▪▪Pictured at the launch of the Young Social Innovators (YSI) National Speak Out Tour 2018 at the Mansion House
were Donahies Community School students (clockwise from top centre) Jamie McGuirk (16), Taylor Massey (16),
Gavin Donegan (15), Lauryn Fitzpatrick (15), Ellie Newnham (16) and Chloe Kennedy (15). The students’ project,
titled ‘Don’t throw away, give away’, is an awareness raising project tackling the amount of waste that people and
households throw away. PHOTO: MARK STEDMAN
(Northside People 14th March 2018)
Transition Year
Transition Year: A Year of Opportunity
Transition Year (TY) is a unique one-year programme offered after the Junior Cycle. It provides a bridge between the junior and senior cycle, allowing students the opportunity to mature academically, personally, and socially.
During TY, students typically experience a broader curriculum than in other years, often including taster modules of Leaving Certificate subjects, as well as subjects not usually offered. A key focus of TY is active and experiential learning. Students engage in projects, presentations, teamwork, and often get involved in work experience, community initiatives, and outdoor activities.
TY aims to help students:
- Develop greater independence and responsibility for their learning.
- Explore their interests and aptitudes to help inform their Leaving Certificate subject choices.
- Enhance their personal and social development.
- Gain valuable life skills.
Ultimately, Transition Year is about providing students with the time and space to grow, explore, and prepare for the challenges and opportunities of the Senior Cycle and beyond.
Donahies Community School project for Inner City Helping Homeless
As part of their "Don't Throw Away, Give Away" young social innovators project students from Donahies CS made food packages, sanitary packs and donated other items to ICHH to distriibute to thomeless people across Dublin. Click on the image above to see a short film about the project.
YSI 2018 Speak Out 2018
▪▪Pictured at the launch of the Young Social Innovators (YSI) National Speak Out
Tour 2018 at the Mansion House was Taylor Massey (16), who with her classmates
created the project titled ‘Don’t throw away, give away’. PHOTO: MARK STEDMAN: Northside People 14 March 2018
TY students Sleep-Over 2017
TY students go ice skating Christmas 2017
