| | | | Home Economics | In The King's Hospital, Home Economics is offered as an introductory subject for Form 1, and pupils can then choose Music as an option in form 2 to study for the Junior Certificate. Home Economics is also an option in the range of subjects for the Leaving Certificate programme.
The Junior Certificate Home Economics syllabus provides students with the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary for living as individuals and as members of a family. In a time of rapid social change, the study of home economics is very relevant to the present and future social, creative and management needs and skills for living that are so vital to preparing every young person for the opportunities and challenges, which they will meet in the course of their lives.
The syllabus is based on a core of five areas of study that will be studied by all students and one optional study, from a choice of three.
Core
Food studies and culinary skills
Consumer studies
Social and health studies
Resource management and home studies
Textile studies.
Optional study
The optional study allows students the opportunity to undertake a more detailed study of one area of the core.
One optional study may be chosen from the following three:
Childcare
Design and craftwork
Textile skills is an extension of textile studies.
Junior Certificate Home Economics is assessed at Ordinary and Higher Level.
This syllabus was implemented in schools in 1991. It is currently undergoing a rebalancing process, in a move towards presenting all junior cycle syllabuses in similar formats.
The Leaving Certificate Home Economics-Scientific and Social syllabus was revised in 2001 and implemented in 2002. It was first examined in 2004.
The Leaving Certificate Home Economics syllabus provides students with knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for managing their own lives, for further and higher education and work. The learning experiences in home economics develop flexibility and adaptability in students, prepare them for a consumer-oriented society and provide a learning foundation for a wide range of careers in food, textiles, science, design, social studies and tourism. The subject is an applied subject combining theory with practice. It is concerned with the management of resources (material and human) to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and economic needs of individuals and families. The study of home economics emphasises the interdependent relationships that exist between individuals, families and their immediate and distant environments.
The syllabus is based on a core of three areas of study that is studied by all students and one elective area, from a choice of three.
Core
Food studies
Resource management and consumer studies
Social studies
Electives
The elective allows students the opportunity to undertake a more detailed study of one area of the core.
There are three electives, from which one may be chosen:
Home design and management
Textiles, fashion and design
Social studies
Leaving Certificate Home Economics-Scientific and Social is assessed, at Ordinary and Higher level, as follows:
A terminal examination paper
An assessment of the practical components of the programme, that is the food studies from the core area and the textiles, fashion and design elective (where applicable).
Examination paper 80%
Core: 60%
Electives: 20%
Assessment of practical coursework 20%
| Home Economics Department
Caroline Brady, BEd (Hons) (TCD)
Alison Gill, BA (Hons) (Sheffield Hallam), PGCE (UU)
Marian Duffy (Labs & Classroom Assistant)
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