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 * __ Our Group: __**

**__ Group Mentor: __** JW, Miss Jessica Williams (Orange Temperament)

//__ Group Values: __//

 * Trust
 * Love
 * Family

//__Our Aims and Goals:__//

 * We want to go out and help the starlight foundation. This includes colouring in competition and other activities that will create a smile on their faces. We were also considering the Salvos.
 * Variety is also an organisation that we want to help out.
 * We also want to be successful on our learning and to achieve helping others in the community.
 * We want to focus on families and children in our outreach group.

//__**Google Docs page:**__//
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iXmPge5YGayehZELJvaV3uxftU3mkbephCK_gWGXOsw/edit

__ Group Blogs __ Charnae: 01/05/12 Today there was only Miss Williams and Miss Elmer to teach us. They taught us about different types of temperaments and I discovered that I was more of a blue temperament. We learnt about how to work with people with different temperaments too. We finally watched the Movie “Pay it Forward”. I really enjoyed this movie has it was quite inspirational and it was quite interesting how a young boy could make a change in the world. I guess they made us watch this movie to show inspiration and what a small act can do. This will also shown to allow us to open our minds to the possibilities that we have with our outreach groups and what we can do to help the outer community. We also talked about how we’re going to deal with our community helpings. We talked about a submission form and how it is correctly used and also a schedule.

Jess Williams: 01/05/2012 Today in Deal year nine was divided, half of us were on excursions the remaining of us were with Miss Elma and Miss Williams. Only Charnae and myself were here the rest of our group was off on excursions. We worked individually as our group members were away. Miss Williams and Miss Elma ran an activity on finding what colour best describes our personality. I am a blue person, so I like everything calm and co-operative. We discussed groups and the roles that each member plays. For the rest of the day we watched the heartwarming movie “Pay it Forward” basically it is about a young boy who reaches out to his local community in an effort to try and change the world. I felt really inspired whilst watching the movie as this boy had so many brilliant ideas and such enthusiasm to help his family friends and eventually the world. I could easily relate my values to the movie and I gained a lot of ideas for my groups future. Overall it was a very informative day.

Bao: 08/05/12 Today in Deal, we watched the movie ‘Pay It Forward’ while half of the Year 9‘s went on their excursions. From the movie ‘Pay It Forward’, I learnt to help someone and they will pass that kindness to other people and those people will pass it on to others and how it will continue like a big line and will never end. It inspired me to help others around me more often. Our teachers introduced to us the OutReach Program. We did an activity naming our different values. We then compared our values to other people and then we formed different groups. In these groups, we had all had similar values which formed the group. The members of my OutReach Group are: Charnae, Jordan T, Breanna, Tessa and Jess W. We then had to think up of a group name for our OutReach, after a few minutes we finally came up with an answer, we decided that our group name will be TLF (Trust Loving Family).

Jordan: 08/05/12 Today in DEAL some groups went to there excursions and half of the year level stayed back at school to do work Ms Elmer set us to work with this sheet called compering your values then we had to see which colour we were I was orange and other people were different colours. Our group is called TLF (Trustful Loving Family) the members in our group are Bao, Breanna, Tessa, Jess W and Charnae. At the end of the day we watched at sad movie called Pay It Forward and it was about someone doing a good deed and paying it forward. We talked about the poster and how our values are the same as Pay It Forward. In the movie Pay It Forward I learnt that if you do something nice to someone they will or should pay you back.

Tessa: 08/05/12 Today in deal we watched Pay it Forward, it was a really inspirational movie about a boy trying to change the world for the better, it showed us even the littlest things can help change the world. It has shown us the possibilities that we have with our outreach groups and what we can do to help the community. We talk about what colour we were which best describes our personality I was a energetic orange, we also talked about how we can communicate with the other colours in our groups and there benefits and disadvantages that they can bring to the group. We also talked about the roles in the group and who should be the minuets and the chair and who was best for the job. we also talked about what our group will be focusing on in outreach and some of the organizations we might be using to help make the world a better place.

Breanna: 08/05/12 On the 8th of March all of the year nines were split in half, half of us was at the excursion and the other half stayed at school. I was at school with Tessa, we all watched a movie called Pay it forward, it was a very sad movie, from the movie Pay it forward i learnt that it is very important to help others and anyone can do it. After the movie we did an actives that showed us what colour we were. The colours show us how we work and what worked well for us and what doesn’t. My colour is Gold, Gold people like to know everything, they work very well, they always get their work done, they like to get thing in on time and they like to be leaders. We learnt that everyone works differently and has their own ways of learning. It was a good day.

