NetNZ is a community of schools from across New Zealand who work together to provide online learning opportunities for their students based on the New Zealand Curriculum.

An exploration of communism

Mathematics can be defined as the study of patterns, order and structure. A course in Level 2 Mathematics equips students for studies in most other areas of life. Studying Mathematics at this level develops reasoning, an ability to formulate and apply strategies, and to solve problems.

Prices in the market are determined by the interaction of the choices made by consumers and producers. The interaction of these choices can be modelled and explained using the economic model of Demand and Supply.

Mathematics can be defined as the study of patterns, order and structure. A course in Level 2 Mathematics equips students for studies in most other areas of life. Studying Mathematics at this level develops reasoning, an ability to formulate and apply strategies, and to solve problems.

“Would you like to build and race your own electric vehicle in a guided programme. If so, EVolocity is the opportunity for you to join in the fun!”

Students learn to communicate in English using all language skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing, presenting, viewing).

The aim of this programme is that students can converse with understanding and confidence and use a range of strategies for learning te reo to communicate with others in situations where te reo and tikanga Maori are predominate.

Students learn to communicate in Spanish using more sophisticated language on a range of themes relevant to young adults.

YES challenges your students to form a small business with fellow students. Each YES company will create a product or service, which they will bring to market. Through the programme, your students will learn about concepts such as idea generation, business planning, finance, marketing and production.

A design brief approach is used and students are encouraged to focus on topics which they are interested in.

Design and visually communicate (DVC) skills learnt at level one will be enhanced and refined. This course allows creative design in an area to suit the student. This is the nuts and bolts of design and design presentation.

This course is entry level into design that has a focus on learning how to design and how to present developed outcomes using a range of techniques like freehand, rendering, CAD and instrumental working drawings.

We explore Drama styles such as Elizabethan Theatre, via Shakespearean Monologues. (Sometimes we look at other Theatre forms like Melodrama and others)

Participants explore a play and communicate features of theatre form

This course is all about creating your own drama piece

Students will generate and develop work in the field of digital photography.

Level Three English is designed to fit around what you want to study and need to get out of this course.

Calculus is a course designed for students with good algebra skills. Calculus is about using mathematics to solve problems.

This is a level 2 mathematics course designed to lead students into level 3 Statistics.

L2 Photography is a practical, hands on Photography course. Photography students will be selecting a genre of their choice (such as still life) and developing and clarifying their ideas through a photographic study.

Offered through Telford

A full NCEA pathway in Tongan is available through FarNet

The aim of this course is to develop skills and knowledge that will lead either directly into the workforce, or act as a curriculum bridge between secondary and tertiary education, in the hospitality/health industry.

The Religious Studies course is based on the Understanding Faith Curriculum which is taught in all NZ Catholic Secondary Schools.

Tourism is our fastest growing export product. This course will introduce you to the employment opportunities that this sector offers and can lead on to a Certificate of Tourism

L3 Spanish is available via HarbourNet

A full NCEA pathway is available via HabourNet, Volcanics, FarNet, And Welcom

The aim of this course is to develop an electronics outcome of interest to students

The study of Samoan is available from L1-3 via Farnet, Harbournet and Volcanics

German language study is available via HarbourNet and Volcanics

This course will introduce students to the Chinese language and culture. Students will be introduced to Pinyin, the Chinese pronunciation, and understand and use simple Chinese.

This course builds on Beginner's Chinese and aims to prepare students for further study at the senior level

This course will explore advanced programming techniques and Computer Science concepts.

Students will create a plan for a media product, which will be in the form of a school magazine.

Students will study the narrative conventions of a television series.

The aim of this course is to support students in developing the ability to understand and produce more complex language.

The aim of this course is to support students in developing the ability to understand and produce more complex language.

This course focuses on using an accounting software package.

This course focuses on the Accounting Receivable and Inventory subsystems in Accounting.

This course encourages effective communication in listening and responding, speaking and presenting, interacting, viewing/reading and writing.

This course encourages effective communication in listening and responding, speaking and presenting, interacting, viewing/reading and writing.

This course encourages effective communication in listening and responding, speaking and presenting, interacting, viewing/reading and writing.

