Home Economics

Welcome to the Home Economics Department!

Ms S.Conway & Ms E.Byrne

Home Economics is a popular subject choice in C.C.C, for both boys and girls. It is a subject which empowers its learners with life skills.

Junior Cycle Home Economics Course Outline

The Junior Cycle Home Economics programme is built around 3 main areas:

Food and Culinary Skills
Responsible Family Living and
Textiles and crafts

The above areas are woven together by common threads of individual & family empowerment, heath & wellbeing, sustainable living and consumer studies.

This means your son/daughter will learn about healthy eating, kitchen hygiene & safety, menu planning, consumer studies, home management, budgeting, caring for clothes, textile and craft skills, cooking skills, healthy living, the working.

Classes in Home Economics are interactive, fun and engaging. A range of resources and teaching methodologies are used to make the material accessible to all level of learners.

Assessment in Home Economics:

Assessment in Home Economics reflects the format of its teaching in that it is a combination of practical and theory based assessments. Informal on-going assessment is used from year with each unit of learning assessed in some manner.

The formal assessment requirements are as follows:

2^nd Year	Classroom Based Assessment 1: Creative Textiles Make a textile item for an individual or the home or Recycle or upcycle a textile item for an individual or the home	Result will appear on Junior Cycle Portfolio of Achievement
3^rd Year	Classroom Based Assessment 2: Food Literacy Brief Use the design brief process to research, generate ideas and possible solutions for a Food Literacy Skills Brief, drawn from a list of briefs issued by the State Examinations Commission (SEC)	Result will appear on Junior Cycle Portfolio of Achievement
3^rd Year	Practical Cookery Exam	50% of final Junior Cycle Grade
3^rd Year	State Exam in June	50% of final Junior Cycle Grade