Scoil Uí Mhuirí

We Welcome our French Language Assistant

Scoil Uí Mhuirí staff and students were delighted to welcome Camille Orhand, our French Language Assistant at the school for the academic year 2010/2011. Camille is from Brittany in France and was a great help to our French students as they prepared for oral exams. We hope Camille had an enjoyable year here in Ireland and we hope she enjoyed her time teaching at the school.

French Debating Team
Our Transition Year French students are busy preparing for a French language debating competition which takes place at Alliance Francaise in Dublin. We wish our students and their teacher Ms. Lyons good luck with this innovative endeavour.

Junior Cert Optional French Exam

A Common Syllabus Framework
The Leaving Certificate French syllabus is set out in the context of a common syllabus framework for the teaching and examining of French, German, Spanish and Italian. The syllabus content draws on the junior cycle syllabus and develops many aspects of its aims, objectives and content.

The syllabus is "communicative" in the sense that it is based on the purposes to which learners are likely to want, need or expect to put the knowledge and skills they acquire in class, and in the sense that the objectives detailed in the syllabus are expressed in terms of language use. It is not, however, "communicative" in the narrow sense of confining itself to oral face-to-face
communication. Nor does it presuppose a rejection of explicit teaching about the target language and culture; indeed, it presupposes quite the contrary.
(Department of Education, accessed on the Internet May 11th 2009)

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