Course List

Course Components

• Learn Design element extraction using Famous Architecture
• Adapt to make quick sketches of shape & form with comments
• Understand the tools of creativity
• Critique your form in comparison to the Principles of Design
• Refine form concepts using prototype modelling
• Work on each project independently using effective presentation techniques

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• Develop practical skills in diff erent art-making techniques
• Learn and be inspired by a range of New Zealand artists
• Explore ideas from initial fi rst drawings to your own completed artworks
• Produce your own portfolio of art works

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• Learn to read music notation
• Learn to play the percussion instruments, ukulele and keyboard as well as some guitar chords
• Learn to compose and record a simple piece of Original music
• Learn to use technology in Music

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• Accounting
  This section of the course will develop your awareness of the need for financial affairs of individuals, whānau, and local small entities
• Economics
  This part of the course focuses on the interaction between consumers and producers in the marketplace. You will look at the issues involved in decision making and budgeting
• Business Studies
  This section of the course is about how businesses are developed and operate. You will also cover issues such as marketing, business organisation, and human resources

Course Components

• Development and basic needs of young children
• Plan and prepare healthy meals for young children
• Make safe, age-appropriate resources
• Gain qualifications to support being a competent babysitter including Comprehensive First Aid

Style of Learning

• Strong hands-on practical component
• Plan and run a teddy bears’ picnic for Hagley Pre-School

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• A project-based introduction to the fundamentals of computer programming. Students will create a chatbot to showcase their skills in a range of programming structures and techniques
• Investigating the theory of data compression and its everyday uses in recording, storing and transmitting digital images, audio, and video
• Investigate searching and sorting algorithms, the basic building blocks for any information system
• Build your own robot to develop skills in robotics and control systems

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• Discover the basic skills needed for Photoshop
• Learn about digital illustration, cartoon drawing, photo
  manipulation and montage techniques
• Gain skills in graphic design while working on projects

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• A project-based introduction to web development to showcase your learning of writing and formatting content.
• Manipulating digital media including images, audio, and video in the development of your own website.
• Investigating user experience design(UX) and human computer interaction to enable you to evaluate other web sites and improve the design of your own.

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• Learn to understand drama in context
• Select and use drama tools
• Research and select ideas in order to create drama
• Communicate and interpret drama
• Group work and attendance are essential

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• Read for enjoyment and understanding
• Develop your writing skills
• Communicate ideas verbally and visually
• Become information literate

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• Produce quality textile items or prototypes
• Follow patterns and develop own design ideas

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• Plan and produce a short fi lm product
• Explore fi lm elements
• Write a variety of short media texts [scenes for a screenplay, a promotional blurb, a fi lm review]
• Examine the characteristics of a genre

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• Become familiar with food safety practices
• Learn about the nutritional needs of individuals
• Explore food choices from other cultures
• Take action to enhance wellbeing
• Examine food labelling in relation to good nutrition

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• Construct personalised projects that reflect your areas of interest
• Become proficient in the design process to aid planning and execution
• Build on your strength and expand your ideas
• Experience up to date methods of sketching, modelling and production

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• Develop strategies to enhance your own health
• Manage change, loss and grief
• Develop interpersonal skills to enhance relationships
• Make safe, informed decisions involving adolescent and health issues

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• Māori, Tasman, Cook and Ann Morley: First Contacts 1642-1810
• Historical research project: personal choice
• Ancient Greek mythology and the fi rst Olympics
• New Zealand at War

Course Components

•  Learn, rehearse and perform a variety of group Dances for a live audience
• Choreograph your own solo, duet and group Dances
• Build skills such as fi tness, teamwork, motivation, commitment and creativity
• Gain NCEA level 1 and level 2 Dance credits

Course Components

• Learn about percentages, fractions and decimals
• Solve problems using equations and graphs
• Solve problems using right angle triangles
• Calculate areas, perimeters and volumes
• Study statistics and probability

Course Component

• Learn about percentages, fractions and decimals
• Solve problems using linear equations and graphs
• Solve problems using right-angle triangles
• Calculate areas, perimeters and volumes
• Study statistics and probability

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• Develop confidence dealing with numbers in calculations
• Perform everyday measurement tasks
• Understand statistics by collecting data and processing it

