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LEAVING CERT STUDENTS will soon have two new subjects to choose from after the new and revised subjects were published today.
In March 2022, Education Minister Norma Foley requested that the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment prepare a schedule of senior cycle subjects to be reviewed and redeveloped.
This was part of a plan to redevelop the Senior Cycle.
It was announced today that two new subjects are being added to the Leaving Cert – Drama Film and Theatre Studies and Climate Action and Sustainable Development.
These new subjects will be introduced into schools next year, for fifth year students starting the 2025/2026 school year.
The subjects will initially be offered to 100 schools and the selected schools have yet to be announced.
Speaking today, Foley said she is “particularly pleased to see the new subjects of Drama, Film and Theatre Studies and Climate Action and Sustainable Development being published today”.
She said these subjects will “offer students a new learning experience and avenue to demonstrate their talents and develop key competencies”.
In 2020, Physical Education and Computer Science were added as Leaving Cert subjects and Foley said these have “proven very attractive to students, as the numbers selecting these subjects have grown each year”.
“I am sure the latest new subjects will be equally successful,” said Foley, “and I want to wish the best of luck to the 100 schools around the country who have been selected to be in the first group of schools to offer the subjects from next year.”
In addition to this, seven Leaving Cert subjects have been reviewed and updated.
These subjects are: Ancient Greek; Arabic; Business; Biology; Chemistry; Latin; and Physics.
These changes will also be made from the next school year.
Foley explained that each of these subjects, in addition to the two new subjects, “will have an additional assessment component worth at least 40% of the marks”.
She added: “The aim is that our students will have an opportunity to showcase their talents and ability and also to reduce the stress on them by moving away from the focus on one single exam day in June.”
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My essay on climate action, will be a fictional story on how a Bicycle Shed cost the Irish Taxpayer €335,000.
@SV3tN8M4: fictional bus based on true events. Some names and places will be added due to dramatic license
@SV3tN8M4: Why would that be a fiction story? Did it not actually happen?
@SV3tN8M4: good one John
@SV3tN8M4: no cows were hurt in the writing of your essay…
@SV3tN8M4: the essay for an extra credit will be on how the diesel that runs the generators that charge the clean busses is organic.
@SV3tN8M4: you would nearly think it was based on true life events
@SV3tN8M4: did they ever use the big printer they bought a few years ago, that didn’t fit in the door way. It might fit into the bicycle shed
@SV3tN8M4: sounds like a great environmental achievement for the general public even a child would doubt the cost of it though but he’ll learn fiction can be like reality in Ireland with leaders asleep at the wheel.
More subjects that will help students get no mortgages or jobs in the future. Fantastic.
@Kush OMeara: There will be loads of jobs in climate action and sustainable development.
@Brendan O’Brien: ok Brendan
@Brendan O’Brien: only with the EPA and an taisce.
@Kush OMeara: teaching them how to pitch a tent, survive in the outdoors,how to stay warm and cook food outdoors would actually be beneficial considering the fantastic housing opportunities ahead for them.
Getting them early with the scare mongering!
@damien leen: Scare mongering about what?
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: The “climate change will kill us all” nonsense that has been pushed since the 70′s… wasnt Florida etc supppsed to be under water by now…
@barry fay: No
start young for the brainwashing
@William O leary: Care to elaborate? It’d be different if you were talking about the pernicious influence of Catholicism on vulnerable young minds, but you seem to be parroting the lies of fools
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: you would not say that about lslam
Excellent news right!, hiding the real news, no teachers, to teach kids.no special needs places,
No resource hours,
No accessibility for disabled students in colleges.
No places for students to stay.
Making education out of reach for many.
@Colette Byrne: but hey let’s all play theatre, when the Abbey in trouble, arts Council not much better.
@Colette Byrne: A shortage rather than none .
I like the way you mixed up the two subjects in the headline. Was that deliberate?
@honey badger: I noticed that… sneaky….& Poor ol’ ‘sustainable development ‘ didn’t even get a ‘look in’
@honey badger: of course it was. Nothing the journal likes more than creating drama
FFS
Lol, good ol’ Enoch Burke gone off for more porridge….. He must be in a first name basis with the prison officers by now
@Buster Lawless: Say what ya like about him.. agree or disagree with his stance.. but you can’t argue he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions.. You however are a multi account anonymous on line troll who rants incessantly in support of a a sex offender. Said sex offender once celebrated and welcomed the inclusion of transgender women into his beauty pagents ( we won’t get into his Miss Teen pagent here ) but now he wants to ‘defeat the cult of gender ideology’ .. so Ken .. while you mock Burke.. your great leader.. who flip flops like no other.. seems to be on the same page. Are you anti Trump on this then.. Do explain..
