Course List

Course Components

• 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

• 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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• 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 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

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

•  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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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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