Managing Your Time and Your Life
Transition Year is an opportunity for you to become involved in a wide variety of activities. It gives you the chance to develop new skills and interests. We hope that through facing many new situations you will learn more about yourself, your potential, your strengths and weaknesses. At the end of the year you should be in a better position to decide how your skills and interests may be used in your own personal and career development as well as in outreach to the community and service to others. Transition Year is a time for you to grow in maturity and to improve your physical and mental well-being. You are likelydiary1 to have more free time than you had last year, or than you will have during your Leaving Certificate programme. Hopefully, you will take advantage of the opportunity to participate in leisure activities and pastimes, including ones that you may not have considered seriously in the past. Transition Year is also a time to develop several important skills: working as a member of a team, working and co-operating with adults and meeting deadlines. In the course of the year the following are some of the opportunities which will present themselves to you as an individual – GET INVOLVED! ♣ Gaisce – The President’s Award ♣ Social Outreach Work – volunteer to work or collect for a charity ♣ The Young Scientists ♣ Wicklow Way Overnight Hike ♣ Young Social Innovators ♣ Prepare for your work experience, ensure it is interesting and useful ♣ Sports ♣ Drama ♣ Music ♣ ECDL ♣ Mini – company
CERTIFICATION
Please note that your success this year is not measured on an external (Department of Education and Science) academic scale but on your level of commitment and achievement relative to your own ability. 
Certificates will be awarded at the end of the year to all students who have submitted the required assignments and achieved the required standards in each subject. As well as effort, punctuality and attendance will also be taken into diary_japaneseconsideration. A Department of Education and Science Transition Year Certificate is awarded to each student who completes the Transition Year programme in Alexandra College. As a record of her year’s achievements, a portfolio of certificates will be presented to each student who attends the FINALE PRESENTATION NIGHT. The LOUISE CROSBY TROPHY is awarded to the Student of the Year in Transition Year. The winner is the girl who, in the opinion of the T.Y. students and staff, has contributed most to the year. The voting takes place in the third term. Louise Crosby was a student who came to Alex in Fifth Year and within a year was voted in as a Prefect for Sixth Year. She was an all-rounder and a very popular student. Tragically, she died at the age of nineteen, in an accident on her way to work in the Spar in Milltown. The Alexandra
community was stunned by her death. Her former classmates along with her parents presented this trophy to the school in her memory. Although Louise never did Transition Year herself, it was felt that she embodied many of the ideals that T.Y. tries to encourage, i.e. participation, commitment and team building. Other awards for Excellence in T.Y. are the Violet Mollan Cup and the Barbara Stanley Shield.
Department of Education and Science Mission Statement for Transition Year:
“To promote the personal, social, educational and vocational development of pupils and to prepare them for their role as autonomous, participative and responsible members of society.”
Transition Year Brochure 2010/2011
