Would you recommend it?
The school isn't the biggest meaning classes are smaller which allows teachers to spend more time with students. Teachers there are fantastic and actually support you and help you. After school there are free tutorials in the library where you can request your teacher or past students the school hires and pays to come after school and tutor other students. There's a wide variety of classes ranging from the most advanced math to robotics, UAV certification classes and even working on fixing planes which was super hands on and all done inside the plane hanger. My experience was awesome, I got a wake up call in year 10 when I finally failed a math class and my math teacher saw I was truely distraught, she then talked to me gave me extra work to do checked up on me before and after class and even went to the afterschool tutoring to help me out.
What had the biggest impact
Most positive aspect was how hard the teachers tried. Whether you were a straight A student or a parley passing student they found the time to seriously help and pay attention to both. Most negative thing has nothing to do with the school just one teacher who just retired in the middle of a term leaving us and causing us to fail that term and then the school begging him to come back which he did and then everything was fine.
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Year 12 subject choices
I chose general math, general English, design, physics, biology. I chose general maths because I tried out math methods and failed miserably so I had to do general. General English I chose because it didn't seem that hard but it very much was a challenge as it's not a strong suit for me design was my fun subject where we got to draw at a more sophisticated level and learn how to tailor to customers which was very fun. Physics I chose because I found a love for it but it did turn out to be a struggle however it did help me on my engineering journey. Biology I had to choose because there was nothing else that appealed to me. My choices were mainly pushed towards mechanical engineering and they did help me get there and I dont think I would change much.
Getting extra help
As I said before teachers were super accesable, you could ask them during class to come to throwing and they would almost always be obliging if they didn't have prior plans, again the after school tutoring is completely free. And peer feedback was very plentiful and engaged, we did so in each class essentially in a weekly basis.
Readiness for life after school
They made a strive to make us prepared for university and honestly they did a decent job but in my honest opinion they really cannot prepare you, everyone will have a unique experience everyone journey will be different and you cannot tailor your teaching to every student. However, they tried their best to help us in our transition and it did help, they had one on one talks with students about choosing their degree and were blatantly honest with whether you could make it or not which I thank them for.
Subject range and curiosity
Most interesting ones were one where you worked on a plane so something with mechanics, they also had design like art but more tailored towards learning how to tailor to customers, they also had some really cool history classes which I didn't take. There were also many activities during lunch and after school which were related to science technology and planes and UAV so there were many opportunities.
Bullying and getting to school safely
Bullying was most defienkty not a problem, teachers were out on patrol like hawks not only during lunch hours but inbetween classes to catch anyone sus. Anyone caught bullying or preying on someone else was treated very harshly and was not able to get their parents to just call in and get them out of it. Getting to school was easy. Nice 10 15 minute walk from Toombul station across the river and you're sorted or you could also walk from eagle junction station in the same amount of time, and with 4 or 5 bus stops within the outskirts of the school busses were fine aswell. There's a nice car drop off area and a massive parking lot. Roads were obviously busy but there is a sanctioned zebra walk to get to the school that is always watched and used by a teacher after school and the principle himself every single day after school acts as the traffic warden at the busiest part where cars come in drop off and park and children pass so he is awesome and is always willing to make time for you if needed.
Camps and excursions
The schools culture was super chill and relaxed lunch time showed that as students were all in their own worlds doing what they want and not causing havok you'd have small groups big groups chill groups and the competitive sports groups on the oval, there was a group for everyone.
Something only students would know
One thing is that the principle very obviously got a hair transplant and during one of his speeches in the hall which were weekly or bi weekly I think everyone could see it, a red dotted line around the circumference of his head and it was hilarious noone could stop laughing, but now he looks pretty slick.
Coaching and chances to compete
I did t do it at a competitive place but it was cool and with the competitive ones they had training before school, after school and even some during weekends so that would've been good for them.tge other students were also coached during their classes but imorubing the general students skill wasn't super encouraged, the elites though we're very much encouraged and it did help them win a bunch.
Chances to take part in the arts
I did design and the tools they had were pretty good, the class was very small so it was very intimate and interaction was a must, I wasn't even able to draw a 3d cube before this class and now Im able to draw cool pieces of furniture and cadets and know how to effectively help tailor to the customers needs, but there were also like 2 other arts related subjects art and drama sadly no film.
- Played sport: Yes
- Sports played: Basketball, Chess, Softball, Volleyball
- Did an arts activity: Yes
- Arts activities done: Visual Arts (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, etc.), Design
