The aim of the guidance programme is to ‘ensure that all students have access to appropriate guidance’. In so doing the guidance service in Trinity Comprehensive school assists students in their personal and social, educational and career development while in school.
Personal and Social Guidance Counselling
The main aim of personal guidance counselling is to assist students in their growth process by exploring a range of coping strategies so that they can better deal with the problems they face both now and in the future in order that they can become fully functioning members of society.
Personal Guidance counselling incorporates a wide range of concerns including addressing specific problems, coping with a crisis, improving relationships and self-esteem, dealing with conflicts, exploring thoughts and feelings and developing coping strategies.
Educational Guidance
Educational guidance is an integral part of the Guidance Programme in Trinity Comprehensive
Educational guidance topics include:
- Transition from primary to post-primary
- Study skills
- Development of motivation and commitment skills
- Writing skills
- Subject choice
- Exam techniques
- Academic support
- Career Guidance
The career guidance programme aims to equip students with the skills and information to make informed decisions on future career plans. Students are provided with a comprehensive knowledge of the vocational, educational and career options which are available to them. Some of the areas may include.
- C.V. Preparation
- Job search skills
- Interview workshops
- Interest inventory testing
- Aptitude and intelligence testing
- Pathways to training apprenticeships
- Pathways to further education, level 6, level 7 and level 8
- Courses in the various universities and colleges.
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LCVP
The Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP) is an intervention designed to enhance the vocational dimension of the Leaving Certificate (established). The programme was introduced in 1994 in response to the challenge placed on Ireland’s education system by a changing work and business environment.
The LCVP combines the academic strengths of the Leaving Certificate (established) with a focus on self–directed learning, innovation and enterprise. This two-year programme is part of an expanded provision that aims to cater for the diversity of participants’ needs at senior cycle.Students study two LCVP Modules – Preparation for the World of Work & Enterprise Education – in addition to their traditional Leaving Certificate subjects. Students who follow the programme will have a minimum of one LCVP class per week.
Over the course of their two years in senior cycle, LCVP students will have to prepare a portfolio of work which will be a major part of their overall assessment. They will also be required to sit a written terminal examination – this will take place before the traditional Leaving Certificate written examinations in June.
Certification
LCVP students receive the same certificate as other Leaving Certificate students but their Certificate includes an additional statement of the results of the Link Modules.
Grades for the Link Modules are as follows:
- Grade : Percent
- Distinction : 80-100%
- Merit : 65 - 79%
- Pass : 50 - 64%
The Link Modules are recognised for points purposes by the Institutes of Technology and the Universities. The points are allocated as follows:
Grade : Universities and Institutes of Technology Award
- Distinction : 70 points
- Merit : 50 points
- Pass : 30 points
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