• 066-7122737
  • office@prestralee.ie

Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, Co. Kerry

  • Home
  • About
    • Our School
    • Admissions
    • CEIST
    • Board of Management
    • Parents’ Council
    • Student Representative Council
    • Presentation Tralee Alumni
    • Prospectus
    • Guidance & Counselling
    • Pres Organic School Garden
  • School Programme
    • Junior Cycle Curriculum
      • Art, Craft and Design
      • Business Studies
      • English
      • Gaeilge
      • Geography
      • History
      • Home Economics
      • Mathematics
      • Modern Foreign Languages
      • Religious Education
      • Science
      • Technical Graphics
      • Short Courses
    • Transition Year Programme
    • Leaving Certificate
    • LCVP
  • Parent Information
    • School Day 2022-2023
    • School Calendar 2022-2023
    • Booklists 2022-2023
    • Year Heads 2022-2023
    • Uniform Details 2022-2023
    • School Self-Evaluation
  • Policies & Downloads
    • Policies
    • Downloads
  • School Forms
  • Media
    • Pres Talks Podcast
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video Gallery
  • News
  • Contact

Religious Education

Word Art (2)

Religious Education aims to develop knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values to enable young people to come to an understanding of religion and its relevance to life, relationships, society and the wider world. It aims to develop the students’ ability to examine questions of meaning, purpose and relationships, to help students understand, respect and appreciate people’s expression of their beliefs, and to facilitate dialogue and reflection on the diversity of beliefs and values that inform responsible decision-making and ways of living.

 

Capture 3

The specification for junior cycle Religious Education is built around three inter-connected strands:

  • Exploring questions
  • Expressing beliefs
  • Living our choices
IMG_5957

Expressing beliefs

This strand develops students’ ability to understand, respect and appreciate how people’s beliefs have been expressed in the past and continue to be expressed today through lifestyle, culture, rites and rituals, community building, social action and ways of life. It enables students to appreciate that people live out of their different beliefs—religious or otherwise. It also focuses on understanding and appreciating that diversity exists within religions.

Exploring questions

This strand enables students to explore some of the questions of meaning, purpose and relationships that people wonder about and to discover how people with different religious beliefs and other interpretations of life respond to these questions. It focuses on students developing a set of knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values that allows them to question, probe, interpret, analyse and reflect on these big questions, in dialogue with each other.

Living our choices

This strand focuses on enabling students to understand and reflect on the values that underlie actions and to recognise how moral decision-making works in their own life and in the lives of others based on particular values and/or beliefs. It also enables students to engage in informed discussion about moral issues and respectfully communicate and explain their personal opinions, values and beliefs.

Assessment for the Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA)

The assessment of Religious Education for the purposes of the Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA) will comprise two Classroom-Based Assessments, A person of commitment and The human search for meaning, and a final examination. In addition, students complete a written Assessment Task related to the second Classroom-Based Assessment, which is submitted to the State Examinations Commission for marking along with the final examination. 

 

Classroom-Based Assessment (CBA) 

Classroom-Based Assessment 1: A person of commitment

Students will, over a specified time, research and present on a person whose worldviews or religious beliefs have had a positive impact on the world around them, past or present.

 

Time: Towards the end of second year

 

Format

Individual or group report that may be presented in a wide range of formats. 

Classroom-Based Assessment 2: The human search for meaning

Students will, over a specified time, explore artistic, architectural, or archaeological evidence that shows ways that people have engaged in religious belief/the human search for meaning and purpose of life.

 

Time: Term two in third year

 

Format

Individual or group report that may be presented in a wide range of formats

The Assessment Task (AT)

On completion of the Classroom-Based Assessments, students will undertake an Assessment Task. This will be completed after the second Classroom-Based Assessment and will be marked by the State Examinations Commission.

 

 

Ceist-Purple-3x6ft-792x430
Nov 2018
20181121_142721
20181121_142750
20181121_144256
IMG_5772
2B8DE5B5-3B69-4F02-81F8-B33CD82D4455
B702ACCD-4447-45FF-88B6-A5F40E060202
6F131EB8-F8F0-493F-9E20-1FE66D78ACE5
IMG_5956

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

                                  Albert Einstein

CONTACT US

Presentation Secondary School
Tralee
County Kerry
Ireland
V92 AY91

T: 066-7122737
E: office@prestralee.ie
  • Our News
  • Contact
  • Our School
  • School Programme
  • Parent Information
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Website Data Privacy Notice

VSWare Login


Copyright Presentation Secondary School © 2023 · Website design by Insignis Web

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT