Year 9 - 11 Languages
Year 9 - 11 Languages
Semester course
The Year 9 Chinese course is designed to introduce students to the basics of Mandarin Chinese, including pinyin, tones, essential vocabulary and phrases, common classroom expressions, and simple sentence structures. By the end of the course, you will be able to introduce yourself and your family, talk about your hobbies, and ask and answer simple questions in Chinese. You will also learn numbers and how to tell the time and dates. The course emphasizes communication in Chinese using everyday expressions and aims to build your confidence in writing basic Chinese characters. You will also have the opportunity to learn about Chinese culture.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry.
Contact Teacher: Feng Yu
Possible next steps: Year 10 Chinese
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional, full year course
In Year 9 English Language, students develop their English skills through basic listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks. Students will also improve their vocabulary and spelling through weekly spelling tests. This programme prepares students for further study in English Language at later stages. It also helps students gain confidence to engage more in their daily New Zealand life.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry / English is NOT your first languge
Contact Teacher: Mr. V Mau
Possible next steps: Year 10 English Language, Year 10 English
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Full year course
In Year 10 Chinese, a range of topics will be covered, including my family, daily routines, sports, clothing and colours, my house and room, weather and seasons, and transport. By the end of the course, you will be able to use simple texts to describe various aspects of your daily and family life. The course emphasizes communication in Chinese using basic vocabulary and sentence structures, and it aims to build your confidence in writing simple Chinese sentences. You will also have the opportunity to explore Chinese culture.
Contact Teacher: Mr. Carlos Burke
Possible next steps: Year 11 Chinese.
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional, full year course
In Year 10 English Language, students continue to develop their English skills through basic listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks. Students will also improve their vocabulary and spelling through weekly spelling tests. This programme prepares students for further study in English Language at later stages. It also helps students gain confidence to engage more in their daily New Zealand life.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry / English is NOT your first language
Contact Teacher: Mr. V Mau
Possible next steps: Year 11 English Language, Year 11 English
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional full year course
In Year 11 Chinese, students will learn more complex language through a range of topics such as school, home, holidays, travel, shopping, and celebrations, including birthdays and festivals. By the end of the course, students will be able to communicate beyond the immediate context—for example, discussing past and future events, and be able to express information, ideas, and opinions across different text types and communicate appropriately in a variety of situations.
Contact Teacher: Feng Yu
Possible next steps: Year 12 Chinese.
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional, full year course
In Year 11 English Language, students continue to develop their English skills through simple listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks. Students will also improve their vocabulary and spelling through weekly spelling tests. This programme prepares students for further study in English Language at later stages. It also helps students gain confidence to engage more in their daily New Zealand life.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry / English is NOT your first language
Contact Teacher: Mr. V Mau
Possible next steps: Year 12 English Language, Year 12 English
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Semester course
In Year 9 students cover a range of topics which allow you to get a solid foundation in French. The main language focus is on communicating in French. You will learn to introduce yourself and talk about your family and your hobbies. You will also learn the numbers, common phrases to survive and key phrases for the classroom. You will learn to talk about your likes and dislikes, describing yourself, describing your family, friends and what you do in your spare time. The emphasis is on speaking French as much as possible and learning about culture in French speaking countries.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry.
Contact Teacher: Guy Mance
Possible next steps: Year 10 French
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Semester course
The Year 9 Japanese course is designed to introduce students to the basics of the Japanese language. The following topics will be covered to help students build a solid foundation as first-year learners:
Everyday greetings
Numbers
Asking and answering questions about:
– Name
– Age
– Birthday
– School year level
– Phone number
Food and drink
Sports and exercise
In addition, students will learn the Hiragana script and be introduced to some Kanji.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry.
