Nowra High School

Hell. No.
While the school does have many upsides the down sides outway it by a mile. This is coming from a student who did their absolute best to keep my head down and stay out of trouble. I was a shy kid with severe social anxiety. It took everything in me to speak up at the times that I did, something as simple as asking a teacher for help with my work and was given the response of "you should know this already" and denied help. I honestly think half the teachers themselves didn't know what they were looking at. The bullying is next level. I left in year ten after a severe mental health crisis which I won't elaborate on. I went to counsellors, support teachers, anyone, begging for help with the bullying I was enduring to the point where I was having things thrown at me while I was doing my work and people talking about me directly behind me IN THE CLASSROOM and nothing was done about it.Not to mention threats of physical violence.... I was one of the lucky ones where they stayed just threats. It got to the point even teachers, we're talking grown adults, joined in. Not to mention inappropriate behaviour from teachers with students which I also won't elaborate on because it's not my story. Teachers calling students the R word when they would ask for help. Straight up refusal to allow students to the bathroom even kids who hadn't ever taken advantage of bathroom trips and genuinely just needed to use the toilet were refused constantly. Yes this included students with ailments. I was sat in science once and listened to a teacher tell a student how he was going to k!ll her in graphic detail because she called him out on the disgusting way he had just spoken to a student. We were 15 when this happened by the way. I had threats made to my life for telling people to leave me alone. My year group was the biggest in the school at the time and only about 30 students made it to year 12, we're talking over 250 students in year 7 and only 30ish making it to year 12. The amount of mental health issues in my year group from bullying. The violence. The amount of us who would lock ourselves in a bathroom stall at break to feel safe was ridiculous, just to have people come in sticking there phones over the stalls and recording you to post all over social media and kicking the stalls screaming at you and mocking you just for them to go get a teacher and the teacher would make you come out and face them. Honestly insanity. My older brother had the same experience and he went there over 12 years ago now. I never wanted to listen to him when he said it was horrible but I got taken on a VIP tour of how bad it was. Teachers will not intervene in bullying to busy trying to be neutral to call out bad behaviour even though kids were being put in the hospital due to violence and suicide attempts. I hate the place. I will never ever send my future children there or recommend it to anybody. Everyone I've spoken to from my year group agrees even people who caused me such strife at the school have said how horrible there experience was. I mean what does it say about the school that kids were reporting teachers for calling them R words, Fat, Worthless, Lazy and being extremely inappropriate with them such as adding kids on snapchat, selling them vapes, drugs and being inappropriate in a S way with them I'm sure you can get what i'm saying but for my own sake I won't say the word, just for teachers to LAUGH about it in the staff room calling us liars and saying we were dramatic. Like literal kids who gathered up the courage to speak up straight up being told they were liars. It's disgusting. Bar a few good teachers the administrators and staff at that school should be ashamed. The place itself is an absolute disgrace. The fact that kids including myself ended up using wagging as a form of protection from the torture we went through at the place tells you everything you need to know. I loved learning. I asked for worksheets to do during P.E as cringy as that sounds but when you can't even learn in a safe environment and without a teachers over the top unnecessary levels of criticism. What's the point? I also find it funny that they turned off reviews on their google page because they didn't want people to see the reality of the school. Interesting. Just a bit of food for thought

I love this school had the best experience here and throughly enjoyed my education at the school, staff were lovely and we always had something on from sports to education

Some of the teachers are alright however like someone else said, the school only cares about image. Fairly good courses and sport and what not, however some teachers just need to get their priorities straight.

Nowra high school is more focused on image than the wellness of students.Most teachers either don’t know what they’re doing, slap some work down in front of you and simply expect you to do it even though they haven’t taught you or treat you like an annoying younger sibling they have to take care of while you’re with them.Office ladies are rude and judgemental.Teachers put a students personal problems whether it’s home life or not getting along with a student down as laziness and excuses.Principal simply cares about the image,the uniform and the test scores and does not care about the students unless they meet his standards.