Tessa: 15/05/12 In todays deal class we did different activities that made us become better and work better as a group and how we can communicates correctly with each other. We played a Human Knot game which helped us to become patient and cooperative with the other people. After the activities we were about to find out who was going to be our mentor.for outreach. We prepared our speech that we were going to present to the teachers. In our speech we included our main goal and focus, we also talked about what colour values we had and what we would like to achieve. After our speech, 3 teachers agreed with us, they were Ms Elmer, Ms Constantino and Ms Williams, after a short discussion we finally decided and chose Ms Williams to be our Mentor Teacher as we found out that she has had experience with charity groups such as Variety and Starlight, and she was a orange.

Jess Williams: 15/05/2012 Today in Deal our group came together to build a stronger team relationship and we definitely learnt how to co-operate and deal with each other...literally! We played numerous games and activities during the morning to get to know our group. The first game we played was ‘The Human knot’ although we were not quite successful we still had a lot of fun and got to know each other better. The second game we played was a leadership game, we had to cross a bunch of small square boxes and only land on the ones that were considered safe. We won this game and all got a lolly! For the rest of the day our group prepared an oral presentation. We combined all of our information from Deal and put it into words. We had to present in front of all the teachers in an audition process similar to ‘The Voice’ we present in front of the teachers and when they hear something they like they turn around. The majority of teachers turned around for us, we choose Miss Williams as she is understanding, nice, organised and will definitely be able to successfully work with out group. After we had chosen Miss Williams, Miss Elma informed us that Miss Williams had worked with the charities ‘Starlight’ and ‘Variety’ which are the two charities we want to pursue our outreach program with.

Breanna: 15/05/12 On the 15th we got into ours groups again and we did different some actives that helped us work as a team and get to now the people in our group more. The first actives was called human not, was had to work as a team to get us all out of the not. The other active was called the maze and we had to get through to the other side using team work and working together to help each other through the maze. After all the actives we did the voice where we got to find out who we going to be our mentor. We got Miss Williams for our mentor, our group we very happy that she is our mentor as she did Variety last year and that is what we want to do, so she knows what she is doing and she can help us a lot.

Bao: 15/05/12 Today in Deal, we continued with our OutReach Programs, we did different activities that made us become better and work better as a group. The activities helped us cooperate better with our group members. The activities we participated in were: A Land Mine Game and the Human Knot Game. The Land Mine Game helped us to work better together as we discovered all the dangerous positions and told our group members where to go so that they were safe and we would progress and win the game. The Human Knot Game helped us to become patient and cooperative with our group as sometimes we would muck up and tangle ourselves together but then we were calm and took our time to work together and managed to successfully untangle ourselves. After the activities we were about to find out who was going to be our mentor. We prepared our speech that we were going to present to the teachers. In our speech, it included our main goal, what colour values we had and what we would like to achieve. After our speech, three teachers agreed with us, they were: Ms Elmer, Ms Constantino and Ms Williams, after a short discussion amongst ourselves we finally decided and chose Ms Williams to be our Mentor Teacher as we found out that she has had experience with charity groups such as Variety and Starlight.

Jordan: 15/05/12 Today In DEAL we continued our OutReach Programs and we did all sorts of different activities that made us work as a team and make us come closer as a group. We played a game called The Land Mine and another game called Human Knot. Then we had to choose our mentor so we played a game of the voice and we choose Ms Williams as our mentor because she worked with Starlight and Variety and thats what we want to do work with sick kids as our OutReach.

Charnae: 15/05/12 This lesson, we participated in activities that would build our group co-operation skills. We played communication games and it tested how well we listen to each other. We played games like human knott and other games that were used in leadership. We worked through our first agenda as a group which led us to our oral presentation for the teachers. We put together an oral presentation to present to the mentors. We were able to pick a mentor that chose us and we chose Miss Williams. During our presentation we talked about the various temperaments that we have in our outreach group and how it could effect the decision making over the course of our outreach. We were able to communicate with other people from other groups via Skype to discuss about our goals, aims and plans for our outreach. We also were able to research about our charity and look at the various charities that we could help that include helping families and children.

