The 80 secondary schools that have been chosen to have PE as a Leaving Cert subject have been revealed.
A whopping 369 applied to the Department of Education to take part in the roll out of the new curriculum.
That's more than half of the country’s second-level schools.
Students taking the new Leaving Cert PE subject from September of this year will sit the first Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE) exam in 2020. The subject can be taken at both higher and ordinary levels.
The specification for Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE) will be presented in two strands:
