Enterprise and Business Basics

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Enterprise and Business Basics this year.

In class

10 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the board with the same lesson open on each student's device.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with every lesson.
Progress and resultsWhat each student has completed, and how they did.
CertificatesFor portfolios, open days and reports home.
Try the first lesson: Introduction to Business and Enterprise

On paper

Teacher Resource BookThe whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson, ready to print.
The sample lesson's pages

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 33 of the 42 outcomes for this class.

NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement (2025)

Personal Growth 11 of 11 outcomes

Being a Learner 12 of 12 outcomes

Civic and Community Engagement 10 of 11 outcomes

Career Exploration 0 of 8 outcomes

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Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Personal Growth

P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 P.7 P.8 P.9 P.10 P.11

Being a Learner

B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4 B.5 B.6 B.7 B.8 B.9 B.10 B.11 B.12

Civic and Community Engagement

C.1 C.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9 C.10 C.11

Career Exploration

CE.1 CE.2 CE.3 CE.4 CE.5 CE.6 CE.7 CE.8

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

10 lessons in 4 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Foundations of Enterprise 2 lessons · about 2 hours

Set up the 10-week journey. Students learn what business and enterprise mean, see how Irish entrepreneurs got started, choose their grouping (solo, pair or small team), and open their Mini Business Portfolio with early goals and idea seeds.

Kicking Off Your Mini Business Journey
1 Introduction to Business and Enterprise Sample lesson Quiz
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
2 The Entrepreneurial Mindset Quiz

2 From Idea to Customer 3 lessons · about 3 hours

The decision phase. Students pool their candidate ideas, sharpen them with SCAMPER, run a feasibility filter, lock in ONE mini-business idea for the rest of the module, then define their customer and start collecting real-world research input.

Choosing Your Mini Business Idea
3 Generating and Choosing Your Business Idea Quiz
Knowing Your Customer
4 Your Customer and Your First Market Research Quiz
Building Your Business Model
5 Business Models and What Makes Your Offer Stand Out Quiz

3 Running the Numbers and Reaching Customers 2 lessons · about 2 hours

Operational reality. Students cost their mini-business, set a price they can justify, work out profit per unit and break-even, then design the brand and the 4Ps marketing plan, finishing with a real piece of promotion.

Financial Foundations
6 Costs, Pricing and Profit Per Unit Quiz
Marketing Your Mini Business
7 Branding, the 4Ps and Your First Social Post Quiz

4 Pitch, Ethics and Showcase 3 lessons · about 3 hours

The closing arc. Students draft and rehearse their 2-minute pitch, give and receive feedback, run an ethics and sustainability review on their mini-business, compile the final BusinessPlanTemplate as homework, and deliver and celebrate the pitches on Pitch Day.

Teamwork and Pitch Practice
8 Teamwork and Your First Pitch Draft Quiz
Ethics and Social Enterprise
9 Digital & AI in Business Quiz
Pitch Day and Reflection
10 Pitch Day and Closing Reflection Quiz

What students learn

This 10-week course introduces Irish students to the fundamentals of business and enterprise. Through real Irish case studies including Stripe, the Collisons, FoodCloud and local examples, students explore business types, develop an entrepreneurial mindset, generate and refine ideas using SCAMPER, conduct customer research, build a Business Model Canvas, manage costs and pricing, create branding and marketing assets, examine business ethics, and deliver a final pitch. Working individually or in small teams, they create and run their own mini-business project from idea to presentation.

By the end of the course, students can

Define business and enterprise using real Irish examples such as The Side Door, Walsh & Walsh, and Stripe.
Distinguish between the three main types of business and explain how each operates.
Identify at least three entrepreneurial qualities from Irish founder case studies and explain how they apply to their own mini-business.
Generate, sharpen using SCAMPER, and select one feasible mini-business idea for the 10-week project.
Create a customer persona, differentiate between customer needs and wants, and draft five open survey questions to test their idea.

What you'll need

Used in some of the lessons. Students can share in groups of two or three.

Chromebook/Laptop/PC iPad/Tablet IWB/Projector/Large Screen

Build a full TY year around Enterprise and Business Basics

This module is one of 10 Transition Year modules you can combine into a complete Year-Long TY Digital Skills Programme, shaped around your timetable and the students in front of you.

Run the same pathway for every student, or set different pathways for different groups. Students also get access to the modules they're not doing in class, which is ideal for the keen ones who finish early or want to explore further on their own time.

Prefer a deeper tech focus? Swap in Advanced Coding or Robotics and Automation. Each module is 10 to 17 lessons of 40-60 minutes, leaving room for school events, mid-terms and everything else TY throws at you.

Why TY coordinators choose it

One decision, a year's content

No more stitching resources together every term.

Flexible per class, per student

Run different pathways side by side.

Certificates after each module

Great for TY portfolios, open days and reports home.

Sets students up for Senior Cycle

Broad exposure so they choose subjects with confidence.

Sample Year Plan

ICT + Coding focus

Computer Skills
Gets everyone on a level footing
Introduction to Coding
Real, working projects from week one
Exploring Digital Media
Video, design and storytelling
Exploring Artificial Intelligence
The topic your students keep asking about
Enterprise and Business Basics
A pitch-and-launch project to close out the year