Jordan: 29/05/12 Today in DEAL we work on our OutReach programs we worked on our poster we did a lot of stuff and today was like our first official lession where we worked with our group the whole day and Jess went to this master class meeting and then there was this agenda on google docs and we read through it as a group and then we were back on task. Today we have completed a lot of work and I am proud of our group that we have accomplished this much.

Bao: 29/05/12 Today in Deal we continued to work with our OutReach program, today was our official OutReach lesson. We edited our WikiSpaces Website and added more information to it and decorated it. Today we split up into twos and worked on different tasks, I was working on the logo of our website with Charnae, we had a little bit of trouble trying to find a suitable template for our logo so it stands out to kids, but in the end we managed to get it done. Jordan and Tessa were searching up pictures that we could use for our posters and website, they searched up different sorts of things that would benefit our task and learning. Jess and Breanna worked on the posters, the posters they created together turned out successful and very colourful. Today in Deal, we as a group accomplished so many tasks as we had the whole day committed to OutReach. I am proud of my group for what we have accomplished so far, i think that we will be successful in the OutReach Program in the future.

Charnae: 29/05/12 This lesson, we had our first full day of Outreach. Our mentor, Miss Williams was absent so thankfully, we had help from Miss Costantino. We worked on our group poster which would be put up around the year 9 area. We put quotes and put a bit in information about us on it. We made out wikispaces page more presentable and attractive. Bao and I were focusing on getting our group logo which took a long time but it turned up looking really well. Once the group page was up and running, we got a googledocs page which was where we record everything we do in class and out of class. Individually, we researched about the foundations and brainstormed more ideas on what we could do to help out the community based on our goals and values.

Tessa: 29/05/12 In this week outreach class we were working on our wiki spaces pages, uploading our reflections on to the page and making our page colorful and pretty, we also made a group logo for our website and we started to think about what will be our goals will be and how we can make a difference out in the community. Our group is very co-operative and can work well together. Then our group made a poster about our group and we allocated to different roles to help produce them quicker, I worked with Breanna and we searched different quotes that would suite or group well and then Jess added them to our poster. We wrote of agenda for next week and Jess was the chair and Charnae was minutes.

Jess: 29/05/12 Today was our most efficient day in DEAL! As a group we accomplished a lot. Unfortunately our amazing mentor Miss Williams was absent and we had to work without her. I attended the google docs master class and I found using google docs to be a great privilege. I then gathered my group in room twenty-one and I joined them all to our google docs account I created. We then structured our first agenda for the year! As a group we had a discussion on what we wanted and what we are aiming to achieve. As a group we decided that we want to definitely work with Variety or Starlight. To conclude our long day of planning and group discussions we had to create a poster to represent what ‘Trustful Loving Family’ is all about! On the poster we included quotes, pictures, information about ourselves and our goals. We worked on our wikispaces and finally designed our logo thanks to Bao and his photoshop skills!

Breanna: 29/05/12 On the 29th we got into ours group for outreach and we were working on our website and putting things on it to make it better and easier to understand. We also made a poster that had all our group’s values on it, our values are love trust and family. We put pictures, colours and quotes on it to make it look good. We also had a meeting with our group teacher but because she was away we had a meeting with another teacher. In the meeting we just talked about what we were up to and what we are plaining to do next and if we needed any help with anything. We also had a group meeting with only our group members, we talked about what each member was going to do in that lesson. It was a really good day and we got a lot done.

Bao: 05/06/12 Today in Deal we continued to work with our OutReach Program. Today we created a new agenda for the lesson and chose new roles for different members, we researched more information about Starlight and Variety. We wrote up an email which included what we are aiming for and what our goal is, we also included our emails and values so that Variety can learn more about us and what we want to achieve. After researching, we chose to work with Variety as no one has chose it yet. We now have a clear plan of what we are going to do in future.

Tessa: 05/06/12 Today in Deal class we worked on our outreach. We created a new agenda for the lesson and we picked new people for different roles for, we researched more information about Starlight and Variety. We wrote a draft email which talked about what we are aiming for and what our goal is for the term was, we also included our emails and values so that Variety can learn more about us and make them want to choose us. After researching, we chose to work with Variety because no one has chose it. We now have a clear plan and can work of that next week.

