6th Year Trip to London…read article here.

TY’s at the Reichstag, read Article here

Holocaust Memorial Berlin – Sinead Foran

TY Trips

Transition year students have the opportunity for at least one foreign trip during the year. Transition Year students have been in Paris, the UK and Strasbourg and most recently Italy and Berlin. Read an account of the TY trip in Italy.

Other: Many subjects such as Geography, History, English and Biology also organise field trips during the school year. These have included theatre trips to Cork, ecology outings to Killarney National Park and Ballybunion and historical locations such as the Bridewell in Tarbert.

It is no surprise that amongst the memories students carry from school, very often the highlights are associated with school trips: life on the bus, the sharing of rooms, a chance to get to know teachers in another environment and of course the educational experience!

TY Trip to Berlin February

103 Students and 11 teachers spent 5 days in Berlin in February, where we visited the Reichstag,many museums, did loads of walking and generally had a great time. Probably the most poignant visit was to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen just outside the city. Sachesenhausen was the central administration point for the entire Third reich cencentration Camp system.

The students also had a guided tour of the city , the highlight of which was the visit to the remains of the Berlin Wall. The Students visited the Zoological Gardens and Checkpoint charlie where west met east in that divided city.

The Berlin Bunker , where life in those monolithic concrete creationduring the months before the fall of Berlin and indeed the collapse of the Third Reich could be imagined close at hand. thousands of German citizens packed so tightly so that everyone had to stand. If someone died on their feet they were unable to fall due to the crush.

Other highlights included a night time trip up the TV tower, a visit to the Deutches Historic Museum and a night walk through the city and into the Holocaust Memorial.

2nd Year Trips

The second years have travelled to many parts of Europe over the past few years including France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the UK. In recent years the 2nd year trip has focused on Spain and provides students with the opportunity to practice their language skills.

Read a student account of the 2nd year Madrid trip.