Wirreanda Secondary School

To give at review about wirreanda would require the difference experiences of different students with different needs. Wirreanda dose offer this but that is not everyone experiences but my experience is that wirreanda was great at giving me the support I needed during my years there including the near the end, by current year 11 students

The school has fantastic facilities, excellent, caring teachers but lacks the ability to contain students and keep them from ruining the school. When Wirreanda hit the news for their poor conduct they decided to email home excuses rather than fix the issue.

I was bullied lots at this school and in my first year it felt like the police were called every week due to fights. Lots of drug use. The only good thing is that there is lots of sports but as someone who doesn’t like sports it sucked

Got a UTI from the toilets. An absolute dump of a school. Weirdly sports focuses and favours students who are sporty. Bad teacher's, bad school. WAVE program is the only good part about it

My experience at this school hasn’t been fantastic. I’ve been a part of several curriculums throughout the school and have participated in many extra curricular events within the school, however there are certain areas in the school in which make it incredibly unsafe for students all around.
First of all, in 9th grade, a certain teacher abused most of the students in my class both physically and emotionally, and we have all reported this teacher several times throughout the years, but they don’t seem to have a consequence.
Following this incident, I had given my friend my bag during lunch when I had a tutoring session. My friend went to one of the clubs that run at lunch and I knew where they were. So I went to get my bag and politely knocked on the door, my friend came to the door with my stuff, and the teacher running the club continually ignored me and locked me out. I’m doing so, slamming the door into my shoulder several times, leaving a bruise and scarred tissue. This teacher then had me in their class for the next semester.
Now, I’m very involved in the music program and as I went into senior school, I found it more difficult to get to my tuition times during my classes. For example, as a vocalist, you were expected to lose the last half hour of one of your classes to attend choir, for me, it was Specialist Maths. On top of that, we also had to miss another half hour from a different class to get to your tuition times and if you didn’t attend, you would receive a community service or stay behind while the teacher give you a lesson in time management.
I understand the struggle and frustration to organise a time for students of all year levels to come together for 30 minutes twice a week and then have them grouped for tuition once a week, but my suggestion would be to schedule them during lunch/recess breaks.
I have voiced my opinions many times but the main teacher who runs the vocal program is not very open minded. Don’t get me wrong, they know their stuff but they don’t understand that we, as students, also need to focus and value our other subjects, especially those of us in Year 11 and 12.
I hope this helps to make a change in some way.
Thanks 🙏