Secondary Senior Cycle

LC Life, Community and Work

A Leaving Cert Life, Community and Work course that develops self-awareness, goal-setting with the SMARTER framework.

  • Mapped to the NCCA curriculum
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The whole first lesson, as your class sees it. No sign-in needed.

On the board, and on their devices
Building a budget
Reading a payslip
Marking up a decision note
The working holiday

The same lesson opens on each student's own device, to follow in class and finish at home.

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach LC Life, Community and Work this year.

In class

  • 120 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the board with the same lesson open on each student's device. 13 interactive activities across the course.
  • 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: Welcome to LCW: Tell Me About Yourself

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 60 of the 60 outcomes for this class.

LC Life, Community & Work
Module 1 - Strand 1: Understanding Myself 15 of 15 outcomes
Module 1 - Strand 2: Understanding my Progression Opportunities 14 of 14 outcomes
Module 2 - Strand 1: Appreciating my Community 13 of 13 outcomes
Module 2 - Strand 2: Engaging with the Workplace 18 of 18 outcomes
See every outcome
Curriculum Area
Outcomes
Module 1 - Strand 1: Understanding Myself
Personal development
LCW.M1.S1.PD.1 LCW.M1.S1.PD.2
My values
LCW.M1.S1.VAL.1 LCW.M1.S1.VAL.2 LCW.M1.S1.VAL.3 LCW.M1.S1.VAL.4
My skillset
LCW.M1.S1.SKL.1 LCW.M1.S1.SKL.2 LCW.M1.S1.SKL.3 LCW.M1.S1.SKL.4 LCW.M1.S1.SKL.5 LCW.M1.S1.SKL.6
Personal statements
LCW.M1.S1.PS.1 LCW.M1.S1.PS.2
Applied Learning Task 1: Personal Statement
LCW.M1.S1.ALT1.1
Module 1 - Strand 2: Understanding my Progression Opportunities
Exploring my progression opportunities
LCW.M1.S2.PROG.1 LCW.M1.S2.PROG.2 LCW.M1.S2.PROG.3 LCW.M1.S2.PROG.4 LCW.M1.S2.PROG.5
Work in its broadest sense
LCW.M1.S2.WORK.1 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.2 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.3 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.4 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.5 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.6 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.7 LCW.M1.S2.WORK.8
Applied Learning Task 2: Career Progression Plan
LCW.M1.S2.ALT2.1
Module 2 - Strand 1: Appreciating my Community
Appreciating my community
LCW.M2.S1.COM.1 LCW.M2.S1.COM.2 LCW.M2.S1.COM.3 LCW.M2.S1.COM.4 LCW.M2.S1.COM.5
Enterprise in the community
LCW.M2.S1.ENT.1 LCW.M2.S1.ENT.2 LCW.M2.S1.ENT.3
Collaborative problem-solving to support the development of a transferable skillset
LCW.M2.S1.CPS.1 LCW.M2.S1.CPS.2 LCW.M2.S1.CPS.3 LCW.M2.S1.CPS.4
Applied Learning Task 3: Reflection on the Collaborative Problem-Solving Task
LCW.M2.S1.ALT3.1
Module 2 - Strand 2: Engaging with the Workplace
Applying for a job
LCW.M2.S2.APP.1 LCW.M2.S2.APP.2 LCW.M2.S2.APP.3 LCW.M2.S2.APP.4 LCW.M2.S2.APP.5 LCW.M2.S2.APP.6 LCW.M2.S2.APP.7
Preparing for and engaging with the workplace
LCW.M2.S2.ENG.1 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.2 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.3 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.4 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.5 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.6 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.7 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.8 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.9 LCW.M2.S2.ENG.10
Applied Learning Task 4: Plan Responding to Workplace Feedback
LCW.M2.S2.ALT4.1

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

120 lessons in 2 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Me and My Future 60 lessons · about 60 hours

The opening module of LCW builds the self-awareness and forward-looking decision-making that the rest of the course rests on. You explore who you are now (your values, aptitudes, achievements, interests and transferable skillset) and use that foundation to investigate the real pathways open to you after school. You set up your Digital Portfolio, meet the experiential learning cycle, and complete two Applied Learning Tasks: a Personal Statement and a Career Progression Plan aligned to it.

