DATS for Transition Years

All fourth years will be doing their DATS testing on Friday 5th October. Students have already been given information on the DATS and will meet with Ms Ahern or Ms Kenny for feedback. These one to one meetings last for ten minutes and we will be able to advise you on subject choice and explain your top strengths. The students will be doing seven tests and will get these results sent home to their parents. Everyone is allowed home on Friday after the DATS are finished.

Open Days 2017/2018 So far...

Just a short list of open days to look out for this term. You need to attend the lectures on the courses you are interested in putting on your CAO form.

There is additional information on the guidance noticeboard about grinds and extra information evenings in UCD etc.

If you wish to attend any of the evenings in UCD, you need to create an account using www.myucd.ie and book a place. They will send you extra information on events etc.

eg. Quinn school of business.. open evening 23rd Oct

UCD Science evening...24th Oct

Physics evening...14th Nov

Chemistry evening..21st Nov

UCD Science Open Day.. Sat 17th Feb

UCD OPEN DAY..SAT 4TH NOV

IT TALLAGHT OPEN DAY 11TH NOV

DCU OPEN DAY ..SAT 18TH NOV

MARINO..PRIMARY TEACHING ETC..SAT 18TH NOV

NUIM INCLUDING FROEBEL...SAT 25TH NOV

IADT OPEN DAY...SAT 25TH NOV

NCAD OPEN DAY..29TH NOV

DIT OPEN DAY ..SAT 2ND DEC

TRINITY OPEN DAY... SAT 9TH DEC

NCAD PORTFOLIO SESSIONS..4TH NOV

DIT PORTFOLIO CLINIC..8TH FEB 2018

The above are just the main Colleges of interest. You can look up qualifax and double check. I have not list the PLC open days and they tend to be on early next year. If any of you would like to go to a talk on Ballyfermot PLC, please pop up and write your name on the list. That PLC is excellent for portfolio and media courses. It has an excellent reputation for animation.

DCU is on in the demo room at lunchtime on Thursday. The PLC talk is on Thursday so I need your name asap.

Welcome to the Guidance Blog

29th August 2017.

We wanted to use this site as a way to communicate with our students. We are setting up year groups within the email system. This will allow much better communication. We will send group emails to you when we access new information. Guidance information will be posted regularly here too. We will send a list of open day events. Most of the College Open Days are on during the first term. They are during weekends and it is important to attend and ask questions and research as much as you can about the Colleges. Sixth years will be having one to one meetings to prepare for the higher options career day on 15th September. The Parents' evening on Monday evening, (4th September) will involve a short presentation by the guidance department on the CAO system. At the moment we are contacting all our sixth years that have just left to make sure that everyone is sorted and happy. They did very well and most of them seem to have got what they were hoping for. Please start making appointments!
Guidance Team