Charnae: 05/06/12 Today's DEAL lesson was quite productive. We were able to talk to our mentor, Miss Williams about what we could offer and what we could do with the charities that we want to help. We finally made a plan about focusing on Variety first and helping and volunteering out on the Outback Ball. We thought that if that was not successful, we were going to help out with Starlight then the Salvation Army. Prior to our plan, we researched with Miss Williams about each charity and discussed what we could offer to the charity. Also prior, Mr Jilbert Helped us out advised us that Variety was a good Charity to aim at due to The Salvo's and Starlight being working with other groups. We chose Variety because no one is working with them currently from our school and it focuses on children which relates to our values. We also made a new agenda for next week and wrote mock letters to the Variety. We also sent out first letter to variety which was first verified by Miss Williams. Now we are currently waiting for a reply.

Jess: 05/06/12 Today in DEAL my group sent off our first email! We are very proud of how far we have come considering at the start of the lesson we didn’t have a plan. We had our first official meeting with Miss Williams and were able to understand our project. Mr Jilbert informed us that ‘Starlight’ and ‘Salvation Army’ were already being used in other groups projects, fortunately for us ‘Variety’ was still available! We decided we would work with Variety and send them an email regarding volunteer work. Our email included our group members and a brief description on what Outreach is all about. Aside from choosing and emailing our charity we got up to date with other things like our wikispaces and google docs account. Bao and Charnae were our designers and ‘pimped out’ our wikispaces and google docs account. As a group we are working well together and everyone is contributing equally.

Breanna: 05/06/12 On the 5th we got into our outreach groups and worked on our outreach project. We looked at variety website and looked for different ways we can help them. We find something that we could do to help them, but we are still looking into it. We wrote a email to Ms Williams to read and go over but the letter is really to Variety saying that we are here to help in anyway we can. We also wrote our reflection from this week and about what we did then we put it on our website. We also gave people new rolls to have in our group and had another meeting will our teacher and talked about where we are up to. It was a really good lesson.

Jordan: 05/06/12 On the 5th of June we went into our outreach and did our OutReach stuff. We emailed Ms Williams and we looked at the variety website to see what we could do. Bao and Charnae were our designers and as a group we work really well together.

Charnae: 12/06/12 Today's DEAL lesson was the last two periods. We confrenced with Miss Williams about what event we could do with variety. We chose to do a Mail Out Day which we where we send newsletters about variety to the community. Our only problem was that it was on a Wednesday. So we attempted to call Pauline from variety about coming there on a Tuesday (DEAL day). She did not answer so we sent her an e-mail instead.

Jordan: 12/06/12 Today in DEAL we only had the last two periods. We attempted to call this lady and he name was Pauline but she did not answer we saw Miss Williams and talked to her about what we are thinking of doing. Our only problem is the Mail Out Day is on a Wednesday not a DEAL Tuesday and we sent Pauline an e-mail as well.

Bao: 12/06/12 Today in Deal, we only had two periods left to continue with out OutReach Program and work in our groups. Today we had a group meeting with our mentor, Ms Williams, and decided to do a Mail Out Day for Variety where we send out newsletters about Variety all around the community. We attempted to call Pauline back but she was not able to answer, so we sent her an email instead.

Tessa: 12/06/12 In this deal class we only had 2 periods to work on outreach. We decided to ring variety and see if they could swap the wednesday for a tuesday, but she didn’t answer. So we sent out an email hoping she would reply and can swap the dates because we were really hoping to work with them. Ms Williams and us decided to do a Mail Out Day for Variety where we send out newsletters about Variety all around the community.

Jess: 12/06/12 Today in Deal we only had two periods to work on our outreach as we had exams! Today Jordan was missing for the majority of the lesson so we were down a member. We received a reply email from a lady named Pauline who works for Variety. Unfortunately for us they only offered two dates to help out. One being on a Wednesday and the other being when we have finished school for the year. We attempted to call Pauline but unfortunately there was no answer. As a group we collaborated and emailed Pauline in hope of a change of date or possibility of doing something else. We emailed Pauline and are now eagerly waiting for a reply...

Breanna: 12/06/12 On the 12th we got into our outreach groups and worked on our email asking her if we can come to help with anything. We also got her number and called her asking what we could do to help but she didn’t answer, so we just had to what for her to email us back. We also had a meeting will the teacher talking about what we are plaining to do and what we are going to write in our email.

