Learning at Waimea
Overview
Expand your expectations so you can reach your full potential. Our co-educational setting offers you academic achievement backed up by dynamic co-curricular and extra-curricular opportunities that will enable you to learn, grow and excel.
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Curriculum
The huge range of opportunities available at Waimea College is what sets us apart. We offer a broad curriculum, with one of the largest range of subjects of any school in the country. This means there is something here for you to individualise your learning.
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Special Education
The Waimea College Special Education Department is an integral part of the College and students have a range of inclusion and specialist subject opportunities and also enjoy the peer tutoring programme and being part of the leadership initiatives across the school.
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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
We believe that having access to a device that is used thoughtfully can enhance student’s learning, allowing them to be connected, collaborative and creative in ways that would not be possible otherwise.
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Online Learning
Waimea College use Office 365, and particularly Teams as the main tool to enable online learning. A range of other platforms are also used by our staff and they will advise their classes about these.
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Year 9 Camp
Waimea College camps are open and available to all Year 9s and provide a great platform for personal growth and development as well as creating great connections between students and teachers. It is a highlight for many students’ time at Waimea College.
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