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• Solve problems involving algebra, number and right-angle triangles
• Use statistical inference to generalise from a data sample

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• Video production techniques
• Graphic design skills

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• Participate in a variety of games to enhance interpersonal skills
• Gain skills and confi dence in rock climbing
• Participate in orienteering and mountain biking
• Complete a day tramp
• Show self-management through a trail running training programme

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• Participate in a variety of games to enhance interpersonal skills
• Acquire skills and improve your badminton performance
• Show self-management through a running training programme
• Plan and experience a variety of recreational activities

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• Explore personal identity, role expectations, and prejudices
• Develop a respect for value systems and cultural perspectives
• Learn about attachment and delay of gratification
• Examine why individuals and groups act as they do
• Apply psychological concepts to everyday scenarios
• There is a substantial writing component to this course

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• Science skills including: processing data, chemical equations, making predictions, problem solving
• Science language: writing scientific explanations and how to read an exam question
• Carrying out experiments
• Science knowledge (biology, chemistry, physics, planet Earth and beyond)

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• Science skills including, processing data, practical investigation, making predictions and problem solving
• Investigating implications of carbon compounds as fuels
• Hands on practical experience with growing your own food from seedlings
• Understanding the impacts of mammals on natural life cycles

Course Components

• Work on individual or collaborative build project
• Use a wide range of tools and equipment in a safe and appropriate manner
• Hands on approach to learning backed up with BCITO unit standards
• Work at your own pace

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• Speak with fluency when communicating
• Gain essential skills and strategies for using new vocabulary and grammatical structures
• Apply strategies to understand and respond to a variety of spoken and written texts

Course Components

• Gain confidence in speaking basic conversational reo Māori
• Learn basic tikanga Māori (protocol and cultural practices)
• Gain an insight into mythology and the Māori world

Course Components

• This course is project based.
• Students work independently while using the teacher as their consultant
• Design skills such as; sketching, exploring and refi ning spatialndesign ideas in response to a brief, using creative strategies for divergent thinking, integrated visual literacy and design thinking, visual communication and presentation techniques are fundamental to excel at this work at Level 2.
• The use of 3D modelling

Course Components

• Learn to read music notation
• Learn to play the percussion instruments, ukulele and keyboard as well as some guitar chords
• Learn to compose and record a simple piece of Original music
• Learn to use technology in Music

Course Components

• Learn about adaptation of living organisms
• Cell structure and important cell reactions
• Genetic change, variation and evolution
• Animal form and function

Course Components

Semester One

• Gain practical experience in operating a business as part of a group, creating a product, and selling it
• Managing debt and KiwiSaver
• Develop creative thinking and problem solving skills
• Visit a local business to learn fi rsthand about starting a business

Semester Two

• Investigate how businesses motivate their staff , and look at this firsthand when visiting a local business
• Apply business knowledge to a critical problem in a large business context

Course Components

• Analyse solutions, investigate everyday chemicals, carry out titrations
• Factors which affect chemical reactions
• Basic atomic structure
• Introduce skills/understanding at a senior chemistry level
• Extension learning is available

Course Components

• Determinants of Health, as it relates to young children
• Construct and use play resources and learn the importance of play in a child’s development
• Research into Community Support Services
• Examination of a nutritional issue
• Self-management skills for learning and conservation
• Acquire skills necessary to start to provide quality interactions essential for a child’s sound development

Course Components

•  An advanced computer programming project creating a 2D game including a graphical user interface and other advance programming techniques.
• Investigating error control(fundamental in modern communications) and data encryption (a core concept in cyber security)
• An advanced data network development project to showcase your learning of the hardware, so ware and protocols required to create a connected society.

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• Learn to understand the design process
• Analyse and reconstruct examples of good design practice
• Learn photoshop techniques
• Apply learnt techniques to your own work

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• An advanced web development project to showcase your learning of the tools required to create an interactive website.
• An advanced database development project to showcase your learning of the tools required to create structured information storage

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• Explore the drama of different cultures
• Research ideas to create drama
• Rehearse and perform drama in a range of styles
• Group work and attendance are essential

Course Components

• Explore an issue about space
• Extreme environments and organism survival
• Structure and life cycle of stars
• Geological and Earth processes
• Learn about extreme events
• Investigate and write scientific reports

Course Components

• Design new circuits using electronic components
• Learn the language and symbols of electronics
• Make prototype circuits to discover how components work
• Investigate current, voltage and the effects of components on circuits
• Make printed circuit boards
• An advanced electronics or robotics development project to showcase your learning of electronic components and circuits, or robotics.

