Description : Transition Year in Midleton College School Cork

The stage of education in the middle classes, designed to teach children from 12 to 15 years (also called Junior Cycle) is designed to fully absorb the bulk of school knowledge in key, main subjects:

• English
• Irish English
• Mathematics
• Higher Mathematics
• French, Spanish, German
• History
• Geography
• Business course
• Economy
• Accounting
• Housekeeping
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Agroculture
• Natural Sciences
• Music
• Art and culture.

Such an extensive list of disciplines helps students to more accurately determine their interests and inclinations, to understand the career in which area they want to build. Education in the middle classes prepares students for the selection of subjects in the senior classes, to determine their specialty and scientific profile. A successful completion of the course is the mastering of the basic program and the passing of the exams for Junior Certificate Examination, which gives the opportunity to continue education in the senior classes. In each class (group) is engaged no more than 22 people.

This course enjoys immense popularity among foreign students: it provides an opportunity to receive valuable educational and cultural experience, to adapt to a new academic environment and qualitatively prepare for further study abroad. Before transferring to foreign educational institutions (schools, colleges and universities), students improve and deepen their knowledge of basic school subjects, improve their knowledge of English. Foreign students attend all courses and subjects, the studying on which they are waiting before receiving the Leaving Certificate (certificate of completed secondary education).

An important part of the curriculum on this program is project work: it gives an opportunity to learn how to work independently and in a team, to acquire valuable academic skills necessary for further study abroad. Examples of design topics you can see below:

• Small business
• School Shop Management
• Young social innovators (YSI, Young Social Innovators)
• Presidential awards and grants
• First Aid Course
• Latin American languages ​​and culture of Hispanic countries
• Biology
• Ecology
• History
• Art
• Practical Science
• History of Mathematics
• Basics and subtleties of trigonometry, etc.

The Senior Cycle stage (studying in senior and final grades) has the goal of preparing students for the successful passing of final exams and obtaining a prestigious Leaving Certificate. This diploma gives the right to continue education in the chosen university, it is considered to be an analogue of the British standard A-level or international IB. Students sharpen their academic skills, improve and deepen their knowledge of the main subjects of the school curriculum (the curriculum is diverse and flexible, provides many electives and additional lessons) - mathematics and English are studied by all students without exception.