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FIFTH YEAR COMMUNITY SUPPORT GROUP
This project continues to involve a the College places on a broad curriculum
considerable number of students and staff to extend the perception of students
throughout the year. Despite the range of beyond the narrow sphere of self-interest.
the activities, it is organized and goes An extra dimension is the voluntary
ahead in a most unobtrusive manner and participation of staff. The fact that student
is the more impressive for the fact that it and adult share the task together, rather
involves sacrifice of their own time by than the one imposing it on the other,
those who participate. makes for an additionally rich educational
experience, yet it is not something which
The activities for this year have the students in their assessments of the
included visits to the Royal Hospital in project allude to at any time.
Donnybrook and to Leopardstown By their own accounts, the boys find
Hospital, work with the Cerebral Palsy participation revealing, both of self and of
unit in Sandymount, decorating and others. They admit to varying degrees of
painting of residences in the local area commitment. Some express the view that
and the arrangement of sports with a involvement in work of this sort should be
group of Travellers. Taken together with com pulsory; others would welcome
the Transition Year aerobic sessions with experience of the full range. There is
the trainees from the Gheel Institute and unanimous agreement that the scheme is
the annual involvement by members of richly rewarding.
Sixth Year in a pilgrimage to Lourdes, Congratulations to all who organise and
these activities are evidence of the value run it so unassumingly.
UNICEF PROJECT
‘Now what I want is the facts. Teach these boys nothing but
facts. Facts above all are wanted in life; plant nothing else and
root out everything else.’
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
This quote best explains the tardiness of this article. The lengthy Fourth/Fifth Year
project started as early as September of '92 but subsequent efforts to write an
appropriate summary failed due to over-verbose attempts to include every minor
occurrence. The above quote captures Mr Bevan’s response to these various articles in
the words of a more enlightened authority. My only redemption lies in the fact that the
project did spill over substantially into the current school year. Hence to the facts.
The ‘Pound Appeal’, UNICEF’s annual fundraiser, saw a convergence of bucket-
bearing Transition Years on the city centre in September of ’92. We had been
approached by Ms Marion Ryan, the publicity officer for UNICEF Ireland, earlier that
year for a supposed once-off fund-raising effort but our preliminary success led to an
altogether more lengthy undertaking - by October ’92 the 1992-3 Transition Year
45
This project continues to involve a the College places on a broad curriculum
considerable number of students and staff to extend the perception of students
throughout the year. Despite the range of beyond the narrow sphere of self-interest.
the activities, it is organized and goes An extra dimension is the voluntary
ahead in a most unobtrusive manner and participation of staff. The fact that student
is the more impressive for the fact that it and adult share the task together, rather
involves sacrifice of their own time by than the one imposing it on the other,
those who participate. makes for an additionally rich educational
experience, yet it is not something which
The activities for this year have the students in their assessments of the
included visits to the Royal Hospital in project allude to at any time.
Donnybrook and to Leopardstown By their own accounts, the boys find
Hospital, work with the Cerebral Palsy participation revealing, both of self and of
unit in Sandymount, decorating and others. They admit to varying degrees of
painting of residences in the local area commitment. Some express the view that
and the arrangement of sports with a involvement in work of this sort should be
group of Travellers. Taken together with com pulsory; others would welcome
the Transition Year aerobic sessions with experience of the full range. There is
the trainees from the Gheel Institute and unanimous agreement that the scheme is
the annual involvement by members of richly rewarding.
Sixth Year in a pilgrimage to Lourdes, Congratulations to all who organise and
these activities are evidence of the value run it so unassumingly.
UNICEF PROJECT
‘Now what I want is the facts. Teach these boys nothing but
facts. Facts above all are wanted in life; plant nothing else and
root out everything else.’
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
This quote best explains the tardiness of this article. The lengthy Fourth/Fifth Year
project started as early as September of '92 but subsequent efforts to write an
appropriate summary failed due to over-verbose attempts to include every minor
occurrence. The above quote captures Mr Bevan’s response to these various articles in
the words of a more enlightened authority. My only redemption lies in the fact that the
project did spill over substantially into the current school year. Hence to the facts.
The ‘Pound Appeal’, UNICEF’s annual fundraiser, saw a convergence of bucket-
bearing Transition Years on the city centre in September of ’92. We had been
approached by Ms Marion Ryan, the publicity officer for UNICEF Ireland, earlier that
year for a supposed once-off fund-raising effort but our preliminary success led to an
altogether more lengthy undertaking - by October ’92 the 1992-3 Transition Year
45
