Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School

In 2019 when I started at this school it was seemingly excellent, but since then the support has gone down hill, "we can't deal with this right now we've got too much going on" that was a quote from one of the deputy principles when I tried to report I was being bullied, it wasn't always like that but a student should never be made to feel like they're problems mean nothing. overall the schools assistance when it comes to any problems is abysmal.

The school is alright. But in all honesty though — no matter how hard you try or not, you’ll be blamed for any little inconvenience and you won’t be given that help that’s oh so much preached to us students. The moral of the story; no matter what school you’re at you’re not getting that help, or in other words, you’re f@&ked.

I had an absolutely amazing experience at this school! I made such amazing friends and had amazing teachers! truly the happiest I've ever been at this school! couldn't recommend this school enough! The teachers are absolutely amazing! amazing for kids in the creative and performing arts! I am now in uni studying to be a secondary teacher and I can truly say the teachers that I had at this school are the reason I wanted to become a teacher! they are so inspiring, so kind and so hardworking! couldn't recommend this school enough! absolutely amazing!!

The Special Ed here is outstanding. If you have a hearing impaired child, this is the place to go. New Principal with child centred philosophy. Excellent teaching staff and strong support for kids and staff.

Good school, (some) ok teachers, some absolutely amazing ones. BUT. If your kid doesn’t like doing sport don’t even think about attending here. The school is so focussed on sport related activities and being the best sport school in the area that being a creative and performing arts school is pretty much a burden. It’s also (pretty much) impossible to see the councillor, and most opportunities for students to try out new things are automatically put down and discarded. If you have a smart kid who does either drama, music or dance send them here but the art faculty is lacking in teachers who respect students and who understand what young artists do. Most of them aren’t open minded and all they want is for students to trace works and submit them into competitions so the school can have more clout. No matter how many students complain about what’s wrong with the school, their opinions don’t matter to the people that run it. The school needs to pick up its act and needs to talk to some actual students to find out what’s wrong and how to fix it cause the school is run by people that don’t understand the community they have and don’t know how to make rules that ACTUALLY stick. Also the teachers and principal care more about ‘gOoD uNifOrM ‘ than they do about students enducation. On multiple accounts the principal has taken (senior) students out of classes just to tell them they are out of uniform. It’s abso atrocious and they need to get their goals and aims straight because all this is doing is ruining kids education and distracting them. I highly doubt me wearing socks that are black with a white stripe on them are going to absolutely ruin my education:)