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What is a transition year ?
Transition year is an optional year for the senior cycle, it's a training before college to give students life skills and experience.

During one year you'll have compulsory subjects and modules half of the year. You'll have the opportunity to do two intership of 1 week each anytime of the year to discover the world of work and define your carrer's guidance.

Discover the curriculum and the differents aspects of the transition year by reading our padlet
If you are interested you can get more informations at the 12th office.

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The transition year's main advantages:
- It allows you to discover the world of work
- You can become more self reliable
- Transition year can help you to develop your skills
- You will meet new people
- You will gain experience
- You could get more skills to get into your resume
- You might become more open-minded
- It prepares you to your futur life
- It will allow you to learn more about your weakness and your talents

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Mathematics: Mathematics are very useful in your everyday life and are requiered for a lot of jobs, in the science sector as well as in the financial sector.
Physical Chemstry: This subject is really important if you want to work in the engineering or the medical field.
English: Everyone should be able to comunicate with others in public as much as in officials mails.

History: This lesson give the oppotnuty to students to improve their knowledge and to learn more about their country’s history.
Sport: Sport helps students to stay healthy so it might improve their grades in other subjects. This lesson is also important to students mental health.
Ethic: Discuss about ethic issues is a way to make them aware of their responsabilities  and to help them to improve their critical thinking.

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For half of the year you'll have to choose 3 modules between many  proposed by the high school and the second part of the year you will need to choose 3 others to follow for the rest of the transition year. At EDR we you can have :
- engineering
- career guidance
- human sciences
- future leader GAA
- law
- sport
- cooking
- debating
- technology
- business
- old languages (greek, latin, ...)
- public speaking
- coding
If you have some requests for the modules you'd like to do or if you need some informations you can still ask to the office of the registrations.

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Choosing your futur job can be really difficult, that's why, at EDR, we help you in your career guidance by presenting to you the soft skills needed in order to work in the three professional fields our high school is specialized in.

Medecine
To work in the medical sector, you need to be reactive and to pay attention to details. It will probably demand a lot of energy so you have to care about others in order to do everything you can to help others.

Engineering
By working in the engineering sector, you may work with a lot of people so good communication skills are needed, you have to show great comprehension as well as the ability to solve problems. Engineering ask to be realist and have a nice critical thinking. Profesionalism is necessary.
Law
If you want to work in the law sector, you have to know how to comunicate to convince juries for exemple. You also need to have a work ethic and a developped critical thinking to be able to protect human's rights.

Business management and human resources
This sector need to enjoy working with people and for their well-being so communicating skills are needed. It demand a lot of time and patience. In business you have to be organised and have some good general knowledge.

If you want more informations: https://careersportal.ie/sectors/index.php?sector_id=19

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A work placement is an unique oportunity so you have to choose it right.
You might be aware of your skills but also challenge yourself and don't be scared of asking to high expectations company even if a small company provides equally valuable work experience opportunities but there can be differences in the type of work you’ll have to do.
It's always easier to like an intership when you are in a field you're interested in but don't go too far of your house.
You need to be autonomous at this point to look outside of your close social environment and send e-mails to company or apply your resume.
Choose by your talents and hobbies, it's really important to enjoy the intership.
You'll spend 1 week in the company so you have to becareful with your choice.

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Shane Colin
Hey, last year, I decided  to take a transition year at EDR. Indeed, it allowed me to gain experience and I had the chance to meet new people. I really liked this year because I was interested in every lesson I attended to. EDR’s curriculum is very complete especially in the engeneering, the law and the medical sector. Even if my transition year was a little expansive, I don’t regret my choice because I have broaden my horizons and I got more confident ! If you can you should do a transition year at EDR 😊.

Andrew Smith
Hello everyone 😁 !
Thanks to the transition year I spend last year at EDR, I was able to discover the world of work and to challenge myself during the differents internships I did. My career adviser helped me to choose all of my work placement so I learned a lot about my futur job, my orientation. Moreover, this extra year brought me great opportunities so I  think it will be easier for me to work in the factory I always wanted to work in. A month ago, I returned to school and I forget a little part of what I learned two years ago but it really worthed it, I recomand you to enroll EDR’s transition year too !

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There’s many advantages of doing a transition year but it can also be boring, you can make it as good as you want since you can choose half of your curriculum. You should push yourself and do your best, transition year have less work so you can start anything you've always liked to try and enjoy the time out of school to be less stressed. You clearly have to take all the opportunities that come to you like doing the avaibles trips, it's expensive, yes, but it's an experience you need to take even if it doesn't fit the field you see your futur career, it'll still be experience you will be able to use.
Making the maximum of work experience is a must but can be so useful ! You'll gain knowledge and it gives you a chance to discover work fields and bring you tools to find what you really like and wich job can suit you the best.
But the most important thing is to have fun and meet new people in the same situation as you.