Welcome to the LCVP - Fáilte Chuig an LCVP

LCVP is a Senior Cycle Programme of the Department of Education and Skills, designed to give a strong vocational dimension to the Leaving Certificate (established). The programme combines the virtues of academic study with a new and dynamic focus on self-directed learning, enterprise, work and the community.

Clár de chuid Shraith Shinsearach na Roinne Oideachais agus Scoileanna is ea an LCVP atá leagtha amach chun diminsean maith gairmiúil a chur san Ardteistiméireacht (sheanbhunaithe). Comhdhlúthaíonn an clár seo buanna an staidéir acadúil le fócas nua dinimiciúil ar an bhfoghlaim fhéindhírithe, ar an bhfiontraíocht, ar obair agus ar an bpobal. As Gaeilge

Young people taking the LCVP have a unique opportunity to develop their interpersonal, vocational and technological skills. These skills are equally relevant to the needs of of those preparing for further education, seeking employment or planning to start their own business.The LCVP is funded by the Department of Education and Skills under the National Development Plan.

New Case 2012

Case study 2012 Please click here Case in PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Mindmap

as Gaeilge Click anseo le do thoil.

Preparing for the Link Modules examination 2012.

Practice past questions working in pairs. Try topic by topic. Click here

Ensure you are aware of all SLOs Click here

Tips for audio case study Click here

Ensure to view chief examiner's reports. Click here

Use graphic organisers as a stimulus for revision Click here Why not try the Fishbone to summarise the Link Modules.

Also the Venn Diagram is an excellent tool prior to commencing a compare and contrast question. Click here

The BUG technique is excellent prior to attempting questions. Click here

LCVP Conference a huge success

The LCVP Conference, by all accounts a resounding success, and perhaps the most positive and successful ever, featured leading entrepreneurs in today’s world. The theme of the conference was: Ensuring continued success in the LCVP.

Jonathan Irwin’s input was probably the most memorable high points of the day. The Conference not only had more speakers than any previous year, it also had more Teachers in attendance. An unusually high portion of attendees, perhaps 30 to 40 percent, had never before been to an LCVP conference and are new to teaching the LCVP.

Key note speakers at the event were Jonathan Irwin from the Jack and Jill foundation, John Concannon from JFC, Mary Healy from the Chocolate Garden of Ireland. Siobhan Ring gave an input on assessment, Siobhan O Sullivan on Idea Generation, and Michael Moroney on a new Enterprise resource.

More than 200 people attended the conference. People networked, listened to speakers and attended speed data networking on many ideas ranging from, Demonstrations of how google docs can help collaborative planning, by Anthony Kilcoyne and Fionnuala McMorrow, updates from CareersPortal, creating an iBook from Screenway and Daniel Hyland, Trisha Mc Neill and Edel Keating, presented Portfolio items and visualisers, whilst Frank Feery and Bernadette O Neill gave inputs on work preparation and Niamh Parkinson and Rachel demonstrated creative use of PowerPoint, and much more. The idea is to experience short inputs, informing and creating an interest in numerous ideas, resources and methodologies.

The event also saw the first presentation of the inaugural LCVP Gold medal award. This year’s award went to Sinead Gacquin from St Brigid’s Vocational School, Loughrea, Co Galway. Sinead achieved the highest mark in the LCVP Examination 2011. This is an outstanding result, achieving number one in Ireland in both the portfolio and written paper as determined by the State Examination Commission. In excess of sixteen thousand students would have taken LCVP in 2011. Sinead’s teacher Dell Connolly, Principal, Sean Connolly and family attended the presentation. Sinead is now studying Accountancy with Law at University of Limerick.

A sincere, Thank you to all who helped on the day, all the PDST, including Sage @schools and Moneysense.

Please click here for conference resources

New 2012 Inservice Dates

Date

Venue

Time

LCVP National Conference

Saturday, 3rd March 2012

Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath

Details and registration form

Updates for Conference

Keynote Speakers will be Jonathan Irwin from Jack and Jill Foundation www.jackandjill.ie, John Concannon from JFC www.jfc.ie, Mary Healy from The Chocolate Garden www.chocolategarden.ie and Tara from Rosso Solini www.rossosolinishop.com

9.30am to 3.30pm

Date	Venues	Times
	LCVP Case Study Evening
	No booking is required to attend these case study evenings
Tuesday, 17th April 2012	Cork Education Support Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 17th April 2012	Dublin West Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 17th April 2012	Galway Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 17th April 2012	Kildare Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 17th April 2012	Kilkenny Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 17th April 2012	Carrick -on Shannon Education Centre - NEW DATE	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Clare Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Mayo Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Tralee Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Limerick Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Drumcondra Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Laois Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Wednesday, 18th April 2012	Waterford Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Thursday, 19th April 2012	Blackrock Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Thursday, 19th April 2012	Athlone Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Thursday, 19th April 2012	Navan Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Thursday, 19th April 2012	Monaghan Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Thursday, 19th April 2012	Co. Wexford Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 24th April 2012	Donegal Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 24th April 2012	West Cork Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm
Tuesday, 24th April 2012	Sligo Education Centre	7.00pm until 9.00pm

