St Pats Junior Cert Class

2019 & 2020

Parents Information Evening

What's Changing? 2. Subjects

JC 2018

JC 2019

JC 2020

JC 2021

JC 2022

What's Changing?

3. Assessment Methods

1. Junior Cert/Cycle Exams (June 2019/2020)

How will students be assessed in

Junior Cycle?

2019

Business Studies

Science

2020 Art Craft & Design

Modern Foreign

Languages(No final exam)

Common Level Papers

1. English (JC 2019 & 2020)

2. Gaelige (JC 2020)

3.Maths (JC 2021)

Higher & Ordinary Level

Assessment

How will exam papers be graded

in the Junior Cycle?

3. Assessment Methods

2. Classroom Based Assessment

(CBA)

How will students be assessed in

Junior Cycle?

CBA 1 – 2nd Year (All JC subjects)

CBA 2 – 3rd Year (Most JC subjects)

CBAs will be undertaken during a defined time period within

normal class contact time and to a national timetable.

It will be an option for schools to use CBA results to replace

school Summer or Christmas exams depending on time of year

the CBA is completed .

CBAs will be reported on using the

following descriptors: • Exceptional

• Above Expectations

• In Line with Expectations

• Yet to Meet Expectations

4. Assessment Methods

3. Assessment Tasks

How will students be assessed in

Junior Cycle?

Will be undertaken during a defined time period

within normal class contact time and to a national

timetable.

Based on findings from CBA2 in most subjects

Sent to State Examinations for correction

The Assessment Task is based on the student’s

CBA 2 and will involve the student completing

the written Assessment Task in an exam style

booklet.

Worth 10% of overall JC result in most subjects

Junior Cert

Profile of

Achievement

December 2019/2020

What's Changing?

5. JCPA

JC Results Day 11th September 2019

JC Results

But what is an ‘ Other Area of Learning?’

Other Areas Of Learning The most important thing to remember

is that an OAL is School related.

So it happened here;

While you were

wearing a variation of this;

OR

Examples of Suitable

Achievements for inclusion

as an OAL;

Took part in the shoebox appeal in Religion

Specific Awards you have won for sporting or cultural achievements at

the end of year award ceremonies in first, second and third year.

Winning a prize for attitude, behaviour or attendance at a school

award ceremony

Being part of a schools sports team/panel

Member of the Students council

Entered a competition – BT Young Scientist/Art Competition

Taking part in the organisation of a charity fund-raising event in

school

Taking part in the Business entrepreneurial competitions

Member of the Green school committee

Actively involves in setting up and helping to run a lunchtime club

Member of the school debating team

Member of the school choir

Involved in a school mass in first, second and third year.

Played a leading role in the JC CSPE project

OAL Homework Journal

P 101-102 Achievement

/Activity

Date/Year

Completed What you did, learned and

benefitted from this

Teacher/Facilitator

comments & signature

•You must have no less than 2 and no more

than 5 OAL’s on your JCPA

•This section of the JCPA has a limit of 150

words or 760 characters,