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All students must study the subjects listed under the Compulsory Core Subjects tab below. These subjects are also indicated by a dark blue band with the letter 'C' on the left side.
Full year, 4 lessons each.
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Select three Option subjects. (Full year, 4 lessons each. Total of 12 lessons a week).
Option Subjects appear under the Options Subjects tab below and are indicated by a light blue band with the letter 'O' on the left side. Subjects which are 'Subjects where Students are Selected' appear under both the Options Subjects tab and the Subjects where Students are Selected tab below and are indicated by a teal green band with the letter 'S' on the left side.
Curriculum Option Selections for 2025 closed on Wednesday 21 August 2024.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices associated with food and fibre production in New Zealand.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
This is an ideal course for those who enjoy working in the Visual Arts and who are interested in developing their skills and understanding in the subject.
Lessons per week:
2
Successful applicants will have two allocated periods which will occur during their scheduled Physical Education (Core) class. (This does not affect NCEA credits).
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
3 (16 credits)
Understanding the art of dance: strengthening balletic technique, exploring dance genres, developing choreography, and experiencing performance.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (11 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Investigating, understanding, and explaining about living things and how they interact with each other and the environment, as well as looking at the material world and how they link together..
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Commerce is the use and exploration of Economic, Accounting and Business concepts and models to make sense of society and solve problems.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Commerce is the use and exploration of Economic, Accounting and Business concepts and models to make sense of society and solve problems.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1–2 (5 (minimum) or 10 (maximum) credits)
Produce design solutions using a range of drawing methods.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Develop basic skills and understanding in a digital environment.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Researching, analysing, interpreting, and creating drama contexts to convey meaning to an audience.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
The study, use, and enjoyment of the English language and its literature. This is our standard English programme.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
The study, use, and enjoyment of the English language and its literature. A course for students who are not yet achieving at Level 6 of the New Zealand Curriculum and/or lacking confidence with their skills in English.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (12 credits)
Externals:
1 (4 credits)
A practical course of study to develop design, pattern making and construction skills.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5. possible option 1 (5 credits) credits)
Develop understanding and skills to enable students to enhance their own well-being.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Understand and create more developed ideas with more complex language.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
The study of how people and the environment interact.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
A study of significant developments and differing perspectives on past events of significance to New Zealanders.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (12 credits)
Externals:
1 (4 credits)
Within the context of Hard Materials Technology, students will design, plan and produce a manufactured outcome.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Exploration and use of patterns and relationships in quantities, space, time, and data.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Exploration and use of patterns and relationships in quantities, space, time, and data.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
1 (5 credits)
Exploration and use of patterns and relationships in quantities, space, time, and data.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
5 (18 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Exploration of sounds and technologies for creating, interpreting, and representing music ideas.
Lessons per week:
2
The well-being of students, other people, and society through learning in movement contexts.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
4 (A minimum of 15 available credits)
The well-being of students, other people, and society through learning key concepts in, through and about movement and health-related contexts.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
1 (5 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Investigating, understanding, and explaining physical phenomena, matter, and the changes it undergoes. It also links to the chemical processes of some chemicals.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
4 (20 credits)
Investigating, understanding, and explaining our natural, physical and material worlds.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Investigating, understanding, and explaining our natural, physical and material worlds.
Lessons per week:
4
Internals:
2 (10 credits)
Externals:
2 (10 credits)
Understand and create more developed ideas with more complex language.
Secondary School Curriculum 2025