Home Economics (H&O) – Leaving Certificate

Welcome to our Leaving Certificate Accounting Course with your teacher Robert Lee. Course Content

• Accounting Introduction, Concepts, Bases and Policies
• Double Entry Bookkeeping
• Bank Reconciliation Statements
• Accruals, Prepayments, Capital, Revenue and Bad Debts
• Depreciation
• Control Accounts, Suspense Accounts, Final Accounts (Sole Trader), Company Accounts
• Manufacturing Accounts, Departmental Accounts, Final Accounts
• Published Accounts, Club Accounts, Service Accounts, Farm Accounts, Incomplete Records
• Cash Flow Statements, Interpretation of Accounts, Tabular Statements
• Management Accounting: Costing and Product Costing
• Management Accounting: Marginal Costing (Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis)
• Management Accounting Budgeting, Budget Planning and Budget Control

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Welcome to our all new Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science course with your teacher Lorraine Harrahil.

Course Content

1. Introduction, Exam structure & Farm Safety

2. Animal Physiology Digestive System

3. Animal Physiology Digestive System

4. Rock Type and Soil Formation

 5. Physical Properties of Soil

6. Chemical Propertiesof Soil

 7. Biological Factors and Soil Fertility

8. Fertilisers and Manure

 9. The Scientific Method & Experimentation

10. Mammalian Reproductive System

 11. Sheep – Breeds and Breeding Principles

12. Beef Production

13. Crop Production and Management

14. Potatoes

15. Catch Crops (HIGHER LEVEL ONLY)

16. Grassland

17. Sowing and Reseeding

18. Dairy

19. Pig Production

20. Animal Health and Disease

21. Plant Physiology

22. Plant Classification

23. Environment and Sustainable Farming

24. Experiment Revision 2022

Our all new Applied Maths course will launch on Monday the 25th September 2023. Course content

• Linear Motion
• Vectors
• Relative Velocity
• Projecties
• Connected Particles
• Impacts and Collisions
• Statics
• Rotational Bodies
• Differential Equations

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Welcome to our Leaving Certificate Biology Course with your teacher Roisin Doyle. As part of this course students will cover the main aspects of the Biology Higher level syllabus including:

• Exam Paper analysis
• The study of Life - The Scientific Method, The Characteristics of Life Nutrition
• General Principles of Ecology and A Study of an Ecosystem
• The Cell - Cell Structure, Cell Metabolism, Cell Continuity, Cell Diversity and Genetics
• The Organism - Diversity of Organisms, Organisation and the Vascular Structures, Transport and Nutrition.

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Welcome to our Leaving Certificate Business Course with your teacher Angela Goucher. As part of this course, students will cover the main aspects of the Business-Higher level syllabus including: Course Contents

• People in Business
• Law of Contract
• Solving Consumer and Industrial Conflict
• Enterprise
• Management Skills: Leadership and Motivation, Communication,
• Management Activities, Human Resource Management
• Change in Business, Ratio Analysis
• Tax & Insurance, Finance and Banking
• Stages in the development of a new product or service
• Introduction to Marketing, Marketing mix, Business Expansion
• Types of Business Organisations
• Categories of Industry and Community Development
• The Economy, Ethical and International Business
• The European Union

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Welcome to our Leaving Certificate Chemistry Course with your teacher Edelle McCrudden. This course is suitable for both Higher and Ordinary level Candidates Topics

• History of the Atom, Structure of atom & energy levels
• Periodic Table, Bonding, Bonding Shapes
• Trends and Redox, Molar Calculations
• Acids and Bases
• HL Titrations
• Water Chemistry, Water Experiments and Rates of Reaction
• Gas Laws, Chemical Equilibrium
• Organic Chemistry & Fuels
• Heat of Reaction & Hess’s Law (HL)
• Organic Families, Organic Experiments, Organic Reactions (HL)
• Instrumentation and Radiation
• Redox & electrolysis
• Option Chapters

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Welcome to our all new Leaving Certificate Construction Studies course with your teacher Sean Merrins

Course Contents

Course Overview and Planning Permission

 Site selection, Design and Project Planning

Site Safety

Foundations , Ground Floors and Board Drawing

Radon gas and floor types

Internal and External Walls

Timber frame Construction

U- Value

Openings in Walls

Windows and Board Drawings

Roofs

Insulation and Ventilation

Accessibility

Day Practical Marking Out

 Resigning upgrading existing dwelling (Q3)

Environmental Sustainability and NZEB Homes (Q6)

Passive House (Q10)

Mechanical Heat Recovery System (Q10)

Welcome to our ALL NEW Leaving Certificate Design and Communication Graphics beginning this September 2023. Leaving Certificate design and communication graphics involves comprehending, analysing and communicating information presented verbally or graphically. Problem solving and creative thinking skills are developed through the analysis and solution of problems in both two and three dimensions graphics. Graphics and design are communicated using a variety of media, including computer-aided design (CAD).  The main areas of study are: Plane and Descriptive Geometry, Communication of Design and Computer Graphics, and Applied Graphics. Design and Communication Graphics is assessed at two levels, Ordinary level and Higher level, by means of two assessment components: a student assignment, of which CAD forms a significant and compulsory element, and an examination paper.