The Framework for Junior Cycle (2015) outlines the curriculum and assessment arrangements that will provide students with learning opportunities that achieve a balance between learning subject knowledge and developing a wide range of skills and thinking abilities. These curriculum and assessment arrangements promote a focus on active and collaborative learning. In particular, learners are enabled to use and analyse information in new and creative ways, to investigate issues, to explore, to think for themselves, to be creative in solving problems and to apply their learning to new challenges and situations. Given the changing nature of knowledge, the ease with which students have access to information, and the pace of change in the workplace and the world generally, these competences and skills are critical to the preparation of young people for learning and living.
Subject specifications and assessment arrangements reflect this balance between subject knowledge and skills. These subject specifications are designed to build on, and to support, effective teaching, learning and assessment practice. The inclusion of short courses and other learning experiences in junior cycle programmes also provides a valuable opportunity to broaden students’ learning and skill set.
Here is a link to a video that explains the new junior cycle to parents.
Here is an explainer document from the Department of Education
CBA Calendars
These CBA calendars will help you in supporting the 2nd and 3rd Year students from home.
Subject Choice
We aim to offer broad subject choice for students. Some subjects are capped and if the demand is greater than the capacity for the subject, a lottery will take place for the allocation of places in that subject.