Transition Year 2020/2021

Information for 3rd Year Students for Transition Year 2020/2021

Transition Year at Mount Sackville

Work experience

Each student will participate in four placements during the year. Each placement will last for one week. One week will be community work.

A student cannot be Garda vetted until she is 16 years old.

A student cannot work in primary schools, nursing homes or any place with vulnerable children or adults without Garda vetting.

Work experience consists of 4 weeks.

Proposed dates for TY 2020/2021:

23rd - 27th November

1st - 12th February (one week is community work experience)

19th - 23rd April

Please start to research valuable work experiences now in 3rd year.

Subject Choice Options for TY 2020/2021

Option One:

3rd year students need to choose FIVE subjects from the following list.

A language must be the first option and the other four must be ranked in order of preference.

All five options must be filled out on VSware.

• French,German, Italian, Spanish
• Art, Home Economics, Science
• Classics, History, Geography, Music, Business

Option Two:

3rd year students need to choose their TY projects all year modules from the following:

1. Junk Kouture
2. Scifest
3. Young Social Innovators
4. Enterprise
5. Chinese

Please rank all five project modules in order of preference.

Vsware Subject Choice Option deadline is Friday, 3rd April 2020.

TY Aptitude Assessments