Digital Documents

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.

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Plan and Structure Your Pack
Plan Your Work Experience Pack
Write and Finish Your CV
What Goes on an Irish CV
One Page, Perfectly Consistent
Write a Matched Cover Letter
The Cover Letter

Review with a Partner
A Second Pair of Eyes
Make Documents Readable for Everyone
Documents Everyone Can Read

Templates for Placement Days
Your Placement Diary
Research and Long Documents
Research the Sector
The Placement Report Template
Apply with the Finished Pack
Application Day

Plan and Structure Your Pack
Plan Your Work Experience Pack
Write and Finish Your CV
What Goes on an Irish CV
One Page, Perfectly Consistent
Write a Matched Cover Letter
The Cover Letter

Review with a Partner
A Second Pair of Eyes
Make Documents Readable for Everyone
Documents Everyone Can Read

Templates for Placement Days
Your Placement Diary
Research and Long Documents
Research the Sector
The Placement Report Template
Apply with the Finished Pack
Application Day

Curriculum Mapping

See exactly how this course maps to official curriculum specifications

NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement (2025)

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

Structure a document with styles, multi-level lists and the headings panel.
Write and design a one-page CV and a tailored cover letter that follow Irish conventions.
Review and improve a document with tracked changes and version history.
Make documents every reader can use, and check them.
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 7 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

Digital Documents

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1 Your CV and Cover Letter 4 lessons

2 Check and Improve 2 lessons

3 On Placement and After 4 lessons