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The Transition Year Programme

Transition Year 2025–2026

The 2025–2026 academic year has been an exciting and enriching one for our Transition Year students. With 60 students taking part in the programme, it has been a year filled with opportunities for learning, personal growth, and new experiences both inside and outside the classroom.
Throughout the year, students have taken part in a wide range of activities and educational trips. These have included visits to various third-level colleges, helping students explore future study options, as well as participation in a weekly STEM programme designed to develop problem-solving, creativity, and innovation skills.
Students also completed work experience placements, giving them valuable insight into the world of work and helping them build confidence and independence. In addition, they attended RSA talks and events, promoting awareness around road safety and responsible decision-making.
Field trips have been an important part of the programme, with students visiting places such as the EPIC Museum and participating in subject-related excursions that bring learning to life beyond the classroom. Social and team-building activities have also been a highlight, including a memorable away day ice skating in Galway, just one of many fun experiences shared throughout the year.
And the year is far from over. Students are still looking forward to several exciting opportunities, including an An Gaisce adventure trip, a Gaeltacht experience, and an international trip to Barcelona, along with many more activities still to come.
Transition Year continues to be a fantastic opportunity for students to explore new interests, develop life skills, and create lasting memories — and this year’s group has certainly made the most of everything the programme has to offer.

What's the purpose of the Transition Year Programme?

To promote maturity:

  1. Maturity in studies by making students more self-directed learners through the development of general, technical and academic skills
  2. Maturity in relation to work and careers by developing work-related skills
  3. Personal maturity by providing opportunities to develop communication skills, self-confidence and a sense of responsibility
  4. Social maturity by developing greater ‘people’ skills and more awareness of the world outside school
  5. Maturity that will help the student make a more informed choice of subject for their Leaving Certificate studies

What subjects are studied?

This varies but every year students follow a timetable as they do in other years. The programme works towards getting a balance between some continuation of essential core subjects, a tasting and sampling of other subjects, a variety of distinctive courses designed to broaden students’ horizons and some modules and activities specifically aimed at promoting the maturity that is central to the whole Transition Year ideal.

What features are there to the Transition Year Programme?

The school offers modules, short courses on particular topics. We also offer a work experience programme. Mini-company, where students set up and operate a real business, is a popular way of learning. The use of visiting speakers as well as trips beyond the classroom are features of the programme. Project work, where students undertake independent research, usually more extensive than traditional ‘homework’, is also common to the programme.

Leaving Cert Vocational Programme

LCVP is a Senior Cycle Programme of the Department of Education, designed to give a strong vocational dimension to the Leaving Certificate (established). The programme combines the virtues of academic study with a new and dynamic focus on self-directed learning, enterprise, work and the community.

Young people taking the LCVP have a unique opportunity to develop their interpersonal, vocational and technological skills. These skills are equally relevant to the needs of those preparing for further education, seeking employment or planning to commence their own business some time in the future.

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