Year 7 Students Make a Global Difference Through their IT Studies

During Term 3 Year 7 students use their IT skills to organise a fundraising project for the charity Practical Action. The students were incredibly creative with the ideas that they came up with for fund raising activities and were able to quickly collate and present the totals of the amounts raised using their spreadsheet skills. The project also reflected a key area of the IT curriculum in that it enabled students to develop their co-working skills and use their IT knowledge in real-life situations.

Together Year 7 raised £1628.33 and following an online poll students overwhelmingly decided to focus their assistance on shelter, clean water and sanitation by spending the money on the following items:

• 1 flood proof home for a Bangledesh family. This is built on a 2 metre plinth and has room for family members to shelter during flood events. 
• 3 flood proof water pumps for Bangledesh that will stop water supplies being contaminated by sewage during the monsoon floods.
• 5 clean water taps for residents in Zimbabwe’s cities where less than 1% of homes are connected to a water supply. 
• 6 eco-loos for Zimbabwe’s cities that will prevent the water table being contaminated by sewage.

As Jackie Taylor from Practical Action says: “Without your help our work simply would not be possible, so please pass on our thanks to your Year 7 students who raised this generous donation through their IT project”

Well done Year 7!

Mr T Cox, CTL BITE - the curriculum area for Business Studies, Politics, Information Technology and Economics