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Transition Year


The Transition Year (TY) is a one-year programme. It is designed to act as a bridge between the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate programmes.  Transition Year offers learners an opportunity to mature and develop without the pressure of an examination.  It also provides an opportunity for learners to prepare for the ever-changing demands of the adult world of work, further and higher education and relationships.  
​The Transition Year offers students an opportunity:
  • To engage in independent, self-directed learning,
  • To develop general, technical and academic skills
  • To mature and develop without the pressure of an examination.
Transition Year students are timetabled for class Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Wednesday is an activities day, details of which are given below:
Core Subjects:
  • Irish
  • English
  • Maths
  • Modern Language
  • Religious Education
  • Work Experience/Careers
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All Shook Up TY Musical December 2016

Students sample ALL the following subjects for a 7 week module in Transition Year enabling them to make a more informed subject choice for 4th year:
  • Accounting 
  • Business 
  • Economics 
  • Music 
  • Agricultural Science 
  • Chemistry 
  • Geography 
  • Physics 
  • Physical Education 
  • Art 
  • Construction 
  • History 
  • Technology 
  • Biology 
  • Design & Communications Graphics 
  • Home Economics​
The following life skills are also offered to students :
  • App Creation
  • Health & Safety
  • Road Safety
  • Chinese (Language & Culture)
  • Irish Dance
  • Tidy Towns
  • Computers - ECDL / SAGE
  • Musical Instrument
  • Touch Typing​
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Work Experience
It is intended that the Transition Year should create opportunities to vary the learning environment.  One of the ways of doing this, and of providing an orientation towards the world of work, is to include a component of actual work experience.  Students engage in career orientated work experience for 2 weeks in December.  On returning to the classroom, students are given sufficient time and opportunity in careers class to debrief, report back and evaluate their experience. Presentations are made by students to their peers as part of this evaluation day.

Wednesday Activities Programme Guest Speakers / Workshops / Projects include:
  • Public Access to Law
  • Outdoor Pursuits
  • GAA/ Rugby / Soccer coaching
  • First Aid
  • Life Skills for Secondary School pupils
  • Drive For Life
  • Songschool
  • Poetry Slam
  • Kilmainham Jail
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Filmmaking
  • Baboro International Arts Festival
  • Thomond and Croke Park Tours
  • National Stud & Japanese Gardens
  • Collins Barracks
  • Guinness Storehouse Tour
  • Science Tricks
  • Aran Islands
  • Eye Cinema – movies suggested by Art and English Departments
  • Matrix maths programme
  • Business Trips to factories
  • Ice-skating
  • Photography Course
  • Gaisce- the Presidents Award
  • Christmas Shoebox Appeal
  • Galway Science and Technology Festival
  • Galway Film Fleadh
  • NUIG TY Maths Workshop
  • Mini Company Programme – 
    Galway County and City Enterprise Board
  • Ability West Presentation
  • Blue Teapot Theatre Workshop
  • Junior Achievement Ireland – Bank your Future Programme
  • Interview skills and Techniques
  • Cyber Bullying Presentation
  • European Youth Parliament​
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Assessment
There is no state examination at the end of Transition Year. Assessment is usually carried out on an ongoing basis and can include school-based assessment of projects or portfolios, oral, aural, practical and written activities.  Since 2000, the Department of Education and Science has issued an official Transition Year certificate to participants. School based certification is based on credits awarded to each module/subject in which the student participates.  Four student reports are completed during the course of the year. 


Overall credits awarded for participation in the TY Programme will result in the pupils achieving one of the following certificates on completion of Transition Year:

Distinction 85%
Commendation 55%
Merit 70%
Pass 40%

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Presentation College Athenry
Ballygarraun South
Athenry
Co. Galway
H65 VA49


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