Course Components

• Close reading and analysis of a variety of texts
• Persuasive and creative writing
• Communicate ideas orally and visually
• Develop information literacy skills

Course Components

Semester 1

• Develop reading skills
• Develop information literacy skills
• Learn and use persuasive language
• Use visual and verbal language

Semester 2

• Develop reading skills
• Learn to close read and analyse texts
• Prepare a script for a podcast
• Communicate ideas verbally

Course Components

• Create, edit and workshop scripts for performance
• Analyse and write a range of dramatic texts
• Prepare and present scripts
• Analyse a film

Course Components

• Make garments
• Take a vision to reality: work with a model to design and make a garment from your design ideas
• Research, consult and create with fabrics and design

Course Components

• Plan and produce a short film product
• Explore a film theory
• Write a screenplay
• Examine the audience expectations of a genre

Course Components

• Investigating the fi nancial life stages
• Managing debt and KiwiSaver
• Becoming fi nancially secure and responsible
• Insurance and banking products

Semester 1

• Finances and Insurance
  Flatting and Budgeting

Semester 2

• Taxation and Investment
  Employment

Course Components

Semester 1

• Sports Nutrition working with students in OPE to plan meals in preparation for physical activities
• Study Health Promotion Models for optimum nutrition
• Explore our food choices and how they fi t with recommended guidelines
• There will be a balance of practical food experiences and collaborative and individual research tasks.

Semester 1

• Develop understandings about sourcing and using locally produced seasonal foods
• Investigate people’s attitudes to food and how these infl uence wellbeing
• There will be a balance of practical food experiences and collaborative and individual research tasks.

Course Components

Semster 1

This course will focus on the interaction of people and environment exploring both the physical environment and the role of predators in Aotearoa. The course includes research at Mt Cook a focus on predator 2050. There is also the potential to link to exam for those who wish to at the end of the year.

Semester 2

The focus of this course is on global issues and crime. We will explore global issues such as malaria and piracy as well as urban issues such as murder rates in Chicago and urban planning. There is also the opportunity to do an exam based on geographic skills.

Course Components

• Use the design process to extend your knowledge and capabilities.
• Learn self management skills as you complete projects of your choosing
• Have access to a wide range of hard materials
• Become proficient in the use of hand tools and workshop machinery

Course Components

• Investigate factors that influence sexuality and strategies that reflect social justice to address them
• Take action to improve well being in school and community
• Investigate factors that impact a person’s resiliency
• Analyse an adolescent health issue

Potential Topics

Semester 1

• Infl uenza Pandemic 1918
• NZ involvement in the WW1/WW2
• Maori Battalion WW1
• Dawn Raids
•  Springbok Tour 1981
•  Treaty of Waitangi in relation to land e.g. Bastion Point, Land march, Parihaka

Semester 2

• Dawn Raids
• 9/11
• Parker – Hulme murder
• Vietnam war
• WW1/2

Course Components

• Prepare and cook a range of foods with safe food hygiene
• Learn basic knife skills
• Produce journal reflection and evaluation
• Train in hospitality specifics such as customer service

Course Components

• The causes and consequences of crime and different ways of dealing with it
• How the court system works
• Law relating to relationships, good and bad
• Prison and court visits
• Opportunities to learn about a wide range of jobs in the law

Course Components

• Solve trigonometry problems
• Learn about using network theory
• Further your understanding of statistics and probability
• Become familiar with sequences and series
• Take coordinate geometry to the next level (important for Level 3)

Course Components

• Learn important skills in financial literacy
• Solve practical problems using trigonometry
• Solve real life problems in algebra
• Use networks to find solutions in geometry problems

Course Components

• Learn how to apply algebraic methods to solving problems
• Practice applying calculus methods in solving problems
• Gain further skills in statistics and probability problems
• Make connections between algebra and graphs

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• Create your own original character and environment designs
• Develop a short animated or stop motion film
• Develop skills and knowledge of digital applications appropriateto animation

Course Components

• Gain skills and confidence in white-water kayaking
• Develop map reading, compass and navigation skills
• Participate in camping and tramping
• Build and sleep in a snow cave
• Gain skills and confidence in rock climbing
• Complete a fi rst aid course

Course Components

• Become familiar with the forms that painting can take
• Develop the use of drawing as a central means to make paintings
• Develop a systematic approach to picture making
• Develop your own portfolio of work

Course Components

Semester 1

• Use a range of tools and resources to explore possible career options
• Create a CV & develop cover letter writing skills
• Explore the process in applying for employment
• Develop interview skills

Semester 1

• Discover and access support services in the local community
• Explore implications of living independently in rental/fl atting scenarios.
• Consider fi nancial obligations as an independent person and any changes to personal circumstance that impact on this
• Develop practical skills including budgeting, cooking, basic car maintenance, basic sewing and further domestic skills

Course Components

• Compare mythology, early philosophy and later theories of knowledge
• Analyse arguments concerned with the universe and how we should live
• Examine theories regarding the existence of God
• Explore ethical decision-making
• Apply skills of philosophical inquiry
• Organise ideas into reasoned arguments
• There is a substantial writing component to this course

Course Components

• Become familiar with the forms that photography can take
• Develop the use of photographic conventions as a central means to make photographs.
• Develop a systematic approach to photography
• Develop your own portfolio of work

Course Components

• Run and evaluate a physical activity event
• Learn and apply biophysical principles to improve sports performance and analysis of sporting techniques
• Improve social responsibility in physical activities

Course Components

• Develop physics skills like data processing, drawing and interpreting graphs
• Learn the language and symbols of physics
• Use practical work to understand the principles governing the universe
• Study linear mechanics, electromagnetism, waves, light and atomic physics
• A self-directed extension standard is available

Course Components

• Develop skills in drawing and printmaking conventions
• Learn about a range of traditional and contemporary artists
• Explore and develop a range of ideas of interest to you in the form of printmaking
• Produce your own portfolio of artworks

Course Components

• Examine different approaches to the understanding of human behaviour
• Explain how reward and punishment can change behaviour
• Explore ethics and how others can influence our behaviour
• Apply the processes of memory to real-life situations
• There is a substantial writing component to this course

Course Components

• Investigate geological processes in the local area
• Develop practical chemistry skills
• Investigate physics in a context
• Describe adaptations for survival and where we might find life in space
• Discuss validity of scientific information

Course Components

• 2 hours studio time and 2 hours workshop time each week
• Develop a systematic approach to making work
• Develop your own portfolio of work

Social Science 5 Credits
Media Studies 13 Credits

Course Components

• Run and evaluate a physical activity event
• Improve performance in two sporting disciplines
• Demonstrate social responsibility in sport
• Injury prevention
• Risk management

Course Components

• Learn how Statisticians use numbers to make better decisions
• Practice communicatiing Statistical results
• Gain up to 9 Level 2 Maths credits over a half year.

Course Components

• Examine work roles in the tourism industry
• Consider the characteristics and needs of tourists
• Identify New Zealand’s unique features and cultures
• Explore the history of tourism
• Discover popular international tourist destinations
• Investigate environmental and social impacts of tourism

Course Components

• Develop writing skills
• Write two craft ed and controlled texts

Course Components

• Learn about the art of the Early Renaissance
• Gain hands on experience of the processes used in the Renaissance
• Develop writing skills in preparation for tertiary study

Course Components

• Competition level design, construction and entry
• Interpretation of a theme to design fashion garments
• Use garment design to portray a story
• Create garments of complex design
• Gain a working knowledge of the design process

Course Component

• Animal behaviour and plant responses to environmental factors
• The homeostatic mechanisms of an animal
• The story of evolution, including human evolution
• Develop research skills

