To extend your knowledge about how you can increase your own resilience. 

• All Humanities courses will develop both English and Social Science skills through expanding vocabulary and learning strategies to make meaning through reading, viewing, writing, and speaking. 

• You will learn about how people have used their resilience to survive and to increase their happiness. 

• Explore Social Science concepts of justice, freedom and government. 

• Develop Social Sciences skills - make connections between the settings and characters in the literary world and historical or present day challenges with power, politics and social class barriers

• Culture

• Character

• Citizenship

• Communication

• Critical Thinking

• Extend your vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing skills within a variety of text types

• Prepare to sit the NCEA Literacy Corequisite Unit Standards.

You will spend time working individually and collaboratively to read texts and unpack the meanings in them. Texts will include the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, as well as Poetry, Short Texts, and Short Non-Fiction (including selected pieces from Tahi ki a Maru and Coastlines). You will get to use creative skills and extend your vocabulary and technical English skills while gaining new understandings of the world.

Wai - the importance of water for human survival; our relationships with the waters of our Kapiti Coast.

This course leads to senior subjects such as English, Social Sciences, Media Studies, Drama, History, Geography, Classical Studies, Psychology, Legal Studies, Business Studies and others.

Ākonga are encouraged to be curious and explore their understanding of identity, the world, belonging, and connection. In doing so, they explore a wide range of perspectives and draw upon different bodies of knowledge. This helps ākonga learn in other contexts and sets them up to be life-long learners.

The knowledge, skills, and values ākonga develop through English and Social Sciences support them to participate in social, cultural, political, and economic life, and prepare them for a variety of possible career pathways beyond school.  

English Career Pathways 

Social Sciences Career Pathways

• 1 B8 exercise book

• 1 document wallet

• Pencil, pen, highlighter, eraser - to stay in class in their document wallet

• Personal headphones 

• Personal Chromebook and charger

At times - other coloured pencils, felts, glue sticks, or scissors may be needed. These can be kept at home until needed.

Texts supplied by the Humanities Faculty.