All Year 7 students come into the foods room to do a semester’s worth of learning. This course is called Well-being Foods. Students will gain knowledge and skills that they can use at home in preparing healthy breakfasts and incorporating fruit and vegetables.

All Year 8 students have one semester of 8 Intervention by Design (8 IBDN). In this learning package, students will use their creativity to design and create their patchwork cushion. We aim to give students the skills to enable them to be confident while creating their design.

This is a course that will involve using a range of different skills and techniques in a practical situation focusing on basic nutrition.

This course that allows students to extend their knowledge of food components and nutrition, enhancing their practical skills and application, with a greater in-depth study of particular foods.

This is a course that is based around the design process using basic skills with soft materials, It will use technology and visual art skills and thinking. It could involve making jewellery, recycled textiles, and useful objects in a range of materials depending on resources and strengths of the students and teachers.

This is a course that is based around design and making Wearable Arts and textile art creations. Students in the course may experience elements of design, planning and working with a variety of mixed media in order to create. Working with their own theme, students will design and construct an individual creation to be shown in the public arena, local fashion shows and competitions, e.g, Hokonui Fashion Show and TOI. There are course costs for materials used.

The course is designed to give students the opportunity to explore digital media as an art making process. Students will learn ways in which ideas can be communicated through still and moving images. They will develop kills through learning about things like animation, anime/manga, photo-manipulation, and other digital processes.

This is a one semester course. Students will have a taster of using a range of different IT applications. They will create their own digital outcomes using digital print, web, media, and illustration programmes and develop useful general computer and design skills.

This is a one semester course, It builds on parts of the 8IDEA/8 Robotics course and introduces new concepts. Students will be introduced to test-based computer programming and how to use HTML/CSS to construct we pages. Students will have the opportunity to create their own apps and develop interactive digital games/stories.

Level 2 NCEA
This course teaches practical computing skills suitable for the modern work place, across a range of Microsoft Office software including spreadhseet, database, desktop publishing, presentation, and word processing applications.

Level 3 NCEA
This course will focus on giving students experience in a range of software applications and to gain practical computing skills that can be used in the modern workplace and in tertiary studies.

Level 1 NCEA
This course teaches a broad range of digital technology and computing skills so that students can discover their interest and choose future pathways that suit them.

Level 2 NCEA
The course builds on the work covered in Level 1, including new topics like 3D modelling, game development, and web apps.

Level 3 NCEA
This course builds on the work covered in Levels 1 and 2. Students will select an area of focus in the field of digital technology for the year and completing learning and projects related to that focus.

Level 1 NCEA
This course is a Unit Standard based course that covers a wide range of practical skills used in the hospitality industry.

Level 2 NCEA
This course is designed to build up skills and techniques which are used in the hospitality industry, especially food and beverage service.

Level 1 NCEA
This course involves students investigating, planning, and preparing food to meet specific needs and the application of safe food practices. The understanding of wellbeing is a vital part of this course. This includes nutrition, health models and factors that influence hauora.

Level 2 NCEA
This course involves students investigating, planning, and preparing food to meet specific needs, and investigating sustainable food practices. The course involves individual research in and out of the classroom on specified topics.

Level 3 NCEA
This course involves students investigating a nutritional issue that affects the wellbeing of New Zealand society and applying safe food practices in the production of a specific food using complex procedures during the process. This course involves individual research in and out of the classroom on specified topics and may vary in content depending on the needs of the students.