@Brian: weird, you lost me there tbh, would I be correct in assuming you’re raving about my being a member of the Republican party when I lived stateside, I acknowledge that openly but unable to see any link between my polical affiliation & new ( worthwhile) subject being included in the LC
@Brian: & btw, yes I also consider Burke, like yourself, a fruit & nut bar…. Wasting valuable court/ Garda/jail resources with his utter contempt for our laws & legal system
@Buster Lawless: You were lost a long time before my comment Ken .. You were the one that went off topic in this LC article.. I’m responding to your off topic comment.. like yourself, it’s quite simple really. Now care to respond to it or you just gonna show yourself up, yet again, as a simpleton.
@Buster Lawless: LOL .. ahhh Ken.. you’re the gift that keeps on giving.. contempt for legal system.. you’re hillarious ! Your great leader Donnie Dump, spent his life abusing and weaponisng the court system.. over 4,000 cases .. the most in the American legal history.. ! you really are a clown.. mind your poor auld back with all the flip flopping :-)
@Buster Lawless: Grenade been thrown at a house, pub set on fire & the Govt. & Judiciary’s top priority is to jail a guy who just expressed an opinion on his beliefs. I don’t agree with Burke on a lot of his beliefs, but his continuous incarceration at the drop of a hat, shows the direction this country is going. If you don’t follow the status quo or the narrative, the State will put you away.
@Brian: tried to engage with your trolling there… But I never lower myself to gutter level ramblings & insults. If you consider burke a hero good for you…. personally, I believe he should come into the ‘new’ world, have respect for his ( ex thankfully) students & cease being so obnoxious & dramatic
@Brian: Oliver Cromwell had a lot of courage in his convictions too, do you have respect for him as well?
@SV3tN8M4: contempt of court is one of the bastions of our/ any legal system…… Let’s be honest he was tiva gazillion opportunities to ‘purge’ his contempt & stay away from the school
@Buster Lawless: Now now Ken,I neither said nor inferred my position on his stance.. you’d do well to master the art of comprehension.. I simply asked you, after your LOLs at him, that your dear leader wants to ” defeat the cult of gender ideology” your opinion, as the Journals no.1 fan boy of the sex offender, if you disagreed with Dumps position.. clearly you do.. go on Ken.. say it.. you don’t agree with Dornie Dump.. you won’t spontaneously combust ! :-)
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: Where did I say I respect him? Christ, comprehension is gone to the dogs.. ironic on an article about the leaving cert..if you want to take something out of context.. thats on you lad.
@jak:
Problem with that is his jailing has nothing whatsoever to do with his religious beliefs.
He is in Mountjoy because he refuses to abide by any court ruling that he doesn’t like.
There is usually a winner and loser in a court case, we cannot have a situation where the loser just ignores the ruling because they don’t like it.
Everyone has the right to be heard in court, and legal right to appeal if necessary but we don’t get to shout, scream and stomp your feet like a two year old in a tantrum when we lose.
@SV3tN8M4: he is refusing to obey a court order. A basic tenet of democracy. He is not in jail for his opinion. More logical fallacy from the intellectual cesspit.
@Brian: Charlie mansion had courage of his convictions.
That lasted him a lifetime in jail.
Lesson one, how to glue yourself to surfaces.
Be great if they invested in accessibility,ofcolleges for disabled students can actually access.
Is climate action and drama one subject?
@Foscam Dl: Well, if you were to listen to the Green Party, it’s the only drama worth following.
Excellent news.
@Brendan O’Brien: Discuss
@Brendan O’Brien: Shut up windsock.
The atmosphere has 0.4% Carbon Dioxide. What has Climate Change done to that % as long as can be reported. Absolutely a minute 3% increase for the World, that means 3% of 0.4% increase. I’ll let you work that revised % ourselves.
@Lorcan Fitzgerald: it’s 0.04%.
Who’s sponsoring the Drama Theater and film studies.
Starbucks?
The irish Education system has issues, but which if us doesn’t,
There needs to be a story on the public outrage over the SPHE schoolbooks!
To all the far-right snowflakes, don’t worry, the subjects aren’t mandatory.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: Have you tried going to sk a dk therapy? I bet it would greatly benefit a cnt like u.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: Define the far right
@YKwkSIqW: Have you tried going to school, it would greatly benefit someone like you.
Why not have a subject on learning on how to drive etc seeing all the young deaths, but climate change, box ticker
Is this a confirmation then that Irish is officially buggered?
What about a subject in recycling or… My personal favourite: Shopper Scrounger! And don’t forget to return Pauline’s pens!!!
The Dumbening is nearly complete.
Need a GCSE model
@Thesaltyurchin: so adapt a model from a country with a worse rated system than ours?
I think its a wonderful oppertunity for students .
‘Climate Action’ not climate science huge difference. Climate action has zero to do with the actual climate.
Ah go on then, sure why not.
Dear God, no
Christ above, reading these comments show why the country is in bother. We have people with pure muck in their heads thinking they know how people should be educated.
@Patrick Breen:
Ask any employer what’s turning up for interviews now a days.
I suggest that Bourke studies be added to the curriculum.
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