TY Presentation for Parents/Students '14

Transition Year
2014 - 2015

Portmarnock Community School

Transition-year
Teacher says! “The opportunity of a lifetime to be used
with the lifetime of the opportunity”
Student says! “…get involved in as many things as you
can, the year will be so much better…”


Key Information for your child
From June 2014 on the transition-year section of the
School website

www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie


WHAT IS TRANSITION YEAR?
Optional first year of a three-year Leaving Certificate

Programme

Strongly subscribed to by students, staff and parents

of Portmarnock Community School

Programme varies from school to school


WHAT IS TRANSITION YEAR?
Professional development Service for Teachers:

…a unique one year programme that promotes the
personal, social, vocational and educational
development of students and prepares them for their
role as autonomous, participative and responsible
members of society.


Professional development Service for Teachers:

…a bridge to enable students to make the transition
from the more dependent type of learning associated
with Junior Cycle to the more independent learning
environment associated with Senior Cycle.
…encourages the development of a wide range of
transferable critical thinking and creative problem
solving skills.

Why TY?
Promotes personal and social development
Promotes self-esteem and self-confidence
Improved results in the Leaving Certificate

(E.S.R.I. 2005)
Wide range of subjects
Experience of the work environment
Positive approach to education
Exposed to new learning skills

T.Y. Year Head - Ms. Norris
Tutors: Ms. O'Dea, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Maher,

Ms.Woods, Ms.McDonald

T.Y. Co-ordinator: Mr. O’ Mahony


CORE SUBJECTS
Irish

English
French or German or Spanish
Mathematics
Information and Communications Technology
Preparation for Working Life
Religious / Moral Development / Life-skills
Physical Education

Optional Subjects (1)
Design and Communication Graphics
Engineering
Geography
History
Home-economics
Physics
Woodcraft and Furniture


Optional Subjects (2)
 Art, Craft, design
 Beginners Music
 Biology
 Business Studies ((Accounting, Business Organisation

and Economics)
 Chemistry
 Continuation Music
 Craft- Textiles


The Form


Activity Fee €230 – Due mid-September 2014
Has not increased in recent years
Set by the Board of Management


27th January 2014


Some key dates
Exams – December 2014
Exams – May 2015
Work-experience Dec. 2014 (two weeks)
Community-care Feb. 2015 (two weeks)
TY Night May 2015


Work-experience Diary due date: January 2015.
Community-care Diary due date: March 2015


Planned for Play

- November 2014
Planned week for Musical

- March 2015


Aims of work-experience
To experience the nature and realities of working life.
To identify skills and abilities required for particular

jobs.
To achieve a realistic knowledge of their own
interests, abilities and social skills.
To achieve a knowledge and understanding of job
application and selection.


Aims of Community-care
To give students a greater understanding of the

nature and value of their local communities

To allow students to give something back to their

community


The placement
Students are advised to begin their search for a

placement as soon as the dates are confirmed

Students keep a diary during both their Work and

Community Care placements

Students are monitored by teachers through

telephone calls to their employers


Can I do (extra) Work-experience outside these

dates?
Yes – in a small number of circumstances

Where e.g. a Hospital / Business / National-body has

a set week and you get a place on it. You will inform
the school with the letter of offer from that
organisation


Where you get an exceptional offer of work experience

from a Company (two recent examples were offers from a
University and a computing multinational). You will write
to the Principal requesting permission to take up the offer
stating who is offering you the position, why is has to
be undertaken outside the set-dates and what

you

hope to achieve from it. Please allow the Principal

five working days to make a decision. The decision will
depend on the disruption it causes to your progress in T.Y.
– that will obviously depend on the commitment you have
shown to the year, to date.

EVALUATION
Initiative in finding a placement
Full completion of diary
Presentation of diary on due date
Report from employer
Oral presentation to class

10%
25%
15%
30%
20%

Your Tutor is responsible for this evaluation


Wednesday Modules
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Animation – Ms. Tynan
Digital photography – Mr. Higgins
Heritage - Mr. Dempsey / Mr. Curran
Film-studies – Mr. Clarke
Sports Science: Mr. McNeive & First-aid: the Civil
Defence


Formal reporting to parents / guardians


Traditional school reports
Students will sit two formal examinations (December

and May) and receive two reports with a percentage
grade in each subject

Irish / English / Maths / Continental European

Language


May TY Report
Divided into three parts:
The Modules (= 500 marks)
Academic options (Six subjects plus I.T. and P.E.) =
800 marks
Participation
= 300 marks (Work-experience, Community, Care,
Portfolio)







1050 - 1,500
825 – 1049
600 – 824
1 – 599

- Distinction
- Merit
- Pass
- Fail

You teacher will clarify with you the nature of this
assessment and its due date - this may be online or as
a verbal presentation or a poster, etc


TY Reports – as usual in January and June. This will

include your absences.