New LCVP Examination 2012

Wednesday, 2nd May 2012

Time: 10.00am - 12.30am

LCVP Guidelines Circular No S03/12

LCVP Guidelines Circular No S03/12 - Irish Version

New LCVP Link Modules Portfolio completion date

2012 is on before Friday 27th April 2012 Please download flyer

Link Modules Audio Visual

Audio Visuals for 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 are now available on the State Examination Commission website www.examinations.ie select the Examination Material Archive

A Guide to Incidental Inspection in Second-Level Schools and Centres for Education click here to download

Literacy and Numeracy

including resources click here to download

Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life click here to download

New TEACHING THE PORTFOLIO

Teaching the Portfolio: Please click here for resources

LCVP Results 2011

Congratulations to all our LCVP Students.

The number of students participating in the LCVP continues to increase. A total of 16,386 sat the LCVP an increase of 790 from 2010

Year	Distinction	Merit	Pass	Un-graded	Total
2007	1,554	6,920	4,329	1,277	14,080
2008	1,902	7,002	4,354	1,247	14,505
2009	1,673	7,097	4,706	1,608	15,084
2010	1,782	7,423	4,927	1,464	15,662
2011	1,910	7,747	5,150	1,579	16,386

Approximately 12% achieving distinction and 59% of students achieving a merit or greater.

Enterprise Success Story.... A heaven of good food and wine, on the double

Innovation in Education the Enterprise Experience presented by Caroline Mc Hale at Dublin Castle in April 2011

Launch of the Sunday Business Post - Business 2000

Cliff Taylor,SBP, Caroline McHale,Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn TD,, Mary O Sullivan and Sarah Mullarney

MoneySense for Schools Programme

MoneySense for Schools is a free financial education programme and a dynamic learning tool designed for and by teachers. It offers you great benefits including:
over 30 hours free resources tailored to suit the curriculum, access to a network of experienced MoneySense volunteers who can work alongside you in delivering a MoneySense lesson
Student-focused content - videos, interactive activites and state-of-the-art new learning materials for students age 11-18If you want to find out more about the programme simply click on this link http://www.moneysense.ulsterbank.ie/schools/vle/common/register/
In addition, if you wish to discuss the MoneySense programme or arrange a visit you can contact the MoneySense Team directly on (01) 6084509 or else email : moneysense@ulsterbank.com
MoneySense Information flyer

Asia Europe Project

The Asia Europe Classroom (AEC-NET) is for teachers and pupils throughout the two continents to meet on-line and share work on curricular based projects. You can find out more on the AEC-NET website www.aec.asef.org where it is possible to register your school for a new project, join an existing project or sign up to the mailing list and be kept up to date.

Check out the Asia Europe blog http://aecnetireland.blogspot.com

This project links with the LCVP . If you are interested we still have a number of places for this years project Go Cyber Green. Please contact the office at business@pdst.ie

Why not log on to: http://gocybergreen.nuim.ie/ Project Factsheet_GoCyberGreen

Log on to see our video, please click here

Asia Europe Conference 2011 comes to Ireland

The Asia Europe Classroom network (AEC-NET) conference will take place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dundalk from November 7th to the 11th 2011. Over 100 international delegates will attend from both Europe and Asia. The conference is for post-primary and third-level educators who have a keen interest in fostering collaborations amoung their students through innovative and interactive collaborative online learning and inter-cultural exchanges. Detailed brochure will be available at a later date.

LCVP Language Modules

Please click here to access Language Module by Patricia Costello

Please click here to access Language Module Draft Syllabus

LCVP Vocational Subject Groupings

Check out the 'About LCVP' section for the updated VSG's. Note: There is no change in the Vocational Subject Groupings ( VSG's ) for this year 2011/2012.

LCVP Statistics

'One third take alternative programmes ' 'LCVP Points the way to CAO Places'

LCVP Statistics 1996-2011

Irish Exemption

If a student is exempt from Irish for the Leaving Certificate they are automatically exempt for the LCVP and students should replace Irish with another subject.

Click here to view Frequently Asked Questions

National Career Skills Competition 2012

This popular competition is again open to all TY students.

The link to the full details of the competition is:

http://www.careersportal.ie/careerskills/skills_competition.php

Download details or visit the www.careersportal.ie

Created: September 29, 2005 19:59, Last Updated: April 19, 2012 11:37.