Queen Margaret College

Year 10 Te Reo Māori Programme 2023

Levels 2-5 of the New Zealand National Curriculum

Phases 2-3 of the Middle Years Programme International Baccalaureate

Unit Title

Proposed assessment date

Ngā haerenga (Journeys)

Ngā hui Māori (Māori celebrations and gatherings)

Ngā pūrākau o Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Stories of Wellington) In the final two weeks of each Term, Students will be assessed on the language skills they have developed throughout the unit. Listening, reading, writing, and speaking will each be assessed twice during the year.

Te reo o te rangatahi (Youthful language)

Course details

During the course of the year, students learn how to talk about themselves and others in a range of familiar situations. They develop their knowledge of tenses, instructions, possessives and negative sentences. Tikanga Māori will be a significant part of the course. In class, students are encouraged to speak te reo Māori and work toward improving the other key skills of reading, writing and listening. In addition, they engage in e-learning, using their laptops to work on OneNote and to access various language learning resources. Students may (in consultation with our new Kaiārahi and Kaiako) study the following topics:

Ngā pūrākau o Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Stories of Wellington)

• The arrival of Kupe

• Ngāke and Whātaitai

• Pipitea Pā

Ngā haerenga (Journeys)

• Waka migrations

• Tuai

• Family trips

Ngā hui Māori (Māori celebrations and gatherings)

• Tangihanga (Funerals)

• Hura kōhatu (Unveiling)

• Huritau (Birthdays)

• Pōwhiri

• Matariki

Te reo o te rangatahi (Youthful language)

• Slang and idiomatic language

Course Information:

• In 2023 Year 10 te reo Māori is an option subject.

• Each class has 6 lessons per 10-day timetable for the whole year.

Homework expectations

Students are expected to complete some homework during the week. Your child should be learning at home for a total of at least 90 minutes per weeknight across all subjects and separate to this is the Community Project during Terms 2 and 3. The key to language learning is ‘little and often’.

Homework might include:

• Learning a number of words, verbs or phrases

• Learning prayers (karakia), songs (waiata) and proverbs (whakatauki)

• Reading and grammar exercises or a short paragraph to write

• Watching te reo Māori language programmes on Māori Television

• Before an assessment, students will be expected to revise their notes or to practise their spoken te reo Māori

• Revision of vocabulary learned in class with www.educationperfect.com, www.linguascope.com and Tipu

• Catching up on work missed due to absence

Students will also be subscribed to Tipu, an app which will allow them to direct their own language learning in te reo. There will be one single charge of approximately $20.

Head of Learning Area: Caroline Harding

Queen Margaret College

Year 10 Visual Arts 2023

Level 5 of the New Zealand Curriculum

Year 4 of the Middle Years Programme International Baccalaureate

Unit Titles and Skills Taught

Proposed assessment date

Term 1 and 2

‘Domestic Life’

INQUIRY: Drawing Fundamentals; Skills and Techniques

• Intermediate observation and drawing skills

• Colour theory

• Experimenting with a range of medias

Students will explore their skills in final works;

• Printmaking

• Acrylic Painting

• Photography

Term 3

Sculpture

• Working in 3D

• Thinking conceptually

• Exploring a range of media in 3D

All Units

• Ongoing workbook exploration which includes, notes, sketches, plans, etc.

• Evaluation of own and other students’ artworks using art terms

• Discussion of artist models and artworks using appropriate art terminology

Course Information

• In 2023 Year 10 Art is an optional subject.

• Each class has 4 lessons per 10 day timetable.

Summative assessment at end of Term 2 and Term 3

• Each class will rotate through three different unit topics over the year.

• Students are assessed on 4 key skills. These are Knowing and Understanding , Developing Skills, Thinking Creatively, and Responding

• There is a consumables fee of $75 which will be charged to the student’s account.

• Students in this course have the option to purchase the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for approx. $45. This gives them a one year subscription to industry standard software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. This will be installed at school and charged to students' school accounts.

Course details

The aim of this course is for students to develop an enthusiasm for and a confidence in art making, building on the skills acquired in each successive year. The Year 10 Visual Arts course is a practical course of study that continues the students’ study of the Year 5 MYP framework. The artistic fundamentals that students develop form a foundation on which to build further skills and understanding of the MYP Arts Curriculum. They will be encouraged and enabled to:

• create and present art

• develop skills specific to the discipline

• engage in a process of creative exploration and (self-)discovery

• make purposeful connections between investigation and practice

• understand the relationship between art and its contexts

• respond to and reflect on art

• deepen their understanding of the world.

Homework expectations

Your child should be learning at home for a total of at least 90 minutes per weeknight across all subjects and separate to this is the Community Project during Terms 2 and 3. To achieve at a high level in this subject, students are expected to complete some work outside of class time. This work may include:

• Completion of assignments already worked on in class

• Catching up on work missed due to absence

• Researching on the internet

• Completing a formative or summative reflection sheet that enables the student to assess her own projects