Skilly is delighted to announce a new automation feature designed to help teachers and schools easily capture Other Areas of Learning (OAL) and Other Areas of Wellbeing (OAW), ensuring your students’ full learning journey is recognised on their Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA).

What’s New?

Teachers no longer need to rely on handwritten notes or manually fill out Google Forms. Skilly now enables schools to seamlessly log, store, and retrieve students’ extracurricular and well-being experiences across the first, second, and third years—all in one place.

Benefits for Teachers:

Save Hours of Admin Time by automatically pulling OAL/OAW entries logged by students over their Junior Cycle years.

Streamline the Process: Teachers can review, verify, and export student contributions with a single click – eliminating the need to chase students or cross-reference scattered documents.

Ensure Accuracy: Entries are linked to teacher references, helping meet JCPA compliance requirements.

Support Reflection: Students’ key skills are auto-tagged based on the activity type, making it easier for staff to identify learning outcomes.

 Benefits for Students:

Capture Real Moments: Students reflect on and record experiences, such as sports, clubs, fundraising events, performances, or well-being projects, as they occur.

Recall with Ease: Students can quickly revisit their Skilly timeline by the third year and select their best examples to showcase.

Develop Key Skills: Skilly encourages students to connect their experiences to essential skills such as teamwork, creativity, communication, and resilience.

Fully Integrated with Skilly’s Learning Journey:

This new module is directly tied to existing student reflections, classroom-based assessments, and progress in well-being. It aligns with the JCPA framework while reinforcing positive self-reflection and personal growth.

✅ Ready for 2025 Reporting:

Schools can now generate JCPA-ready reports for each student. The process can be custom-built and adapted to your students, with entries written in the third person, character-limited, and key skills referenced exactly as required.

Let Skilly handle the paperwork so you can focus on supporting your students where it matters most.