Citizenship community service

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        Citizenship Coursework A

Citizenship Coursework A

During year 6 in my primary school, me and 3 of my friends participated in a group task for my school and community.  

As a group we had to collect gift items for our annual Christmas hampers for our elderly citizens. We knew that many of them are on their own, and often never see anyone.

Whilst carrying out this task we had to organise how we were going to carry out the hamper collection, as a group we came up with some ideas:

  • Tell people in assembly about the hamper project.
  • Ask friends and people at home to take part and help
  • Write a letter to the head teacher to help us with the hamper collection as well

The next step was to decorate the boxes to a show the elderly that we care. Then we had to make sure each box contained an equal amount of food and also an equal amount of variety of food as the other boxes.

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Whilst carrying out this task, my role was to go to forms in year 6, to tell them about the hamper collection, I went to these to forms with a one of my group member everyday for a week at registration time.

After decorating the boxes we had to get a list of senior citizens who would appreciate receiving the gift boxes from us. We decided to do this by asking family and friends firstly and then put a message on the bulletin board asking all students to name of someone. The response we received was excellent as we very ...

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