Community Participation

Just a reminder of the information given in assemblies this week......

Community Participation 

Pupils to complete 15 hours through being involved in a number of different things, examples include:

• Activities working to improve the environment of the school or community – recycling schemes, clearing waste ground, cleaning graffiti.
• Helping with younger pupils (in a school situation) - buddy schemes, coaching football, ICT support.
• Helping with the elderly in the community – organise tea dance, hold ICT courses for pensioners, organise a Xmas party.
• Act as volunteer for children/youth organisations –Brownies/Scouts/Guides, youth club, summer camps, Urdd, sports coaching, performing arts coaching.
• Charitable fundraising activities – prepare and sell products/service, organise and perform a musical/drama production, sponsored activities.
• Produce a product for local organisation – paint a mural in local hospital, make plant holders for care home garden, make a sensory garden for a Special school. 
• Carry out volunteer work in a placement - nursing/residential home,day centre, nursery, playgroup, charity shop.
• Volunteering section of the Duke of Edinburgh award.

Examples of volunteering website include:-

http://www.vvb.org.uk/

http://www.volunteering-wales.net/

http://www.gwirvol.org/

http://www.csv.org.uk/?display=volunteering

http://www.wcva.org.uk/

Your Assembly Website

 

 

Click on the link to be directed to the new Welsh Assembly resource for young people. You will be covering this resource in WBQ lessons. You will find lots of information in the resource that may help you with your Individual Investigation. Click Here

YEAR 10 WBQ Investigation deadline

YEAR 10 WBQ Investigation deadlines have now been set:
First draft to be handed in on Tuesday 4th November 2014.
This will then be marked and handed back to you during the week of 17th November.
Your final draft must be handed in on Monday 15th December 2014.
All work (both draft and final) should be handed into the library by 2.15pm on the deadline day. You will also need to sign your class sheet to say that work has been submitted.