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• Commerce Department
  
  

  Commerce Department

  
  

  Commerce enables students to appreciate the issues that challenge businesses and stakeholders in a rapidly changing world. It is important that people are able to make informed and rational decisions about Business matters.

  
  

  Commerce creates opportunities for students to:

  - become entrepreneurs

  - Develop financial literacy

  - Develop life skills such as initiative, resilience, resourcefulness and the skills such as decision making, team-work, cooperation and problem solving.

  
  

  Development of skills in Commerce is essential to the economic future of New Zealand.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  • Our Vision is to:

    “Enable our young men to become business leaders who act with industry and integrity in Palmerston North, New Zealand and around the Globe by moving from education to experience to leadership.”

    We believe there are two aspects to achieving this vision:

    • Firstly, there is the Academic foundation
    • But secondly, and just as important, there are the Life skills that our young men require, gained only through experiences and challenges set before them: Whether that be areas of Business Leadership, Enterprise, or financial literacy.

    As a department:

    we understand that a person’s academic results will only “get them through the door” for an interview or business opportunity.  It is the young man’s personal, communication, and general life skills that will help to decide his future in the Commerce World.  As such, we want to help develop our young men in the areas of: Business Leadership, Enterprise, and financial literacy.

    According to the OECD secretary general Angel Gurria:

    “… the low level of financial literacy observed in most countries has been, if not a direct cause of the crisis, at least one of the aggravating factors to the current financial climate”.

    We have decided to take a more proactive and holistic approach to the development of our young men in terms of financial literacy, enterprise, and leadership.  We agree with the recent ERO report about Enterprise in the NZ Curriculum in which it states that:

    “…leadership is central to developing enterprise learning in secondary schools. Leaders need to value enterprise and reflect this in the school’s curriculum planning, assessment, classroom resources and professional development.”

  • Pathways for Commerce

    FROM 2024 the pathways in Commerce are as follows:

    YEAR 9 - COMMERCE

    Students study a range of topics examining their role in society as a consumer and basic financial literacy

    YEAR 10 - COMMERCE

    Students study a range of topics examining their role in society as a consumer and basic financial literacy

    YEAR 11 - COMMERCE

    NCEA have combined L1 Eco, Acc and Business to create a Commerce course. This will provide a background into all 3 courses ready for specialisation at L2

    
    

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