Whangarei Girls’ High School
Year 9 Switch
9SWI
Course Description
Switch is a connected curriculum approach to learning. This innovative curriculum is based on developing learners, leaders and change-makers who use knowledge meaningfully in our local community.
Learning Opportunities
In this course you will need to:
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- Learning Skills - Also known as the "four Cs" of 21st Century learning, these include critical thinking / problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
| - To meet the demands of our changing society the future of education lies in helping students develop lifelong skills that will set them up for success in the 21st Century.
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- Life Skills - Growth mindset, flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity, leadership, reflection and citizenship.
| - Students explore connected curriculum through responsive overarching themes. They learn fundamental skills and knowledge in authentic contexts and apply facts, ideas and knowledge in problems or provocations that are designed to “provoke” thought and motivate thinking or investigation.
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- Literacy Skills - Information literacy, media literacy, and technology literacy.
| - A key focus is implementing their ideas back into the community through the context of real life community and school based projects.
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| - Explicit links are made across the learning areas of English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology, Health and PE and pathways for further learning.
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Switch Brochure
Year Levels/Departments:
Integrated Studies
Resources Required
Pens, pencils, a calculator, ruler, scissors and colouring pencils.
Students are required to have a personal device, this could be a laptop or chrome book.