Course Information

Get to know your subjects before you choose them. This page has everything you need to explore the courses offered at each year level – what you’ll be learning, how you’ll be assessed, and where each subject can take you in the future. In addition, the course outlines show how each subject builds your skills over time and connects to future study or career options. When you are deciding on a subject, this is the place to look.

This page also helps you stay on track throughout the year, with access to current course information, outlines, and key due dates. Use it to plan ahead, manage your workload, and make confident choices about your learning journey.

Below, you can see our Course Selection Whānau Booklet – this is designed for parents to provide support and guidance with subject selection.

Course Information and Outlines

Course Selection Guide

FAQ

The deadline for course selection is important to meet as much of the planning for 2026 rests on the choices students make. Course selection happens in Term 3 and the timeline is as follows:

  • Week 1 – 3 – Course selection information in assembly, tutor and Tīaho.
  • Week 2 and 3 – Course selection conversations with Tutor Teachers; students complete Course Selection and Tutor Conference workbook
  • Week 3 – information afternoon in Library
  • Week 4 ( 4th August) – enter selections on Career Central
  • Week 4 – Confirmation of subject selection at Tutor Conferences‍

Choosing subjects can be a challenge! Consider courses that reflect your interests, aspirations and strengths, allow you to continue with possible subject choices in subsequent years, keep career pathways open to you and support you to gain entry to tertiary study or the pathways you want to explore.

Use your course selection / tutor conference workbook to help guide your choices and the questions you should be considering.

We would encourage you to research early any information about any requirements for careers. Many careers require you to have studied particular subjects, e.g. Physics and Mathematics for engineering. You can make an appointment with the Careers Advisor (Mr. Hamish Davidson) to help you with this.

At Wellington College, Health and Physical Education is partially integrated.  All Year 9 and Year 10 students experience practical and theory lessons that support them to “acquire a lifelong passion for learning” whilst developing their capacity to “become productive citizens”.  Students are taught that all dimensions of their well-being – Taha Tinana (Physical),Taha Whānau (Social), Taha Hinengaro (Mental/Emotional), Taha Wairua (Spiritual), Taha Whenua (Connection to the Land) – are important in achieving this vision.  Through participating in this programme students will be better equipped to not only enhance their own well-being, but that of others around them.  The key competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum (Thinking; Relating to Others; Using Lanugage, Symbols and Text; Participating and Contributing; Managing Self) are embedded in all that we do.  Students will be engaged in learning around topics including, but not limited to: mental health; sexuality education (including consent, promoting positive sexuality, safe sexual practices, and body images in media); personal care and hygiene; resiliency; assertiveness and decision making in situations involving drugs and alcohol; physical development; and promoting healthy active lifestyles.  Units and lessons are developed that are responsive to students’ ever changing needs and are reflective of our core values of Community, Oranga, Learning Together and Leadership.  All Wellington College health education is values based, in that the values, beliefs, and attitudes of each individual student are upheld in how we teach and learn. In addition to the compulsory Junior Health Curriculum, all students are presented with the opportunity to engage with Health studies in the Senior school, currently with opportunities to engage in full year level content in Years 11-13.  No compulsory Health curriculum is taught beyond Year 10.

If you have any queries about the Health curriculum, please contact the HOD Junior Health and Physical Education:  Nathan Frew n.frew@wc.school.nz

Any whānau/caregivers wanting to have their child excluded from any particular element of sexuality education in the health education programme may write to the Headmaster requesting exclusion.  In such cases, self-guided alternative health education will be provided.