Theme E

Question 1

range of methods that can be used for citizenship actions

Answer 1

• petitions
• skibidi protests and demonstrations
• lobbying polititians
• public meetings
• newsletters and leaflets

Question 2

in no more than 20 words, write the title of our action

Answer 2

to raise student awareness in the importance of the younger years having an interest in politics

Question 3

secondary research of our action and how it helped prepare us for what we needed to do

Answer 3

• we looked at gov statistics to find out that only 45% of voters between 18-24 actually vote
• we saw that 40% of teenagers 16-24 had no interest in politics at all
• so we decided to target younger years and tell them about how important having at least a moderate interest in politics is

Question 4

our primary research and how it helped us

Answer 4

• we did a survey for students within the school
• the survey covered students from each year
• it showed us that the younger years had a lack of interest in politics due to its lack of appeal to them, this explained the gov statistics we looked at
• this helped as it showed we needed to raise awareness among students in the school as to why exactly having an interest in politics was important

Question 5

how does the government believe we should tackle the issue

Answer 5

• the gov believes in engaging young people into politics by a range of activities that help them engage with their local mp and understand their role
• evidence being the youth engagement toolkit

Question 6

what is our opinion on how to tackle the issue

Answer 6

• as a group we believe that few of the students who actively take an interest in politics should engage with classmates and help them in understanding the basics of democracy and politics in the uk (to help them develop an interest)
• we did this by giving short lessons on politics in select classes

Question 7

why is the governments view on tackling the issue more persuasive than ours

Answer 7

• because the activities provided such as the youth toolkit help young people interact and learn directly from those who are involved in politics
• this helps them develop a better interest in politics as they are inspired and know more than the basics in politics

Question 8

considering both viewpoints, why did we choose our view instead

Answer 8

• because we believed we related to the students
• so showing them and teaching them the basics of politics was more likely to get them interested as they relate to us

Question 9

who did our action target

Answer 9

• the students within our school

Question 10

criteria for judging success

Answer 10

• holding a politics quiz before and after a short lesson to see how scores differ
• creating a final survey on the students interest in politics within our school

Question 11

the resources we had available for our action

Answer 11

• computers and powerpoints in each classroom

Question 12

our action (simplified)

Answer 12

deliver short lessons on the basics of uk polittics to a class from each year, we did this to get poeple interested in politics and we had a short quiz before and after to judge our success

Question 13

allocated roles to each team member

Answer 13

ifaad- email teachers to arrage our visiting times in the classes

yusuf- creating the powerpoints with our lesson information

rayaan- help with the powerpoint and to create the quiz for before the lesson

adis- to create a script with what we would say in the lessons

amaar- to create the quiz for after the talk and to create the survey to judge our success

Question 14

how did we demonstrate teamwork

Answer 14

• we each split planning and executing the action and took shared responsibility in our action to save time and contribute equally

Question 15

how did we demonstrate collaboration and why was it important

Answer 15

• we showed collaboration by each taking a different role in the preparation and execution of the action
• this was important as it lead to our action benefiting from a range of ideas and skillsets

Question 16

how did we negotiate and influence in our action

Answer 16

• we negotiated with teachers to take a portion of their lessons for our short talk
• we also negotiated with our own teachers to let us out
• we infuenced students to take an interest in politics as we gave them a shirt introduction into it

Question 17

how did the action achieve its goals

Answer 17

• overall, there was an increase of 30% in the amount of students around school who had an interest in politics
• students knew more about politics which is crucial for when they become of age to vote

Question 18

what would we do differently in the future if we did this action again

Answer 18

• we would increase the amount of talks we gave so that our knowledge could be shared to a wider audience of students within the school
• we would also do more primary research so we could find out more about why students in our school arent interested in politics, this would help as we could deliver a different action that actively challanges the rservations students have in liking politics

Question 19

how well did our action work in practice

Answer 19

worked very well as students around our school knew more and liked politics more

Question 20

what impact did the action have on our own citizenship learning

Answer 20

• it helped us understand as to why people may become disenchanted voters
• helped us understand ways that a group can challenge an issue
• helped us learn from our mistakes