O'Loughlin Catholic College - Karama, Northern Territory

Gqdave

I was a former student of this college and I can say it's was horrible, 35 plus kids to 1 class and if your not the brightest they push you to the side just let you get by, most teachers are trainees and can hardly handle simple day to day task. Would never send my kids here and so upset my parents wasted money on this school.

Michael D.

O'loughlin Catholic College is a very good school. I am currently in grade 7, meaning I have only spent at least 8 months, and I already love it. All my friends from my old school are here, and you can even make new friends too. The food is a bit overpriced but other than that I'd give it 5 stars out of 5.

TheRichGamer 9. (.

Worst school anyone has ever gone too. Got bullied
from two of the teachers. Reported them and had no
apology and no talk about it.

Soon, moved to Darwin Middle School. Couldn't believe
4 kids from Oloughlin moved there in less than 2 weeks.

Only thing good about this school is the principle.

hopefully Ms. Pearson and Ms. Tartaglia learn to respect there future students so they can boost up the
reputation of this low equality school.

Anyone who's thinking bout putting their kids to school
make sure your careful. It can mentally torture you
severely!

abcdefg H.

I made a comment to a female student this morning - 29 May 2023 "aren't you cold" She said she was. I asked her where her jumper was and she said "students are only allowed to wear school uniform jumpers"!! I said "that's a bit rough, I'd wear a jumper anyway". The girl said if she did, they would probably make her take it off and she should be getting a school jumper soon". I went to Catholic schooling until yr 10. I always FOLLOWED THE SCHOOL RULES but this is ridiculous her parents are paying a lot of money for a Catholic Education and uniforms and she goes to school cold!!! NOT IMPRESSED!!!

Jambo J.

I went here during the years 2006-2008, I regularly had poor experiences. The core subjects were ok most of the time, yet they consistently had teachers assigned to electives they clearly couldn't teach.

I signed up for art class, because I was interested in learning practical skills as I yearned to create things. No such luck, as after struggling through theoretical work that I couldn't care less about, the teacher just expected people to use current levels of skills and knowledge to create their projects.

I was interested in woodworking for similar reasons. The teacher for this class would show you something once, and then when you needed extra support, would just whine about how you weren't paying attention. If you did finish the work you had done, and asked him what was next, you were told to "hurry up and wait". There were times when he was more interested in doing his own thing, and would often waste the time of the entire class throwing out his catchphrase of "hurry up and wait", even when it was as simple as unlocking a cabinet, giving us access to tools.

IT was always a joke. The teachers didn't have a clue as to what to teach us. One term, they had us create slideshow presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. We weren't taught anything, we were simply assessed on what we already knew from using the software previously in primary school. They would simply hand us various programs such as "klik and play" or "Adobe photoshop" and told us to "figure it out". One of the teachers needed regular assistance from the students to use his laptop, so he could mark student work from his other classes. This teacher would then assess our work, despite knowing nothing about how we even created it.

The same teacher from IT would run a religion class where he simply showed us movies and have us answer a quiz about the morals displayed in the film.

In 2008, a rumour was circulating about how all the smart kids were all in the same class together. They attempted to assure us this wasn't the case, despite knowing that everyone in there was a high achiever. Our class had a broken Air conditioner for the entirety of the build-up/wet season. We were told they couldn't afford to fix it, which was strange as they could afford a smart board projected for the high achievers. In addition to this, 3 of 4 fans were broken and most of the louvres wouldn't open.

I was forced into taking technical drawing because they decided preference to classes was to be left to lottery rather than first in best dress. The aircon wasn't working, there were no fans and none of the windows opened. The walls were lined with computers, that were always switched on, which obviously created a lot of heat. To make matters worse, the tables were clearly meant for primary school and too many people occupied the same space. We were elbow to elbow and this made completing technical drawing especially difficult.

An overweight friend and I (I was also overweight) would get kicked out of the school library at lunchtime by the librarian at the time "because we needed more exercise". Our health was simply none of her business.

The teacher for one of my science classes would get interrupted by about four students in a class of about 20 people. Because of this, she would simply refuse to teach the entire class. She wouldn't leave or anything, she would simply refuse to teach.

They decided to send the school to the cathedral for a "treat". They didn't want to get enough buses, because they were cheap. So they would cart off the higher year levels first, and by the time the lower year levels showed up, some of the students were there for hours. This was especially frustrating when you consider that there is a church around 2 minutes walk away.

I was put down in maths class levels "because I was talking too much". That same year they couldn't be bothered assigning me to a maths class of my level based on last year's results.

I have more to say, but I've reached the character limit.

Trish P.

I have had two children graduate from O'Loughlin. I am incredibly grateful for the support and pastoral care provided by the school. While the great academic support and range they offer may also be found at other schools it is the personal care for all their students provided by the staff at O'Loughlin that has provided us with the knowledge that our children were supported to be their best. Highly recommended

fag D.

the honestly and spine of this school frankly is non apparent. If you find yourself in a position where you are potentially enrolled or enrolling your child into this atmosphere understand that the toxic and backward nature of the administration will in all instances work in there own self interests they do not tell you that statistically they perform to a lower degree both when you are in and when you leave the school for three main reasons:

1) Particularly in high school the student and parent are not told that you are not given sufficient atar points to gain your NTCET before your finish
year twelve and that if you decide to leave in lets say yr 10 or 11 you are at a deficit for points compare to children at public schools meaning that they are forcing your child to stay at the school because if they move they wont be able to gain there ntcet

2) They are brought up in a system that doesnt support them in any way and if they do come to them with problems your child will be turned away and left of the curb or given poor advice

3) They restrict your childs personal liberties and will not fail to intrude into private matters such as text messages and home life

oh and they threaten to call the police on your child if they are exposed or threated to be exposed for there backward and outdated methods

Javier J.

O'Loughlin Catholic College is a very positive school and the teachers are extremely supportive and the students are friendly. Overall a really great school!