9COM

Year 9 Commerce

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs J. Dustin.

What will I learn?

This trimester course covers aspects of financial literacy based around how individuals and whānau can use information around them to make financial decisions. The topics that will be covered are:

Māori business concepts, banking, saving, spending, budgets, cash management, investments, consumer law,  product design, and decision making.

Business technology uses the technology strands from New Zealand Curriculum to develop students' creativity through an investigation of financial literacy and business enterprise.

Where does it lead?

This course provides understanding for the continuing study of commerce subjects. 



What should I have already done?

There are no pre-requisites for this course. 

Course Contribution

No cost.

Pathway

Assessment Information

Group and individual tasks - including designing a family budget, creating a budgeting information video, making financial decisions about re-decorating a bedroom and designing/creating an up-cycled prototype for a specified target market.

Disclaimer

Courses will only run based on minimum entries

Selecting a course does not guarantee entry into this course

You may apply for an exemption if you do not meet the prerequisite of a course or if the course requires this for entry

Standards offered can be altered at the discretion of the HOD of the Department

Some standards in NCEA courses might be optional depending on student strengths

Course contribution may vary slightly by the start of 2025