Mt Maria College

The school puts too much emphasis on public image and has a severe lack of priorities, education-wise.The newer students, who should be considered a lower priority, are treated with the new buildings and air-conditioned classrooms, while the grade 12's who have their final exams in a few months are rostered in classrooms with fans only, which don't do much of anything. Some grade 12's I know of are ONLY rostered in fan classrooms. This is detrimental to their concentration, particularly in Brisbane where the humidity is as high as it is. These students with the highest priority should have access to the best the school can deliver for them, so that they can get the best grades that they can.Out of the four schools I have been to, this is the only high school without air conditioning in a majority of classrooms. Regardless of the reason as to why, they should at least have a timetable that manages the flaws of the school to the best degree, which they fail to do.The focus on public image and actual condition of uniforms completely contradict each other and the way that the staff enforce the rules on the students is ridiculous. The majority of students that are picked on for their uniform are the ones that have simply forgotten their hats, 'this one time' and the long-time offenders are often ignored or given consequences that are not nearly harsh enough to warrant a change in these students.Despite my criticisms, I would be happy to reconsider my words if the school comes out with an improvement to these flaws, and to chat to the people that can do something about it.

Whenever I went to the tuckshop or however you spell it, I ordered the cheese hot dogs which were an extra dollar more expensive than the regular hot dogs, amounting to five dollars if I recall. A good seventy-five per cent of the time, I would receive the regular hot dogs. The tuckshop is a rip-off. The hot dog was decent.

If you had a good experience at this school it's is purely because you are white, cis, straight and neurotypical otherwise you are in for a hell of a ride. I am currently a student as of writing this and have been at the school seen grade 7. Teachers provided for the younger grade are aggressive and unmotivated too teach students. Teacher's snap at students with cruel statement's rather than taking an appropriate reaction to student behaviour. For example a teacher called a student a 'waste of space'. The school pretends to care about its students. Guidance counselors take their anger out on students. I personally have overhead guidance counselors taking about students in an extremely unprofessional way. One time a friend reported it to a house co and no action was taken. Staff is not trauma informed and do very little to accommodate for special needs. I have personally witnessed ableism happening in the class and teachers doing nothing about it. Teachers do not hesitate to ignore special needs students and the comments made by other students in the classroom. I have been told to go to a different school by a teacher when I tried to make recommendations on a more accepting atmosphere. They preach conforming, hate and ignorance. Worst experience of my life and will leave me mentally scared. Screw you Mt Maria. And don't think I haven't tried to talk about these issues. Teachers just say they 'cant do anything about it'. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE! Witnessing the toxic environment is bad enough but being the brunt of it is a traumatic experience that no child should ever go through. Protect your kids, it is not worth the tuition.

Sounds as if all these comments are actually being made about it's sister Campus in Petrie, previously Colby looks like nothing's changed.

Mt Maria has an amazing community spirit with great staff and teachers that go the extra mile for the kids. The school has a great vibe around it and the parents go out of their way to help each other. The procedures and teaching that Mt Maria has implemented with the COVID19 pandemic has been second to none. I am truely impressed by the school, the school community and the teachers and staff. I would highly recommend this school.

Mt Maria, more like Mt Olympus, i love this place so much.jk

I want to this school for 1.5 years. After that school had to do distance Ed for a year after it gave me that much anxiety. Worst experience ever. Don't send your kids there. Way to much emphasis on uniforms, socks and hats. Rather than the mental health and learning. Environmentally terrible. There is only one block that has a subject/the arts dedicated to it, everywhere else is just confusing. There need to be cubicles of bathrooms rather than 4 girls bathrooms per block. I would use up class time and my entire breaks waiting outside the bathroom to get changed and unchanged. Walking barefoot on concrete, half dressed so my hpe class wouldn't leave without me. Massive amounts of students wait to get changed for it. Instead of coming to school in sport uniform, which the school gets you in trouble if you do. There is no allocated year level area, Made it very hard to ever make friends because everyone would be scattered in places. Lockers of my grade all over the school, instead of year level locker rooms. There also should be year level parades, not what colour house you are. At my new school everyone in the grade can collectively listen to what notices we needed to hear instead of mixed grades in benedict house, what a joke. Homeroom should be your year level, more friend making, you can talk about relevant subjects to your own age. I was thrown into homeroom all my first year, No one i could talk to of my own age, accept for a couple other my age who were bully's. Poor teaching might i add. barely any emails, or notices about due dates, i had two good English teachers and one teacher who teached Chinese who left. Apart from that, you barely did any tasks or learning that would help you when it came to being assessed. Science and history was okay when it came to lessons. The classrooms are very tiny might i add. Math class was like a shoebox. Now dont even get me started on the timetable. Being late for an 8:30 homeroom start, you had to login at the student office, only two screens available, people in massive line-ups to get a late pass. I think i had 2 classes in the morning, two after lunch and another two in the afternoon, It might of been one in the afternoon i dont remember. Why cram so many classes in a day, learning so much, making it harder for students to manage. Also if i did not have my hat at school, even if i sat in the shade, you would get two breaks of detention. Same goes when leaving the school gate without one. The teacher would stand there and watch kids leave, if it wasn't on your head they would shout at you until you came over and got a detention. The phycilities are awful, assemblies are held on a concrete floor next to train tracks. A whole school crammed inside. It would be okay if it was a school with not a lot of money. But they say its a classy school. Drama rooms were okay. Music rooms were actually good. Plus IT wouldnt do nothing about your laptop problems. Tuckshop had barely anything you could eat, way way to expensive. cup of noodles were way to expensive for what they were. Dont send your kids to this school. Not worth the money

I graduated in 2017 and I just wanted to say that I really didn't enjoy my time there. I mainly found some teachers not very supportive and many of them didn't seem to want to teach or had a power complex. I had one teacher who would humiliate students by asking them why they bother coming to school. I was also discouraged in pursuing university in grade 10 by a teacher. Overall, I wouldn't recommend anyone sending their children to this school.

We've been a part of the Mt Maria community for four years with three of our children currently attending in years 7, 9 & 10 and we cannot be more pleased our choice of school for them.During our children's time at the college they have been supported and encouraged by their teachers and peers. The teachers in particular across the college have been excellent, we as parents really love that we know they have teachers who are supportive and encourage them in all their areas of interest such as music and sport and not just academics.Our children are part of the college music bands which continue to grow each year and sound fabulous every time we see & hear them perform.Our eldest daughter also recently participated in a Queensland Schools Volleyball competition in Toowoomba that was organised as an extra activity outside of school time for students to participate in. The weekend in Toowoomba was a fabulous opportunity for the students to be involved in an activity with their school peers that weren't necessarily their friends which in turn created and developed friendships with their peers. The students across the three teams were excellent ambassadors for the school and should be incredibly proud of their efforts and conduct during this event.It's events and opportunities like these that cement why we are very happy with our choice in schools for our children's secondary education.We also think the teachers are pretty awesome too! :)

These comments are from a parent today - Thank you for your feedbackI love coming there and am so happy we chose Mt Mariafor studentX. I love all of the staff there and enjoy coming tothe school everyday.Thanks again for everything you do for me and the schoolin general."From me: I love working here thank you to all our staff and all of the parents that I interact with