Reviews

This school has gone down hill over the last 5 years or so and has lost its way. Once held in high regard as "the" private school on the island, this is no longer the case.

Seldom will you see a school where the pupils are so unhappy and in constant fear of being reprimanded for being children. The school holds the children accountable to high standards but rarely does the school itself meet such standards itself in its staffing, their attitude or the facilities.

Their approach is incredibly inflexible with teachers and faculty staff incapable of adapting to different learning styles or personalities. In fact, they would rather the children don't have personalities at all.

The number of mistakes made by staff is unacceptable (and never admitted to, corrected or apologised for) and the number of staff that hold grudges against specific children is embarrassing and unprofessional. We even had one member of the so called "Pastoral Care" team being unprofessional and indiscreet and telling us unverified stories about one of our daughters friends which, if her parents were aware, they would be furious!

When our daughter first went to this school we had high hopes. She did enjoy the junior school and that school is vastly better than the senior school.

However, as things got progressively worse, the school were asked on multiple occasions for help and simply paid lip service to the matter. Offers of support were forgotten very quickly. It was clear that if you weren't an academically a high achiever, they believed that St Chris wasn't the school for you.

The school has a real issue with student welfare, bullying and poor self esteem. Our daughter suffered from awful anxiety and didn't want to attend school. After many conversations with heads of year, assistant heads and the school head we were actually told it may be our fault and we weren't handling the situation correctly by one particularly patronising woman?

If anyone is considering sending their child to this school please do not expect your child to be happy here unless they are straight A students and have zero personality or spirit.

I appreciate that this might come across as a bit of a rant but my husband and I cannot state how deeply awful we find the school and the staff. We do acknowledge that some staff are great but they are in the minority and we acknowledge that some children like the school but they are genuinely few and far between. Amongst our friendship group I would suggest 75% plus are parents of children at the school and within that group 95% of them complain about the school regularly.

Please, please do your due diligence before applying to this school, look at the alternative options and speak to other parents if you can.