This is a combined Year 12 and 13 course that will focus on exploring your interests and passions via the key skills of English: language features, comprehension, critical thinking, and helping you interact with and contribute to the wider world. 

This is a student-led course where you are in charge of your learning. Your teachers are there to guide you rather than teach you content. 

You will be encouraged to work with others in the course to develop your abilities to present your learning across a range of media, to discuss it in detail and creatively and to express it accurately and in a way that is relevant to your audience.

To read widely a variety of texts both fiction and non-fiction.

Write both analytically and critically.

Develop good study habits. 

To investigate and research using library databases, interviews with experts, and APA referencing.

To complete five reading and five writing university entrance credits at Levels 7 and 8 of the English curriculum. 

How to gain 14+ university entrance credits by the end of the course.

To self-manage your learning, be agentic, and intrinsically motivated by letting curiosity and passions guide you. 

Follow your experiences that reflect personal needs, goals, interests, aspirations, and challenges. 

Learn how to develop key language English skills: language features, comprehension, and critical thinking, to interact with and contribute to the wider world.  

To place your identity at the center of your learning. 

Develop the skills to work in a community of learning with other learners sharing ideas and building relationships. 

Lead your learning.

Track your learning throughout the year.

Set goals.

Select topics you are passionate about.

Choose your internal and external English achievement standards to work towards in Terms 1, 2, and 3.

Work with other learners in the course. 

Recognise and understand the connections between a range of written, visual and oral texts such as novels, short stories, articles, poetry, films, and static images.

Write, speak, and create visual texts to express your ideas.

Write legibly, fluently, and with ease when responding to texts.

Critically analyse and examine perspectives and ideas in texts and demonstrate your understanding of these through presentations, written responses, interviews, blogs/vlogs, and group work.

Achieve 14+ university entrance credits. 

Share your learning with families and whanau.

You will be assessed on your chosen English internal and external achievement standards. 

You will be assessed on three internal and one external achievement standards. 

You will be assessed on the evidence you create from the text(s) you have chosen and studied throughout the year. 

You will have a personalised assessment programme. You will develop a portfolio of work from which evidence of achievement relevant to a range of internal achievement standards will be found.