Blackrock Educate Together Secondary School

Short Courses

Coding Artistic Performance Philosophy
Debating Horticulture Digital Media Literacy

Coding

The short course aims to develop the student's ability to formulate problems logically; to design, write and test code through the development of programs, apps, games, animations or websites; and, through their chosen learning activities, to learn about computer science.

Philosophy

This short course in philosophy aims to engage students in philosophical enquiry and dialogue about life’s big questions and to develop critical, creative, collaborative, caring thinkers who can participate in informed discourse and act in the world in a more reflective manner.

Artistic Performance

This short course in artistic performance aims to engage students in artistic practices with others, by offering a structure that can be used to facilitate collaborative and individual imaginative and creative initiatives, leading to a group performance.

See https://curriculumonline.ie/Junior-cycle/Short-Courses/ for more information

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07-Feb-2025

In this week's episode, some of our TY students give some advice to 3rd year students ahead of their Mock Exams next week. Click here to Read more...

06-Feb-2025

Our 1st Year students very much enjoyed their co-curricular history excursion to the National History Museum this afternoon. The trip, organised by our history department, saw students discover the famous "bogmen" and more cultural treasures!

04-Feb-2025

Our STEM club has been focusing on aspects of engineering this week - well done to all students taking part.

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