Course Components

• You work in groups to form a company, undertake market research, produce a business plan, present a pitch on your business idea and sell your goods or service
• There is the opportunity to take part in the Young Enterprise Scheme
• As a budding entrepreneur, you will have the chance to make money while still at school
• Develop skills such as problem-solving, co-operation, decision-making, negotiation, and communication
• There is the option to explore some major NZ businesses and government organisations and their effect on the economy

Course Components

• Use differentiation and integration to solve problems
• Work with equations describing curves
• Develop equations in trigonometry and conic sections
• Expand your algebraic skills to include imaginary numbers

Course Components

• Develop basic skills for redox and organic chemistry
• Relate properties of everyday materials to their structure
• Investigate organic chemistry
• Apply understanding of the periodic table
• Investigate aqueous solutions

Course Components

• Examine influences on children’s eating patterns
• Study development patterns and milestones
• Research an ethical dilemma and nutritional issues affecting well-being
• Make age appropriate play resources

Course Components

• The Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt: history, political ideology
• Cleopatra VII queen: religion, imperialism, family, relationships, motherhood …
• Cleopatra VII through the ages: how she was seen by the Romans and Medieval Arab culture
• Cleopatra in the twentieth century: Elizabeth Taylor and Asterix
• Ancient Writers: Plutarch & Horace

Course Components

• A complex computer programming project creating a 2D game. The game will include problem solving algorithms. You will learn about complex programming techniques used extensively in industry and research
• Investigating formal languages (essential in industry and research) and data network algorithms
• A complex data network development project to showcase your learning of the fundamental architecture of the internet/internet of things.

Course Components

• Learn the knowledge and principles of typography
• Apply this knowledge to your own work
• Develop critical thinking to improve your design work
• Work on your own portfolio work

Course Components

• A complex web development project to showcase your learning of the tools required to create a dynamic, interactive website.
• A complex database development project to showcase your learning of the tools required to create structured information storage, which you will integrate with your website.

Course Components

• Explain how drama interprets and challenges the world we live in
• Use specific drama styles to create meaning
• Create original drama
• Take on a variety of roles from writer to director to performance
• Apply specific drama techniques and conventions
• Group work and attendance are essential
• Written work is required to achieve all standards

Course Components

• Adaptations of organisms in extreme environments
• Geological evidence and dating geological events
• Systems affecting oceans and atmosphere
• Astronomical research
• Explore an Earth and Space scientific issue

Course Components

• Critical analysis of a variety of written, visual and oral texts
• Develop fluency in writing a variety of text types
• Communicate ideas visually and orally

Course Components

• Produce a design for a media product
• Write a screenplay
• Design a costume for a film product
• Use a DSLR and sound equipment to capture raw film footage
• Use technology to enhance visuals and sound in editing raw film footage
• Produce a short film product

Course Components

• Strategies to manage personal finances
• Credit and debt
• Achieving long-term personal financial goals
• Impacts of external factors on personal finances

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• Analyse and research an ethical issue
• Analyse an international health issue
• Examine health practices in New Zealand
• Learn about a current issue affecting a group within NZ

Course Components

• Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
• Māori Battalion WW2
• Treaty of Waitangi
• Suez Crisis
• Dawn raids

Course Components

• Become competent in food preparation
• Meet basic health and safety practices in the work place
• Extend knife skills
• Experience the preparation and presentation of a range of restaurant style dishes
• Explore career pathways in hospitality
• Demonstrate teamwork in relation to hospitality work

This one or two semester course gives you the opportunity to use your skills from another subject you study at Hagley College, to work on a major project. Use your skills from a range of subjects such as Digital Technologies, Art, Sculpture, Fashion, Electronics, Hard materials, or Stagecraft to work on a project you are passionate about. From creating a website for teenagers, to designing a musical instrument from recycled materials, you will be supported throughout your project and will link with some of the best local mentors in your chosen field.
You can study one or both of these courses, and to maximise your learning, there will be opportunities for aspects of remote learning too. If you choose to learn remotely, you will need to be motivated, be able to access a computer and be able to work independently. This course will prepare you for further study or a career path in many areas of New Zealand’s innovative community.

