Subject descriptions
Music The courses in Music are building on both solo and ensemble performance and the associated creative skills across students’ selected musical genres. It is strongly recommended that students have instrumental or voice lessons for these programmes. While the focus is on both performance and creating music, a working understanding of the concepts of music are covered, along with both the language of music relating to the students musical genre (classical, contemporary, jazz, rock, country). Listening skills and elements of music technology are integral to these programmes. Physical Education, Health & Wellbeing Physical Education, Health & Wellbeing focus on the development of personal wellbeing through skills-based physical education and developing knowledge of issues that affect personal health, character and wellbeing. Within these courses, there is an emphasis on developing a wide range of motor, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, as well as equipping students with tools and resources to meet the needs of a changing and challenging world. Physical Education focuses on the practical development of the student. Boys have the opportunity to learn in, through and about movement. They develop their knowledge and understanding around the role of physical activity and how this influences and enhances their hauora. Students also investigate how the body adapts in sport and what position sport holds within contemporary New Zealand culture. Health & Wellbeing develops skills and tools that equip students with knowledge so that they can make safe, well-considered and positive decisions.
Students are introduced to the concepts of positive education, growth mindset, resilience, goal setting, and the PERMA model, as well as being guided by Te Whare Tapa Wha¯ model of health education. Physics Physics combines a sound theoretical base with considerable practical work and the use of technology. At all levels, students make and test things to see the application of basic theory. Physics opens the way to a very wide range of careers, including engineering, architecture, medical physics, environmental monitoring, telecommunication, research science, education, patent law, aerospace, flying, electricity production and supply, electronics, computer servicing, and diverse applications in industry and in industrial development. Examinations require students to show an understanding of the physics involved in a given context and be able to explain or calculate what will happen. The skill of applying knowledge to real-life situations is a recurrent theme. Students need to be confident in their mathematical skills in graphs, rearranging and using formulae and an ability to drive a calculator. NCEA assessment requires students to display understanding by explaining the Physics principles involved in a given situation.
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