Carrickfergus Learning Community (CLC) is a collaboration project between the three post-primary schools in
Carrickfergus,
Northern Ireland. The project aims to increase the number of subjects available to
sixth-form students in the area.
Schools Involved
All three post-primary schools in Carrickfergus are involved;
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Carrickfergus Academy
Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 27,998 at the 2011 Census. It is County Antrim's oldest t ...
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Carrickfergus Grammar School
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Ulidia Integrated College
Ulidia Integrated College is situated in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. It was opened in 1997 with an initial 63 students. It is the 44th integrated school to be created in the province and provides education for over 530 Catholic and Prote ...
Subjects Available
The schools offer
AS and A2, Applied
GCEs and
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qualifications.
At Carrickfergus College
AS/A2
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Religious Education
In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion (although in the United Kingdom the term ''religious instruction'' would refer to the teaching of a particular religion, with ''religious education'' referring to te ...
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Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
Studies (
Distance learning)
Applied GCE
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Health &
Social Care (Single Award)
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ICT
ICT may refer to:
Sciences and technology
* Information and communications technology
* Image Constraint Token, in video processing
* Immunochromatographic test, a rapid immunoassay used to detect diseases such as anthrax
* In-circuit test, in ...
(Single Award)
At Carrickfergus Grammar School
AS/A2
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Accounting
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...
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Biology
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...
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French language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
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Geography
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Government and Politics
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
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Home Economics
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Music
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Photography
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Physics
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Technology
At Downshire School
AS/A2
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Media Studies
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...
Applied GCE
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Travel &
Tourism (Single Award)
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Physical Education (Single Award)
At Ulidia Integrated College
AS/A2
* Moving Image Arts
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Mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
BTec
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Performing Arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...
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Sports Studies
* e.Business
Logistics
Pupils travel by
taxi between the three schools involved, and sit exams in the school in which they are taught.
Criticisms
The CLC is often criticized by pupils in attendance of
Carrickfergus Grammar School because of the negative effects produced by cross-school timetabling, reducing the flexibility of individual schools to alter their timetable to offer unusual subject combinations that prior to the CLC were possible, for example music and technology. The CLC also gives schools the opportunity to save money by dropping subjects they original taught and offering pupils the subject at other schools for example,
Carrickfergus Grammar School no longer offers media-studies but instead offer the subject at
Downshire Community School through the CLC, reducing costs but increasing strain on the timetable.
References
External links
CLC information at Carrickfergus College
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Carrickfergus
Education in County Antrim