Course Components

Semester 1

Research & Design
• Research and design your project
• Undertake brief development and create a conceptual design

Create and Manage your project
• Develop a prototype
• Undertake project management to support technological practice

Course Components

• Examine representations in the media
• Write a feature article
• Plan and design a magazine spread

Course Components

• Understand & utilise your character strengths
• Develop interpersonal skills in a range of settings
• Be part of organisational and group development
• Learn how to sustain leadership
• 3 Day Camp to build leadership – Late January

Course Components

• Field trips including prison and court visits and an optional trip to Wellington
• Examine a past law reform campaign
• Plan and carry out social actions to achieve a policy change
• Explore aspects of criminal law including sentencing
• Examine aspects of imprisonment in New Zealand

Course Components

• Statistics: either time series or bivariate data
• Calculus: a selection from linear programming, simultaneous equations, trigonometry, critical path analysis
• Night class only: calculus externals differentiation and integration

Course Components

• Research an area of interest
• Develop knowledge of music theory and aural
• Create compositions and use digital technology
• Prepare and present performances

Course Components

• Develop practical kayak and climbing skills including the rescue of others
• Mountain biking: plan, prepare and participate in a self-sufficient tour
• Evaluate an action for a sustainable future
• Develop rock-climbing skills

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• Learn to measure accurately
• Carry out technical calculations
• Develop basic pattern blocks
• Use trade practices to gain skills needed for tertiary study

Course Components

• Apply philosophical concepts to social and ethical issues
• Develop rational, plausible arguments in a variety of contexts
• Make connections across traditional subject boundaries
• Organise ideas into reasoned arguments
• There is a substantial writing component to this course

Course Components

• Refine the skills techniques and methods needed to make photographs
• Become familiar with established practices, procedures and conventions of photography practice acknowledged by the art community to be of some significance.
• Develop your own portfolio of work

Course Components

• Plan & participate in a training programme
• Evaluate physical activity experiences & plan for future well-being
• Improve performance in two sports
• Analyse safety management of a challenging outdoor activity

Course Components

• Develop physics skills to a higher level
• Understand and use the special language of physics
• Incorporate uncertainties in practical work and conclusions
• Study linear and rotational mechanics, electromagnetism, waves and atomic physics
• A self-directed extension standard is available

Course Components

• Extend your art making skills using printmaking conventions
• Learn about a range of traditional and contemporary artists
• Experiment with combining multiple techniques to create new and innovative work
• Focus on developing your own personal style to produce a portfolio of artworks

Course Components

• Investigate the brain’s ability to multi-task
• Evaluate genetic and environmental determination of intelligence
• Explore the role of appearance and personality in relationships
• Analyse a study in social psychology
• Use evidence to apply psychological ideas to everyday life
• Develop a reasoned approach to analytical writing, problem-solving and data manipulation
• There is a substantial writing component to this course

Course Components

• Research contemporary issues from a Māori perspective
• Use increasingly complex language in a variety of situations
• Consolidate fluency in spoken and written language skills

Course Components

• Investigate geological processes in the local area
• Develop practical chemistry skills
• Investigate physics in a context
• Describe adaptations for survival and where we might find life in space
• Discuss validity of scientific information

Course Components

• 2 hours studio time and 2 hours workshop time each week
• Refine skills and methods to make sculptures
• Develop your own portfolio of work on a theme relevant to you

Course Components

• Develop and implement a personal exercise plan
• Run a school wide recreation activity/event
• Demonstrate leadership skills or recreational activities

Course Components

• Extend your knowledge of statistical investigations
• Learn how to analyse bivariate & time series data
• Further your understanding of probability and probability distributions
• There is a substantial writing component to this course

Course Components

• Learn about the extensive tourism industry roles and customer service
• Gain understanding of skills, knowledge and attitudes required to work in tourism
• Examine the finer details of communication and meeting customer needs
• Research popular tourist sites in New Zealand and overseas

Course Components

• Explore a range of texts to recognise differences between text types
• Learn to write in different styles for a range of academic and workplace contexts: eg blogs, reports, essays

The following CTC courses are available:

• Automotive
• Electrical
• Construction
• Plumbing and Drainlaying
• Hairdressing
• Painting and Decorating

If you wish to apply please visit the Careers Centre.

