John Paul College
Rotorua|New Zealand
John Paul College offers an exciting academic programme with a wide range of subjects. The school has high expectations for each individual student’s performance and over the past few years it has prided itself on excellent results.
The curriculum offers a wide and comprehensive range of choices. In Years 7 and 8, the programme consists of short term/semester courses as well as full year core subjects. The choice of subjects and options grows as the student progresses through the school. In Years 11, 12 and 13, the students are assessed through the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) and the Cambridge exams are also offered as an option.
International students can register in an ESOL class and in addition, individual or small group tuition is available to those who need extra language support. If English competency is strong enough, then that student is able to join the mainstream English classes.
Critical to the student’s success at John Paul College is determining their academic ability and requirements on arrival. Students will then be placed into courses which are tailormade to their needs, and on-going support is provided to ensure positive and successful outcomes.
Each year, John Paul College consistently achieves excellence with its wide academic programme. Its NCEA results equate to outcomes of Decile 9 and 10 schools – even though it is officially registered as being Decile 7. Graduates from John Paul College consistently gain places in Medicine, Architecture, Law, Engineering, Computing and Business with prestigious universities. More recently JPC’s top performing students have consistently earned over ten scholarships each year.
Cambridge entZodiacs have always achieved well. In 2009, Richard Todd of JPC was the top performing student in the world for the Cambridge English Literature paper, having achieved 100%.
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