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Operation Christmas Child Evaluation Essay

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Operation Christmas Child Evaluation
As a 6th Form in Year 12, we decided to help the organisation Operation Christmas Child for our service learning. Operation Christmas Child is an organisation which sends filled shoeboxes of little gifts to countries where children don’t have the same opportunities as us to receive a Christmas present. We as a team, wanted to involve the whole of our school so we could support Operation Christmas Child as much as possible. Before we could start anything, we needed to plan everything as a class/team.
One of the first things we did is get into small groups and then share out tasks/jobs so we could all take part in a task to contribute to the project. Sian, Charlie-Anne and myself, were given the task to present our ideas to Mr Roberts. We made a PowerPoint which included all the information on Operation Christmas Child so Mr Roberts was given a full understanding on why we wanted to do this project. We were given approval to starting this project. Before the meeting took place, Sian, Charlie-Anne and myself had to construct emails to Mrs Wells. Other jobs that were carried out with my peers included:
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We gained approval from Mr Roberts from which gave the rest of the class the sign to make sure all the other tasks were ready to be delivered. We all had to communicate as a class to make sure everyone was up to speed and to tell the class when a task was complete so then another group could then deliver their task. This was a successful strength of the class since we had to communicate in diverse ways whether it was with our peers or emailing teachers or constructing letters to parents. Personally, this has helped me in a variety of ways by improving my formal writing and communicating with my peers. As an improvement for the next task we do, I feel that as a team, we could all communicate a bit more quicker instead of giving information last

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