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Letter to redcross - learning objective 3

                                                                               Wymondham High School

                                                                                                           Folly Road

                                                                                                     Wymondham

                                                                                                                Norfolk

Tuesday 7th December 2010

Dear Sir/Madam,

                              Last Tuesday we went to Browick Infant school to do our performance to teach the children about donating to charity. Two groups performed a play on donating to charity. I was in one of the performance groups saying to donate to your charity and the other group did another charity.  We told them how to donate and where.  We didn’t any donations but that could be because it’s near Christmas so they might have already given their old toys away. Even though we weren’t successful in that we were successful in making the children think about donating and sharing.  At the end Sam asked the children if they donated to charity and the majority said yes and he also asked who buys from charity shops  and most of them put their hands up. 

Younger and elderly people tend to buy from charity shops  more than anyone because they don't really care about what anyone else thinks of them and they are encouraged to buy from charity shops. The target audience should be the next generation because they think that it's 'uncool' to go in a charity shop, but they don't realise how it could change someones life.  To get young adults in your charity shop, i think you should rearrange your shop to make it suitable for all ages.   

The message behind our campaign is to get more people to donate to the RedCross this Christmas. We did get people to acknowledge the redcross and donating to your charity. We did get one donation. We probably didn't get many donations because it's nearly Christmas and they might of passed things down the family or already donated it. But the children do share and donate.

Yours sincerely, Ellie                                                                                                                                        

Theatre In Education at Browick School - LO3

Today we went to Browick Infant school  in Wymondham high school. When we got there we did our performance straight away. Because of the snow a few people couldn't get to school so Ryan had to do Bradley's part, i had to do Hollie's part and Mrs Haythorpe had to do my part. It didn't go very well because we didn't rehearse together and we had to improvise most of it but the Children got the idea. After the performances us three groups went into a class each and did workshops with them. In our workshop Ryan and Beth was meant to lead but Beth wasn't there and Sam wanted to lead so he led. The first thing we did was the opposites game, if Sam said hip then they had to say hop and hop, if Sam said Salt then they had to say pepper and put their hands above their heads. The second activity we did was me and Vickey had to pretend to fight over a pot of pens and the Children had to shout freeze when they think we did something wrong. Then they had to tell us what we did wrong and tell us what we should've done instead. After, the children got into groups of seven and all of us had to go with a group and they had to perform their own version of sharing. Afterwards some of them performed to each other. When they all did that they all went to the tables and drew what they thought sharing looked like. We took to drawings back so we could upload it onto our blogs. Then we all went back to Wymondham High. I think that a few things didn't go to plan but it did go faily successful. Our performances didn't go very well but they did get the message and when Sam asked who donates to charity and who buys from charity nearly all of them put thier hands up, and in the workshops all of them got the idea of sharing. I don't think the campaign has been successful with donations because it's nearly Christmas and people don't have much money to donate and people at high school probably don't really have any toys to donate because they might of donated them before. Our target audience is everyoine and i think that we could get them donating by making charity shops more modern and suitable for all ages. Usually only elderly oy young children go to charity shops. To promote our campaign we could put up huge posters and we could hold concerts or have a fair or something like that. To promote it, we could have a tv ad and put up posters and give out leaflets.

On our blogs we have to include in our blogs.

• Reflect on TIE performance
• Workshops
• Success - raising awareness profile of charity shops - donations
• Use Q's you asked and use 'data'
• Use photo's and annotations
• Use Video
• Why hasn't campaign been successful with donations.
• Pictures - children's

Letter to charity shops informing them of what you have done.

The British RedCross

For homework i had to research the Red Cross:
The British Recross are a charity that help with natural disasters, finding missing people, heath and safety, social care and lots more. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with over 31,000 volunteers and 2,600 staff. The British recross society is the United Kingdom's branch of the worldwide impartial organisation, the international Recross and RedCresent. In 1914, the British Recross joined forces with the Order of st. John ambulance to form the joint war committee. The Recross are a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. The enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for, and respond to emergencies in their own communities. Also when the crisis is over, they help people recover and move on with their lives. :)

campaign

We have just watched the videos on YouTube called 'Mary Queen Of Charity Shops'. It shows you Mary Portas going into a charity shop and finding out what things they can sell and what things they have to chuck away. They are able to sell 25% of donations they get so that's 2 out 10 items they can sell. Mary changed the unorganised, filthy charity shop into an improved and cleaner charity shop which will sell more items and raise more money. :)