2025 Course Selection
It is important that you take some time to consider your options and the career pathways open to you.
People you can speak to help you make your decisions:
- Kaimanaaki (tutor teacher)
- Subject Teachers and Learning Area Leads
- Deans
- Whānau - Parent/Caregiver
- Careers Advisors
Once you have discussed your options with the required people, especially your Kaimanaaki, you can then make your subject selections on the student portal.
It is important to take some time with this and select relevant subjects for you.
The Curriculum in Year 9 and Year 10
Students in Years 9 and 10 experience a wide range of learning, across the curriculum so they will have plenty of choices available to them in the senior school.
Courses in Year 9 and 10
Students choose 10 courses that cover all 8 Learning Areas.
The Learning Areas are:
- Ngā Toi/The Arts
- Ingarihi/English
- Akoranga Kōiri me Te Hauora/PE&Health
- Ngā Reo/Languages
- Pāngarau/Maths
- Pūtaiao/Science
- Te ao Tangata/Social Science
- Hāngarau/Technology.
Intensive courses - are courses that cover one Learning Area in depth e.g. Te ao Tangata Social Science
Connected courses - are courses that connect the learning across two Learning Areas, e.g. Eco Warriors integrates Pūtaiao/Science and Te ao Tangata.
Focus Line courses - are extra short courses about things you need to know. At Year 9 this includes Literacy, Numeracy, Computational thinking for Digital Technology and Aotearoa NZ Histories.
The 10 courses can be a mixture of Intensive and Connected Curriculum courses. For more detailed information on these courses please see the Junior Course Booklet 2025.
The Curriculum in the Senior School
We are proud of the academic successes students achieve in NCEA in the senior school.
A focus on academic mentoring and career counselling helps all students leave school with worthwhile qualifications and a direction to pursue in further education or employment.
Subjects in Year 11
Three subjects are compulsory: English, Mathematics and Statistics, and Science. Students then need to choose three more subjects.
Subjects in Year 12 and 13
Year 12 students take 6 subjects including English. In Year 13 students take 5 subjects and do not have any compulsory subjects. However, it is wise to check with the careers department or tertiary provider (University or Polytechnic) to ask if you need a specific subject to gain entry to a specific tertiary course.
Information about how to plan for NCEA can be found here - NCEA@WEGC
Please see Senior Course Selection booklet 2025 for further information