Contact Teacher: Shinichi Muroya
Possible next steps: Year 10 Japanese
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Full year course
In Year 10 French, we continue to build on the language skills learned in Year 9. Students learn to talk about their school life, school subjects and express opinions on school and daily routine. Students learn to describe their town and area in detail, learn how to give directions, research a French speaking town/area, design a tourism brochure, as well as, talk about holiday plans using the simple future. Students will also discuss food, drinks and other aspects of French culture and learn how to say what they do to live a healthy lifestyle. Again the emphasis is on speaking as much French as possible in class with their peers.
Recommended Prior Learning: Year 9 French
Contact Teacher: Mr Guy Mance
Possible next steps: Year 11 French
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Full year course
The Year 10 Japanese course is designed to help students further develop their Japanese language skills as second-year learners, building on the foundation established in Year 9. The following topics will be covered to support students in gaining an intermediate-level understanding of Japanese:
Nations, Nationalities, and Languages
School subjects
Daily activities
Family members
Weather
In addition, students will learn the Katakana script and be introduced to new Kanji.
Recommended Prior Learning: Year 9 Japanese.
Contact Teacher: Shinichi Muroya
Possible next steps: Year 11 Japanese course.
Find more details in our Course Outline 2025
Optional full year course
In Year 11 French, we continue to build on the language skills learned in previous years. By the end of the year students should be able to hold short conversations to do with everyday life and to talk about past events and their future plans. Students will continute to learn about French culture both in France and other Francophone cultures especially in the Pacific.
Recommended Prior Learning: Years 9 and 10 French
Contact Teacher: Mr Guy Mance
Possible next steps: Year 12 French
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional full year course
Year 11 Japanese is an upper-intermediate course designed to develop students’ language skills. Students will expand their vocabulary to talk about a range of aspects of daily life and learn various sentence structures to express themselves more clearly and confidently.
Vocabulary will focus on the following themes:
Your Home, Your Town & Daily Routine
Eating and Drinking
School Life
Shopping
Sports, Leisure and Hobbies
Travel and Holidays
In terms of Kanji, students will learn a total of 57 characters, including those introduced in Year 9 and Year 10.
Recommended Prior Learning:
Year 10 Japanese.
Contact Teacher: Shinichi Muroya
Possible next steps: Year 12 Japanese course.
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Semester course
In Year 9 students cover a range of topics which allow you to get a solid foundation in German. The main language focus is on communicating in German. You will learn to introduce yourself and talk about your family and your hobbies. You will also learn the numbers, common phrases to survive and key phrases for the classroom. You will learn to talk about your likes and dislikes, describing yourself, describing your family, friends and what you do in your spare time. The emphasis is on speaking German as much as possible and learning about culture in German speaking countries.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry.
Contact Teacher: David Russell
Possible next steps: Year 10 German
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Compulsory semester course
In Year 9 Gagana Sāmoa - Samoan Language, students will cover a range of topics to get a solid foundation. The main focus is communicating in Samoan Language by speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students will learn to greet others, introduce themselves, family members and friends. They will be able to share about likes and dislikes and favourite school subjects and hobbies. Students will learn about Samoan cultural values, the Fa'asāmoa - Samoan way of life which includes, pese-song, siva-dance and aganu'u fa'asāmoa.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry.
Contact Teacher: Deborah Tiatia
Possible next steps: Year 10 Gagana Samoa
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Compulsory full year course
In Year 10 German, we continue to build on the language skills learned in Year 9. Students learn to talk about their school life, school subjects and express opinions on school and daily routine. Students learn to describe their town and area in detail, learn how to give directions, research a German speaking town/area, design a tourism brochure, as well as, talk about holiday plans using the simple future. Students will also discuss food, drinks and other aspects of German culture and learn how to say what they do to live a healthy lifestyle. Again the emphasis is on speaking as much German as possible in class with their peers.
