Thornleigh Salesian College

I went to this college and finished this year, my experiences were okay but there were some major issues with both quality of teaching and the handling of bullying from other students. While I admit that there were some accomodations provided to me for my anxiety, I was still picked on consistently by the year 12's for sitting in the area for quiet students and studying. Students are often unfriendly and aren't afraid to pick on you for differences, such as gender expression, sexuality and disability. This isn't often handled by staff, rather staff will ask you about how you caused your own bullying, engage with picking on you themselves or flat out not do anything. Not a good college to consider if you have mental health issues.
For quality of teaching, especially in the history department, often teachers will randomly be absent, or are very late to lessons, then proceed to not teach anything for the two hour sessions. Sometimes teachers would spend the entire lesson discussing football or other activities, resulting in you receiving no study material from lessons and having to go out and learn the content by yourself. It felt like most of the subject was self taught, and the areas that were taught to us were not of any aid in the final examinations. We were informed repeatedly that an area we were studying would most likely not be on the exams and thus we shouldn't study it, and yet it showed up as two major questions in the final paper, resulting in many students reporting being annoyed or that they would fail. The same teachers would often encourage or spend most of their time discussing with the loud or disruptive students, again meaning we wouldn't learn anything, rather just listen to bigoted ideas from male students.

The art department is generally disappointing and there isn't much room for those who are interested in creative subjects, all extra activities provided were about languages or sciences. If you make suggestions for clubs, these clubs being mandatory for the first year I went here, they often won't be considered and you're left to study or do nothing for the rest of the year.
Generally, I would not recommend this school.

school is absolutely vile, these teachers do not know any ways on how to communicate with there students my baby got sent to this school and the amount of things I was hearing back made me absolutely boil up with anger, he’s currently in sixth form and there still treating all these students like children and not adults, school seems very racist to certain ethnicities aswell I do not recommend any parent to let there child go to this school or even attended the sixth form very disappointed and avoid the receptionist ladies at all cost.

Shocking School through choice would never send my child there again. Trying to get my child moved. There is absolutely no anti bullying policy

Horrible school, horrible teachers, really affected my mental health badly to the point where i didn’t even feel like getting up in the morning do not care about students mental health or feeling and ridiculous rules. making children feel like absolute sh**!!! teachers do not care about bullying as they bully students themselves and seems like a prim and proper school but it is not the secrets instead of investigating into students behaviour and their mental health issues they shove them into the iu or into that bosco labeling them as ‘naughty kids’

Brilliant staff and teachers you can rely on