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Sydney Girls High School
Secondary · Government · Surry Hills
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do not come to this school bro
absolutely horrible everything is poor the canteen is mid at best most foods i would not feed to my own dog its like they mushed up mystery meats and served it to us everything is SO overpriced bro MUMS I FOUND I MAGGOT IN MY $7.50 PLAIN RICE AND CAULIFLOWER BOX ONCE AND THE TEACHERS SAID IT WAS EXTRA PROTEIN. not only that almost every single teacher cannot teach properly when you take tests you will be filled with the most intense hatred and rage for the school, school curriculum and everything else. Genuinely there is nothing good i can say about this school except for my friends but also like basically everyone hates everyone even through the grades like the upper grades will make you feel like you want to exit this world. All the studying and pain you go through is not worth the $7.50 variety pack of bugs like genuinely just go to your local school or smth anywhere is better than here.
uhhhhhhhh
all the studying i did for selective to get bitten by 10 mosquitoes during a maths exam. and the hsc ranking is going down, i definitely should not have choesn this school cs i chose it over a better shcool thinking that it was gonna benefit 'the future' and it aint even fuocusing on academics just the potato sacks that are OVER a shirt mind you that doesnt even let u breathe and trust youll be drenched by the time u get to central again. 😳😳😳
my local school freinds even look like theyre having a much better time than me and over here im getting endless grief on whether i wear the right uniform or not. the entire building is crumbling like if someone jumped the whole buildign would prolly go down. the subs are like the worst and we have so much maths homework so we don't even have time to do it most ppl just resort to copying the anwers 🥲 or using ai
i want more food too :/
my local school freinds even look like theyre having a much better time than me and over here im getting endless grief on whether i wear the right uniform or not. the entire building is crumbling like if someone jumped the whole buildign would prolly go down. the subs are like the worst and we have so much maths homework so we don't even have time to do it most ppl just resort to copying the anwers 🥲 or using ai
i want more food too :/
I hate Sydney Girls.
My 80 minute period boredom has led me to this. I can't even read the school's google reviews cause they are BLOCKED. Snowrider 3D is getting boring🥀
This school and it's teachers are my ultimate opps. I geniunely feel the life get sucked out of me whenever I walk through the front gates. The junior uniform sucks, your torso is sweaty if you wear tunics, and your legs are sweaty if you wear pants. A certain language teacher💔is actually my 13th reason. This school cares more about your uniform than your academics. Can these teachers stop walking INTO the bathrooms to check if you're on your phone. People change in there.
Not worth the studying, save yourself the tutoring money and go to loreto or smth
This school and it's teachers are my ultimate opps. I geniunely feel the life get sucked out of me whenever I walk through the front gates. The junior uniform sucks, your torso is sweaty if you wear tunics, and your legs are sweaty if you wear pants. A certain language teacher💔is actually my 13th reason. This school cares more about your uniform than your academics. Can these teachers stop walking INTO the bathrooms to check if you're on your phone. People change in there.
Not worth the studying, save yourself the tutoring money and go to loreto or smth
no, just no
this school honestly just sucks, there's like one or two good teachers who are actually nice and the rest of them can be kind of rude, are bad teachers or just stress you out. this school has a reputation for success but this isn't from the school itself, it's just the students attending tutoring. aside from that the uniform is so old fashioned and the school overall is just stuck in the 1800s, the junior uniform looks like the type of thing you'd find girls wearing hundreds of years ago, the school building is old and really depressing and there are spiders everywhere. you should definitely not send your kids here cause it's not a very positive environment
My procrastination of writing an English essay has led me to this
The school uniform is so ugly. The school colours are brown and yellow. I have a friend whose school was doing a debating contest on which school has the ugliest uniform and they won arguing our’s is. There’s also a stupid rule against us wearing our sports jacket when we’re not doing sports even when its winter and the ugly school uniform barely keeps us warm. As for the education in this school it’s really not as good as you would think. There are some good teachers but trust me there are an equal amount of horrible teachers that not only don’t teach you anything but also give you trauma. I’m sure the only reason this school is one of the “top” schools is cos of the competitive environment between students and not the school itself. Students just all go tutoring outside of school. There’s also times when a student teacher with no experience whatsoever gets assigned to a year 12 class. Honestly, you’d think year 12 would get more prioritised. Oh yea, our school is really poor. The paint on the walls are constantly peeling off and there are holes in the ceiling which leads to a leakage on rainy days where the school proceeds to put a bucket underneath the hole for days. We also don’t have air con because the place is a stupid heritage site and they use our school fees to do things like get new metal bins or implement a useless system detecting carbon levels in the air. The food sucks too. Oh and did I mention our school is mosquito infested and they haven’t, nor do I think they’re planning to, get rid of this problem. Anyways if you’ve read this far congrats on getting through the tip of the iceberg of the many complaints I have about this school.
It’s eh
The teaching is not bad, but it mostly depends on which teacher you get (and the quality can vary greatly, I’ve heard some not great things about certain teachers). Subject selection is quite limited, especially compared to other schools, with some subjects being removed entirely if there aren’t enough students for the course (sometimes despite there being enough students for the course, it still won’t be run). Canteen food is not great but expensive. The school itself has no air conditioning and can get extremely hot during summer and spring. The school environment can be stressful as well, since you’re constantly pressured to do well by teachers and your own cohort. However, the other students are very friendly (in my experience) and we have a decent variety of cocurriculars.
Good school, bad environment - very competitive
While this school is very prestigious, it does not have the best environment. This is a selective school which requires a test to get into, and is one of the top (smartest) schools in NSW. As a result all the students here are very competitive and do not care for much other than academics. The teachers and resources are mostly average however we do have some benefits (Governors centre) from sharing with Sydney Boys. The location is great as it is close to the city and you often get girls from as far away as the Blue Mountains. Don’t think that your life is over if you go here, there are always a handful of girls in each year who are normal and sane however do watch out. In terms of cocurriculars, we do have some odd sports (eg rowing, riffling) however don’t have some common ones like soccer and touch which is a bit annoying. If you chose to come here, I’m sure you’ll excel academically (scaling for hsc here is also very good) but make sure you’ve got a system and community outside of school life. I don’t hate it here because I have lots of other friends and do lots of clubs outside of school. Also although our gate just got replaced (last year a homeless man broke into our school and slept in the english staff room) there is a massive hole and me and my friends noticed it was very easy to get into the school.
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Andrea Connell
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