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Saint Patrick’s Academy, Lisburn is proud to be the only all-ability school catering for 11-18 years olds in the Greater Lisburn, Glenavy and Crumlin areas. The school is a friendly, purposeful community dedicated to the growth of the individual within society. St Patrick’s actively promotes excellence in all areas of the curriculum. The school caters for the full range of academic ability and comprises: Key Stage 3, (Years 8, 9, and 10), Key Stage 4 (Years 11 and 12), and Sixth Form (Years 13 and 14). Saint Patrick’s bases its educational philosophy on the values expressed in ‘Catholic Education: The Vision”.  The Academy aims at the harmonious, progressive, overall development of each pupil so that they may respond to God's call in their life. The school is situated on the periphery of Lisburn with excellent road links to Glenavy, Crumlin and Moira. The curriculum offered to every pupil is balanced, broadly based and reflects fully the religious and educational philosophy of the school.

Mission Statement

St. Patrick's promotes opportunity for personal fulfilment and educational excellence within a safe and caring environment, based upon mutual respect and the Catholic ethos.

Learning for Life and Work - GCSE PDF 

Examination Board 

CCEA (Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment)

 

Subject Content

The specification adopts a modular structure and students are required to study four teaching modules and learning modules for the GCSE course.  the modules are listed below:

1. Local and Global Citizenship

2. PSHE

3. Learning for Work

4. Applying Learning for Life and Work

 

Scheme of Assessment

 Teaching and Learning Module

 Assessment Unit

 Assessment Weighting

 Nature of Assessment

 Local and Global Citizenship

 1

 15%

 External: The examination will be 45 minutes in duration.  It will consist of  short answer, structured, stimulus response and free response type questions 

 PSHE

 2

 15%

 External: The examination will be 45 minutes in duration.  It will consist of  short answer, structured, stimulus response and free response type questions 

 Learning for Work

 3

 15%

 External: The examination will be 45 minutes in duration.  It will consist of  short answer, structured, stimulus response and free response type questions 

 Applying Learning for Life and Work

 4

 55%

 Internal: An action based project (35%) and 2 speaking for a purpose activities (20%)

 

 
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