Kia ora koutou.

This year we present to you our Academic Options book electronically so that you and your family can take time to explore all the extensive subject choices at Dio.   To help you with course planning, teaching staff have prepared videos and information so that you can explore all areas of the curriculum at your leisure.  We encourage you to learn at your level of ability and to challenge yourself.

Our aim at Diocesan is to ensure that we provide future focused choices that will support you to access higher education anywhere in the world, in your areas of passion. Planning your subjects should support your ambitions and interests. Post pandemic economies require high quality, relevant qualifications with a range of competencies that we deliver through our curriculum framework at Diocesan.

In the future, you will need more than knowledge – you will need to know your leadership potential and how to be an empathetic, adaptable, and ethical person.  Your future will be enhanced by thinking creatively and using technological advancements that will inevitably impact on our social, economic, and cultural contexts. You will also need the strength of character to be thoughtful about the preservation of our planet and resilient in a changing world.

This Options Book contains strategies for academic planning that enable you to select and track your pathway through your years at Diocesan. We provide multiple pathways to support excellence and to maintain high levels of challenge. We will help you with choices by providing supportive careers’ guidance each year.

There is also a range of enrichment, extension and accelerated learning options to ensure that you are challenged and engaged in your learning. We suggest that you use this booklet to guide discussions with teachers and your parents so that the best choices are made for you.

The ability to be proactive, flexible, and forward thinking are  important elements of personal and career development.  We recommend that you maintain a breadth and range of subjects with an appropriate level of challenge. Some of you will opt for acceleration and enrichment and others will need more support to achieve your goals. It is important to aim for excellence and maintain a strong belief that anything is possible!

We recommend that you seek advice from Tutor Teachers, Deans, Heads of Faculty and Careers Centre staff to ensure that you enjoy your journey and aim to build attributes for learning that will support you throughout your life. Diocesan is an exceptional school and your experiences here in an environment that supports your leadership and achievement development is second to none.  

All the very best with your course options!  Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui.

Heather McRae

Principal