Mr Gerry O’Brien from the Credit Union Dromcollogher will visit the Transition Years on Wednesday 5th October to speak to them about careers
Category: Transition Year
Transition Year to visit Gaeltacht
Transtion Years will visit the Blasket Centre on Monday 3rd October.
The Blasket Centre in Dún Chaoin, at the western end of the Dingle Peninsula, celebrates the Irish language and the distinctive character of the people who once lived on the Blasket Islands. A main focus of the Centre is the unique literary achievements of this isolated community off the Kerry coast which was evacuated in 1953.
The exhibits include sections on weather and seasons, the place of loneliness, the sea, biographies, writers, and Islanders. It boasts state-of-the-art multi-media which will even teach you cúpla foca gaeilge (a few words of Irish)! Artwork is incorporated into the exhibits, including Cathy Carmen’s “Women at the Well”, Michael Quane’s external stone sculpture of “The Islandman”, and RóisÃn de Buitléar’s glasswork wall, “The Journey”, the largest secular glass work in Ireland.
The Blasket Centre facilities include a video presentation, exhibition, research room, car/coach parking, restaurant, conference facilities, and bookshop.
Shannon College of Hotel Management
Shannon College of Hotel Management will visit the school on Friday 16th September to take to Leaving Certificate 2 and Transistion Year Students on career prospects in the hotel industry and the courses on offer at the world renowned college. Graduates from this college are amongst the most sought after in the world and usually acquire jobs in the most exclusive hotels in the world.
Gaa Coaching Course
On Friday 16th September Transistion Year students will participate in a GAA coaching course. This course will compliment the 10 week First Aid course they have already started and the University of Limerick – Irish Sports Council Youth Sports Leader Award which will be beginning shortly
Variety show and Transition Year Play – Photos
Here are some photos from the recent school variety concert and Transistion Year Play
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Transition Year Class Trip
The Transition Years will visit Kilfinane Outdoor Education Centre for their of the end of year Class Trip as a reward for the hard work during the year and especially in the drama they preformed in the school last Saturday and Sunday night. The Trip is an overnight trip from Wednesday 18th to Thursday 19th May taking in activiities such as Canoing, Hillwalking, Orienteering, and Rock Climbing.
Transition Years – Paramedics
Transition years recently took part in a day long paramedic course in the school. The aim of this course was to further enhance and develop what they learned from a First Aid course they took part in last term.
Transition Year – Faraday Lecture University of Limerick
The Faraday Lectures
The Transition Years attended a lecture in the University of Limerick today. The lecture was called “The Faraday Lecture” after the scientist Michael Faraday on whose work all modern day robotics and physics is based. While being a lecture it was very practical based showing students examples of modern day robots and robots of the future based on Faraday’s principles.
Brief biography of Michael Faraday
Faraday, Michael (1791-1867):
Coming from a poor family, Faraday was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a bookbinder: “he was allowed to spend as much time reading books as he did binding them.” One of the books he found himself regularly binding was the Encyclopedia Britannica. After six years of book binding, to his very good fortune, Faraday, at the age of 21, was introduced to Sir Humphrey Davy; he went and joined Davy at the Royal Institution as Davy’s personal assistant. (A story describing the relationship of Davy and Faraday would prove to be a mighty interesting one.) At any rate, Faraday led a very illustrious career as a scientist. (In those days they called themselves natural philosophers; and indeed, Faraday was a philosopher: his researches are pointed to as illustrative of the power of the inductive philosophy.) Though there developed quite a dispute over the point, Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction (1821), and described certain elements and chemical compounds such as chlorine and benzene.
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Limerick Institute Technology
School of Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
The Transition Years attended LIT yesterday for the first of four weeks in LIT. Every Wednesday for the next four weeks the Transition Years will travel to Limeirck Instiute of Technology Electrical Engineering Department to tak epart in a taster course. The students will use the Automation and Robotics labs and the electrical labs to give them a taste of what a course in Electrical Engineering would be like and what careers they could expect from it. At the end of teh course the students will take home some completed circuits and pieces they manufactured during their time.