Auckland International College
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| Auckland International College | |
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| Motto | "Pathway to the world" |
| Type | Private: Fully Reg. Co-Ed Secondary (Year 11-13) with Boarding Facilities (AIC Tower, AIC Loft), accredited IB World School. |
| Year established | July 2003 |
| Address | 85 Airedale Street, Auckland |
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| Principal | Anne Willmann |
| School roll | 284 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is highest) | n/a |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 473 |
| Website | www.aic.ac.nz |
Auckland International College (often abbreviated AIC) is a private coeducational secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. It adopts the IB Diploma Programme as its sole curriculum. It also offers a Preparation Year Programme for IB Diploma course (Year 11) to allow students to prepare for the IB curriculum. Students in the Preparation Year programme can get a taste of all of the school's subject offerings. Activities, sports and a research project of 2,000 words form part of the Preparation Year programme.
AIC offers a wide range of subject choices in the standard IB "Hexagon" format:
- Group 1 : English A1, Japanese A1, Vietnamese A1, Korean A1, Chinese A1, and A1 Self-taught
- Group 2 : English A2, English B, Japanese B, Chinese ab initio, Chinese B (as of 2007), French B, and German B
- Group 3 : Economics, History, Geography, Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS)*
- Group 4 : Biology, Physics, and Chemistry
- Group 5 : Mathematics, Matemathical Methods, and Mathematical Studies, Further Mathematics
- Group 6 : Visual Arts, Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS)
- It was announced in 2007 that those wishing to take ITGS as a subject for the IB programme would be allowed to take it as a group 3 subject, a move which was delayed due to concerns that students would turn away from the traditional humanities subjects.
AIC has a sister school, the AICJ Oshu Gakuen in Hiroshima, Japan, also set up by the Oshu Corporation in April 2006.
[edit] History
- July 2003: AIC is established with the funding of the Oshu Corporation Japan; Carolyn Solomon is appointed as Principal.
- January 2006: Craig Monaghan takes over as Principal of AIC; Carolyn Solomon moves into an Executive Principal role.
- May 2006: The inaugural Class of 2006 graduates from AIC
- December 2006: Craig Monaghan resigns as Principal; Roger Lewis steps in as Acting Principal until one can be appointed.
- April 2007: Anne Willmann is elected as AIC's new Principal.
- May 2007: Graduation ceremony for the class of 2007.
