Year 10/11 GCSE,
Congratulations!
• Most of you have now completed the short
course GCSE
• 50% of full GCSE – half way there.
• Full Course is made up of another 2 units
– Unit 4 Controlled Assessment Task = 30%
– Unit 3 exam held in May 2012 = 20%
What are we going to do for the rest of
the summer term?
• We are going to concentrate on Unit 4 controlled
assessment
• hopefully finish it all by end of term, July 2011.
• Then concentrate on exam next year
Topics on exam
• Community action and active citizenship (already covered)
• Being a citizen in the UK: democracy and identity (partly done)
• Fairness and justice (new)
• Global issues and making a difference (new)
What does that mean?
• You have to do an action that is more than just
advocacy (a presentation to a group)
• It can be linked to the Short Course (Unit 2)
tasks so that suggestions made for further
action in Stage 4 of the Assessment Criteria
could be pursued, if you are still interested in
that topic.
Building on from Unit 2
• In Stage 4 of the Controlled Assessment for the Short
Course you were asked to suggest future action that
you could take to further the issue you had been
advocating – a pressure group, voluntary
organisation or charity.
• Use your previous suggestions, recent information or
developments and other appropriate strategies to
take informed and responsible action to further
promote the issue.
What can I do?
• Fund raising event (sponsored walk, run, bun
sale, etc. )
• Awareness raising event (eg school assembly,
inviting a speaker form the organisation )
• Form a branch of your organisation in school
• Organise a petition on a particular issue
• Write letters to local council, MP or
government
More Advice
• Need to negotiate democratic decisions within your
group.
• Investigate different forms of action that could be
taken and choose one to carry out.
• Plan and carry out the chosen course of action.
• Collect evidence of changes in attitudes, policies, or
intentions. This could include letters from people in
authority, a petition, new people becoming involved,
increases in donations, etc.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of your action.
Further Guidance
• All of the work for this controlled assessment
including the presentation will be done in the
summer term
• As with Unit 2, Candidates are encouraged to follow
a particular interest to work individually or in a small
group during the research, planning and action
stages. Writing up must be done individually.
• You should spend between 20 hours in total on the
controlled assessment. (10 hours in class and 10
hours of homework)
• You have to arrange yourself or in your group all the
details of your action
Do I have to do the same pressure
group or charity?
• No, you could choose a different one
• But you have done much of the research in
Unit 2. So it would be a shame to waste it.
• Please get permission from your teacher if you
want to change topic.
OR something completely new
“ My neighbourhood is
boring!
There’s nothing to do.”
OR something completely new
• Young people often complain that there is
nothing to do in their local community.
• You need to take informed and responsible
action to find out about facilities for young
people, and
– publicise them, or
– take action to improve one of them.
More advice on facilities for young
people
• Use a variety of sources of information to discover what facilities there are
for young people in your community.
• Find out what young people would value most or what should be improved.
• Discuss what different forms of action you could take.
• Negotiate a democratic decision on what action to take.
• Plan and carry out the chosen course of action either
– Publicise the information that you find.
– Or take other action to improve the facilities
• Collect evidence of changes in attitudes, policies, or intentions. This could
include letters to and from people in authority; a petition; new people
becoming involved, etc.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of your action.
Please talk to your teacher if you want to do something like this.