English | Te Reo Ingarihi
Over the course of the Diploma, you must have completed a total of three core courses in English from the options below. For Year 10, choose two from the list of courses. In Year 11, you must complete one additional core course. A prep course is highly recommended.
These courses are designed to teach core English skills in a range of contexts and provide academic rigour and engagement. While all courses are accessible to all students, courses offer differing levels of academic challenge to differentiate for student needs. Students should speak to their English teacher for further advice.
Core courses
The newsroom: live-streamed investigative journalism
How to get away with murder People are fascinating and they display interesting and, sometimes, morbid tendancies. In this course we look at the motivations and behaviour behind this. We also examine the actions of characters
Put your sharp mind and curious soul to work in uncovering inconvenient truths. We will be creating our own media company and live- streaming our product. Text types: documentaries, print, television, online news sources. Recommended for students interested in journalism and media.
and why they behave as they do. Text types: novels, short stories.
Recommended for budding psychologists and those who are interested in the power and intrigue of storytelling. On the cutting-room floor Explore visual texts as a mode of storytelling. Look specifically at how a director's choices do make a difference.
Don’t judge me
Honestly face the inequalities in our society. We will take a look at the ways literature exposes these and the solutions it has to offer. Text types: novel, film. Recommended for students interested in social issues and comparing texts.
Text types: cartoons, graphic novels, film. Recommended for students interested in film studies.
10 Year 10 Course Booklet 2025
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