For over 30 years, Yeats College has set the standard for educational excellence in Ireland. Having successfully guided thousands of students through decades of curriculum changes, we remain at the forefront of teaching excellence.
As the Leaving Certificate undergoes its most significant transformation in a generation, our commitment to top-tier results is unchanged. These new reforms are already fully integrated into our two-year programme, ensuring the Yeats standard of excellence remains constant as the curriculum evolves.
A Shift from the Terminal Exam to Continuous Success
The most significant structural change to the Leaving Certificate is the introduction of Additional Assessment Components (AACs) across all subjects.
Under the new curriculum, your final grade is no longer solely dependent on a single day in June. AACs—which include research projects, practical investigations, and portfolio work—will now account for at least 40% of a student’s overall mark. The remaining 60% will be assessed through the traditional written examination.
All AACs are externally set and marked by the State Examinations Commission, ensuring a fair, independent standard across the country.
What We Offer
In 5th Year at Yeats College, students are offered:
- Inspirational teaching
- Exceptional learning environment
- Individualised study skills
- Learning and revision strategies
- Continuous motivation
- Career strategy exploration programme
- Unlimited subject choices
- The option to change subjects mid cycle if required
- Smaller, more exclusive classes
- Separate examinations
- Extra-curricular activities programme
At Yeats College, we cherish the responsibility we are given to educate these students at a crucial time in their young lives. We try to ensure that the students’ sense of self-esteem, self-reliance, confidence and academic prowess is enhanced and challenged. Hence we offer a curriculum that incorporates academic, cultural, artistic and athletic aspects of education. Our learning experience leaves students with an engrained confidence, ability to succeed and most of all, happy memories!
Personal & Social Growth
Another benefit for students embarking on the two year programme at Yeats College is that they have more time to devote to personal development and extra-curricular activities than in the more strictly academic Leaving Cert year.
Therefore, a fundamental feature of our fifth year programme is the personal and social growth of each individual student. This is achieved through:
- Structured Recreation
- Sports & Leisure Pursuits
- Sporting and inter-school competitions
- Motivational Talks by Guest Speakers
- Careers Seminars
- Organised Charity Fundraisers
Sport is a major part of school life with the College putting forward teams to participate in various sporting competitions including rugby, soccer and Gaelic football. Students at our Galway College will also use our new, fully equipped, state-of-the-art gymnasium and exercise room where aerobics, yoga and Tai Chi classes will take place.
For those who are musically-inclined, the College ceili band welcome fresh faces.
The Yeats College Fifth Years are a tightly-knit group of students from all over Ireland. Many friendships are formed over the course of this year and the students are always confident in progressing to their Leaving Certificate year together.