Orana Steiner School

The school has great gardens and has lots of nature which is nice, but there are a lot of improvements that should be made.
One of the main issues I have is about the safety. We never practice lockdown, the classrooms can only be locked with keys from the outside, there are no curtains anywhere, some of the doors can just be kicked open (even when they are locked) and my friends and I have asked some of the teachers about why we don't practice lockdown and they've given us ridiculous answers like: "It's fire season now" (It's terrorist season all year isn't it?!), "There's no need for a lockdown because nothing will ever happen" (How do you know?!) or "If there's a lockdown, you'll just have to do what you can!" (So basically I just die if there's a shooter who comes to the school?!). Another annoying thing is that some of the teachers keep lying to us telling us that "We will practice lockdown" (They started saying that years ago!) or even "We're working with the police so we can practice lockdown". (That was said over a year ago!).
Other issues the school has are the following: The stairs are terrible, too big and the only good stairs that have been build in the last year were build in a pointless place, the maintenance in general isn't good enough, the dress code is a bit too overdone, you have to take your hat off inside for no good reason, the organisation is slightly bad, the school fees have more than doubled since I started coming here in 2008, and a lot of the work we have to do is very pointless.
Overall I love being a student at this school, but I really think the school needs to make a lot of improvements.

The only thing good about this school is that it looks nice. (And it's what's on the inside that counts). Save yourself some money and don't come here.

Friendly teachers
Useful directional signs around the school
Cheerful students
Keeping clean grounds and ovals

Your children will have fun
Over here, join this school
Unite all as one!

Decadent canteen food, very healthy
Oh, the joyful children
Never bored, inspired with creativity'
Terrific management & coordination

Celebrate the glory
Over at Orana
Mesmerising music,
Every person is welcome

HERE!

This school is good if you like art and music and creative things, but it is not so good if you like maths, science, or I.T.

Love the school. Been a student here for 9 years. Teachers are caring and students are welcoming and nice.

They recently updated their policy so now we get 2 hours out of the salt mines and 30 minutes for mourning the dead and lunch

I only gave this a one because you can't give a 0 lol

lunch lady once laughed at me for getting the wrong change..... h8 this shool

This is a wonderful school. There are beautiful gardens to play in. The teachers are caring and joyful. My 3 kids go there and love it.