Lesson video

Hello, everyone, welcome to Citizenship.

My name is Mrs. White, and this is our final lesson in how we can make a difference in our communities.

And today it's all about your action.

So let's get started.

So before we get going, let's make sure you've got everything that you need.

So you need some paper to make notes, pen and colours, and usually, I say your enthusiastic-learner heads, but you've already got that, I hope, 'cause you've managed to make it to the end of the six lessons.

This is the last one of this unit.

So I'd like you to make sure you've got your plans for action, because today's going to be a lesson that split.

You're going to split it, because the start of the lesson is going to introduce it.

And then you're going to go off and take your action, then you're going to come back.

So make sure you've got these plans with you.

So it is time for action, let's get going.

So what we're going to learn today? Well, we're actually going to take action and record it.

Not necessarily by video, but you can, if you like.

I want you to reflect on your actions.

So think about what you've achieved, and I want you to measure the impact, and then write a report.

And that's what today's lesson is about, no takeaway task.

I want you to celebrate when you've taken your action, and you're going to submit your project to ACT, which is the Association for Citizenship Teaching.

So you'll need to find that later on, and ask a parent, or carer, or your teacher to do that for you.

So now you might not be able to carry your action out within the next hour of this lesson, okay? So I really expect you to pause, like I said before, at this point and then go and carry out your action.

When you do it, make sure you collect the evidence.

So photographs, emails that you might have written, images of advertising, posters you might've made as well.

You should be really proud of the things that you do to carry out your action.

And when you finish the action, and I realise that this might be in a few days' time, come back to this lesson.

If however you've carried out your action already, then we can continue from here, okay? So I want you to put those plans into action and write down the things you use as evidence to demonstrate that you've taken action to try to address the issue.

So this is a bit more of your planning, if you like.

So the evidence you could have could be notes, leaflets, posters you made, photographs of the things that you did, comments from local people, about the impact that you made.

I want you to include anything that you, that made you feel proud as well, please.

You can keep an action journal of what happened.

Remember this is about skills and knowledge as well as taking action.

So is about your development as well as the action that you take.

So go off, take the action.

Do whatever you need to do.

Come back in a few days' time.

If that's how much it's taken, a couple of weeks, if it needs to, but come back, and then we're going to finish the rest of the lesson, okay? Hello, here we go.

So now you've taken your action.

Let's think about how successful you've been.

This part of the lesson is all about reflecting.

So let's have a think about you yourself, and the skills that you've.

that you may have developed during this process, it's starting to really build up.

And you can put these skills into your CV when you start to think about that in the future.

Also now you know how to do these things.

Projects in the future are going to be much easier because you've developed these skills.

Have a look over each one of these and think about the times you've had the opportunity to practise each skill during this actual project.

Take a few moments to consider what you've gained.

So have a look.

There's one I've added on from the last time that we looked at these slides last lesson, and that's planning, deciding on.

and design, or make a plan of something to happen, be made or built.

She organised and planned the garden from scratch, for example, so planning, we've done that too.

So have a look at the skills you think you might have done at this stage.

Take a look at this table, and I want you to think about the things you've done over the course of the last six lessons.

You've gained an awful lot of citizenship knowledge, and you might not even have realised it.

So go through this list and think about whether you put a tick or cross against each item.

If there's new words on the list, write the word and its definition down in your notes, because it's important to build your vocabulary.

Now, I want you to reflect about what you've learned about your issue, and you're.

you're used to doing this at school, you know, whether you use WWW, EBI, or DIRT time.

You think about what you've managed to achieve, and how you can improve upon things as well.

So in this section you need to explain what you think is successful about your project.

And have you got any feedback or comments from anyone involved as well? So that's, it could go into what-went-well section.

EBI, even better if, if you repeated your project again, what would you do again next time? What would you do? How would you change it? Did you have any problems and how would you solve them next time? And what improvements could you make? What advice would you give others if they took the same action as you? Now, I'd like you either to use the principle worksheet, and writing, or you can just write what went well, and then even better if on your paper.

If you can't print, that's absolutely fine, okay? So pause the video whilst you write those answers down, what went well, even better if.

And then start again when you're finished.

So if you remember, I looked at the issue of elderly people when I was planning my project, last lesson, we were talking about that, okay? So now reflect on the action that I've taken, and here's example of what I've learnt in my project.

See if you can go into as much depth of this, I'm sure you have a lot more to add to your own table.

Now you can use the table in the worksheet, or you can copy down the headings onto paper as well.

It really doesn't matter how you do that.

So let's have a look.

Knowledge about, throughout this project I have learned knowledge about, I found out about the numbers of elderly people in my town, and how they're affected by loneliness.

I was shocked when I found out that somebody's life can be short, if they're very lonely, and it can be a very sad existence for elderly people on their own.

Now that's, all of that stuff, citizenship knowledge, isn't it? Because it's understanding about our society, and the impact of different actions on it as well.

So let's find out that in my research, the new information I've found out that I discovered that there was some local charities that support elderly people, and that it is possible to become a volunteer and befriend elderly people.