This course continues to build on the language and communication functions covered in NCEA Level one with the aim of developing more confidence in oral and written communication in Korean.

This course continues to build on the language and communication functions covered in NCEA Level one with the aim of developing more confidence in oral and written communication in Korean.

The aim of this course is to equip students with basic spoken and written skills in modern Korean through the use of authentic multimedia materials and stimulating activities on topics relevant to students’ lives. Throughout the semester, students will be exposed to a learning environment enriched with spoken Korean. Intercultural Virtual Exchange and Planning a school Exchange with a school in Korea gives students the opportunity to speak with and learn from each other and offers a platform where students can further develop their skills in intercultural competence.

The aim of this course is to equip students with basic spoken and written skills in modern Korean through the use of authentic multimedia materials and stimulating activities on topics relevant to students’ lives. Throughout the semester, students will be exposed to a learning environment enriched with spoken Korean. Intercultural Virtual Exchange with a school in Korea gives students the opportunity to speak with and learn from each other and offers a platform where students can further develop their skills in intercultural competence.

This course will introduce students to the Korean language and culture. Build on the base you developed in Beginners Korean Course.

This course will introduce students to the Korean language and culture. Build on the base you developed in Beginners Korean Course.

This course will introduce students to the Korean language and culture. Build on the base you developed in Beginners Korean Course.

This course will introduce students to the Korean language and culture. Build on the base you developed in Beginners Korean Course.

The course will give students opportunities to gain a positive and enjoyable experience of learning a new language and culture.

The course will give students opportunities to gain a positive and enjoyable experience of learning a new language and culture.

This course will explore how you can make a change with Digital Media.

This is a course for students wanting to follow the Creative Arts pathway and is totally individualised for the student.

This course will explore advanced programming techniques and Computer Science concepts.

This course will explore Python programming and Computer Science concepts.

This course will explore a way to help visitors to New Zealand to explore Kiwiana Culture.

This course will explore contemporary ethical issues in relation to well-being and will look at and explore Health promotion models.

This course will explore a health issue in depth and explore current health practices in New Zealand.

The course will give students opportunities to gain a positive and enjoyable experience of learning a new language and culture.

Analyse issues related to sexuality and adolescent health and develop strategies to address issues.

Decide on an area of health that needs improvement in your community and carry out an intervention. Explore Mental Health strategies that enable individuals to manage change.

This course will investigate and evaluate the lasting influences of the Roman epic, Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’, on other cultures across time, in a context of the student’s choice, such as, but not limited to, art, sculpture, literature, warfare, politics, media, women in leadership, psychology of grief. Although it is beneficial to have studied the Term 2 course ‘The Aeneid - Roman Culture’, it is not a prerequisite.

“Fortune favours the bold”, Virgil wrote in ‘The Aeneid’ 2000 years ago. This course will examine the culture and beliefs of those living in Ancient Rome through the journey of the hero Aeneas as he boldly flees Troy in the Trojan War and establishes the future of the glorious Roman civilisation. Virgil’s epic is a hero’s journey, tragic, romantic, violent, prophetic, and a warning to Augustus.

We now live in a globalised world, in a time where it is incredibly easy to communicate and interact with people from all different walks of life. There are many benefits to this increasing globalisation, however, there is also the potential for some challenges to arise.

We now live in a globalised world, in a time where it is incredibly easy to communicate and interact with people from all different walks of life. There are many benefits to this increasing globalisation, however, there is also the potential for some challenges to arise.

This course offers students an insight into Classical Mythology, Politics, and Religion, through examination of how they are depicted in art and architecture of Classical Greece and Rome. Students will investigate the ideologies illustrated in an artwork of their choice.

Explore your leadership skills and assist others in physical activity. Organise and run an Outdoor Education Camp.

Choose an area of well-being that you would like to improve over 10 weeks. Explore your physical activity to date and devise strategies for the future. This course requires students to meet a set criteria in a practical setting. They can select from the menu of many different settings. Research and explore the underlying reasons for childhood obesity. Analyse a skill of your choice using Bio-mechanics.

Students will explore a significant sporting event and the impact it has on them, others and society. A chance to explore the Outdoors and learn interpersonal skills and complete 2.4 (91330).

