Curriculum

Under review: Our Local Curriculum Delivery

Programmes of literacy (reading, writing, vocabulary development) and mathematics/statistics are your child’s core learning each day.

As part of ‘Student Inquiry Learning’, we seek to engage with our local community as a base for our students’ studies. We have four themes a year and bring the local environment and local interests into our learning experiences. Themes for 2024 are:

• Beneath the surface – Science/ Health focus
• My World and Beyond–Social Science focus
• Globalisation– Social Science/ Technology  focus
• Challenge and Change – Health/ Technology

Teachers develop these themes into learning programmes based on the NZ Curriculum – the refreshed learning areas and their learning objectives.

Year 7/8 students choose to engage in topics such as: Robotics, Foodstorm, Bike maintenance, Dance, Ukelele, Minecraft, Gardening and Technology design, and consider careers that might arise from these activities. Our Y8s go by bus to Maangere College each week for their technology electives and the Y7 programme is delivered at School.

We enjoy talking with parents/whānau/aiga each year about what learning is important to you, and how to best build that into our programmes.