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Former Student
Apr 6, 2025

Maybe don't put your child here

First of all, when I was in year seven, my teacher failed to teach the rest of my class the maths we were supposed to be learning. I had to go to another room for maths because I was good enough at it to basically 'deserve' to do it. We used DMIC as our maths provider, and that didn't work for me, as I was being held back by having to work with people who wouldn't even try to do the work.
The work was dull. Young ocean explorers was a topic we covered in year 5 or 6 and it just went on and on and on, and all it was was just doing boring activities that didn't really teach us anything.
There was no support for people who might have panic attacks or get overstimulated. I happen to know the person who wrote the other review covering this, and just to put this into your head again, they were allowed to do the book quiz because they have panic attacks. I did the book quiz, and there was nothing that would trigger panic attacks in it, you just get a bit nervous beforehand.
I feel like I've written a whole essay about this, and I could easily write more, but yeah. If your child has any, ANY problems at all, just know that they probably won't be fixed. (Especially if they are getting bullied and gently push the person bullying them away.)
But wait, there's more! Only after leaving the school, I discovered that we cheated in sports and were hated by the other schools. Oh and also the little kids were evil as crap and my friend was hit with a tennis racket by one.
Former Student
Mar 23, 2025

Bullying happens a lot.

I was bullied in the last two years and either I was told that I was overreacting or to just ignore it. Because of this, the bullying never stopped and I had multiple mental breakdowns and panic attacks because of it. I wasn't allowed to do certain activities that involved team work. When I tried to fight back against the bullying (not physically) I was targeted and then told on by the people who were harassing me, and I usually got in trouble because of it. Out of the many teachers there only a few really tried to help me out but the bullying never stopped. I now have trouble in my day to day life because of all of this. Also you will hear swearing and mentions of inappropriate things coming from five year olds because they are surrounded by teenagers or people near that age.
Other
Jun 20, 2023

Amazing

Amazing School!!!!!!!!!!!!
Donovan Road, 5032, Paraparaumu Beach
Bruce McDonald
04 298 4011

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