Ah here.
Thanks James M Chimney
H/t Kenny Von U-Vox Plank
Earlier: Leaving Cert Dreams
Tag Archives: Leaving Cert
Result
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Tess Purcell tweetz:
Gotta love @hayeshotel birth place of the @officialgaa and also has no problem sexualising school children #slowclap
Breakingnews.ie reports:
Full-time second-level teacher Luke Saunders, founder of Studyclix.ie,the website that breaks down Junior and Leaving Certificate exam questions by topic, gives his expert opinion on today’s English papers.
“For the first time ever within a Leaving Cert paper students were asked to write a blog post, a sign that examiners are moving with the times.”
“Higher level students were asked to write a blog post for an online campaign that opposed public expenditure on space exploration while ordinary level students were asked to imagine they were tourists and to write a travel blog based on their experiences and views on Ireland.”
Leaving and Junior Cert first papers are over: here’s what was on them (Breakingnews.ie)
Inshallah
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Further to yesterday’s letter in the Irish Times…
Barbara McCarthy, in The Times Ireland edition, reports:
John Hammond, deputy chief executive of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, said that the Koran was included because of its literary and linguistic value rather than its religious value.
The NCCA said that it received a complaint from a Christian parent of a student, contesting the assumption that all Arabic students were Muslims and had a knowledge of the Koran.
Eight separate sections of the Koran are identified as prescribed texts in the exam.
“The council is willing to address the issue that it is compulsory and will look into making it optional for the next school year,” Mr Hammond said.
Koran may be dropped from Leaving Cert (The Times Ireland edition)
Yesterday: Leaving Cert Fail
I am a Christian Syrian who has recently been forced to leave Damascus because of violence and, in particular, the bombing of the school attended by my three teenage daughters. My eldest daughter is sitting her Leaving Cert in June and intends taking Arabic as one of her subjects. In reviewing past papers, she has discovered that questions on the Koran are mandatory. She, as a Christian, has never studied the Koran. This is very unfair. What can we do about this?
A question put to education expert Brian Mooney in today’s Irish Times.
To which, Mr Mooney replies:
It may seem strange that it never occurred to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment when drafting the syllabus for Leaving Cert Arabic in 2003 – subsequently approved and published by the Department of Education – that not everyone fluent in Arabic would be a Muslim.
The fact that there are Christian, Yazidi and Buddhist communities throughout the Arab world that have no knowledge of the Koran clearly did not cross the mind of anyone involved in signing off the content of the exam.
To find yourself as a refugee in Ireland forced to answer questions on an Islamic religious text as part of a language exam in Arabic is, to use Charlie Haughey’s phrase, grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.
I have brought this matter to the attention of the State Examinations Commission, which indicated to me that you are correct. Your daughter currently has no option other than to study the Koran if she wishes to take Arabic for the Leaving Cert.
There you go now.
Rollingnews
‘With his blonde hair, an orange hoodie, blue jeans and maroon sneakers, David Glynn looked more like a boyband star than the country’s brightest Leaving Certificate student on Wednesday’
Brainy and purty?
Impossible.
Smellyer writes:
If a female student had scored 9 A1s in the leaving and then be described as looking “more like a girlband star than the country’s brightest Leaving Certificate student” I imagine there would be uproar…
FIGHT!
Repeat.
FIGHT!
Leaving Cert: Castlebar student secures nine A1 grades (Tom Shiel, Irish Times)
No F In Way
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This morning.
Successful Leaving Cert results recipients, including obligatory jumping Loreto students.
Blummin’ good at rote-learning tykes.
From top: Afghanistan-born Navid Safi at O’Connells School. Richmond Lodge, Dublin.
Centre; Breenan Cullen, Hannah Smith and Julie Masterson at Loreto, Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Above:: Diana Bannaya, Tiffany Bramble, and Shannon Talbot at O’Connells.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeJYdRsYrro
A recap of all the Leaving Cert exams from Mark Holland and David Atkinson of Pop The Cherry Comedy.
Mark and David will perform their first live show in Whelan’s, Dublin, on July 6 at 8pm.
Pop The Cherry Comedy (Facebook)
Previously: Leaving Cert English Paper 1
Thanks Mark
Finally
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Copper Face Jacks tweetz:
“The glorious Leaving Cert weather has arrived!”
Meanwhile, the rainfall radar from Met Éireann shows…
Yay!
Ronin Murphy writes:
With the leaving cert starting next week I thought it might be interesting to put W. B. Yeats’ September 1913 to some original music (with a west coast hip hop vibe).