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Essential Skills

Communication Skills

Students will:

• communicate competently and confidently by listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and by using other forms of communication where appropriate;
• convey and receive information, instruction, ideas, and feelings appropriately and effectively in a range of different cultural, language, and social contexts;
• become competent in using new information and communication technologies, including augmented communication for people with disabilities.

Information Skills

Students will:
• identify, locate, gather, store, retrieve, and process information from a range of sources;
• organise, analyse, synthesize, evaluate, and use information;
• present information clearly,logically, concisely, and accurately;
• identify, describe, and interpret different points of view.
• use a range of information-retrieval and information-processing technologies confidently and competently.

Problem-solving Skills

Students will:

• think critically, creatively, reflectively, and logically;
• exercise imagination, initiative, and flexibility;
• make connections and establish relationships;
• inquire and research, and explore, generate, and develop ideas;
• design and make;
• evaluate processes and solutions.

Self-management and Competitive Skills

Students will:

• set, evaluate, and achieve realistic personal goals;
• manage time effectively;
• show initiative, commitment, perseverance, courage, and enterprise;
• develop constructive approaches to challenge and change, stress and conflict, competition, and success and failure;
• develop the skills of self-appraisal and self-advocacy;
• develop self-esteem and personal integrity.

Social and Co-operative Skills

Students will:

• develop good relationships with others, and work in co-operative ways to achieve common goals;
• take responsibility as a member of a group for jointly decided actions and decisions;
• demonstrate consideration for others through qualities such as integrity, reliability, trustworthiness, caring or compassion (aroha), fairness, diligence, tolerance (rangimarie), and hospitality or generosity (manaakitanga);
• participate effectively as responsible citizens in a democratic society;
• to develop the ability to negotiate and reach consensus.

Work and Study Skills

Students will:

• work effectively, both independently and in groups;
• build on their own learning experiences, cultural backgrounds, and preferred learning styles;
• develop sound work habits;
• take increasing responsibility for their own learning and work;
• develop the desire and skills to continue leanirng throughout life;
• make career choices on the basis of realistic information and self-appraisal.

Learning Areas

English

Oral: Listen to, and interact with, others to clarify understanding narrative, information, ideas, and opinions, and to contribute to discussion, in one-to-one, small group and class discussion.

Written: Write instructions, explanations, and factual accounts, and express and explain a point of view in a range of authentic contexts, linking ideas logically and making language choices appropriate to the audience.

Students will: gather, select, record, interpret, and present coherent, structured information from a variety of sources, using different technologies and explaining the processes used.

Visual: Combine verbal and visual features to communicate information, ideas, or narrative through drama, video, computer, or other technologies and media.

Social Studies

Social Organisation: How and why people exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.

Culture and Heritage: Why and how individuals and groups pass on and sustain their culture and heritage.

Health and PE

Healthy Communities and Environment: Access a range of health care agencies, recreational resources and sporting resources, and evaluate the contribution by each to the well-being of community members.