'Dundalk is now my home too!'
A Dundalk Grammar School student proudly received her Transition Year award at home in Tokyo this week. Rikako Yasuda is now back at school in Tokyo, Japan. But, up to last March 2020, she was a transition year student attending Dundalk Grammar School, as part of the Japanese International Student Placement Programme. She joined the school in August 2019, boarding in the school Sundays to Fridays, and staying with a host family in the area at weekends and holidays. Teacher Paul Brady explained: 'As well as the cultural exchange, another aim of the programme is to impro...