Senior Cycle

• Transition Year (Optional)
• The Leaving Certificate Established.
• The Leaving Certificate Established with the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP or Link Modules)
• The Leaving Certificate Applied Programme

 
Further information on the various programmes is available on the website of National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA)

Transition Year:

The Transition Year programme has run in Ardee Community School since 2011. It is an optional programme. Each year, we have a very strong uptake with an average of 80% students opting for Transition Year after Junior Cycle. We aim to facilitate offering the transition year programme to as many students as possible each year. We provide a planned comprehensive programme of subjects and modules.
 
After Junior Cycle/Transition year we offer two parallel programmes, the conventional Leaving Certificate and the Leaving Certificate Applied.

Leaving Cert Applied – LCA

This is a recognised practical based programme aimed at those students who have difficulty accessing the depth of study needed for the conventional Leaving Certificate.Students participate in a series of structured tasks, projects, interviews, oral exams and final exams. Attendance of 90% is required by students on the programme. Students can use this qualification to access further education through the Post Leaving Certificate Course (PLC) route and other training programmes. Students undertake one day’s work experience per week over the two years.

Conventional Leaving Certificate

We offer a very comprehensive range of subjects. To date, most students get to study most if not all their chosen subjects. Students choose four option subjects.

#Applied Maths is currently offered in the school outside school hours as an additional subject.
Politics and Society, Leaving Certificate Physical Education, Leaving Certificate Computer Science and Technology have been introduced as exam subjects in recent years.