This year we are excited to be continuing our journey to combine the Social Sciences and English departments to a new Humanities faculty.  Why?  Throughout most of our courses in both the English and Social Sciences, topics and issues raised from our histories and current events are also reflected in our literature.  Literacy skills used and developed in both courses again are similar, but sometimes taught within different contexts (eg. geography / map reading, poetry reading and writing).  All junior Humanities courses will allow students to develop their literacy skills and their social science skills within new courses created from student feedback and input from 2024.  Check out what we have on offer this year in Humanities 9 / 10.

All students have a compulsory or required course at year 9 and 10 levels and can choose 1 or 2 other Humanities courses (Full Te Reo Immersion Rumaki and the New Bilingual "Iwi Kiwi me te Ao" courses are 2 semesters long.)

In total a student in year 9 or 10 must have 3 semesters (each semester is 2 terms) of learning within the Humanities course range. 

Of course, if you are a passionate Humanities student and want to take more, you can do that too!