Drama And Climate Both Added To St David’s Leaving Cert

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atest press release from Senator Pat Casey, issued on Tuesday, September 17th 2024…

Senator Pat Casey has welcomed confirmation that four Wicklow schools are among the selected Phase One Schools which will be the first to offer the new Leaving Certificate subjects of Drama, Film and Theatre Studies and Climate Action and Sustainable Development from the start of the 2025/26 school year.

These schools include St. David’s Holy Faith Secondary, Greystones, Glenart College, Arklow, Wicklow Educate Together Secondary School and Coláiste Bhríde, Carnew.

Senator Casey said: “Minister Foley has confirmed to me that there was massive interest from schools of types in Wicklow in taking part in this first phase of delivering the new Leaving Certificate subjects of Drama, Film and Theatre Studies and Climate Action and Sustainable Development.

“I am pleased that four schools will participate in phase one.

“The addition of these subjects to the curriculum is a positive step forward. They will give the opportunity not just to reflect the talent and skills and interests of our young people, but to validate them, so that a student who takes drama film and theatre studies or takes climate action and sustainability, that their achievement in education is on a similar par of the student who takes science or languages.

“I am pleased for the students in the four schools here in Wicklow who will experience either Drama, Film and Theatre Studies or Climate Action and Sustainable Development at Senior Cycle in this initial phase and who will have the opportunity to develop their interests, strengths and talents in these areas.”

You can find out more about the new Leaving Cert subjects here.