COURSE COMPONENTS

Hospitality Services

• Learn about the roles and responsibilities within the hospitality industry, including customer service, food costs, menu development, hospitality regulations

Meal Preparation Skills

• Prepare, cook and gain skills in a commercial kitchen following advanced food hygiene regulations
• Learn how to select and cook locally sourced ingredients to use in a sustainable manner including meat, fish, fruit and vegetables
• Prepare meals using a variety of cooking techniques while applying knowledge of nutrition principles in commercial catering
• Gain proficiency in barista and café service skills

Course Components

Semester 1

• Develop creative writing skills
• Write creative non-fi ction

Semester 1

• Develop creative writing skills
• Write creative fi ction
• Speak or present an oral text
• Your work could become part of a L2 or 3 writing folio, or a whole folio if you complete both semesters

Course Components

Content

• Examine and work with the NZ Early Childhood Curriculum Te Whaariki 
• Build on professional practice, effective communication, working in      partnerships using bicultural framework for childhood learning in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Examine the value of play for children in learning
• Explore early childhood learning and development progression 
• Demonstrate basic Te Reo Māori and tikanga Māori specific to the early childhood environment
• Provide nutritious food for children and consider health, safety, wellbeing and ethical responsibilities in the early childhood environment

CREDITS

60+ Internal Credits

Options Include

• Animal Care
• Sports & recreation
• Retail services
• Care for the Aged.

Course Components

• Explore and extend our individual movement vocabulary
• The opportunity to be a featured performer at live shows
• Choreograph your own dances for performance
• Build skills such as fi tness, teamwork, motivation, commitment and creativity
• The opportunity to participate in workshops wit specialist guest tutors

The Hagley Dance Project is a part-time dance course for experienced dance students wishing to take their dance to the next level. The course focuses on a variety of contemporary dance techniques, choreography and performance and aims to prepare you for further tertiary study.

COURSE COMPONENTS

Technique and practical study

• Contemporary dance along with a range of classes that may include Ballet Jazz, Hip Hop, Improvisation, Pilates, Yoga, Anatomy, Circus skills and Nutrition.

Choreography

• Gain skills in choreography by working with some of NZ’s best choreographers
• Choreograph your own solos, duets and group dances for the major productions which are performed to live audiences and gain national reviews

Performance and Industry Opportunities

• Real life performance: Hagley specific seasons, private events, functions and collaborative works
• Choreographic: design and perform your own works
• Teaching: take workshops and performances to like-minded students

7 Great Reasons to Choose HDP:

To transition towards a university degree or other tertiary study
Extend your dance technique and body knowledge
Discover a post-secondary learning environment whilst developing technique
Build connections within the dance industry
Develop choreographic skills
Increase flexibility, fitness and strength
Work on projects with leading tutors and practitioners

If you are you looking at a career in theatre or film or TV we offer a pre-professional course that will help you on your way! Theory and practical combine in this unique programme which has proven results. We are a contemporary Theatre Company where students are taught by industry professionals and learn a range of techniques and performance material over one or two years of study.

COURSE COMPONENTS

Practical Study

• Stage and Film and TV acting
• Script Writing
• Direction
• Physical Theatre
• Workshops in Acting Stage Direction, Film and Television
• Targeted classes in Voice, Playwriting and Makeup
• Physical Theatre, Dance

Performance

• Scene Plus seasons (3 annually)
• 2 Major plays
• Dance
• Film shoots (3)
• Gi60 International One-Minute Play Festival
• Industry contract work

Industry

• Contracted work with external partners
• Independent projects
• Commercials, film opportunities
• Liason with ARA broadcasting school

Course Structure

Two groups of ten students form close supportive units, each working with a tutor. Writers work with prose and poetry. They critique each other’s work. They are exposed to other writers and the writing world, listen to guest speakers and are introduced to a range of good writing by their tutor. They complete writing exercises in class. They are encouraged to write regularly and produce their work for comment. Each group contains writers working in a mixture of genres. Each writer has a supervisor as well as the class tutor. The writer and supervisor meet regularly by negotiation for critiquing, support and suggestions.

Outcomes

At the conclusion of the course, folios will be appraised by tutors and the Director for the Hagley Writers’ Institute Certificate and endorsed at either ‘attainment’ or ‘cum laude’ (distinction) level. Students may also elect to have their work assessed for the Level 4 English writing standard on the National Qualifications Framework. A single award will also be made to acknowledge writing excellence.

