Year 7 and 8 Students follow the New Zealand Curriculum which includes seven "Essential Learning Areas" and the Key Competencies and Values which are incorporated into all that happens in the Classroom.

Essential Learning Areas

• Language and Languages - Te Korero me Nga Reo   includes Samoan, Te Reo Maori, Cook Islands Maori, Tongan (Y8) and Spanish (Y8)
• Mathematics - Pangarau
• Science - Putaiao
• Social Sciences - Tikanga-a-iwi
• Technology - Hangarau      includes Soft Materials, Food Technology, ICT
• The Arts - Nga Toi   includes Visual Arts, Music and  Dance and Drama       
• Health and Physical well Being - Hauora

Key competencies

These include thinking, using language, symbols, and texts, managing self, relating to others, participating and contributing.

Values

We foster excellence, innovation, inquiry and curiosity, diversity, equity, community and participation, ecological sustainability, integrity and respect.

Year 9 to 13 Students are offered a wide ranging curriculum that Students can enjoy learning in a small whanau oriented environment. Students have a variety of pathways offered to them. NCEA courses are constructed so that Students can choose to study at their their own level.

Year 9

Compulsory :    English  - Mathematics  - Science -  Social Sciences -  Physical Education -  Health

Options :           Two half year Options

                         The Options offered are Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Drama, Food /Bio Technology, Media Studies, Hard Materials   

                                                                 Grahics and Design, Languages (whole year) Spanish, Te Reo Maori, Cook Island Maori,

                                                                 Tongan and Samoan

Year 10

Compulsory :   English  - Mathematics  - Science -  Social Sciences -  Physical Education -  Health

Options :          Students choose two Year long Options

                         The Options offered are Art, Music, Drama, Food Technology, Materials Technology, Graphics, Media Studies,

                                                                Business Studies, Information Management, Physical Education,

                                                                Languages - Samoan - Tongan

                                                                Te Reo Maori, Cook Islands Maori - Spanish

 Year 11-14

Click here for the National Qualification Framework Learning Area Pathways. Detailed information about subjects and where they can lead is provided in the Departments section of the website.