Hills Adventist College - North Kellyville, New South Wales

Max Kelly

Do not go to this school. When I first started I loved this school, the teachers were great and passionate about their teaching which made learning a lot easier. However after a few years the good teachers had all left and quality of the school heavily declined. Mrs Reid and Mrs Hutanu were outstanding teacher all the way through and basically carried my ATAR, my other year 12 teachers were lacklustre to say the least. Mr Young refused to give me an extension to a HSC assessment after both my sisters ended up in the hospital with a ruptured appendix and broken bones which affected my assessment marks and mental wellbeing. I had 5 English teachers, with Mrs Tuitama being my main teacher for most of the year. Mrs Tuitama threatened us with N-Awards for things like having our laptops open in class and tried to guilt us into behaving by stating "I don't have to be here, I'm volunteering to come here and teach you because you have no teacher. I'm not getting paid for this. (She was) I could be at home with my family." It was pretty unprofessional and she wasn't very good at teaching on top of that. For literally 3 weeks we wrote the same sentence every class and while I did get good at writing that one sentence in a 52 minute lesson, I still was unsure of what a topic sentence was. Every time we got a new teacher and we started to make progress in the only mandatory subject in the HSC, Mrs Tuitama would come back and spend weeks undoing all of that progress. I also had 5 chemistry teachers which got progressively worse, Miss Davies was the best teacher ever and her year 12 replacements were either incompetent at teaching or overtly egotistical. One teacher, who only taught for 3 weeks, talked about how good he was at teaching and how everyone revered him so highly for 45 of the 52 minute class and then proceeded to teach us how to balance chemical equations (something no one asked for because we learned it in year 9 science) and this was our first class with him and the last class before our HSC Trials. Mrs Zhao was the best of the 2023 teachers. We taught ourselves the entirety of the year 12 chemistry syllabus. The school told us we would be compensated for the lack of teachers however they did not follow through with their promise as far as I'm aware. The schools disability provisions is relatively organised however Mrs Vanas needs a raise and more assistance as she has to coordinate aspects of the disability provisions, careers and HSC which leads to problems with things being forgotten. During my English HSC Trial exam I was left in a room for 45 minutes, fell asleep and woke up, and when I left the room I was asked if I had finished when I was still waiting on my scribe to start the exam. The students are terrible and people get put in rolls of leadership for the wrong reasons. Students who are SDA are put on pedestals and are very likely to become student leaders which creates strong cliques of SDA students who are significantly overvalued. The school has deep rooted bias towards Seventh Day Adventist students, this isn't overtly obvious but as a catholic being told by the head of campus on my year 12 retreat "You could convert (to SDA) one day" proceeded by a story about a catholic priest that he allegedly knew that converted to SDA is DEPLORABLE to say the least. Teachers also over punish students who step out of line and neglect other students. I understand the school isn't directly responsible for all of these issues, however many of these things costed me ATAR points which is something parents shouldn't make their children also sacrifice by sending their kids to this school. For the $11,000 my parents paid every year for this school my parents and I both agree it was definitely not worth it and there are better schools very close by and for a lot cheaper.

Asdf Aldksd

Teachers in this school are terrible, some are good but a lot of teachers I’ve had are terrible. I have been picked on multiple times. Once I got hit in the head with a tennis ball and got in trouble. My friend got in trouble for picking up someone’s hair tie.

Rod Long

This school is growing because of its community feel, care for students and the dedication of its staff.

While it’s a Christian based school, many of the students that attend have different backgrounds and are welcomed.

The school on the Kellyville campus is still relatively young, with more facilities to come as it continues to grow.

I believe your children will be well cared for and will enjoy a wonderful education with great values - and still with room to improve.

John Borgus

I love the maggots in the garbage bins. The students here are arrogant and the teachers pick on students sometimes. Teachers enjoy hamburgers in class. canteen overpriced but slushies r good, i got scammed at canteen and i want my 4 bucks back. The boys bathrooms are gross and someone peed on the floor once too.

