Before anyone drafts an Action Record, you need to see a strong one up close. Today you read a finished example about an action like the ones this class has already run, and you notice which sentences do the real work.

The Citizenship Action Record is this course's only Classroom-Based Assessment. It is reported on the Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement. Each of you makes your own record, even if the action was a group one, and it is your individual role and contribution that is judged. Schools usually complete the record in second or third year, after enough of the short course to have real action to write about. Preparation and completion take about six to eight hours of class time. You choose how to present it: written, digital, visual, audio, or a mix.

The walk-through next shows what those look like in real sentences.

Walk Orla's Citizenship Action Record together. Numbered notes pin to the phrases that make it strong against the Features of Quality. After beat 4, take sixty seconds in pairs to find the next strong phrase before it is revealed. After the last note, jot three things you would take from it for your own record in silence.

Use the three takeaways you jotted. In pairs for one minute, sharpen each into a sentence type (a number you can stand over, a snag you will admit, a change outside the group, a view that moved). Then share so the class keeps up to four clear lines on the board for drafting later.

You can recognise what a Citizenship Action Record contains, where it is reported, and which kinds of sentence make one strong against the Features of Quality. Next you choose which of your three actions to record.