I found out that projects work better with collaboration.

So much better when you work with other people.

The skills that I've developed, communication skills, and planning skills, resilience.

As I thought I was going to give up, I didn't.

I learned research skills and problem solving skills.

So about myself, let's have a look.

That I enjoy spending time with elderly people.

They have lots of interesting stories about life, and it makes me feel better when I can make other people happy.

I can be confident, and talking to the local council has made me excited to extend my project because the local council, want me to spread this idea out to more people across our community.

And about others.

Well, this is an example, remember? That me and my mum get on really well when we worked together, and that's really good.

So that goes back to collaboration as well.

But I didn't really realise that my mum and dad, my mum and myself could work together so well.

So this is an example, and I'd like you to make your own.

So pause the video to complete your own table, okay? So use the worksheet.

You can pause the video and go back to the worksheet.

Copy the worksheet out if you can't print it out, and then fill in your own table about what you've learnt.

Start the video when you have finished.

So now it's all about reporting.

It's about telling everybody else about your action.

So I'd like you to write a short reflective piece in the style of a newspaper article to explain what you did, what you learned from the action, why you did it, and if you think you made an impact on your local community, and why not, okay? So you'll talk about the action that you took.

So include photographs, remember quotes.

So if people have said things that they liked about the work that you're doing, remember to put those quotes in, and say where your community is as well, because it's really nice to put that information in.

So what to include in your news item.

the first of all was the headline.

And this is words that get the main part of your issue across to your audience.

And then the next bit is the leader.

Now these are one or two sentences that give the basic facts about your product, and the change or improvement you wanted to make.

It also makes people want to read more.

'Cause they're like, oh, this story going to be interesting.

It's got some interesting parts to it, so I'm going to read more.

The story, the main part of your report is one or two short paragraphs describing what action you took.

You might like to include a photo as a piece of evidence in that because you know, every newspaper, it's nice to have a photograph as a sort of visual reference.

And I want you to explain how you feel your action made a difference, and then describe what changes you'd make next time.

So that's, remember that we talked about what went well and EBI, well, that's kind of, if you put it into a newspaper form.

And then the ending is a final sentence with a summary or statement that gives you a sense of the story.

So I would like you now to spend some time writing your news item.

So let's have a look at an example.

Young people cross the generation divide to help others.

So that's my headline.

The leader is, three local academy students created a new network of support for elderly residents in Weymouth.

That's my leader.

"Oh, that's interesting," says the reader.

Let's carry on.

So now it's main part of the story.

After an inspirational citizenship lesson, three local 12-year-old youngsters decided that loneliness wasn't something our elderly residents should suffer.

They realised that some older people weren't being able to access all of their human rights, such as the right to peaceful assembly because they were trapped in their homes.

So the students set up a coffee and chat network to regularly meet with people who are living alone.

They worked hard to build a network of people to support older people in the Coronavirus crisis, creating a neighbourhood rota where elderly people were regularly visited by young people and their parents.

This carries on let's go.

This included, chatting, reading newspapers and stories to them, and of course, plenty of tea, coffee, and biscuits.

The students said that the number of people being helped was small to start with, 14 elderly people have been involved.

The enthusiastic and kind students are keen to get more people on board and hope to extend their project across the town.

84 year old Margaret of Weymouth, said that it brightens her whole week looking forward to their visits.

And she's really enjoying the company of her new-found friends.

Local council have been in touch and would like to talk to students about how they can support their project and create a town-wide strategy for improving the lives of elderly residents.

So that's the kind of format that I'd like your story to be, okay? We've got the headline, and we've got the leader, then we've got the main story, and my summary at the end, okay? So pause whilst you write your own.

whilst you write a newspaper report, please.

And then start the video again when you're finished.

So now you've done your project, you have taken action, you've got evidence of that action, you've written a news report.

I'd like you to submit that application, please.

You don't have to, but it'd be really good if you do, because then you get an award from ACTive for doing that.

To do that you need to get a parent or carer to.

go on to the Association for Assistantship Teaching website, and find the ACTive Citizenship Award.

And in there, you'll find details of how to submit your application.

Please make sure your parents, do it not you.

So what did you learn today? Well, we learned about taking action and recording it.

So we did the action.

We talked about what we needed to have evidence for photographs and things like that.

Then we reflected upon the action, thoughts about what we did, whether it's successful or not.

We talked about measuring the impact and reporting, and then I want you to celebrate, and submit to ACT.

So we've talked about celebrating.

You should be so proud of yourself, what a brilliant job, well done, okay? You've learned many new skills, and these will be useful throughout your future life, and hopefully given you a taste of what it's like to take an active role in your community.

Well done, I'm proud of you.

You should be proud of you, and hope to see you again soon.

So if you'd like to share your work with Oak National, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

So there we go, everybody, that is the end of today's lesson.

And that's the end of the whole unit of work.

If you've managed to take some action, well done.

Let's hope this is the start of you becoming an active citizen and building your knowledge, standing up for other people, making our community a better place for everybody.

Take care of yourselves.

And I hope to see you again, bye.