Mcpringles

Once in a lifetime you'll come across a school that truly captures the history and cultural distinctions of the modern world the way a person can subjectively perceive it through our guided field of perspective. I have to admit, I had my doubts when I first learned of the movie. After all, Hills Adventist College? Will this school even be good? How ignorant was I to even have these thoughts. Little did I know I was about to indulge in what may have been the best 1027282929817181 hours and 21 minutes of my life. The school started out strong. The first days enticed me with a captivating enigma. I was so taken aback from the next-generation education that I almost didn't even realize the underlying symbolism in the ongoing learning. It wasn't until my twenty sixth day of the term where I finally got my bearings together and was able to focus on the gripping and labyrinthine stratagem. The underlying analogy for 19th century distopianism and the evangelical deviation of typical orthodoxy was enlightening to say the least. Just when I thought the school could not get any better, the increasing conflict before the climax began. I could not believe the complexity of the story as the the school’s sub teacher struggled with the everyday endeavors for a quintessential payload. The consistent up- hill altercation of the fight against misogyny and the fiscal synergy of opposing interplanetary dynamisms. There I was, gripping to my chair as the conflict of our class began. I was so enticed their words that I felt as if I was both practically and relatively apart of a community. This is a special kind of high that not even the strongest of truths can give you. Was I part of the school? Am I inside the school right now? This school will leave you questioning existential nihilism and the objective skepticism of our perceived valuation of anthropological existence. At this point during the 3rd term, I was fully intoxicated by the avant-garde PDHPE classes. That's when my grades finally aggrandized and I was completely stupefied. You could have lived a thousand years of isolation trying to predict the plot twist and you would never even scratch the surface of what actually transpires when I got my grades back. I was so bewildered that I actually had to pause myself so that my existential crisis didn't dive too deep inside of myself. Even pausing myself was surreal. It's almost as if life paused itself. I felt as though I had actually become a cinematic tangent quantum. The effects are still wearing off and I haven't been able to research philosophy books in several years. I spent the following seven years afraid of what outside of my house actually looks like. Every single day and night I live in misery because I became fully aware that happiness is never achievable. I realized that human life has absolutely no meaning and that no matter what I ever do, it is of complete unimportance and in years from now, no recollection of my existence will prevail, meaning that if I died years ago, died now, or die sometime in the future it will not matter whatsoever to anyone. But, then again, the fact that I'm living doesn't matter either so I might as well stick around for awhile, living in complete isolation, condemned to a life of traumatic memories and a completely corrupted sub-conscience. Hills Adventist College saved society as a whole. God bless Austria 10/10

Yash Goel

This school does have rooted values. Anyone who abuses those values will be reprimanded to such extremes. My advice- stay in line and don't screw up. If the students don't like you, they never will.
Just suffer. quietly.

Kathryn Stedman

I've given myself a few years to cool down and reflect. Don't recommend - especially if you aren't Adventist. I didn't realise that would turn out to be a problem, but it was a very real problem socially for the kids and in other ways. It's very much a "us and them" club. It took me a while to see the invisible line - but it is there. Initially, on the surface everyone appears friendly enough - and in fact, everyone probably will continue to be friendly...but that is all. If you aren't Adventist ask yourself these questions - would your kids like to have a friend over from school on a Friday afternoon sometimes? What about a playdate on a Saturday? How about having a birthday party with school friends on a Saturday? How about having your child invited to any of those things? If the answer to any of those questions is yes then prepare for disappointment. Even if you tried to arrange it for a Sunday the chance the answer would be yes would be slim in my experience (from Adventists) as there is a level of distrust of anyone outside Adventist circles and there seems to be a preference within their own community to spend weekend time with church and family, which is fine, but it's good to understand what this would mean for your kids. I honestly was so puzzled for years. No matter how accomodating, how much I was willing to go out of my way, how many assurances of safety I gave the parents I could not get one friend over to play at our house for even one hour. It became WEIRD. One Adventist mum was telling me once at a swimming carnival about how her son (who they had moved from another Adv. school because of bullying) really didn't have any friends, so to be nice I asked if he wanted to come over for a play and she still said no!!! lol. I started to wonder if there was something wrong with us or our three kids - did we come across like a street gang or something Of course there are non-adventist kids that attend also so it is a bit of random luck in terms of the friend cohort.

Anyway if you are looking at sending your children here and aren't familiar with what Adventists believe, look it up. We are Christians and I'd thought it was basically the same except church on Saturday and no meat. I don't care about the differences, but they do. I wish I understood before.

On that note...Santa is not Adventist encouraged. Ms Andrews told my daughter, and her entire grade, that they were old enough to know that Santa wasn't real, so thanks for that Ms Andrews. A lump of coal for you.

There were some nice teachers who tried and did their best with the restrictions placed on them. Others were extremely defensive and combative. Some were downright rude. The leadership was toxic which was very much reflected in the high staff turn over and burn-out rate as well as the mass exodus of families (many of which are now at our current school). The school board evidently decided that the school was going to become known for its academics and went berserk ramping up the student workload and requirements to the point parents were having to give their kids days off school just so they could get assignments done. The learning support teacher once was apologetic that she hadn't finished scaffolding an assignment task as what she had done had already taken her 2.5 hours, and was 11 pages long I might add. That was the scaffolded task. Hilarious. The workload was insane and completely crushing for kids. If you love a high work load, in text referencing for kids in year 5, doing group work projects over fathers day weekends, having 8 massive projects over 10 days...having to take time off work so you can help your kids get their school work done, then you have found your dream school. Enrol. Live the dream. Seriously though. Some kids may like that. Some parents may like that. We did not. We moved on to greener pastures and our only regret is that we didn't do it sooner.

Having a glance at the other reviews - I can tell you that the ridiculously gushy positive ones are either staff, board members, or part of the "club".

Yasso Gazos

absolute garbage please never attend this school everyone there is trying to force there ways on to you. you get in trouble for no reason. and for these reasons i have left the school i please beg for your life do not ever attend this school