• The TY Reflection Sheet for the Mentoring interviews is here.
• The reflection phrases sheet is here
  
• The Calendar for the TY Wednesday Modules is here.
• The Work-experience (given in September) letter is here.
  
• The employer details form (given in September) for the school is here.
  
• Scans of the Insurance forms for Work-experience and Community-care are here and here ( .jpeg scans that you can print or save and email to your employer).
• The work-experience-diary is here (everyone got a hard copy!)
• The employer student evaluation-form is here (everyone got a hard copy!)

TY Notices Monday 8th April

Gaisce – Please see Mr. Dempsey immediately once you have finished your tasks.

R.N.L.I. – wrap up well!

Please look at and make a comment on the video produced by five of out TY students (here).

Well done and thank you to everyone involved in the Musical – thanks to Shauna O’ Brien for her photo-diary on the last night.

A date for the TY folders will be given next week – a paper copy of the reflective phrases you might use was given at this assembly. A copy is also available online (above).

Sailing now has 15 students. If you would like to go see Mr. O’ Mahony by Wednesday 10th at the latest.

D.I.T. Computing Academy Details of this course are here. The online application form is here. Please use your OWN (not the schools) email address.You will be asked about a contact teacher. Use this information. Mr. D. O’ Mahony, 01 8038056, domahoATportmarnockcommunityschoolDOTie Dothe obvious with the DOT and the AT.

Engineers Ireland, TY Programme at D.I.T. Bolton and Kevin Street 13-17 May – Details on the home page of the Website (Closing date April 10th).

Ms. O’ Reilly’s Tutor Class – don’t forget internet enabled devices for the INTEL Ideation Camp at the Helix – laptops, phones, iPads etc.

NUIGalway – details of Open Day on TY Noticeboard. You must reserve your place online.

Monday 11th March

Hacking – some comments!

Best of luck to the two moni-companies in competitions this week.

Well done to the students who participated in AIB Build a Bank and the Gathering Ireland Short Film Competition.

Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Musical – tickets on sale! Tuesday to Friday, 19th – 22nd of March.

It is OK to do some quality work-experience over the Easter Holidays.

Djouce – be prepared! Weather here.

Reflection Sheets.

TY Notices Monday 4th March

Focus on the musical this week – Stage on Friday.

Progress on Walk in my Shoes – small committee soon

Hope to do some work on Journals this week

Good luck to Build a Bank competitors this week

 

TY Notices Monday 25th February

Good luck to the students attending The North Dublin Drugs Awareness Task Force workshops on Wednesday.

Good luck to the students who are on placement with the Army Band and St. Patrick’s University Hospital next week

The mini-Companies and Build a Bank should be prepared for their various competitions over the next three weeks

Glendalough – Be prepared – heed all advice given. Weather forecast here.

Thank you to the five students who prepared a video for the Bank of Ireland Gathering Competition – Great work!

Committee for Walk in my Shoes later this week.

Musical cast list – pleas check and amend any mistakes

TY Diaries

TY Notices Monday 18th February

Welcome back from Community Care / Lesotho.

Places available on Your Life Your Choice conference. Wednesday 27th February – see Mr. O’ Mahony ASAP. Trancport and lunch included. Workshops on Drug Awareness, Social-networking, Peer-pressure etc.

Any student who would like to attend a class, with a Chess Grand-master from Russia, see Mr. O’ Mahony ASAP.

Community  Work Diaries etc..

The term ahead – 5 Weeks / Seven weeks

4G – no RNLI on Wednesday, going to Collins Barracks. Make sure to bring your project. 10AM arrival. LUAS red Line. Full-uniform

Compute TY – some money outstanding.

Thursday 10.00 AM talk on Teenage Mental Health from a team at St. Patrick’s University Hospital. This will also launch one of our two fundraising initiatives “Walk in our shoes.”

TY Diaries and Workshop

Musical

The Gathering video

 

TY Notices Monday 14th January

• Mini-company students see Mr. O’ Mahony
• Essay competition for Space-camp USA – click here. The American Embassy in Dublin launched the Space Camp Competition at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS on January 10, 2013. The competition is for two scholarships to attend Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama for students (age 15-18) during the summer of 2013. Please read the rules and regulations carefully and fill out the entry form below
• Mentoring will take place for students who were absent (without explanation) before Christmas on the afternoon of Tuesday 15th January. They must have a letter from parent/guardian clearly explaining their absence. A copy of the reflection sheet can be downloaded above.
• The slides etc about 5th Year Options are on the home-page of the website.
• Parent Teacher Meeting, Thursday 17th at 4.15PM. School finishes at 3.25PM
• 4G go to Djouce on Wednesday. Please take all the advice given by Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Curran seriously. The weather forecast is here.
• A hard copy of all documentation for Community Service will be made available this week.
• Compute TY – €10 in an envelope with name / class on it, to Mr. O’ Mahony
• There is no direct bus to DCU at the moment. You have two options on public-transport

1. Bus/DART to town and bus from O’ Connell Streer to DCU, Glasnevin Avenue entrance.
2. Bus to Swords from Portmarnock and Bus to Collins Avenue, 5 minutes walk

• Please return all relevant work-experience forms to your Tutor
• Please give details of your Community-placement to your Tutor
• Copies of all documentation are above for download
• Gaisce – please keep all your details up to date on the online system

