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AGE School
Launching your potential
Launching your potential
We team up with NZ innovators and inspirational business people to mentor students on projects that stretch them well beyond the four walls of a classroom. This helps students understand how important technology, entrepreneurial thinking and creativity are in the world they’re growing up in, and gives their work that much more meaning.
Pathways
The Journey of an AGE Learner
Each of our Seniors have a bespoke learning programme aligned with their passions and purpose. We offer three different pathways: Vocational, Arts, and University Entrance. For those going down the vocational pathway we support the students to achieve credits necessary for them to spend their last year at school having practical experience, that we help to facilitate, in their chosen fields. For our Arts-focused students they leave AGE with an established portfolio for them to be able to use in their future endeavours. Those that wish to proceed with our University pathway are supported and guided in their efforts to achieve the necessary qualifications to put them in the best position for applying to their university courses.
A number of our Senior College students have had Careers sessions this year with the team from Career Dynamic. Students work on activities that help them identify their preferred skills, top motivators, jobs of interest and top industries that best align with their interests and passions. At AGE we allow each student’s individual passions to guide them into a pathway best suited for them.
AGE Ventures
The school is passionate about wrapping around and supporting our budding Entrepreneurs. We have set up AGE Ventures as a support base and network for those who have an interest in setting up their own business. AGE Ventures will provide both financial resources and also mentoring advice to help our students with these ventures.
Real World experience
This year our Senior College cohort attended a 3-day course at the New Zealand School of Food & Wine at the Viaduct. Students learned the basics of coffee preparation, with a lot of practical time on the machines, making dozens of cafe favourites from short blacks to mochaccinos. They learned about different types of coffee, the standard cafe recipes and how espresso machines are cleaned. After a practical and written test, they all achieved an NCEA Unit Standard. “Even with all the writing, I really enjoyed it. I learned a lot about my favourite part was the practical side and making all of the coffee.”- (Year 12), who also received a certificate for the “Best Coffee Diagram”. Some students will go on to complete Part 2 of the Barista Course which focuses on milk and latte art.
One of our students, who has aspirations of working in radio/tv, had the opportunity to join the team at NZME radio station for a morning recording session of the Matt & Jeremy podcast. They got an inside look into how a radio station operates and the chance to ask all of their burning questions!
Next year, 2023, we will see our first group of Year 13 students graduating from AGE. We are so excited to see where their AGE journey will take them as they step out into the world.
Students at AGE are not waiting to be citizens of the future, they are actively creating a future for themselves and developing the courage to Dare to Dream.
