Class Teacher: Mollie Henshaw
SNA's: Eimir
The transition from school to adult-life is extremely challenging for all young people. For young people with learning disabilities the challenges are significantly greater and these young people require varying degrees of support from all the significant adults in their lives (parents, family, teaching team, support services etc.).
At age 16, students leave the ‘formal’ stage of their education in St Brigid’s and enter a two-year programme of preparation for life after school.
The students follow a specially devised Leavers Programme. The class is the setting of a very active environment with an emphasis on life after school.
An outline of this programme is as follows
Communication & Literacy
Numeracy
SPHE
Career Preparation
Health and Safety
Embedded in the teaching and learning of the above areas are the five Key Skills, as laid out in the NCCA Senior Cycle Guidelines:
1. Information Processing,
2. Critical and Creative Thinking,
3. Communicating
4. Working with Others
5. Being Personally Effective
Extra subjects include
Personal Effectiveness, Music, Drama, Religion, P.E, S.E.S.E and Gaisce Awards
We are also following QQI -Level 2 which students will work towards and will receive formal accreditation on successful completion
As learners develop competence in each of the five skills in an integrated way they also develop competence in learning how to learn.
The focus of this class is preparation for leaving school. Therefore all subject matter has practical application for use in the outside world. While the class room is our base, a lot of learning involves our community and we use it to the student’s best advantage. Social training is an integral part of the student’s development. We are ideally situated to put the theory into practice .
As part of the Career Preparation Programme each student participates in a work experience Secondary Yellow.This helps to develop personal and interpersonal skills.
The programme in this class helps to cement all the knowledge the students have already acquired and teaches them how to apply and adapt these skills to the everyday situations that they come across when they leave school.
Welcome to class of 2023/2024
Students in Secondary Yellow tell you about all our class
Our halloween decorations in woodwork with Mr Maloney
We found a hedgehog in the school garden!