Jessica: 21/06/12 Today in Deal my group wasn’t quite the same as Jordan was absent and over the past few weeks we have been working together our group has became very close. We read out the email we received from Pauline the organiser of Variety and discussed what questions we have and the dates we are available. We had a meeting and caught up with all our wikispaces blogs. We discussed what days we are allowed out and how that interferes with our outreach program. We sent off our third email to Pauline and we are now waiting for a reply. We went over the ‘activity submission form’ and ‘proposal’ document and discussed what we needed to find out we included these questions in our email. We have began to fill out both documents and hopefully by the end of next week we will be able to submit them! So currently we are waiting for a reply and beginning to fill in our documents!

21/06/12 Breanna On the 21st in our outreach lesson we work on our wiki space website and improved it and made it better. We also look at the email that she replied to us. She said that she would love us to help, and then we replied back to her saying that the date works for us and that we will be happy to help her. we had another meeting with our teacher telling her that we could help kids. It was a very good lesson and we got a lot done, we are ready for next week, we will be able to fill in activate form and then we will be ready to got out and help kids in need. On the 31st of July my group and i will be going to help variety by putting stickers and sending newsletter out to people.

Tessa: 21/06/12 In deal class today we worked on sending another email to variety to let them know that our group would be happy to take the Tuesday mail out day. We also worked on filling out our submission form for our activity. We worked really well today and acted like a good group. Me and Breanna made a mock email and showed Jess to make sure it was ok to email out. Jordan T was the only one away today but we managed to get a lot of work done without him. As a group we had a meeting and caught up with all our wikispaces blogs. We talked about what days we are allowed out of school. We sent off our 3rd email to Pauline. We went over the ‘activity submission form’ and ‘proposal’ document and discussed what we needed to find out we included these questions in our email.

Bao: 21/06/12 Today in Deal, we continued to work in our OutReach Groups. Today our leader, Jess, read out the mail we received from Pauline. Pauline wrote back telling us that we were allowed to go to Variety on Tuesday which is a Deal day for us. We were allowed to go on Tuesday just before the Mail Out Day on the 1st of August, on the tuesday we are planning to go to, we have to stick stickers and labels on envelopes. Jordan was away today, even though he was away we still got the right amount of work done. Our Mentor, Ms Williams showed us the timetables of Term 3and what dates were available for us to go to Variety and help out. There was an issue as we weren’t able to go to the day before the Mail Out Day as it was on the 31st of July which was supposed to be the Year 9 Subject Selection Day. After Ms Elmer and Ms Williams had a talk together with us as a group, we finally concluded that we were able to go on the 31st. However Ms Elmer, will be away on that day, so the Year 9 Subject Selection Day is postponed. We were ale to write up a letter back to Variety and confirmed the activities on the day.

Charnae: 21/06/12 In today’s DEAL lesson, our leader, Jess, read out the e-mail from Pauline telling us that we were allowed to volunteer at Variety on the Tuesday before the Mail Out Day on the first of August. Jordan was away however we still got the right amount of work done. We also were shown the timetables for term three and what dates we were able to go to Variety and help out. There was an issue where we weren’t able to go the day before the Mail Out Day as it was on the thirty-first of July which was suppose to me the Year Nine Elective day. Miss Elmer and Miss Williams discussed the situation and it came to the conclusion that we were able to go on the thirty-first as the coordinator, Miss Elmer, would be away on that day and the event be postponed. We finally were able to write a letter back to Variety and confirm the activities on the day.

Bao: 26/06/12 Today in Deal, we continued to work in our OutReach Groups. Today three members of the group were away: Jordan, Charnae and Jessica. Jordan has previously been away for several OutReach lessons. In OutReach today, we received an email from Pauline telling us the date, location and what we were going to do for Variety. We had a talk with our Mentor Teacher and we found out that we could go to Variety on a Tuesday. We started to work on our Proposal and our Activity Submission Form, we wrote up a script for our video which we were going to post on our Wikispaces Website. In the video, we told what we have achieved and the challenges we have faced. At the end of the lesson, we had to do a Wellbeing survey through a website.

Breanna 26/06/12 On the 26th in our outreach lesson we work on making a video about what we have done in outreach. It we a bit difficult to do as most of the people in our group we away, there was only three people Tessa, Bao and me. Our active for that day was to make a video to put on our website page for everyone to see, so they can see what we have been doing in our outreach groups and they can see what our aim is and what we are trying to do.

