Queen Margaret College

Year 13 Chinese NCEA Programme 2023

Level 8 of the New Zealand Curriculum

understanding of a variety of extended spoken Chinese texts

AS91535, 3.3 Interact clearly using spoken Chinese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives in different situations

AS91536, 3.4 understanding of a variety of extended written / or visual Chinese text(s)

AS91537, 3.5 Write a variety of text types in clear Chinese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives

Please note that the achievement standards outlined above comprise the set course and must be completed for students to be eligible for school prizes. Additional and optional credits will not be counted towards school prizes.

Assessment procedures are outlined below, including forms you may need to access throughout the academic year.

QMC NCEA Assessment Procedures Booklet

Appeal Form - Internal Assessment

Extension or Rescheduling Request Form

Withdrawal Request Form - NCEA Standards

Course details

The aim of this NCEA Level 3 course is to enable students to interact in a variety of situations, recognise finer details in spoken and written Chinese texts and draw conclusions. Students further develop their fluency by using basic and more complex language patterns and strategies in expressing their points of views.

Students will have opportunities to have regular conversation practice with our Mandarin language assistant and the teacher to practise their speaking and listening skills. They study the following topics:

• overseas travel experiences, including visiting cities and famous places in China and New Zealand

• cultural experiences, including Maori traditions and Chinese customs

• communication and media

• environmental issues and migration

• relationships

• pros and cons of internet

The course offers three internal assessments: a speech, a written portfolio, and a conversation portfolio. The external assessments will test students’ reading and listening comprehension.

Assessments

Students complete a portfolio consisting of two pieces of work each for the two internally assessed achievement standards (3.3 and 3.5). Specific times for internal assessments are subject to changes of students’ choice and their progress.

Course Information

• In 2023, Year 13 NCEA Level 3 Chinese is an option subject

Homework expectations

Your daughter should be learning at home for a total of at least 15 hours per week, across all subjects.

To achieve at a high level in this subject, sstudents are expected to complete some homework during the week. The key to language learning is ‘little and often’.

Homework might include:

• Learning a number of words, verbs or phrases

• Sentence or text level of exercises, e.g., jigsaw, filling the blanks etc.

• Completion of assignments started in class

• Reading and grammar exercises to do or an essay to write

• Creating revision material

• Reviewing the work completed during class time

• Revision of vocabulary learned in class with www.languageperfect.com

• Catching up on work missed due to absence

• Carrying out a research task on internet

Students are likely to be charged for a Year 13 Chinese NCEA Level 3 Workbook, approximately $10.

Head of Learning Area: Caroline Harding

Queen Margaret College

Year 13 Digital Technology Programme 2023

Level 8 of the New Zealand Curriculum

Please note that the achievement standards outlined above comprise the set course and must be completed for students to be eligible for school prizes. Additional and optional credits will not be counted towards school prizes.

Assessment procedures are outlined below, including forms you may need to access throughout the academic year.

QMC NCEA Assessment Procedures Booklet

Appeal Form - Internal Assessment

Extension or Rescheduling Request Form

Withdrawal Request Form - NCEA Standards

Course details

This course builds on the technological skills and understanding developed in the Year 12 Digital Technology course, with an emphasis on independent and self-directed learning for a client project. The students will work with a client to design and develop an interactive website using project management tools successfully and iteratively improving the outcome. They will learn how to use complex techniques in programming languages such as Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP The course contains a written component and students will carry out research, interview people and write evaluative reports documenting the development of their digital outcomes.

Course Information

• This is a year-long knowledge and skills-based course.

• The course centres around a client project assessed by three achievement standards, each with Achieved, Merit or Excellence components. All contributing towards Level 3 National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA).

• All internally assessed work is required to be handed in during class time on the due date.

• To reach the final summative assessment for the client project students are required to submit work for the formative assessment.

• Students in this course are invited to purchase the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for approx. $35. This gives them a one-year subscription to industry standard software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. This will be installed at school and charged to students' school accounts (not required if already purchased for Photography, Design or Media Studies).

• There may be planned trips / visiting speakers throughout the year which are necessary to develop knowledge for some assessment tasks in the unit topics. You will be notified of any costs associated with any trips or speakers (eg: travel, entry fees). Costs incurred will be charged to your school account.

Scholarship:

Scholarship is offered in Technology. The assessment is in the form of a written report that is to be based on the major achievement standard topic carried out during the year (Client Topic).

Students intending to enter Scholarship in Technology (Digital Technology) must complete the 3.10 external achievement standard as part of their assessment programme.

Extra: Students who opt to enter the Technology Scholarship (Digital Technology) standard are required to complete extra Scholarship level tasks in their work that may or may not be directly linked to their client project work – this is to show they have fully understood the generic element of business practices of technologists working in a ‘real world’ company.

The final Scholarship report should relate the complexities involved in the resolution of a client issue.

The scholarship report is submitted in lieu of a sit down exam.

The report will be written in the students own time – although there will be scholarship tutorial time available for students in Terms 3 and 4, for help and guidance in the preparation of this report.

Students who opt to enter Scholarship in Technology will be required to scan, colour print or colour photocopy approx. 70 pages from their project visual diary to accompany their Scholarship report submission as required evidence of own practice. Colour printing or photocopy costs are the responsibility of the student. Scholarship is an External Assessment.

Homework expectations: Students should be learning at home for a total of at least 15 hours per week, across all subjects. To achieve at a high level in this subject, students are expected to complete some homework during the week. Homework might include:

• Researching background information

• Software practice

• Completion of project work not completed during class time.

• Carrying out individual project - written, research or digital design tasks.

• Attending lunchtime workshops to complete any project work or to access extra help with project work.

Head of Learning Area: Richard Knuckey