This document outlines the requirements and planning for a student-led action project to take place over 5 to 12 weeks. It discusses forming committees to take on tasks like letter-writing, art, organizing, research, and surveying. Students are instructed to open their reflective journals to pages that ask them to propose project ideas and note meeting and reflection requirements. The project aims to raise awareness, funds, or learning on an issue while encouraging participation. Information gathering and regular reflection on the project experience are emphasized.

1.  Try to print out and hand these out.
 Print and stick on wall somewhere marked first years.
Note to self

2. THE PROJECT EVENT SHOULD TAKE
PLACE IN BETWEEN 5 – 12 WEEKS.
A report must be written on the event
afterwards and that will be your
Summer, and Junior Cert, Score.
Important notes

3. Homework: will be action project for next couple weeks.
Skills: Literacy, working together
Warm-up – pens, paper, journal, books
Open reflective journals page 104 and fill in:
Page 104 asks you to fill in two possible actions to do for your
action project. Write in one that the class has agreed on and
one you would prefer should the first one not be able to be
done.
Objectives:
1. Examine the reflective journal and what needs to be filled in
over the next couple of weeks .
2. Make sure everyone gets onto a committee before next week.
Heading: Action Project 1 Date:

4.  It is important that the action report is not seen as something you
write after the project. You will write parts of it along the way.
 The project is a student organized activity. You may use the
teacher for assistance and advice but the majority of the work will
be your own and done outside class.
 Today, while examining what the project is asking for, you shall
read some notes that will help define what you need.
Plan for today Action project 1 Date:

5.  (Note) Skills we are expected to use on page 105.
1. Communication: talking and listening to others.
2. Organisation: planning and setting up things (big and small).
3. Creativity: coming up with ideas.
4. Staying well: considering people’s feelings, including your own.
5. Managing information: thinking about what you see.
 Managing myself, Being literate, Being numerate and more
specific skills based on your committee or job.
Page 105 – notes to help

6.  It is important you have a job and you know what other
people are doing too. How are they helping your project?
1. Letter-writing: permissions, invitations, passing information.
2. Art: advertising and decorating.
3. Organising: physical labour, helping others.
4. Research: gathering information online.
5. Speech: public speaking, interviewing, questioning.
6. Survey: gathering information in person.
7. Photography: gathering evidence for reports.
8. Management committee: In charge of other committees.
9. And more specific committees can be created to – charity committee.
Page 106 - 107 – Committees

7.  Cannot do this till after the action is complete however, if
we get to the end and you are unable to answer these
questions, you did something wrong.
 Let’s read them now.
Page 108 - 110 – reflections

8.  Open page 111 in the reflective journal
and focus on question 2. Your teams
must have FIVE meetings OUTSIDE
CLASSTIME. This can include
mornings, lunchtimes, after school,
skype/online. Not class time.
Page 111 – things you have to do

9.  Your aims should include:
1. Raising awareness about an issue or charity and
encouraging other people to do things.
2. Raising money or helping people in some way and
encouraging other people to do the same.
3. Learning or finding out more about a topic and
encouraging other people to do the same.
Page 112 - 113 – Aims

10.  It is not just a research team that needs to get information.
 Art teams need things to draw.
 Organisation teams need to know how to do stuff.
 People writing need to know the structure of letters.
 People talking need help learning how to speak in public.
 Sources include teachers, the internet, books, actual
people in the world and places where information is stored
like a library.
Page 114 – Gathering information

11.  Throughout the project, you must be on the look out for
certain things and be questioning yourself:
1. What did you do?
2. What was interesting?
3. What did you learn?
4. How’d you overcome challenges?
5. How’d you feel?
6. How did you grow as a person?
 If you don’t do anything, these questions will be painful
and you’ll fail. Try and take part and have fun.
Page 116 - 121 – personal stuff.

12.  Committees should be organised. Each team will be given a
large piece of paper to write down all the things they have
to do.
 I suggest a management committee be formed now by
public vote. Each committee should have max 3-4 people
and one of them should be labelled the leader of that
team.
 After next class, all project work will be outside the CSPE
class. Homework will be writing reports and filling in
these pages we looked at today.
What needs to be done for next week.

13. 1. Management committee.
2. Letter-writing
3. Art
4. Organising.
5. Research.
6. Speech.
7. Survey.
8. Photography.
9. Charity committee.
10. A specific job that you and two - three others can do.
Examples of Committees
• Note: There are jobs no one wants.
There are difficult jobs. No project
worth doing is done easy. When it is
finished however, the more work you
put in, the more proud you will be of
yourself. Good luck.