  1. Strand 1: Understanding Myself
  2. 1 Welcome to LCW: Tell Me About Yourself Sample lesson Quiz
  3. 2 What Is Personal Development? the SMARTER Framework Quiz
  4. 3 Identifying Areas for Personal Development Quiz
  5. 4 A Goal That Lands After the Leaving Cert Quiz
  6. 5 Reviewing a Goal: on Track, Off Track, or Wrong Goal Quiz
  7. 6 What Are Values? Why They Matter Quiz
  8. 7 Priority Values: the Values Card-sort Quiz
  9. 8 Why Priority Values Change Quiz
  10. 9 Aptitudes: Your Natural Tendencies Quiz
  11. 10 Achievements: Hard-won Successes Quiz
  12. 11 Interests: Things You Enjoy Quiz
  13. 12 What Other People See Quiz
  14. 13 Self-assessment in Practice Quiz
  15. 14 Classifying Skills: Technical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal Quiz
  16. 15 Reading a Job Role Description Quiz
  17. 16 Transferable Skills: the Core Concept Quiz
  18. 17 How a Transferable Skillset Supports Adaptation Quiz
  19. 18 Recognising Your Strong Transferable Skills Quiz
  20. 19 Recognising Transferable Skills That Need Work Quiz
  21. 20 Feedback from Others: Why Self-reflection Has Limits Quiz
  22. 21 Receiving and Recording Feedback Quiz
  23. 22 What Is a Personal Statement, and What Is It for? Quiz
  24. 23 Different Formats of Personal Statement Quiz
  25. 24 Personal Statements as Foundational Quiz
  26. 25 Drafting Your First Personal Statement Quiz
  27. 26 Revising for Voice and Specificity Quiz
  28. 27 Peer Review and Feedback Quiz
  29. 28 Tailoring for an Audience Quiz
  30. 29 Saying It Out Loud Quiz
  31. 30 Strand 1.1 Synthesis and ALT 1 Bank Quiz
  32. Strand 2: Understanding My Progression Opportunities
  33. 31 The Eight Pathways After School Quiz
  34. 32 Pathway Hierarchy and Guidance Balance Quiz
  35. 33 Apprenticeships in Ireland Quiz
  36. 34 Traineeships and Further Education and Training Quiz
  37. 35 Higher Education Quiz
  38. 36 Travel, Community, and the World of Work Quiz
  39. 37 What Is a Career Field? Quiz
  40. 38 What Drives Interest in a Career Field? Quiz
  41. 39 How to Research a Job Role: Methods Quiz
  42. 40 Conducting Your Research Quiz
  43. 41 How Your Personal Statement Connects to a Job Role Quiz
  44. 42 Additional Education and Training Opportunities Quiz
  45. 43 Providers of Education and Training Quiz
  46. 44 Investigating Specific Post-school Options Quiz
  47. 45 Opportunities and Challenges Across Providers Quiz
  48. 46 Why People Work Quiz
  49. 47 Changing Employment Patterns Quiz
  50. 48 Employment Rights: Universal Protections Quiz
  51. 49 Young Worker Protections Quiz
  52. 50 Employee Responsibilities Quiz
  53. 51 Tax, PRSI and Revenue Registration Quiz
  54. 52 Entrepreneurship in the Labour Market Quiz
  55. 53 Labour-market Trends and Their Drivers Quiz
  56. 54 Remote Work, Hybrid Work, Self-employment, Freelancing Quiz
  57. 55 AI in the Workplace Quiz
  58. 56 From Strand 1.2 Findings to Progression Milestones Quiz
  59. 57 Starting Your Career Progression Plan (ALT 2) Quiz
  60. 58 Drafting Your Career Progression Plan Quiz
  61. 59 Aligning the Career Progression Plan to the Personal Statement Quiz
  62. 60 Refining, Peer Review and Banking ALT 2 Quiz
2 Community and Work 60 lessons · about 60 hours

This module shifts from me and my future to me and the world I am part of: the local, national and global communities you belong to, and the workplace you are preparing to enter. You appreciate the role of community, recognise enterprise within it, develop transferable skills through a collaborative design-thinking task, and engage practically with the workplace through a work-experience or work-shadowing placement. Two Applied Learning Tasks land here, and your Personal Statement is revisited twice more so that by the end of LCW it reflects your full two-year development.

