Serving the Community / Media Days
Categories: Secondary, Other, Young Leaders, Blog
Hi all,
Been asked to help out a school who are running ICU (collapsed timetable) days for their Year 9s. There are 4 days - Challenge, Service, Activity and Skills (pinched from the DofE methinks!)
We’ve been asked to run two of the days (service and challenge) and have come up with an idea for the young people, in teams, to complete some form of community service on one day and to report on others’ progress on another day using video cameras and editing equipment to come up with a presentation / news report, and producing a form of newspaper describing the day’s events.
There is nothing new under the sun, and to avoid re-inventing the wheel and mixing any more metaphors, I was wondering if anyone had run days similar to either the community day or the media one, or knew of resources that might help in this.
Thanks, you stars!
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I’ve got some experience of these kind of days ~ a lot of hard work, and a lot of fun, and I think it’s really good to inject the language of the spiritual into the work. Are you going to give them a spiritual challenge, and and opportunity for spiritual service? Hope so.
Give them some real high impact examples of what others have done - Damaris are a source for this through the global student forum. I’ve got some interesting case studies as well, expecially the Maputo Tree of Life project (contact me if you want more on this). Your idea sounds great - students will really warm to it. Where have all the video cams come from - is it a phone based project?
also check out crux media, YFC’s media and film team… they’re great! http://media.thecrux.co.uk/
Thanks for the feedback on this - the school changed the goalposts at the last minute and we ended up having to put together a Team Challenge day. It went OK. :)