This course will cover basic anatomy, exercise physiology, bio-mechanics, skill learning and sports psychology. You will explore the Principles of training and how to apply them to a training programme. You will also learn Leadership strategies and applying them with students. Explore a practical application of prior skills to a choice of many physical activities or sports.

This course explores the question of write and wrong with reference to a contemporary ethical issue of the student's choice.

This course explores one big question related to an area of Philosophy. Learners engage in a term long group inquiry into this big question.

This course is to prepare students for two for the external examinations based on the Towards Modernism topic area.

The complex ethical minefield of Psychological practice is researched in this course and students get the opportunity to delve into at least two Psychological fields.

This course is designed to introduce students to Psychology and the study of human behaviour.

By studying mathematics and statistics, you develop the ability to think creatively, critically and logically. You will learn to structure, process and communicate information, create models, predict outcomes, justify, verify, and find patterns and generalisations.

By studying mathematics and statistics, you develop the ability to think creatively, critically and logically. You will learn to structure, process and communicate information, create models, predict outcomes, justify, verify, and find patterns and generalisations.

This course will prepare students for art history external examinations.

How do Artists make meaning in Art?

How do big ideas impact on and influence art?

This modular course explores why and how art has value to different groups of people.

The course will give students opportunities to gain a positive and enjoyable experience of learning a new language and culture.

This Course is to provide support to students with a passion for the Earth, Stars & planetary systems and can support students wishing to undertake the practical Internals as well.

Using the context of Electricity Generation, supply and use this topic will cover various aspects of Modern Physics and Electrical Systems.

Using the context of Astro-Physics this module will cover various aspects of Waves and Mechanics.

This course continues on from the first semester course - Exchange Student in Japan. The focus in this semester is on travel and tourism, leisure activities and festivals.

This course continues to build on the language and communication functions covered in NCEA Level one with the aim of developing more confidence in oral and written communication in Japanese.

This course integrates the core strands of language knowledge, communication and cultural knowledge. This course consolidates topics studied from year 9 and 10. Students should be able to understand more complex language and communicate beyond the immediate context e.g.past and future events and can understand and produce a variety of text types.

This course integrates the core strands of language knowledge, communication and cultural knowledge. This course consolidates topics studied from year 9 and 10. Students should be able to understand more complex language and communicate beyond the immediate context e.g.past and future events and can understand and produce a variety of text types.

This module introduces micro-economic concepts used by households and businesses when making decisions. Students will be able to describe the new concepts and use models to explain each concept. They will be able to justify the implications on consumers, producers and/or the government.

Students will develop the skills to analyse markets in detail to explain if the situation achieves allocative efficiency. The markets may be influenced by factors influencing supply or demand or situations where the government has intervened.

This course will allow you to describe the current state of the NZ economy in relation to the goals of government, be able to explain the influence of both internal and external factors on those economic goals and analyse the best government policy to achieve these.

In this Japanese programme students build on the four language skills of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking through varied learning activities.

In this Japanese programme students build on the four language skills of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking through varied learning activities.

Genetics and the environment; what makes us the way we are?

Investigating the most interesting parts of psychology's long, sordid history and how we use it today.

This Mandarin Chinese course utilizes an innovative teaching approach called intercultural language teaching to develop Chinese language learning in the intercultural dimension.

This course provides students with a background to Accounting and provides the basics to further study in Accounting. It also provides students with information useful in their daily lives.

Students explore how the media operates within societal contexts and how they themselves can understand the place of media in society.

Introduction to Japanese - Me and My Family

Introduction to the Japanese language.

Building on the basics which have been learned up to year 10.

Students who study Art History not only learn to analyse and discuss art works but also develop critical thinking skills.

This course focuses on the external offered for Level 2 Accounting.

Economics is the subject that specializes in understanding how economics concepts and models provides a means of analysing contemporary New Zealand issues.

Economics is the subject that specializes in understanding how economics concepts and models provides a means of analysing contemporary New Zealand issues.

Why do producers make decisions about production? How do the decisions made by producers about production impact on producers, employees and the wider community (society)?

