Project-based
curriculum
Mt Hobson Academy provides a rich, thematic Project-Based Curriculum for Year 1-8 Teacher-Led learners and Year 1-10 Parent-Led learners. Project-based learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.
- Full coverage of all curriculum areas based on the New Zealand Curriculum content and best practise principles
- comprehensive coverage, yet room for innovation and depth
- Rich thematic units that develop understandings, knowledge, skills and support application
- Deliberately designed to encourage agency, independence, curiosity, and application
- Provides the context for future skills and capabilities development I've updated the projects
Year 1-3 Projects
Tūranga waewae: The place on which I stand

Celebrations

Toy Story

Fairytales

The olden days

The human body

Language of animals

Cars

Sophisticated picture books

Creepy crawlies

Birds

Rainforests

Year 4-6 Projects
Lego

Dinosaurs

Hot air to SpaceX

Myths & legends

Fabulous musicians

A great person

Tiny organisms

Culture

Emojis

The brain

Coral reefs

The blue zones

Year 7 Projects
Architecture

Great books

A language & culture

Plants

An artist or an era

Production & inventions of the past

New Zealand places & people

Animals

Year 8 Projects
The human circus

Narrative poetry

Language of music or movement

Human beings

An ancient culture

Change through technology

The ocean

Great scientists

Year 9 Projects
Flight & space

New Zealand writing

Māori or Pasific Island language & culture

War

Archaeology

Production of the present & future

A people or country or time

Sport

Year 10 Projects
Statistics

Shakespeare

Reactions

Advanced language

Film or director or genre

Business in action

Law & culture

Machines
