Transition Year

What is Transition Year?

• This is a unique one year programme for students aged 15/16.
• It provides a bridge to enable students to make the transition from Junior to Senior cycle.
• It encourages personal and social development and recognises the need for students to grow in independence.
• Transition Year fosters academic achievement as students prepare for a Leaving Certificate programme, further study and adult and working life.
• The type of student to which Transition year is best suited is one who is an all-rounder or who wants to explore and develop their abilities, whilst learning new skills within a structured environment.
• The Transition Year programme is designed to provide pupils with the opportunity to discover their own talents, aptitudes, and abilities whilst developing skills and competencies within a well-defined academic structure.
• It challenges pupils to accept responsibility for their own learning, to improve their performance in many core areas, explore new subjects, develop their own interests, and to evaluate their progress.
• Work Experience plays a significant role in the programme as students gain first-hand experience of the world of work. Students arrange and complete Work Experience in a number of different workplaces in blocks throughout the year in areas relevant to their own interests and ambitions.
• Please note that due to an ongoing process of evaluation, review, and improvement the curriculum is subject to change

Points to consider before deciding to do Transition year

• Students have an opportunity to explore other interests and skills.
• D.O.S.S. Developing other skill sets!
• Students are older and more mature:

(i)   doing the Leaving Cert

(ii)  going to college

• Students who do TY have a lower dropout rate at Third Level

Application Procedure

• Application form.
• Interview
• Third Year head consulted.
• Participation in school life and school record considered.

What Boyne Community School Leaving Certificate students’ said about the programme?

• I got to do subjects which I never did before which was class and helped me chose my subjects for the Leaving Cert
• We visited DCU and learned loads about college
• I made new friends because the class was small
• Work experience helped me to mature
• Going on trips and doing activities outside of school was brilliant
• I loved every minute of it.
• Go Karting was it for me
• I appreciated all the work we done in the Community and really learned a lot
• There was something new every week, it made the year very interactive.
• Team work was really at the centre of our activities