Year 8 into Year 9

As a future year 9 student at MBC you will have an exciting and varied timetable of different subjects. Unlike your current school, at MBC you will have a range of different courses that you will study. These will be with different teachers and in different parts of the school. The courses are designed to teach you the skills you will need when you move onto NCEA later in the school. They also should excite and inspire you.

Our Year 9 Junior curriculum programme is based on the eight learning areas of the New Zealand Curriculum:

• English
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Science
• Social Science
• Physical Education and Health
• Arts
• Languages
• Technology

1. English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education and Health will be selected for you.

    English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is offered as a full-year optional course, replacing English.

2. You must then choose either the social science, careers development and one term Te Ao Māori option (they run together) or the Te Reo Māori option. 

    (Teo Reo Māori is offered as a whole year optional course - this would replace the Social Science option but social science is taught through the Te Re Māori course)

    Once you have done this, you will be able to make your remaining options.

3. Arts, Technology and other courses are taught as one-term courses where you have a choice of:

• Art
• Drama
• Music
• Graphics
• Digital Technology
• Food Technology 
• Woodwork
• AgTech
• Artificial intelligence and robotics
• Technology design and make
• German (2 terms)

You will choose and study up to five of these courses.

You do need to make TWO back up course choices before finishing.

Next steps

Use the menu on the left to select 'course selection' and then 'view courses for me' to look at what you learn in each of the subjects.

When you enrol online for the school, you will receive an email with your log in and password to select and then confirm your course selections.