Integrated Courses and Interest Areas

Want to start your own business upon leaving school? How about starting your own business at school and making money during class time! This course will give you the skills and confidence to become an Entrepreneur and develop your own business. Don’t worry if you don’t have a good business idea yet, you will learn the art of “idea creation” which is linked to your passions. This course is also a nice lead in to Business Studies at a senior level, where the fun continues!

Contact: irwinm@mbas.ac.nz or readerd@mbas.ac.nz

Horticulture is a mixture of practical activities of preparing plants, nurturing and cultivating plants to share as gifts or for eating. Alongside the care of plants and flowers there is also a space for equipment maintenance and safety. It is an opportunity to explore plants and how we can use them as a food source and as potential income or money making schemes. Careers in ground keeping, rugby parks, gardens with funky designs and flowers are things to learn about and try. A typical lesson in Horticulture will be tending to your plants, using gardening tools and to learn about how plants function so you as a grower can maximise profits if you were a commercial grower. There will be opportunities to think of Horticulture as a business enterprise seeking maximum profits for little expenditure, after all the Sun is free….let’s use it!

Contact: fairweatherh@mbas.ac.nz

This course would focus on healthy living (including healthy thinking), meta learning (achieved by working through the ‘Superbrain’ master class by Jim Kwik), mindfulness, working on activities to stimulate the brain as well as how and why we should work to create a healthy brain - this would be achieved through things such as yoga, tai chi, walking, meditation, chess, reading, nutrition, philosophy etc.

“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”

Contact: mulhollandd@mbas.ac.nz

Visual, creative, mathematics for everyone!

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^{Contact: campbells@mbas.ac.nz}

Wondering how to become a published author? Well that answer will depend on the type of author you want to be. Maybe you’ve always been a writer at heart and are ready to share your story with the world and earn the title of “author.” Or maybe you’re passionate about a certain topic and are ready to help others by sharing your expertise. Would you like to share your ideas through a podcast or a vlog, or by writing articles and stories? To become an author, the short answer is: You create texts that audiences want to engage with. Sounds simple, right? But writing is rarely simple. So, let’s go for the more complex question: How do you create texts that audiences will engage with? Whether your medium is visual, audio, written or a combination of all three, you want your final product to be phenomenal, polished, and packed with content that audiences will truly connect with. So how do you do that? In this course, we’ll learn how to become an author by focussing on the essentials.

Contact: evanj@mbas.ac.nz or readerd@mbas.ac.nz

History is happening every day!

New Zealand and the rest of the world has amazing history that you need to discover!

This brand new course will let you uncover exciting and interesting events and give you a fascinating insight into different countries.

The topics you will study will be very much decided by you! They could include ancient empires such as the Romans and Egyptians, wars that changed the world, surprising New Zealand events, history in film (is it fact or fiction?) or the people changed history - the ‘history makers’ themselves.

With a few thousand years to consider and over 190 countries in the world, there will be lots of choice and lots of exciting new discoveries.

Come and see Mr Collins in Room 5 for any more details contact: collinsm@mbas.ac.nz

Wanting to learn about the filmmaking industry? Enhance your filmmaking knowledge and creative talent with learning the art of Filmmaking. This course will improve your creativity, technical and professional skills in film. You will learn to use sound, writing, video editing techniques and more. You .will develop your ability to screen-write and edit material, demonstrate core technical principles of operating digital cameras and produce well composed shots with quality sound and lighting.

Contact: bloomjen@mbas.ac.nz

Learn more about the human body. Learn about human anatomical structures and systems including the central nervous system, the respiratory system, digestive system, this anatomy course gives a basic understanding of how the human body works. You will learn the fundamentals of musculoskeletal anatomy, basic concepts and the biomechanics of movement.

Contact: bloomjen@mbas.ac.nz