Category: Transition Year

Rathfredagh Cheshire Home “Learning Through Listening”

The Transistion Year class will visit Rathfredagh on Wednesday 23th November to learn abou the facilaites available there. These include:

24-hour care and support from trained staff, covering the main house and apartments.Rathfredagh provides day services for people in the local community. The programme caters for up to 16 people availing of social and therapeutic activities in Rathfredagh during 5 days a week, with transport available as needed. In addition, a further 21 people can participate 3 days a week in Rathfredagh’s innovative partnership with the Irish Wheelchair Association and the West Limerick Centre for Independent Living. Day service users can join in many activities, including quizzes, card games, bingo, using and learning computers, as well as availing of the gym facilities, hairdressing, bathing, aromatherapy, chiropody, art classes, physiotherapy, music therapy and relaxation sessions. Rathfredagh is working with different businesses in the area to provide parttime work, able to be done in the activities room, for any service user who wishes to take advantage of it. Rathfredagh is developing a service for people with acquired brain injury. Staff receive specialist training and research different behaviour modification techniques and therapies to assist service users with this condition. It is hoped to expand this service in coming years.

The AIB Bank will be in the school to begin training and interviewing Transition Year students in the school for the relevant positions in the school bank which will be opening shortly.

The Transiton Years will visit Limerick Youth Service on the morning of Wednesday 5th October to learn about the services and facilites they provide

Mr Gerry O’Brien from the Credit Union Dromcollogher will visit the Transition Years on Wednesday 5th October to speak to them about careers

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 Róisín 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 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.

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

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.