Senior Cycle in Ramsgrange Community School
The Ramsgrange Community School senior cycle aims to educate the whole person and contribute to the human flourishing of our young people. Our students’ experiences throughout senior cycle in R.C.S. enrich their intellectual, social and personal development and their overall health and wellbeing. Senior cycle has eight guiding principles and these principles are a touchstone for our school as we design our senior cycle.
Senior Cycle Guiding Principals
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Options for our Students at Senior Cycle
Building on learning from Junior Cycle, our Senior cycle in Ramsgrange Community School consists of an optional Transition Year (TY), followed by a two-year course of subjects and modules, namely Leaving Certiifcate Applied (LCA) programme or Leaving Certificate. Throughout our senior cycle options, relationships with teachers are established on a more mature footing and our students take more responsibility for their learning.
Our senior cycle provides a curriculum which challenges students to aim for the highest level of educational achievement, commensurate with their individual aptitudes and abilities. During senior cycle, our students have opportunities to grapple with social, environmental, economic, and technological challenges and to deepen their understanding of human rights, social justice, equity, diversity and sustainability. Students are supported to make informed choices as they choose different pathways through senior cycle and every student has opportunities to experience the joy and satisfaction of reaching significant milestones in their education.
Our senior cycle aims to establish firm foundations for RCS students to transition to further adult and higher education, apprenticeships, traineeships and employment, and participate meaningfully in society, the economy and adult life.
The educational experience in senior cycle aims to be inclusive of every student, respond to their learning strengths and needs, and celebrate, value, and respect diversity. In Ramsgrange Community School students vary in their family and cultural backgrounds, languages, age, ethnic status, beliefs, gender and sexual identity as well as their strengths, needs, interests, aptitudes and prior knowledge, skills, values and dispositions. Every student’s identity is celebrated, respected and responded to throughout their time in senior cycle in our school.
At a practical level, senior cycle in our school is supported by enhanced professional development; the involvement of our teachers, students, parents, school leaders and other stakeholders; resources; research; as well as clear communication; policy coherence; and a shared vision of what senior cycle seeks to achieve for our young people as they prepare to embark on their adult lives. It is brought to life in Ramsgrange Community Schoole through:
• effective curriculum planning, development, organisation, reflection and evaluation
• teaching and learning approaches that motivate students and enable them to improve
• a school culture that respects students and promotes a love of learning.
Senior Cycle Key Competencies
Key competencies is an umbrella term which refers to the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions our students develop in an integrated way during senior cycle. These competencies are linked and blend together, can improve students’ overall learning, can help students and teachers to make meaningful connections between and across different areas of learning, and are important across the curriculum. The key competencies come to life through the learning experiences and pedagogies teachers choose and through students’ responses to them.
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Leaving Certificate subjects offered by Ramsgrange Community School
Note: Subjects offered are dependent on our DES allocation figures annually