Transition Year
Subject Options
On this page you will find information on the subjects that students can select for Transition year, and instructions on how to log in to Vsware to complete the selection process, and the help email address.
Deadline Date for Subject Choices
Friday 14th March 2025
Core Subjects
These subjects do not need to be selected as these are mandatory subjects.
Leaving Certificate students study the following core subjects:
English
Irish/Tourism
Mathematics
PE
SPHE Rotation
Enterprise/Work Exp/Financial Literacy
Show
Competitions
Study Skills2.First Aid Certification 3. Digital Skills/Cyber Safety Certification 4. Life Skills: Food
Portfolio/Reflection
Sustainability Rotation
Leadership Initiatives: 1. Sports Coaching 2. 1st Yr Mentor 3. Awareness days 4. TY Media
Pcare
Option Subjects
We offer 20 subject options in Transition year these are the subject options that are available for Leaving Certificate.
Transition year students study 7 option subjects .
. We ask students to select 10 subjects in order of preference in VSWare, and we try to select the 7 highest preferences of these.
For many this will be their first 7 preferences, however we cannot guarantee this as practical subjects in particular have max class sizes that are permitted in schools.
Continental Language:
if the student studied German for JC this must be selected subject from 1 of the 7 subjects ( preference number doesnt matter)
if the student studied Spanish for JC this must be selected 1 of the 7 subjects ( preference number doesnt matter)
if the student studied neither spanish or german for JC they do not select either spanish or german in their 10 preferences
Students are free not to choose a continental language when they enter 5th year
The 20 Option Subjects
ACCOUNTING
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
ART
BIOLOGY
BUSINESS
CHEMISTRY
COMPUTER SCIENCE
CONSTRUCTION STUDIES
DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION GRAPHICS
ECONOMICS
ENGINEERING
GEOGRAPHY
GERMAN
HISTORY
HOME ECONOMICS
MUSIC
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
PHYSICS
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SPANISH
Option Subjects Video Presentations
We would like to thank our senior cycle students and teachers for allowing us record them at work for you to an inside view on the option subjects we offer.
Accounting.MOVACCOUNTING
Agricultural science .MOVAGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Art.MOVART
Biology .MOVBIOLOGY
Business .MOVBUSINESS STUDIES
Computer science.MOVComputer Science
Chemistry .MOVCHEMISTRY
Construction studies.MOVCONSTRUCTION STUDIES
DCG .MOVDESIGN AND COMMUNICATION GRAPHICS
Economics.MOVECONOMICS
Engineering.MOVENGINEERING
Geography.MOVGEOGRAPHY
German.MOVGERMAN
History.MOVHISTORY
Home Economics .MOVHOME ECONOMICS
Music.MOVMUSIC
Pol soc.MOVPOLITICS and SOCIETY
Physics .MOVPHYSICS
Physical Education .MOVPHYSICAL EDUCATION
Selecting Options
Subjects are selected in VSWare Watch Video below on how to enter options into VSWare ,
options.mp4Watch Video on How to choose Subject Options in VSWare
Changing Subjects if a Change of Mind
Parents can log back in at any time during the subject options choosing period and change subjects chosen and this will overwrite previous selection.
After this date it is much more difficult to change subjects as many subjects are full after this date and subjects are arranged in blocks so subject moves are quite limited at that stage.
Will my child get the subjects they choose
Please note that while we endeavour to provide students with their highest ranked choices this is not always possible.