Walford Anglican School for Girls, Hyde Park School Reviews

Walford Anglican School for Girls, Hyde Park

School Reviews

By Student - 03 Apr 2024, Rate: bad

This school praises mental heath but once you show it your shot down and made to feel like your not good enough. The principal dose nothing but eat the boarders food, speaking of the boarders food it is so bad! The racism is here is so disgusting you are only cared for if a family members works here or attended here . For the price we are paying the facilities and subject selection is extremely disappointing. The cafeteria sometimes saves up borders leftover food. It’s overpriced and usually cold. Overall the school is bland and an unenjoyable and uninspiring place. Do NOT send your daughters here. AMEN

By Student - 26 Mar 2024, Rate: poor

Im at this school right now, and every comment about the school obsession with image is very real. The school is also very slow with responding to problems, highly favours some girls over others, and I have seen consistant racism and exclusion, that I'm lucky to not have experienced.
every comment about the school being amazing is mostly written by girls who benefit from this sytem. they build a culture of pushing down the 'problems' then marketing any promising kids. they also expect any old students to come back and show what they have done, and market them as if they couldn't have done it without the school. Its a toxic rich and narrow-minded school.

By Alumnus - 20 Oct 2023, Rate: bad

the teachers and students could not have been worse, i was there year 1 - 10 and could not believe how much i was discriminated against and bullied by the teachers. do not send your kid here.

By Alumnus - 01 May 2023, Rate: bad

The campus was so small and the students aren’t friendly at all. The teachers don’t really work hard on teaching and just make us do work. This school is very rubbish. According to the reviews before, the bullying happened a lot here and no teachers or anyone solve this issue like they were so focused on students’ wellbeing but they never do anything to improve the school.

By Student - 14 Jun 2022, Rate: good

Honestly, I'm still in school at Walford and I will say it is not the best with things like bullying but then again if you got bullied that's not your fault but it's also not the schools! it's the girls who bully people!!! but otherwise, it is pretty good

By Student - 14 Oct 2021, Rate: bad

This school is bad i am in year 7 and my teacher was horrible made rude and this wad the worst experience in my lifetime

By Parent - 23 Apr 2021, Rate: poor

according to my 16yr old daughter, girls have been bullying her since grade 2. my daughter is smart, beautiful and there is no reason for the teachers and students to be making her feel so horrible. all i want is my daughter to have an education. the girls add walford are the classic rich teen girls with no respect for people who aren't like them. i will be moving my daughter by the end of this year. to other schools walford is know as the toxic cult school according to my daughter. please think first before sending your girls here!

By Student - 12 Mar 2021, Rate: good

Stop complaining about this school it's fine. If you were bullied it's probably your own problem.

By Alumnus - 05 Mar 2021, Rate: bad

Worse memories of bullying ever.

By Alumnus - 13 Jan 2021, Rate: bad

This was the worst school I ever went to. The bullying behaviour by the girls was ridiculous to the point of psychological torture. The teachers are aware but do absoloutely nothing and at times joined in with the girls. I had to leave the school and take half a year off to resurrect my mental health issues incurred by going to the school. Seriously reconsider sending your daughter here.

By Student - 28 Nov 2019, Rate: bad

The culture at the school is so toxic, when U asked to move classes because the teacher was bullying me the principal Rebecca Clarke replied with "I wouldn't want to set a precedent" her priority was the schools image and reputation over her own students mental health. A large majority of students are horrible as well bullying runs rampant and the girls have a massive ego and are horrible to other students who don't fit their ideals. If you are considering sending your child here please consider their mental health before academic performance.

By Parent - 19 Jul 2018, Rate: excellent

This school really empowers girls to achieve the best that they can.

By Parent - 07 Dec 2017, Rate: excellent

It's a very happy school. Our daughters love it there.

By Parent - 20 Aug 2017, Rate: excellent

A very caring school with high achievement standards.

By Parent - 07 Aug 2016, Rate: excellent

We moved our daughter here from another independent school on the basis of positive comments we had heard. We toured the school and got a very good feeling, and it was even better when she arrived. She loves going to school and this appears to be the norm for all the girls. This is a very warm and friendly school and the teachers all work very hard to help girls achieve outstanding results. In the time we have been here, we have seen the school go from strength to strength and we are very pleased to be a part of it.

By Parent - 05 Aug 2016, Rate: excellent

Walford has provided a wonderful, nurturing environment for my daughter, with supportive teachers and a beautiful school community. I could not be happier.

By Parent - 09 Jun 2016, Rate: excellent

Couldn't ask for a better place to educate my daughter. My son has been at the ELC - I only wish he could stay on. This school really has brought out the best in my children.

By Parent - 24 May 2016, Rate: excellent

An outstanding school. My daughter moved here in Year 8 and since starting at the School we have really noticed her growth in confidence. The teachers are caring and supportive and very good at what they do - the excellent academic record of the school speaks for itself. She has made some good friends too. As parents, we could not ask for a more caring, nurturing and respectful environment than Walford.

By Alumnus - 24 Apr 2016, Rate: poor

The only sport the school actually cares about is rowing so basically the 1st VIII is the be all and end all of school sport. Walford has such a narrow curriculum when I compare it to what my friends at other Adelaide private schools were offered. The school itself is more concerned about its image then it's actual students. They're also desperate to keep students with girls in my year threatening to leave only to be given a leadership role (which other people deserved more and worked for) in exchange for staying. Some of the girls I met in my time here were genuinely lovely people but others were generally the most vial people I have ever come across. Honestly Walford could be such a great school if it changed a few things.

By Parent - 04 Dec 2015, Rate: bad

Our child has experienced religious imposing upon her. It is unacceptable. When we first enrolled her, they ensured us that the Christian doings were non-compulsory and minimal. She has since informed us that she is forced to attend an assembly where Christian happenings occur, many Chapel services and a general opinion that you can't complain about the religion since it is called Walford Anglicn.
We enrolled our daughter in at Walford for her to get a good education, not to be verbally abused in her beliefs of non-religion. The worst school she has ever been too and years of her life she will never get back. To think she could've had a proper education in another school! Damn you, Walford. Damn you.

By Parent - 04 Dec 2015, Rate: bad

By Student - 04 Dec 2015, Rate: bad

An awful school blinded by Christian views. Beware, non-Christians, chapel services are compulsory. Behaviour towards non-Christians is appalling. For example, I once decided not to stand up though a prayer and Christian song. The result was being physically and verbally abused by the people behind me: one girl was kicking my chair, and many others were talking about how disrespectful and rude it was, even when the reverend says, "You may stand for the blessing." Eventually, an older girl grabbed my shoulder hard and told me to stand up. I simply told her I wasn't religious.
It just goes to show how unwelcoming, unaccepting and disrespectful Walford Anglican School For Girls is.

By Parent - 25 Nov 2014, Rate: excellent

Have heard many complaints from ex-students about the behaviour of Walford girls and the narrow curriculum.

By Parent - 13 Oct 2013, Rate: bad

There have been countless number of complaints regarding the attitude of several Walford girls when they are competing in a sport against other schools. I have seen much better manners displayed at schools like Wilderness.

By Student - 09 Dec 2012, Rate: excellent

I've never been to a school so focussed on helping everyone find their talent. The number of opportunities are amazing and I know that I've had some of the best all round education available. It can be a challenge to adjust to if you've come from a different system but eventually Walford will feel like home.

By Student - 09 Sep 2012, Rate: excellent

I've moved around the world and this school is by far the best I have ever been to. The education is great and it certainly is a private school.