This course runs for a term and overviews the key aspects of Philosophy. It is a good starting point for anyone new to the subject.

The aim of this course is to explore the sectors that make up the New Zealand economy and the interdependent relationship between them. In the course we will explore some economic events and explore how an event can impact on one sector and flow on to other sectors.

Using the Arduino Microprocessor to help exploring the ideas of analogue and digital inputs, processing voltage signals and controlling a range of output devices.

This course is essential for students continuing in Physics but is also suitable for those with a specific interest or needing a theoretical background of core E-M concepts.

The course begins with looking at the application of mirrors and lenses as a means to understanding the properties of Light

The focus of this is to develop an understanding of the Nature of the Atom (incl. historical models), Radioactivity, Fusion & Fission. Leading to Einstein's Mass - Energy equivalence.

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history. " Martin Luther King Jnr (1929 - 1968)

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." Marcus Garvey (1887 - 1940)

The course covers a very important period in New Zealand history. A time when we stood up to the major powers and earned the respect of the world by being 'the mouse that roared'.

An opportunity for students to research and write about a History topic that interests them.

The course aims to show that when people stand together great things can happen. Links will be made to life in NZ and the students own lives.

This course will analyse and study some of the primary evidence that the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD has provided us with. The artifacts that remain provide us with a fascinating insight into daily life in ancient Rome.

This course will examine the culture and beliefs of those living in Ancient Greece through the journey of the hero Odysseus as he returns home from the Trojan War. Why and how does this classic work of literature continue to resonate with us over 2000 years after its composition?

This course starts by examining Classical Mythology with particular focus on the gods and heroes of Classical Greece. The lasting influence of these myths are examined through aspects of our modern popular culture.

The aim of the course is to consolidate the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking so that students develop fluency in communication and prepare for NCEA Level One.

CTC is a tailored programme for students who have a chosen career path and want to gain the skills and experience needed to further their goals.

This course looks at primary products and the production process within a mix of agricultural; and horticultural contexts.

Livestock Management Practices related to Reproduction, Development and Behaviour.

Land Use and Environmental Practices related to the students local area.

The study of carbon chemistry and how spectroscopic data can be used to identify organic molecules.

This topic investigates the bonding in substances and their related properties . There are some energy calculations.

Redox is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed

The chemistry of carbon compounds.

This course involves giving an account of bonding, structure and properties of different substances and the energy involved in physical and chemical changes.

An oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction is any chemical reaction in which the oxidation number of a molecule, atom, or ion changes by gaining or losing an electron. Qualitative analysis is the identification of ions present in a substance.

This course is all about understanding the evolutionary process of living things

Do we want Genetic Modification in NZ ?

Animal and Plant behaviour is the study of how living things sense and respond to each other and the environment they live in.

This Biology course is based on cells and practical microscope use.

Local research, BIG science! will engage local communities, schools and families throughout New Zealand to undertake collaborative research projects in physics, chemistry and environmental sciences with local and global impact

This Biology course focuses on genetics and biology in society

This course focuses on the Ecology strand of the Biology curriculum.

The Creative Forest Programmme is a partnership between Creative Forest Ltd and NetNZ that endeavours to engage learners in projects and interests within a distributed, connected environment.

With all the publicity, debate and discourse on the Schooling Future report and recommendations, I find myself once again returning to an article I have already rewritten once.

Kia ora my name is Oak. I am a year 11 homeschooler, and this is my first year studying with NetNZ online, I am enrolled in NetNZ’s philosophy course for 2018. I am a passionate Shakespeare fan and I love all things algebra.

Hello, my name is Hope Sole, and I’m year 12 student at Taradale High school

Eilish tells us about her experience in taking Beginner's Korean in 2018.

Former Cheviot Area School and NetNZ student gives an insight into the benefits 

I am a student at Marlborough Girls' College who is taking L1 Japanese online through NetNZ in 2017

If we are to prepare our learners for an ever changing world we need to see online learning as more than a bolt on to our local curriculum

Approaches to online learning vary, but NetNZ is slowly developing a particular flavour of online learning that is ‘connected’. 

Programmes usually consist of 10-20 ākonga from 5-12 different kura across New Zealand.