The aim of Castletroy College’s TY Programme is to give students opportunities to discover and develop their individual gifts and strengths, to become more independent and to experience a year where the emphasis will be on cultivating individual responsibility for study and self directed work.
The programme aims also to encourage the development of thinking, caring, articulate and self confident people.
Students will be helped to discover individual talents, aptitudes and abiliites, understand their own educational needs and develop those skills and competences necessary to cope successfully with their particular stage of development.
Students doing Transition Year study the following core subjects
· Gaeilge
· Mathematics
· English
· Language (French or German or Spanish)
· Physical Education
· Information Technology
· Religious Education
· Social Outreach
· Review (Careers)
During the Academic Year 2007/2008
students also do the following 8 week modules
Module 1
Geography
Business
History
Economics
Yoga
Module 2
Electronics
Physics
Graphics
Architecture
Engineering
Module 3
Driver Theory
Home Economics
Journalism
Speed Typing
Sign Language
Module 4
Drama
Music
Film
Art
Environmental Studies
Module 5
Chemistry
Web Design
Psychology
Biology
Agricultural Science
