Programme Overview

NZ Curriculum

The Essential Learning Areas:

• English, the arts, health and physical education, learning languages, mathematics and statistics, science, social sciences, and technology

The Key Competencies

Capabilities for Living and Lifelong Learning

• Thinking; Using Language, Symbols, and Texts; Managing Self; Relating to Others; Participating and Contributing.

Values
 

Enhanced Curriculum Programme

• Camps; Outdoor Education; Environment Care; Waterwise; Sustainability Programmes 
• Annual Production; Concerts; Talent Quest; Choir; Instrumental and Vocal Groups; Instrument Tuition; Music and Performing Arts Festivals; Cultural Festivals; Visual Art Exhibitions; Television & Film Productions
• Speech; Languages; Literature; Writing; Mathematics; Science; Visual Art; Technology; Environmental; International Competitions
• Inter Class & School Sports; Zone & All Auckland Sports Competitions; Out of School Hours Sports Competitions 
• New Zealand School Exchanges; Annual Nagisa, Hiroshima, Junior High School (Japan) Home and Away Exchanges; Sister School Relationships (Japan. Korea, China) 
• Socials/Dances; Community Service; Student Government

Learning Support

• Literacy; ESOL; Numeracy; Physical Skills; Social Skills

Extension

Classes / Modules / Contracts / Online

• English; Languages; Publishing; Mathematics and Statistics; Information Literacy; Science; The Performing Arts; Visual Arts; Technology; Leadership

Classes

All classes at Pasadena are composite Year 7 and Year 8 homeroom classes and are of mixed abilities.

This organization:

 
• provides the emotional and social stability and security so vital for the maturing pre-adolescent child
• enables the incoming Year 7 students to integrate more naturally and easily into the school system
• provides the student, where appropriate, with the same homeroom Class Teacher and Syndicate Manager for their two years of intermediate schooling
• best suits the seamless design and structure of the New Zealand Curriculum
• enables teachers to make available to students, programmes geared to their specific needs and abilities
• enables the school to maximise staff expertise and knowledge and to make the best use of the facilities

Syndicates

The organization of Pasadena Intermediate School is structured on Syndicates. These three or four classroom management units have proved to be the most effective for both curriculum delivery and monitoring and for providing quality pastoral care for students.

Syndicate names at Pasadena Intermediate School commemorate names and places associated with the school and the local community - DIGNAN, GREY, NOBLE, TE TOKAROA