1. Olz Green
10R
GCSE Coursework part A
For my citizenship course work I have chosen to write about my year seven personal
challenge experiences. The activity I was involved in was a charity fund raiser for a
charity of my choice. The charity I choose was the RSPCA. The aim of the activity
was to raise money for the RSPCA to help animals that are being miss treated by their
owners. The activity I choose to host was a betting/guess the height event which
people would basically put 50p on a height between 1m and 10m and then at the end
of the event or time to pack up which ever came first. The winner would receive an
Easter egg. The people that I would try and involve would be anyone of any age as
long as they had money to spend on betting and helping the RSPCA.I got involved
because of two reasons a. I had to and b. I wanted to help the RSPCA because I think
that it’s wrong to miss treat animals. I didn’t have to fill out an application form I just
needed to raise money for a charity which I did and this activity was important to me
because I think that animals cannot defend them selves against the human attackers.
As part of this activity I was involved in everything on my own because I chose to go
alone so as to teach myself to meet deadline and not to rely on other people and so
this means that I had to do all of the work on my own. The amount of responsibilities
I had was immense and I knew I had to work hard to succeed. Some of the
responsibilities were preparing a chart for people to bet on, getting the rockets height
‘I had some help form my family’, and getting to the fate on time was another one of
my many responsibilities. I didn’t work in a group but it was still important to
cooperate with the members of staff at the fate and also my family when they were
helping me. I think that the key to success in this stage of the experience was to get
my head down and keep working because if I got distracted and started talking to
people then I would have lost focus and possibly missed vital parts to my activity. My
involvement in this activity helped the RSPCA fund the needs of the abandoned dogs
and cats and other animals that have had major misfortune. The RSPCA was affected
by this because they got some help for the animal’s needs like food and staff’s wages
and these could also be classified as benefits and this probably really helped them.
A new skill that I learnt whilst on this activity was how to be gently persuade people
to place a bet on the height and ultimately help animals that have been abused.
Another skill that I have learned is how to meet deadlines and that you have to think
about when to start and predict when to finish and to stick to a plan of what to do
when. The main thing that I learned about myself from his activity was that I’m very
relaxed about things because when other people are worrying I wasn’t and I also
another skill that I learned was that I wasn’t very good to keeping to deadlines and
sometimes had to rush bits of the project because I wasn’t prepared for it because I
hadn’t stuck to my plan. I overcame this problem by putting in extra effort on the
other parts of the project and by putting it in in my spare time. Quite a few things
surprised me about the experience one of which was the amount of people that betted
on the height just because it was for the RSPCA. The difficulties that I faced whilst on
this task were far and few because except for the incident where I forgot to do some
of the pictures to go on the stall and I had to quickly do it on the computer and print it
but if I choose to remind myself then the quality of the pictures would have been a lot
better apart from that no problems occurred

2. Overall I enjoyed the activity but I wouldn’t do it again just for the fact that I’d rather
change the activity to see if I could make more money from another kind of activity
like a charity run or one like that. I feel that I could extend this activity by making the
prices higher, advertising it maybe and be abit more forthcoming with my approach to
persuading people to place a bet and help the animals. I can use the skills and
knowledge that I’ve learned to help me with my coursework like this and I could
possibly use it if I became a sales person even though that’s not my aim in life.