Iona College

Wonderful facilities, mortifying people. The food, teachers and overall facilities (minus the actual boarding house which is in dire need of more renovations) are all very well equipped but it all falls flat with the people who attend. I can't speak for everyone but my experience was horrific. Not everyone is as understanding as they should be. If they spent less time worrying about the forks on the plate and more on the wellbeing of the social climate, it could be a really nice school. (this was written Nov 2023)

Terrible. Everything you own gets stolen, Girls are toxic, The boarding house is freezing cold and the uniform sucks.

This "school" is not as wonderful as it claims to be. The school's teachers confiscate the student's earrings and personal belongings, the students are not allowed to wear the school's warm jackets inside because "it's not part of the uniform" same with their scarves. The punishments are way too harsh and completely out of order!!!!!!! The Deputy Principal got kicked out of the school's diversity club which came across to me as a very big shock to the system considering she is the Deputy Principle. This school is Homophobic and Racist and causes the students problems with their mental well-being. My daughter only recently started Iona College last year and since then there has just been one problem after another and the school is doing nothing and turning a blind eye to it which is absolutely unacceptable considering all the advertising and bragging this "school" does. They aren't what they claim to be. There is no structure to the school's rules and the punishment handouts are very biased I've even been notified by a few that have just seemed cruel. The rules change every day depending on the staff's mood and the girls are struggling to remember what is "right" and "wrong". There was an incident not that long ago with the school's security guards and the younger boarding students, which involved the security guard swearing at the girls over and over again all because they meowed out the window?! I personally was very unaware that this was a crime and that it was even happening as the school did not inform the boarding students' parents. I'm very upset about the inside information and secrets of this school. They set unrealistic expectations for some girls and make them feel as if they are going to go nowhere in life because they didn't receive the highest mark back possible after a test. I had my daughter on the phone sobbing and apologizing to me because she did not receive E+ and has been brainwashed into believing that without achieving these extremely high and demanding marks she is going to fail everything else she does?! This school tries to brainwash and manipulate the students and the ones who don't give in to them and keep a mind of their own are targeted among the school's teaching staff which was heartbreaking to find out. There are also students that have been and are being bullied by the staff members!?
Iona College you need to pull yourself together your a joke amongst the community, respect goes both ways.

This is a very bad school the students get treated badly by the "senior leadership team" such as name calling and excessive punishment for simply just things kids do. They can't wrap there head around that there students are children not 40 year old women

The school advertises themselves as a bully free school and a caring environment, it is neither of these things