Transition Year Programme Overview

Transition Year (TY) is a one-year programme taken after Junior Cycle and before the two-year Leaving Certificate programme. The objective of Transition Year is to promote the personal, social, educational and vocational development of students and to prepare them for their role as autonomous, participative, and responsible members of society. September 2025 will see the introduction of the new Transition Year Programme Statement become active in our school.

In Mungret Community College our mission for our new Transition Year programme is that it enables students to take ownership and responsibility for their learning and promotes the students to enter into the spirit of transition year with a strong work ethic, an open mind and a commitment to embracing all aspects of the year ahead.

Our TY programme here at Mungret Community College is one of diversity, inclusion and versatility. Our hope for our TY students is that they will, through personal growth, develop more mature relationships with teachers and other adults, becoming more active agents in designing their own educational experiences. In line with the new TY Statement our students are supported throughout TY to become more adaptable, empathetic, competent and resilient individuals as they navigate this introduction to Senior Cycle and beyond.

Student’s development in TY will be based around four key student dimensions;

• Personal growth

• Being a Learner

• Civic and Community Engagement

• Career Exploration

In line with these dimensions we have designed a programme that will allow students to embrace and fully engage with all these dimensions.

We aim to:

• Provide students with the skills, supports and opportunities necessary to discover their individual talents, aptitudes, and abilities.
• Enable students to experience a year where the emphasis is on individual responsibility and independence.
• Enable students to take a greater responsibility for their own learning and decision making.
• Help students to develop a range of transferable critical thinking and creative problem solving skills.
• Nurture students to become thinking, caring, articulate and self-confident people.
• Encourage students to become more involved in their school and the wider community.
• Develop those skills and competences necessary to cope successfully with their particular stage of development.
• Prepare students for the world of work through the capacity for lifelong learning.
• Review, reflect and evolve as a programme to meet the needs of our students.

Core subjects and modules offered:

Transition year is divided into modules of learning and each module is approximately 5/6 weeks in duration. The timetable for transition year balances the core subjects while also offering students the opportunity to sample all Leaving Certificate subjects available to them in 5th year. In addition to traditional subject modules students will experience a range of new areas of subject, each designed to develop student’s awareness and engagement in the world around them.

TY Chromebooks & Wriggle

This year is the first year of our roll out of TY Chromebooks and to date we are delighted with the impact it has had in TY classes. Feedback from staff and students is that having a personal chromebook in lessons has added greater value to student’s participation, engagement and learning. We would like to thank all TY parents/guardians who have come on this new journey with us and to the students who are leading the way for other year groups in terms of responsible use and care of their chromebooks.