Northcross Intermediate Curriculum
INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
Northcross offers a fully integrated curriculum. Four concepts are covered each year with the whole school focusing on set ‘Enduring Understandings’ and ‘Essential Questions’. This year’s concepts include:
Life Skills, Turangawaewae, Systems and Environment.
Northcross places a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy. Literacy provides the foundation for the integrated concepts and is supported by the learning areas of Science, Social Sciences, Health and Physical Education, the Arts and Technology.
Literacy areas of focus this year include: Guided, Consumer and Reciprocal Reading, speech writing/delivery, procedural, persuasive, recount and instructional writing.
Numeracy strategies and skills are taught independently and where applicable, integrated throughout the concepts. This year Northcross is part of the Numeracy Project and a great deal of resourcing is going into Numeracy.
Key Competencies
The Key Competencies are also an integral part of our curriculum delivery and emphasised strongly throughout each concept.
Using language, symbols and text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Relating to Others and Managing Self, encompass essential skills that encourage the students to become life-long learners.
SOCIAL SKILLS
Decision Making
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Values
Exploration
Communication
Research & Enquiry
Social & Co-operative
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING
Building Self Esteem, Keeping Safe, Relating to Others, Eating for Health, Prevention of Injury, Caring for the Body (including Pubertal Change), Helping Agencies.
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Small and Large Ball skills, Gymnastics, Dance, Swimming, Athletics.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology is an integrated curriculum involving classroom and specialist teachers.
Over the two years students will cover:
Hard Materials
Electronics and Control Technology
Information and Communication Technology
Materials Technology
Production and Process Technology
Structures and Mechanisms Technology
Graphics and Design
Media Studies
Bio Technology
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ICT
All students have access to ICT; such as computers, digital cameras, scanners, the internet, an online learning management system and a variety of other technologies. We provide ICT enriched learning environments which include digital classes, computers on wheels (laptops with wireless access), E-pods and ICT Suites. Our ever growing number of interactive whiteboards (Smart & Mimio boards) in classes enables interactive and stimulating teaching and learning opportunities.
Our learning technology and information resources are integrated across the curriculum to assist our students to become engaged and motivated in their learning.
Teaching and learning programmes, supported by ICT, encourage the sharing of ideas, cooperation and team work coupled with developing creative thinking and problem solving skills for the future.
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