Irish (H) – Junior Cycle

Welcome to our Junior Cycle Business course for the 2021/22 school year.

Content

• The Consumer & Financial Services for the consumer
• Financial Planning and Finance for Business
• Commercial Banks, Insurance & Communications
• Chain of Production and Channels of Distribution
• Being an Employer and Industrial Relations
• Marketing and Distribution
• Introduction to Double Entry Book-keeping, Day Books and Ledger
• Sales and Purchases Day Book
• Cash and Petty Cash Books, General Journal and Control Accounts.
• Trading Account, Profit and Loss Account and Profit and Loss Appropriation Account and Balance Sheets
• Adjustments to Final Accounts
• Club Accounts, Farm Accounts and Service Firms

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Welcome to our Junior Cycle English course for the 2021/22 school year.

• Exam Paper Analysis
• "Blood Brothers" by Willy Russell
• Poetry
• Drama "Romeo and Juliet" by W. Shakespeare
• Novel "Of Mice and Men" by J. Steinbeck
• Short story
• Personal writing
• Film "Son of Rambow"
• Media and advertising

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Welcome to our Junior Cycle French course for the 2021/22 school year.

Course content

• Verbs Etre and Avoir
• 'ER', 'IR' & 'RE' Verbs
• Time, Numbers & Animals
• Past, Present & Future tense
• Postcard, note & letter question
• Comprehension question preparation
• Aural preparation

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Welcome to our Junior Cycle Geography course for the 2021/22 school year. This course explores all aspects of the Junior Cycle Geography Specification including

• Earth Structure/ Fold Mountains / Volcanoes and Earthquakes
• Rivers / Glaciers
• Climate Change
• Energy / Soils
• Economic Activities
• CBA 1 / CBA 2 Preparation
• Final Exam Preparation

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Welcome to our Junior Cycle German course for the 2021/22 school year. This subject is delivered by our German teacher and Examiner Frau Medb Farrell. The course has a strong focus on preparing students for CBA 1 and 2, along with the Assessment Task and the final Exam. The course includes a focus on the following areas

• Aural preparation
• Past, Present & Future tense
• Comprehension question preparation
• Postcard, note & letter question
• Myself and my Family
• Daily life during a pandemic
• Environmental issues explored

Welcome to the launch of our all new Junior Cycle History course.

As part of this course, students will examine the two main areas of the new Junior Cycle History course, The History of Ireland and The History of Europe and the Wider World through the lens of The Nature of History unifying strand.

This course will prepare students for completing the Classroom Based Assessment 1: The Past in My Place in the second year and Classroom Based Assessment 2- A Life in Time in the third year.

Every lesson will cover each of the possible questions and content that will be needed to complete the Junior Cycle History exam which will be examined for the first time in June 2022.

The course is delivered by Paul Kelly, a former National Advisor with the Department of Education for Junior Cycle History.

This course will go live on Monday 25th October 2021.

Welcome to our Junior Cycle Irish Ordinary level course for the 2021/22 school year. This course is primarily aimed at 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students taking the Ordinary level exam. However, it is also suitable for students hoping to improve their Irish with the aim of taking the Higher level paper in third year. Course Content

• 1 Novel
• 5 poems
• 2 songs
• 2 gearrscéal
• 1 dráma
• Covering basic grammar information
• Grammar exercises
• Aural exercises
• Oral exercises
• Léamhthuiscint
• Cluastuiscint
• Lessons based on CBA 1 and CBA 2
• How to use PowerPoint for your CBA's
• Tackling the exam paper
• Sample essays and how to write one

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Welcome to our Junior Cycle Maths Higher level course for the 2021/22 school year.

As part of this course students will cover the main aspects of the Maths Higher level syllabus including:

• Exam Paper analysis
• Trigonometry: Pythagoras’ Theorem, Sine, Cosine, Tangent, and applications
• Co-ordinate Geometry: Slope, Distance between two points, the Equation of a line.
• Geometry: a selection of Theorem proofs and solving Geometric problems using Theorems
• Algebra: Factorising, Solving Equations, Applications of Algebra
• Graphs: Linear, Quadratic Functions, Graphs in context
• Statistics: Bar Charts, Histograms, Frequency Tables, Mean, Median and Mode, Pie Charts, Stem and Leaf Diagrams
• Area and Volume: Cylinder, Sphere, Cone.

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