Evaluation postcards

You’ll need

Coloured pens or pencils
Craft materials (for example, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, stickers)
Blank postcards

Activity Plan (Evaluation Postcards)

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Before you begin

Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Take a look at our guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples.
Make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help.

Make postcards

The person leading the activity should give everyone a postcard.
Everyone should decorate their postcard to show what they did to take action.
On the other side of their postcard, everyone should write one thing they’ve learned about looking after the planet, and one thing they’ve going to do as a result of what they’ve learned.

For example, someone might have learned how crucial pollination is in creating the food we eat and clothes we wear. It’s thought that without bees, it would cost UK farmers £1.8 billion a year to pollinate our crops. Our diets could also become less varied and less nutritious, which could impact our health! A great postcard pledge from this could be to create more habitats for bees, like the one in Build a bee hotel.

Everyone should put their names on their postcards and the person leading the activity should collect them all.

Get the postcards back

In a few weeks, the person leading the game should give everyone their postcards back.
Everyone should think back to the session and think about whether they achieved what they set out to do.

Reflection

This activity is all about learning and making more change, so that you can continue to be a citizen and help your community. When writing or reading the postcards, ask people who feel comfortable to share:

Their favourite part of the project? (This might have been deciding on an issue to tackle, coming up with ideas for taking action, or getting out and about in the local area and making a difference. Have people changed their minds since choosing a moment for their postcard?)
How completing it has impacted them? (Social action develops us as much as it helps others. People might feel more confident in making a difference or voicing their concerns or opinions.)
What other ways are there to create positive impact for the issue you chose to address? (Start to plan how everyone can continue to make a difference, and then review what you’ve done since writing the postcard.)

Everyone should be proud of making a big impact on their community over the last few months.

Safety

All activities must be safely managed. You must complete a thorough risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Always get approval for the activity, and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.

You must run your activities in line with the Safeguarding Code of Conduct for Adults (Yellow Card) and report any concerns to the UK HQ Safeguarding Team.