About NZ Education

Year 9 and Year 10

In both Years 9 and 10, students remain in their core class for compulsory "core" subjects and mix with different students in their option subjects.

Compulsory subjects are English/ESOL, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Health & Physical Education.

In Year 9 students choose five option subjects.

In Year 10 students choose 3 option subjects.

Years 11, 12 & 13

From Year 11, students work towards the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA).

All Year 11 students study English/ESOL, Mathematics and Science. Students also select two or three additional subjects (depending on their academic ability). English credits can be obtained by studying ESOL.

ESOL

Lincoln High School has an excellent English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Department.

Students are taught ESOL in small groups for five hours per week. For the remaining subjects they join mainstream classes.

There are four ESOL class at varying levels of ability.

Senior students have the opportunity to gain NCEA English Credits at Level 1 and 2.

Click here to browse the the subjects available at Lincoln High School.