English | Te Reo Ingarihi
This year you must complete one core course from the options below. 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.
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.
Core courses
The newsroom: live-streamed investigative journalism 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. 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. 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
Text types: cartoons, graphic novels, film. Recommended for students interested in film studies.
It's the little things that count Look at thematic connections in film and literature that celebrate moments of joy and beauty. This is all about looking at the little moments of pleasure in the everyday. Text types: poetry, film, creative writing. Recommended for students interested in the joy that can come from a good story. An eye for an eye: retribution and revenge Delve into the distinctly human phenomenon of revenge. Text types: short stories, creative writing. Recommended for students interested in exploring philosophical ideas and applying them to different texts.
and why they behave as they do. Text types: novels, short stories.
12 Year 11 Course Booklet 2025
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