Learning areas are broad groupings of knowledge.

The New Zealand Curriculum specifies eight that are considered
essential for a general education:

Arts, English, Health and Physical Education, Learning Languages,
Mathematics and Statistics, Science, Social sciences, and Technology

In English, students study, use and enjoy language and literature,
communicated orally, visually,
or in writing.

In Science, students generate
and test ideas and observe, investigate & model, in order to develop scientific knowledge, understandings and explanations.

In Maths and Statistics, students explore relationships in quantities, space and data, and learn to express these in ways that help them to make sense of the world around them.

In the social sciences, students explore how societies work &
how they can participate and take
action as critical, informed and responsible citizens.

In the Arts, students discover how
to use their senses, imagination,
thinking and feelings as the stimulus for creative action and response

 In Health and PE, students learn how to support their own well being and that of others and society, exploring these in health related and movement contexts

 In technology, students explore how people intervene in the world by developing products, systems and environments to expand their possibilities

 In Learning Languages, students learn to communicate in another language and discover how language and culture shape our personal, group and national identities