On average across OECD countries, 15-year-old students are satisfied with the life they are living: they report a level of 7.3 on a scale of life satisfaction that ranges from 0 to 10. But around 12% of students, on average, are not satisfied with their life:they report 4 or less on the scale.
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Parents and Guardians can download publications about the Junior Cycle from the Junior Cycle website - www.jct.ie.
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Since early February, Ms. Reynolds and her 2nd Year English class have been preparing for their new oral assessments by participating in a debating module.
Read more →The Framework for Junior Cycle 2015 provides for a new area of learning at Junior Cycle called Wellbeing.
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Throughout September and October, Ms. Gordon's 1st Year English class were working industrially to create their own newsletters. Most of the work was done collaboratively and online using OneNote.
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Times are a changin' in the 1st Year English classroom with Ms Gordon. 1Y have spent the early weeks in November not only examining Bob Dylan's lyrics but are using their OneNote class notebook to collaborate online to capture their work.
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Ms O'Sullivan and her 1st Year Science students are working on a project about Stem Cells as part of the new Junior Cycle Science curriculum.
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1st Year students starting this September will be taught Business Studies and Science according to new Junior Cycle subject specifications. These new subject specifications are part of the current Junior Cycle curriculum reform. Links to these specifications are included in this blog.
Read more → According to the NCCA's Junior Cycle website, "the Framework for Junior Cycle is based on proposals that emerged from a process of discussion and consultation". In this blog there are a number of links to explore the documents and background research that have gone into creating the Junior Cycle framework. There are also links to current consultations on subjects including Wellbeing, Visual Art and Modern Foreign Languages.
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Stratford College were awarded a top prize at the National Creative School's Competition in The Ark on Tuesday, 31st May. They won the award for an advertising video they created as part of their 2nd Year English Media Studies module.
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