Schull Community College

Nuala Ni Bhriain is the Career guidance teacher in the school

Guidance in Schull Community College is an ongoing process involving a wide range of learning activities, such as information giving, counselling and assessment. These are offered in a developmental sequence appropriate to the age and needs of the student. The guidance process helps the student to develop and accept a full personal, social, educational and career awareness of his/her personal talents and abilities and, in this way, it helps people to grow in independence and to make well-informed decisions about their lives.
Guidance provision in Schull Community College involves a range of guidance and of counselling activities and services, involving the whole school body.

Schull Community College has a Guidance Counselling allocation of 11 hours per week (1/2 teacher) for its 420 full-time students. For the past 3 years, under the Guidance Enhancement Initiative, the school has been allocated an extra 5 hours per week for Guidance Counselling Purposes.

The school has an ex-quota Chaplain on the Staff Panel, who is available for 22 hours per week.

The school has, in 2006/7, been in a position to employ a trained Counsellor, who is available for 6 hours per week, to deal with urgent social issues, in consultation with Management and with the Guidance Counsellor.