TY Notices Wednesday 9th January

• Please return all relevant work-experience forms to your Tutor
• Please give details of your Community-placement to your Tutor
• Copies of all documentation are above for download
• Gaisce – please keep all your details up to date on the online system
• Friday 11th Period Two – talk in Assembly Hall
• A letter is to be brought home to your parents/guardians re the presentation on Thursday 10th January at 7.30PM
• Compute TY at DCU – Monday 21st January – make sure you know how you are getting there. Unfortunately the dedicated bus-service does not run in January.
• Wednesday modules are up and running
• Parent Teacher Meeting Thursday 17th at 4.15PM
• Build a Bank – Thursday 10th Period 4, A Compound
• Musicals – listen carefully for rehearsal times etc
• Mentoring will take place for students who were absent (without explanation) before Christmas on the afternoon of Tuesday 15th January. They must have a letter from parent/guardian clearly explaining their absence.

• Good luck to everyone in the play, Twelfth-night. Please support it for only €5!
• Gaisce applicants remember to keep both a hard copy and an online version of your participation in the programme.
• All students were given a copy of work-experience forms etc this week. If you lost or mislaid these they may be downloaded above.
• There will be a special assembly on Friday 23rd at 10.00 regarding the remainder of the term.
• Exams on Monday and Tuesday 3rd and 4th December
• Mentoring Day Wednesday 5th December
• Work Experience Starts Thursday 6th December
• RCSI Innovations Exhibition – details for the 20 students involves on Friday 23rd.
• Congratulations to Ciaran Ingle who applied for, and received a place in the University College Dublin, School of Physics, TY programme. There was one place for every six applicants, so very well done!
• The students involved in Build a Bank have received their training and are now up and running. Thanks to Mrs. M. Browne for her support.
• Serena Bryans of Fingal Enterprise was very impressed with the quality of the two mini-companies she mentored this week. Keep up the Good work!
• Song-school was a great success – thanks to the Music-students and others who participated!

• First -aid in the PE Hall on Wednesday
• Log on Learn – as the previous day
• Shared reading – as the previous day.
• St. Rosalies – the students who were to have gone before mid-term, go this week.
• The students for Djouce on Wednesday, wrap up well. Forecast here!

• Mini-companies Market-research and prototype to be completed by mid-November
• Possibilities of community-care experience in St. Michaels House – letter on TY notice-board
• Thank you for the Build-a-Bank Applications
• Work experience should be arranged by everyone now.

Would you mind informing the students of the following:

1. When they give the application form to me with the €10, they fill out the form on the gaisce website.

2. They then return  to me and I will enable the process to begin.

3. I will give them another form to fill out after each activity.

4. As well as this, when they finish an activity they must write it up on the gaisce website.

5. BY this friday they must bring in a note addressed to me stating that their parents are aware of them doing the Gaisce. The Gaisce office needs this information. Without it they will not be signed off.

• The Garda Traffic Corps will give a presentation on Monday Morning. This is one of the most important presentations we organise. Please use your reflection sheets.

• Wednesday Modules as usual. I will confirm St. Rosalie’s. The group going to the RNLI listen to your directions carefully and dress for the wind and rain!
• I have received no letters of application for the Dublin Fire Brigade placements. Two typed pages by Wednesday please outlining your suitability for the placement.
• 12th Night Blog is now on the school website. Continue your involvement please.
• GAA Coaching – all students must sign out at appropriate times.
• The UCD School of Physics TY Experience application procedure is totally online here.

TY Notices Monday 24th SeptemberPlease ensure you have a supply Recording / Reflection  sheets and that you are keeping records of as activities as you progress in TYAll Forms/ Fees  etc should be with your Tutors nowMr. O’ Mahony has received one physics in TCD application. The closing date for receipt in the school is Friday next, September 28th.

Good luck to 4k on Djouce next Wednesday. Make sure to take Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Curran’s advice regarding clothing and footwear.

No takers yet for Rotary Leadership Development Competition – details on TY noticeboard

Many of you are involved in the Play – keep up your commitment

Insurance Forms regarding work and community experience are with your Tutors

Dublin Fire Brigade Training Centre: Two places guaranteed for PCS TY students Note: The placement is during the 1st Week of Easter Holidays. Application procedure will be announced at assembly next week.

Law Day on Thursday – do not arrange anything else – Go to class as normal on Thursday morning for roll. You will be called over the Intercom. Bring paper and a pen and a Recording / Reflection  sheet.

Transition Year Announcements Week beginning Monday17th September

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1. Well done on results
2. Forms / payments etc to Tutors – will try and get around Tutor classes on Monday
3. Updates on TY noticeboard and on website – plan on letter to your parents
4. Youth Leadership Development Competition Fingal – Application forms from Mr. O’ Mahony
5. Central Remedial Clinic, Clontarf, Monday Night Youth Club – volunteers needed – details and contact phone numbers on TY notice board
6. Wednesday Modules – also online under TY notices
7. Shared Reading / St. Rosalies for Ms. O’ Reilly’s Tutor group
8. Law Day on Thursday 27th September – do not make any other arrangements
9. TY Physics Experience Programme Trinity College Application Forms from Mr. O’ Mahony
10. All notices online / Calendar online
11. Surf-trip €205 – details on TY noticeboard
12. Eco-Unceso Up to date details here
13. Work Experience organised??