went mostly ignored by SLT. If you want your children to have an amazing education then Woodford will give them that but you will be putting their wellbeing at risk for it.

the actual school side of things was good but they shut students up when they cry for mental health support. the counsellor was good but school could have done better to handle it. also there was verbal harassment to a particular student who had intellectual disabilities and no one spoke up or did much about it at all. but overall the academics were great although there was some bias by teachers, but food was good

The day school side of the school is AMAZING but the boarding side is terrible and it would be really helpful that if instead of giving their staffs girls day girl spots to give the day school spots instead to people who are in the havelock north zone so that people who live two minutes down the road don’t have to board.