May TY Report – on the TY “Celebration” night


Gaisce
There are 4 different challenge areas. To earn an award, you will need
to participate in each of the 4 challenge areas. You might decide to
build on an activity you’ve tried in the past.
Each participant must participate in at least one new activity to earn
an award.
The 4 challenge areas are:
1. Community Involvement
2. Personal Skill
3. Physical Recreation
4. Adventure Journey


Gaisce
Presidents Award Leader: Mr. Dempsey
Face to Face and Online requirements with both Mr.

Dempsey and Gaisce

Deadlines are deadlines


Internal programmes
Various Talks e.g. Garda road-safety
Aptitude Tests
Thinking Outside the Box
Law Day


Other Activities
 Mini-companies, mentored by Fingal Enterprise Board
 AIB Build a Bank
 An Gaisce Award (€10 extra)
 The Play “Taming of the Shrew”
 The Musical “possibly Bugsy Malone”
 Fundraising – Walk in my Shoes (St. Patrick’s

University Hospital) / Oesophageal cancer / R.N.L.I.


Other Activities
 Song-school (Up to twenty students - Small fee)
 G.A.A. coaching with local Primary-school
 Pupil participation in the Arch Club
 Rotary Club – Intel Ideation Competition
 Variety show – 30th April this year
 Promote SciFest

Possible links with Third-level
 Beaumont Hospital / RCSI (Five places 2014)
 DCU Compute TY (thirty places 2014)
 UCD – Physics workshop (one place)
 RCSI – Mini-Med (one place)
 St. Patrick University Hospital (Two places 2013)
 Physics Department TCD – nanotechnology / Astrophysics (1 place each)
 DIT Computing academy (five places)


The way students (you) are going to college
is changing
DCU: Degree in Problem Solving & Software

Development (2013)

General DCU entry requirements plus Maths – not an

accumulation of points

We still encourage students to do well in their Leaving

Certificate exams, but we will select students based on
their passion, experience and ability

Subjects + Portfolio + Interview


DCU Portfolio ideas
Had appropriate computer-based experience

during transition year inside school

Developed a web site
Programming, participated in initiatives

outside school e.g. ComputeTY, DIT
Computing Academy etc


DCU Portfolio ideas
Programme their own computer (e.g. the Rasberry pi)


Been involved extracurricular activity using
computers CoderDojo
Doing own work and opening badges in codecademy


TCD & the CAO – trial from 2014
...a new system will take into account Leaving

Certificate results, a student's performance
ranking in their own class, and a personal
statement written by the student.
...want to get a raw honest enthusiastic
assessment or account of why the person wants to
study these particular things, who they are and
the context in which the results were achieved


Trinity & the CAO – trial from 2014
History (TR003), Law (TR004), and Ancient and

Medieval History and Culture (TR028)

Full details


Consider the Centre for Talented Youth Ireland,
correspondence courses (2013/14 link – will be
updated in Autumn ’13)


Sports programmes
…emphasis on Coaching
…emphasis on skills development
…Dance / Frisbee
…possibility of Diving (extra cost)


P.E. Assessment
Students will use….technology to present or display
information on the skill component, psychology, or
nutritional aspects of Physical Education. There will
also be a unit on Sports Science.
Deadlines are deadlines for submitting projects…


Extras
Ski-trip to Switzerland (participants selected in

Third-year)
Lesotho experience (participants selected in Thirdyear)
Surfing in Mayo (with an marine awareness module) Sailing with Malahide Yacht Club – certification –
excellent value for money


Opportunities will arise...
Film
Student Council
Fundraising


Motivation


Portfolio
The Portfolio is the purposeful collection of your work
To show your effort, progress and achievement in ten

areas of learning

You will select the pieces of your work that best show

learning, not necessarily the best pieces


Content of Portfolio
One exemplar piece of work from Five subjects you

studied (5)

Photographs and accounts of two school-organised

activities that took place outside Portmarnock
Community School (2)

Reflection on one outside school activity that you

undertook yourself (1)


One reflection on an activity you volunteered for in

school (1)

One reflection on your experience of TY – a Written

Report, a song, a poem, be inventive! (1)


Presentation of Portfolio
A folder
With a table of contents
Use dividers for the ten pieces of work
Individualise it – but don’t make it “dazzling” – you

may need to show this folder elsewhere


Portfolio Interview
Portfolios submitted Friday May 2nd 2014
Interviews:
Wednesday – Wed 14th and Wed 21st May


Motivation
Make Transition-year – your year!


Evaluation
You will be asked to evaluate TY by post

Students will evaluate TY online


Recap
These slides are on the school-website
You and you child fill out the application form
In August you will receive a calendar and permission

forms by post

Return those forms with Activity-fee


TY Presentation for Parents/Students '14

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