Recommended Prior Learning: Year 9 German
Contact Teacher: Mr David Russell
Possible next steps: Year 11 German
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Full year course
In Year 10 Gagana Sāmoa-Samoan Language, we will continue to build on the language skills learned in Year 9. Students will cover topics about their home and school life, daily routines, favourite food, colours, hobbies, clothing, transport and giving directions and telling the time. Again, the emphasis is on speaking as much Gagana Sāmoa-Samoan Language as possible, listening and being able to read and write simple sentences. We will continue to learn about Samoan cultural values, the Fa'asāmoa - Samoan way of life which includes, pese-song, siva-dance and aganu'u fa'asāmoa.
Recommended Prior Learning:
Year 9 Gagana Samoa- Samoan Language
Contact Teacher: Deborah Tiatia
Possible next steps: Y11 Gagana Samoa
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional full year course
In Year 11 German, we continue to build on the language skills learned in Year 10. Students learn to talk about their childhood using the past tense. They are taught how to use both the Perfect and Imperfect tense. Students also learn to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of media, technology and how and when they use social media. Students also watch a German film as part of our technology model and understand the historical content of post word war Germany. Students learn to describe what jobs they would like in the future and discuss their ambitions for the future as well as their role models.
Recommended Prior Learning: Year 10 German
Contact Teacher: Mr David Russell
Possible next steps: Year 12 German
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional full year course
In Year 11 Gagana Sāmoa-Samoan Language we have a “blended program” which is accessed online through ‘Te Kura’. Students will be able to gain NCEA Level 1 credits for their internal and external assessments. All learning material is presented in fun and interactive activities including quizzes, Power Point presentations, and video recordings. We will continue to build on the language skills learned in previous years, with the emphasis on communicating in Gagana Sāmoa. By the end of the year students should be able to hold short conversations to do with everyday life, and to talk about past events and their future plans. Students will continue to learn about Samoan cultural values, the Fa'asāmoa - Samoan way of life which includes, pese-song, siva-dance and aganu'u fa'asāmoa.
Recommended Prior Learning:
Year 9 & Y10 Gagana Samoa - Samoan Language.
Contact Teacher: Deborah Tiatia
Possible next steps: Year 12 Gagana Samoa
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Semester course
In Year 9 students cover a range of topics which allow you to get a solid foundation in Spanish. The main language focus is on communicating in Spanish. You will learn to introduce yourself and talk about your family and your hobbies. You will also learn the numbers, common phrases to survive and key phrases for the classroom. You will learn to talk about your likes and dislikes, describing yourself, describing your family, friends and what you do in your spare time. The emphasis is on speaking Spanish as much as possible and learning about culture in Spanish speaking countries.
Recommended Prior Learning: Open Entry.
Contact Teacher: Maria Villanueva
Possible next steps: Year 10 Spanish
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Full year course
In Year 10 Spanish, we continue to build on the language skills learned in Year 9. Students learn to talk about their school life, school subjects and express opinions on school and daily routine. Students learn to describe their town and area in detail, learn how to give directions, research a Spanish speaking town/area, design a tourism brochure, as well as, talk about holiday plans using the simple future. Students will also discuss food, drinks and other aspects of Spanish culture and learn how to say what they do to live a healthy lifestyle. Again the emphasis is on speaking as much Spanish as possible in class with their peers.
Recommended Prior Learning: year 9 Spanish
Contact Teacher: Ms Villanueva
Possible next steps: Any Year 11 Spanish course.
Find more details in our Course outline 2025
Optional full year course
In Year 11 Spanish, we continue to build on the language skills learned in Year 10. Students learn to talk about their school life, school subjects and express opinions on school and daily routine. Students learn to describe their town and area in detail, learn how to give directions, research a Spanish speaking town/area, design a tourism brochure, as well as, talk about holiday plans using the simple future. Students will also discuss food, drinks and other aspects of Spanish culture and learn how to say what they do to live a healthy lifestyle. Again the emphasis is on speaking as much Spanish as possible in class with their peers.
Recommended Prior Learning: Year 10 Spanish
Contact Teacher: Ms Villanueva
Possible next steps: Year 12 Spanish course.
Find more details in our Course outline 2025