Tessa: 26/06/12 In our Deal class today we class we worked on filling out our submission form to go to the Variety mail out day. Today they only people that were here were Breanna, Bao, and I, Jess, Jordan, and Charnea were away although we were unsure what to do a 1st we quickly got the hang of things and completed a lot of work. Today me and Breanna made a video to go onto our wikispaces, this video included the challenges we had come across and also we talked about the accomplishment we have had. Today was a good productive day!

Jordan: 31/07/12 Today in DEAL we continued to work on our OutReach programs. In period 3 the teachers had an important message to tell us. That was that the government laws have changed and there are new laws that we can’t go to excursions on our own any more which is a bit shattering because we have work so hard as group and put so much effort in our work. Then another problem came and that was we were meant to go on our OutReach excursion today and we didn’t now so we call Pauline (the lady that works at Variety) and we were very apologetic and luckily they still wanted to work with us and take us on. So now we are going to do a stall promoting what they do and how they help people hopefully and we are hoping to paint peoples faces, sell Variety merchandise and try to get people to sign up to there mailing list and like them on Facebook. For the rest of the lesson we worked on designing the look of our future stall.

Bao: 31/07/12 Today in Deal, we continued to work in our Outreach groups. At the start of Deal, the teachers made an important announcement that a new law that has been established in the government, the law says that we cannot go on excursions without teacher supervision so we cannot go to variety because of the new law. The teachers than suggested that we do an Outreach Carnival Day and that we should host a stall which could represent a certain charity. Our charity that we are representing is Variety, we had a little bit of trouble as today we were supposed to go to Variety in Port Melbourne. We the contacted Pauline, a member of Variety, and we delivered our deepest apologies for not being able to come, lucky enough Variety was still willing to work with us. We then started to organise our stall and what we were going to include in it. We split up into small groups and worked on different tasks, one group would work on the design of the stall and the other group would work on the things that were going to be included in the stall.

Jess: 31/07/2012 Today was my first outreach lesson in just over a month! I’ve been sick and we had school holidays. To start off our day there was a big announcement we are no longer able to leave school premises for outreach! I was shocked we have put so much effort into planning our days out to help out Variety all for nothing and then we realized that today our group were suppose to go to Variety to help out unfortunately there was a lack of communication and honestly we all forgot. We were all so horrified and didn’t know what to do we told Miss Williams and she said that we should check our emails and then call them, sure enough once we checked our emails we discovered a message from Pauline asking to confirm our visit today. We all felt so horrible, so we decided to call Pauline and clear things up, we wrote a phone script and I was going to speak as I felt most confident to do so. I was nervous when calling her, my hand was shaking and I had butterflies in my tummy! Luckily enough once she answered she was nice enough and was very kind and understanding, I was so relieved! Thankfully we are now back on good terms with variety. We spent the day in much discussion about our options and what we would like to do for out new ‘outreach project’. Now our year level is holding an ‘outreach stall’ although at first this sounded disappointing compared to actually going out of school grounds I am really started to get excited. Our group is still doing ‘Variety’ and we are going to face paint. Aside from a lot of discussion not much work was done as we are just beginning to get an idea of what to do!

Breanna 31/07/12 Today in outreach the teachers told us that we couldn’t go out and help people. As that was our main aim, it was what this project was mainly about, the teachers then had to come up with something else to show people what we have done and all the hard work we have put into it. The teachers told us that they had another idea for us to do, so that everything that we have done has not been a waste of time. Our new project is to make a stall to show at lunch time, what we have done and to help out our organisation. Our stall is going to be outside the year 8 and 9 building, on top of the stairs. We are still trying to think of things to do, we are thinking about face painting, or selling things that variety gives us but we are not sure yet.

Charnae: 31/07/10 Today in DEAL, we continued with our Out Reach program. We were first informed about the new laws that the government have made regarding students to be not out of school grounds unless with a teacher. So wherever the student went, the teacher went too. So all of our ideas were pretty much ruined and we didn’t know what we could do. So the teachers said that just because we couldn’t go out of school grounds does not mean that we still can’t promote and help the community and they told us that we would be having a “festival” where we have a stall each about out chosen charity. However we did realise that we were suppose to go to Variety today and help out for their mail out day! We were so worried and scared that we weren’t prepared and didn’t show up at Variety. Not only did we not show up but we were afraid that we might of lost our charity because they probably wouldn’t want to work with us anymore. So as a group, we discussed what we could say to Pauline. We discussed about if she was negative and angry and basically all the different outcomes and how we would respond to them. Thankfully Miss Williams helped us out with what to say and to just keep professional. After Jess spoke to Pauline, Jess told us that she was extremely nice and understanding and she said that we should inform Pauline about the details for the festival so that she and Variety could help us out with supplies and ideas that we could do. We were so thankful and relieved that she was so understanding. After that, the group and I discussed how we could get people to come to our stall and how we could raise awareness of Variety and what we could do to still help them. We thought of face painting and donation boxes and other things but we still needed something more creative that would have less expense. Then I designed a rough copy of what our stall would look like with red balloons and streamers or ribbons and posters and the amount of chairs and table etc.