  1. Strand 1: Appreciating My Community
  2. 61 What Is a Community? Quiz
  3. 62 Positive Influence of a Community Quiz
  4. 63 Volunteering: the Concept Quiz
  5. 64 Ways to Volunteer Quiz
  6. 65 Investigating a Real-life Community Issue Quiz
  7. 66 Forms of Enterprise Quiz
  8. 67 For-profit Business and Community Enterprise Quiz
  9. 68 Social Enterprises Quiz
  10. 69 Identifying Enterprise That Addresses a Community Need Quiz
  11. 70 Competencies Associated with Entrepreneurship Quiz
  12. 71 Critical Thinking and Problem-solving Quiz
  13. 72 Design Thinking: a Human-centred Approach Quiz
  14. 73 The Stages of Design Thinking Quiz
  15. 74 Forming Small Groups for the Collaborative Task Quiz
  16. 75 Clarifying: Choosing and Defining a Real-life Community Issue Quiz
  17. 76 Ideating: Generating Solutions Quiz
  18. 77 Developing: Refining the Strongest Idea Quiz
  19. 78 Implementing: a Realistic Plan Quiz
  20. 79 Reflecting on the Process Quiz
  21. 80 Presenting Your Collaborative Response Quiz
  22. 81 Mid-strand Personal Statement Revisit Quiz
  23. 82 Reflection Frameworks for ALT 3 Quiz
  24. 83 Identifying Your Transferable Skills from the Task Quiz
  25. 84 Drafting Your ALT 3 Reflection Quiz
  26. 85 Peer Review and Revision Quiz
  27. 86 Build Your Placement Skill Log Quiz
  28. 87 Considering Audience for Future Presentations Quiz
  29. 88 Final ALT 3 Submission Quiz
  30. 89 Mid-year 2 Portfolio Review Quiz
  31. 90 What Strand 2.1 Taught You, and What You Take Into Work Quiz
  32. Strand 2: Engaging with the Workplace
  33. 91 Methods of Applying for a Job Quiz
  34. 92 Components of a Job Application: CV and Cover Letter Quiz
  35. 93 AI in the Job Application Process Quiz
  36. 94 What Is a Competency-based Application Form? Quiz
  37. 95 Identifying Career- and Job-based Competencies Quiz
  38. 96 Using Authentic Examples to Illustrate Competencies Quiz
  39. 97 Completing a Competency-based Application Form Quiz
  40. 98 Shortlisting: How Applicants Are Selected Quiz
  41. 99 The Interview Process: Structure and Effective Personal Presentation Quiz
  42. 100 Practising an Interview Quiz
  43. 101 Dealing with Disappointment and Building Resilience Quiz
  44. 102 Why Broad Workplace Engagement Matters Quiz
  45. 103 Tailoring Your Personal Statement to the Placement Quiz
  46. 104 Making Contact with a Workplace Organisation Quiz
  47. 105 Workplace Conditions and Requirements Quiz
  48. 106 Public Social Media Presence: Opportunities and Risks Quiz
  49. 107 Setting Expectations for the Workplace Quiz
  50. 108 Briefing for Placement Day 1 Quiz
  51. 109 Placement Day 2 Quiz
  52. 110 Closing the Placement Well Quiz
  53. 111 Requesting Effective Workplace Feedback Quiz
  54. 112 Reflecting on Placement Feedback Quiz
  55. 113 Planning a Workplace Interview Quiz
  56. 114 Reflecting on Workplace Engagement Quiz
  57. 115 Linking the Placement Back to Your Progression Quiz
  58. 116 Final Personal Statement Revisit Quiz
  59. 117 ALT 4: Identifying Areas for Further Progress and Development Quiz
  60. 118 Drafting Your Response Plan Quiz
  61. 119 Creating and Assessing Your ALT 4 Plan Quiz
  62. 120 Course Synthesis and Portfolio in Action Readiness Quiz

What students learn

This course equips students to navigate the transition from senior cycle into adult life through four integrated strands: understanding themselves, exploring post-school pathways, appreciating community, and engaging directly with the workplace. Students build a digital portfolio containing four Applied Learning Tasks, including a personal statement, career progression plan, collaborative community enterprise project using design thinking, and a reflective workplace placement report. They master SMARTER goal-setting, values clarification, transferable skills analysis, labour market research, and practical competencies in applications, interviews and enterprise, developing self-awareness, adaptability and informed decision-making for Ireland’s evolving society and economy.

By the end of the course, students can

  1. Set up and maintain a digital portfolio that records personal development, self-assessments, and all four Applied Learning Tasks.
  2. Apply the SMARTER framework to create, review, and revise personal goals based on audits of values, aptitudes, achievements, interests, and skills.
  3. Write, revise, and tailor a personal statement that evidences strengths and is used as a foundation for applications and progression planning.
  4. Research and compare post-school pathways, providers, and job roles, then produce a career progression plan containing short-, medium-, and long-term SMARTER goals.
  5. Participate in a collaborative design-thinking project to address a real community issue, then reflect on the transferable skills developed using a chosen reflection framework.
  6. Complete a full competency-based job application, prepare for and practise interviews, and undertake a structured three-day workplace placement.
  7. Generate, receive, and reflect on feedback from peers, teachers, and workplace mentors to identify areas for further development and create an evaluated response plan.

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