Transition Year

31-October-17
Welcome to the home of Transition Year in Kildare Town Community School. Please scroll down to see what the programme is all about.
Transition Year is your year to shine in ways that maybe you have not shone before. To discover more about yourself, find new interests and passions, new friendships and acquaintances. To develop strong relations with each other and your teachers, develop skills and aptitudes you enjoy, develop new visions and meanings in your lives and develop academically by broadening your horizons. To dare to try new things and dare to speak out when you never dared before. To enjoy learning after three long and often stressful Junior Cycle years. Now is your time to enjoy learning in different ways
Benefits of Transition Year
❖ To help ensure a smooth transition from the dependent learning of the Junior Cycle to the more independent self-directed learning required for the Senior Cycle
❖ Help gain academic experience to make better subject choices for subject options
❖ Statistics show it improves Leaving Cert points as students are a year older doing the Leaving Cert
❖ Increases responsibility & maturity
❖ Improves relationships with teachers & parents
❖ Helps students pick the correct subjects for Leaving Cert by sampling subjects
❖ Explore job opportunities outside of school through work experience & mini companies
❖ Develop new interests & explore new ideas
❖ Make new friends
❖ Take on challenges and develop holistically
❖ Get involved in the community
❖ Discover personal strengths
❖ Nurture students to become reflective, caring, articulate and self-confident people

Subjects: Students experience the core subjects of English, Irish, and Maths along with Religion, Computer Studies, P.E., Enterprise, Community, Tutor Reflection, and get to sample the following subjects: Construction Studies, Arts& Craft, Design, Business, Design and Communication Graphics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Biology, Spanish, French, Physics, Work & Communication Skills, Music, Accountancy etc

Initiatives: This year, students will complete and get involved in many great projects and events such as the Gaisce Award, First Aid, Road Safety Awareness and Driving course, Go Games GAA Coaching, Christmas Craft Fair, Bike4Life Cycle Fundraiser, Day of HOPE, Special Olympics event management, Managing 1st-year Fancy dress school Disco at Halloween Uplift, IRFU coaching, Mini Companies, Make your own film, Careers Projects, Chinese Classes, Global warming, Think Languages event, Special Olympics Ireland competition, Climate change week, Science week and Stand Up Awareness week etc. Students have got involved in Community initiatives such as Santas Reindeer Hospital, Talent Show, St Patricks Mental Health, Walk in my Shoes etc.

Trips: Students will go on many trips that range from an overnight adventure trip, a huge waterpark, a team bonding day, Ziplines & High ropes in Castlecomer Discover Park, Lazer Tag and Kayaking in Carlingford, Causey Farm, The Gairty & Grafton Street in Dublin, Lilliput Adventure centre Kilkenny Castle, the T.Y. Expo show etc.

Speakers:These will range from several Drama workshops, Biodiversity, Etiquette, Martial Arts, Dancing, Boxing, Yoga, Forensics, The Hive, Animal Welfare, let's talk Consent, Emotional Self-Defence and Mental Health workshop, Defense Forces, Hope, LGBTQ+ ShoutOut, Foster Good Relationships, Anxiety and Resilience talk, focus Ireland etc.

T.Y. Fee: The fee for the year is €500

Application to T.Y.
If interested, you must fill out an application form after Christmas. Good attendance and behaviour are essential, along with participating positively inside and outside class. We understand that making the right subject choices are important to our Students and Parents. For any 3rd year student looking to apply for TY, the application form and admissions policy can be found in the links below.

TY Application Form 23.docx.pdf

TY Admissions policy 2023.pdf

For any students and Parents/ Guardians who would like to know more about TY in Kildare Town Community School, please have a look at the two videos below:

T.Y. Intro to Parents Options Eveninghttps://youtu.be/Do0hdi-14cM

Student videohttps://youtu.be/LAIhNQPNj8o

Parents Info evening: TY 2023.pptx.pdf

Yours sincerely,

Mr Frank O’Sullivan
Programme Coordinator

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Dunmurry Rd,
Kildare Town,
Co. Kildare,
R51 D288
Ireland


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