From the start of Term 1, 2024 school boards must ensure their school's teaching and learning programmes meet requirements for structuring teaching time for reading, writing and maths in Years 0 - 8. Specialist schools with students in Years 0 - 8 must ensure this from the start of 2025. Kura with a specified kura board must ensure this from Term 3, 2024.
See Gazette Notice 2023-go5904 and Changes to legislative requirements for school boards on NZC Online.
Ko tōu reo, ko tōku reo,
te tuakiri tangata.
Tīhei uriuri, tīhei nakonako.
Learning a new language provides a means of communicating with people from another culture and exploring one’s own personal world.
Languages are inseparably linked to the social and cultural contexts in which they are used. Languages and cultures play a key role in developing our personal, group, national, and human identities. Every language has its own ways of expressing meanings; each has intrinsic value and special significance for its users.
This learning area provides the framework for the teaching and learning of languages that are additional to the language of instruction. Level 1 of the curriculum is the entry level for students with no prior knowledge of the language being learned, regardless of their school year.
Published on: 02 Apr 2014
Learning Languages on Tāhūrangi
This section contains practical resources and support for teaching and learning of Learning languages.
Learning languages in The 2007 New Zealand Curriculum on Tāhūrangi
Resources and links related to the Learning Languages area in the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum can be found on this page. The Learning Area Statement, Proficiency Descriptors and Achievement Objectives form the basis for designing programmes in Learning Languages.
NZ Senior Secondary Curriculum Guides – Learning languages
Helping teachers create quality teaching and learning programmes.
