Curriculum

Junior Cycle

Junior Cycle

Our aim at Deansrath Community College is to ensure a smooth transition of students from primary to post primary school. We wish to motivate our students to engage with and enjoy school.

Junior Cycle

The framework for junior cycle sets out a clear vision of how teaching, learning and assessment practices will evolve in the first three years of post-primary education to ensure a learning experience for our young people that is appropriate to the needs of the 21st century.

This vision builds on the thinking underpinning the Framework for Junior Cycle (2012) and has been informed by engagement with the educational partners and by national and international research. It also builds on effective practices in curriculum and assessment that are implemented by teachers in schools throughout the country.

It places the student at the centre of the learning process and envisages a modernised curriculum across all subjects. It allows for new ways of learning and a broader range of skills to be properly assessed. The dual approach to assessment provides a valuable opportunity to embed classroom based assessment and formative assessment for learning while recognising the role of external assessment.

The new reporting arrangements outlined in the Framework for Junior Cycle (2015) will also help to ensure that both parents and students get a broader picture of a student’s learning progress and achievement throughout the whole of junior cycle. Most importantly, the focus on teacher student feedback and professional collaboration envisaged between teachers has huge potential to enrich both the quality of students’ learning and teachers’ own professional engagement.

We hope the links at the bottom of the page will provide useful information for parents and students alike.

JCSP

In addition to the The Junior Certificate we offer the Junior Certificate Schools Programme (JCSP). The JCSP is based on the concept that all young people are capable of real success in school and that they can have a positive experience of school.