Programme

Classes are designed to fit in with writers’ busy schedules: Saturday mornings from 9.30am – 12.30pm. 20 weeks over Terms 1 – 3. Students accepted into the Institute are expected to make a significant commitment to their writing of at least 20 hours per week over the year in addition to the Saturday morning classes.

You work at your own pace and learn to motivate yourself to achieve your targets. By the end of the year you will have developed a portfolio of work and have the opportunity to exhibit your jewellery. The aim is for you to develop into an artist who has a strong sense of purpose, competence and an understanding of your design process and outcomes.

COURSE COMPONENTS

Basic Workshop Practice

• Safety in the workshop
• Essential tools and maintenance

Introductory Metalworking Techniques

• Piercing
• Filing
• Shaping
• Forming
• Soldering
• Sanding
• Finishing

Additional Skills and Techniques

• Texturing
• Etching
• Selecting and setting cabochon stones
• Patination of metal
• Making jewellery findings
• Chainmaking

Advanced Jewellery Making Techniques

• Cuttlefish casting
• Delft Clay casting
• Tool making
• Riveting
• Metal bead making
• Enamelling
• PMC
• Keum Boo

CREDITS

9 credits at NCEA level 2

Course Components

• Work together as part of a team to create a performance
• Expand your skills in waiata, haka, poi and mōteatea
• Increase your knowledge and understanding of te ao Māori

We provide a learning pathway to further training in the health sector in this one-year course. You acquire the prescribed knowledge and skills in Human biology, Cell biology, Chemistry and Maths, while gaining experience in the workplace as part of the total package.

COURSE COMPONENTS

Human Biology

• Study human cells and cell systems
• Find out about body systems like the digestive system and the circulatory system

Chemistry

• Learn to use chemicals and apparatus safely

Maths

• Explore scientific calculations
• Use basic mathematical skills to solve problems relevant to the nursing profession.

PLACEMENT AND PRACTICAL WORK 

• Receive individualised workplace support as you work in a health care institution
• Study ageing and personal care of residents in a care setting
• Learn how to relate residents in a healthcare setting
• Learn and apply safe practice within a healthcare setting
• Gain a first-aid certificate

The Hagley School of Fashion is a creative environment that allows you the freedom to write your own fashion narrative and supports you on your individual journey. Students wishing to attain University Entrance must take an additional approved subject.

Course Components

Pattern Making

Level 3 (21 credits)

• Drafting pattern blocks for women, men and children
• Designing and making patterns to own measurements
• Grading Patterns
• Manipulating pattern blocks to create fashion garment

Fashion Studies

(18 credits)

• Production design and manufacture
• Production procedures and pricing
• Knowledge required to start a label
• Development of personal website
• Garment construction techniques
• Maintaining quality across a production run
• Tailoring techniques
• Sustainable fashion focus

Art Wear

NCEA Achievement Standards in Technology Level 3 (16 credits UE Approved)

• Competition level design, construction and entry
• Use garment design to portray a story
• Create garments of complex design
• Gain a working knowledge of the design process
• Create an original collection

Fashion Illustration

NCEA Art Portfolio, Level 2 or 3 (22 UE Approved credits, 8 internals and 14 externals)

• Photography
• The design process
• Media and technical illustration
• Drawing and photography
• Skills in using Photoshop

Credits

Total credits 60+
(30 UE approved in two subject areas)

Course Components

• Performance and composition/songwriting
• Develop knowledge of music theory and aural
• Music technology, including recording and software
• History of music and research topics
• Analyse music works
• UE Literacy through Media Studies (for HSM Level 2)
• Instrumental/vocal lessons and performances
• Performance studio

Credits 

Level 2 Music

30+ Internal available

14 External available

Level 2 Media Studies/English/History

24 Internal available

Level 3

30+ Internal available

12 External available

Level 3 Media Studies

16 Internal available

Course Components

• Speak and participate in academic settings such as an interview, speech or seminar
• Improve your academic listening and reading skills
• Develop clear and effective writing skills for communicating in academic situations or the workplace.