Group Sustainability Action Project

The second component of this qualification is the only piece of assessed work in your whole school career that you are forbidden to do on your own. It is worth 40 per cent of the grade, it runs through six named stages, and it ends not with a report filed away but with an action delivered to a real audience: an assembly, a letter-writing campaign, a petition, an event, a piece of media, a period of volunteering. Something in the world has to be different because your group did this.

And yet the mark is yours alone. This lesson maps the whole component: why it cannot be completed individually and what happens if a group falls apart, what you submit, how the 48 marks are spread across the six stages, why the 2,000 word report covers only four of those stages, and where the specification insists you collaborate and where it insists you work alone. You will set group and personal goals for a real issue, budget a report across four stages, and work out what a group of two does when one member leaves.