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Guidance and Counselling in Ballymakenny College
Guidance and Counselling refers to a range of learning experiences provided in a developmental sequence, designed to assist students to make choices about their lives and to make transitions consequent on these choices.
These choices may be categorised into three separate but interlinked areas
Personal and Social, Educational, Career
Counselling empowers the students to make decisions, solve problems, change behaviours and resolve issues in their lives.
In Ballymakenny College this may be personal counselling, educational counselling, career counselling or it may involve combinations of each.
Counselling is a key part of the School Guidance and Wellbeing Programme.
It is offered on an individual or group basis as part of a developmental learning process and at moments of personal crisis.
Guidance and Counselling is viewed in Ballymakenny College as a process – not an event – which begins on the student’s entry in first year and continues right through the five or six years spent in the school.
There is currently one Guidance Counsellor in Ballymakenny College – Keith Ó Sioráin
Useful Tools / Links
Study Skills
Questionaire to improve Study Skills (Careersportal.ie)
Tips for Exam Preparation
Careers and Study after Ballymakenny College
How to complete the Probe Interest Test
Probe Interest Test
CAO Points Calculator (www.qualifax.ie)
CAO Points Calculator (www.careersportal.ie)
Calendar of Career Events
Click here to look up the Qualifax database of college open days and other careers related events.
Parents
Exam Stress - Help for Parents
Work Experience
Work Experience Info
Employers if you are interested in finding out more about offering work experience to our students please fill in the following form and we will get back to you.
Employers offering Work Experience
Students Work Experience Questionnaire
Incoming 1st Years
Junior Cert Subject Info (not all currently offered)