The Dorothy Project is a good example of Active Citizenship, as you are getting up and doing something about the situation rather than just sitting and discussing. We produced ideas and presented them, we did not just talk about it. It is all about getting involved and working together as a team.
It benefits Active Citizenship, due to it increasing our contact with people through out the community as the Dorothy Projects was advertised in magazines and articles. It brought us closer together and allowed us to work as a team.
Personally, I believe the whole school learned a great deal from The Dorothy Project. It taught how to work as a team and to understand what thoughts younger and older people have towards situations like this. Not only that but overall I think it brought us all closer together and we learnt more about each other.
The role, in which I played, was in the Marketing team. We come up with different ideas for logos and advertisements. 1 person comes up with “Hepworth Helping Hands”.
Although we did encounter some problems, such as having little arguments of what the chosen idea would be, and some groups not working well together. No big issues! But overall the team worked well!
To overcome the issue of groups not working well together, we just simply split them up in to other groups. The other problem, which occurred (which idea would be chosen), we just debated about which 1 would work best for the elderly.
The experience of The Dorothy Project has taught me how to work as a team better and to understand about other people’s opinions on certain things. I’ve also developed better relationships with teachers and other pupils around me.
This project may help in future circumstances because it has taught me to respect people’s opinions and ideas towards certain issues. I’ve learned how to discuss issues more detailed. This could possibly help me in my future job.
Personally I found this a positive experience because I’ve learnt a lot form the discussions and people’s opinions. I found the project ok in the ‘fun’ category because it didn’t really interest me much in a great deal. In my opinion I think the students (including me), benefited most from this, as we have learnt to understand each other more. In the community I would say the elderly benefited from this idea, as we were discussing and designing something to help them in everyday life.