Secondary Transition Year

Digital Documents

Build a work experience pack: a CV, a cover letter and every document a placement needs.

  • 10 lessons
  • About 10 hours
  • Mapped to the NCCA curriculum

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What your school gets

10 lessons you teach from the board, with the same lesson open on each student's device

Every lesson is planned step by step and ready to teach, with 3 interactive activities across the course, including:

  • Step-by-Step Tutorial
  • and 2 more
Open a sample lesson: Plan Your Work Experience Pack
Teacher Resource Book Digital Documents

Teacher Resource Book

The whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson.

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Quizzes and assessments

A short quiz with every lesson.

Progress and results

See what each student has completed and how they did, lesson by lesson.

Student certificates

For portfolios, open days and reports home.

Curriculum mapping

Mapped outcome by outcome to the NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement (2025).

About this course

Students build a complete Work Experience Pack across ten 60-minute lessons, one portfolio document a lesson: a pack plan, a one-page CV laid out on an invisible table grid, a cover letter tailored to a real employer, a partner review with tracked changes, an accessible placement information sheet, a placement diary, a sector profile with footnotes, and a report template with an automatic table of contents. In Lesson 10 students apply to a placement advert against the clock. Every step-by-step covers Word for the web and Google Docs, on Windows, Mac and Chromebook, and students keep every file in their own Digital Portfolio folder.

The course, module by module

10 lessons in 3 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Your CV and Cover Letter 4 lessons · about 4 hours
  1. Plan and Structure Your Pack
  2. 1 Plan Your Work Experience Pack Sample lesson Quiz
  3. Write and Finish Your CV
  4. 2 What Goes on an Irish CV Quiz
  5. 3 One Page, Perfectly Consistent Quiz
  6. Write a Matched Cover Letter
  7. 4 The Cover Letter Quiz
2 Check and Improve 2 lessons · about 2 hours
  1. Review with a Partner
  2. 5 A Second Pair of Eyes Quiz
  3. Make Documents Readable for Everyone
  4. 6 Documents Everyone Can Read Quiz
3 On Placement and After 4 lessons · about 4 hours
  1. Templates for Placement Days
  2. 7 Your Placement Diary Quiz
  3. Research and Long Documents
  4. 8 Research the Sector Quiz
  5. 9 The Placement Report Template Quiz
  6. Apply with the Finished Pack
  7. 10 Application Day Quiz

Curriculum mapping

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course.

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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

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.

What students will learn

Learning goals

  1. Structure a document with styles, multi-level lists and the headings panel.
  2. Write and design a one-page CV and a tailored cover letter that follow Irish conventions.
  3. Review and improve a document with tracked changes and version history.
  4. Make documents every reader can use, and check them.
  5. Build long documents and templates with footnotes, page numbers and an automatic table of contents.

Build a full TY year around Digital Documents

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 15 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

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