The Services Academy Graduate Profile

The Services Academy programme encompasses many areas of the NZ curriculum and embraces all of the Key Competencies. Through collaboration with Directors across the country, the skills, knowledge and abilities that all Service Academy students should have at the end of the course can be broken down into the categories below.

• Community
• Defence Force knowledge and skills
• Fitness and well being
• Life skills
• Adventure-based experiential learning

Objectives

• To provide a link between the societal skills and Career aspirations and create a meaningful learning experience that allows the Academy members to achieve to the best of their ability.
• To expose the students to skills required making self and grouping improvements in a meaningful context.
• To identify and enhance the Academic and physical skills and knowledge of the students participating.
• To promote Leadership, discipline, self-pride, goal setting and self-assessment to ensure that all AM (Academy Members) reach their full potential and achieve the ultimate goal of being recruited in their chosen field and service.
• That the students become role models within their own families, peer group, schools and local community.
• Create and reinforce community links with Academy members participating and contributing to community events/projects.