These are rap songs created by transition year with assistance from Big Stu.

DATs Explained

Mr Alexander writes:

The Differential Aptitude Tests (DATs) are designed for use in educational and vocational guidance and are used by school counsellors, personnel officers, psychologists and all persons concerned with assessing the intellectual characteristics and educational or vocational aptitudes of adolescents. This battery of tests has been adapted for use in Irish schools.

The rationale behind the Differential Aptitude Tests is that since different kinds of abilities are useful in different jobs and in different school subjects, a battery giving measures of several abilities is likely to be more useful than a test giving a single general ability score. There are eight subtests: Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Space Relations, Mechanical Reasoning, Clerical Speed and Accuracy, Spelling, and Language Usage.

Scores can be used to produce a profile showing a pupil's strengths and weaknesses. A combined Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Ability score can be used as an index of scholastic ability.

TY Architecture Week with Victoria Kavanagh

WHY AN INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE IS ESSENTIAL

It is so encouraging that there are opportunities for more people to learn about and appreciate architecture, since it like the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” you could also say “It takes architecturally aware villagers to raise a beautiful village.” Architects are designers and enablers for clients who want to build. So the better informed the clients and the population in general is about urban planning and architecture, the better the possibilities are for successful projects. So even if most of the students who are learning about architecture do not intend to become architects, an introduction to the subject is essential.

 

 HOW THE WORK PROGRESSED FROM DAY TO DAY

On Monday we revised the way measuring and drawings are essential to Architecture and on Tuesday learned to read plans and to use scale to find the elevations. On Wednesday students drew their bedrooms at scale 1:50 and made a perspective drawing. On Thursday they sketched the Bank of Ireland front court in 1 point and on Friday they designed a week-end cabin in Wicklow, drawing it  plain and elevation.

 

LEARN MORE

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Fareed in Architecture Class

Izzy's Wicklow Cabin

Aisling's Futuristic Holiday Home

Aprés Sketch in Baggot Street

Victoria Kavanagh instructs TY on sketching

Our First India Fundraiser

Eduardo Announces the first Bake Sale

TY Make Pancakes!

TY are raising funds towards their India Education Development Project

Georgian House Visit

TY visited Number 29 the Georgian House Museum 

Rory wrote: Today we went to a museum. It was an old Georgian house that had the inside (furniture, etc.) done-up to look like an old Georgian house by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in 1988. The house itself was originally built in 1794. When we came in we were shown a video which explained the history of the house. The video was voiced-over by an actor pretending to be the ghost of Mrs. Olivia Beatty, who was the first person to live in the house. We learned from the video that the house was on the outskirts of Dublin when it was built, which goes to show how much the city has grown since then.