Bao: 07/08/12 Today in Deal, we continued to work in our Outreach Groups. We filled out a bit of a submission sheet to Variety stating what we were going to have our stall which will help fundraise and promote Variety. We had a group meeting all together and confirmed where we were gonna have our stall. We have had a huge brainstorm and discussion together as a group, we have thought of all the things we can put in our stall and what we were going to do to promote Variety. We had a thorough brainstorm of what we were going to do to promote Variety, we thought up of different methods such as posters, pamphlets, and show bags with Variety things in them which talk about Variety. We have though up a list of activities which would be fun for the students to take part in, some of the activities are: Movie Screening, raffle, Lucky Dip and plenty more. We have decided what positions and jobs we will be doing on the day. Some people will manage the stall, some will supervise over the movies and some will walk around the school promoting Variety by handing out Variety Show-bags and pamphlets.

Charnae: 07/08/12 In today’s DEAL lesson, we continued with our outreach programs. This time Jess was away and she is our chair. As she was away, Jordan was brave enough to stand up and say he was chair however that didn’t really work out so I became chair. Tessa and Breanna first worked on making some posters and they we really doing quite well. Bao did really well as he was our minutes and wrote down what we needed and wrote down our brainstorm of ideas that we could do on the day. Breanna also did very well today and really contributed to our brainstorm and considered all possible outcomes of our activities on the day. We planned on catching up with Pauline (the lady from Variety) and calling her to ask if she could send us some pamphlets and posters and donation boxes to us that we could give out, unfortunately we didn’t get to do that and I plan to e-mail her or ask Jess to e-mail her about that. Today we also have two activities that we plan on doing on the day of our stall. We also reserved our stall placement which would be under the year 9 building and we reserved a large fold-out table and 8 chairs. At the beginning of the lesson, Jordan was e-mailed by Jess a pdf of what Pauline had sent her and so he printed it. It came with fundraising ideas and a form which I didn’t understand was about. I then read out to the group the ideas on the sheet given and I read out some terms and conditions. There were many that stood out and so we highlighted them. We were also allowed to get a person from Variety to help ad assist us with our stall if they were willing to and also had to be noticed 3 weeks prior to the event. In my opinion, we did really well today and we came up with some really good ideas about what do to and what we could do to stand out.

Jordan: 07/08/12 Today In DEAL we got back into our OutReach groups and we had to fill out a bit of the sheet that Jess sent me because she was away today and we did our agenda and we had to organise what we are going to do for our stall we are thinking of putting on a movie for the children at our school and the children would have to pay a minimal amount of money to get in to watch the movie. We are thinking of watching the movie toy story 3 but we have to get the approval from Jess and hopefully she will and we can go on with the idea.

Tessa: 07/08/12 In todays deal class I found out that we couldn’t leave the school because the government had changed the rules I was away last week, so the teacher told me that we had to make a stall to show what we had been learning in Outreach. Our group brainstormed idea’s that we could use to sell in our store and ways we could fundraise for variety, we brainstormed idea’s such as coloring competitions, face painting, watching movies during lunch time and we decided that the movie will be toy story 3 but we are still deciding weather we should do it, we talked to Miss Williams about how we could make our idea’s better. The only person that was away was Jess Williams. We got a lot done today, lots of thinking about what we can do and sell and how to promote variety to our community.

Breanna: 7/08/12 Today in outreach we worked on our stall. The bad thing about today was that Jess we away. We had a meeting at the start of the lesson. Jordan was brave and became the chair for today and Bao was the minutes persons. Today we talked about where our stall is going to be, our stall is going to be in font of the year 8 and 9 area. We also talked about what we are going to do for our stall and what it is going to look like. The mean colour for our stall is going to be red as that is the colour of variety.

The Summit Blogs: Jordan 14/08/12 Today in DEAL all of the year 9's watched a presentation about the 20th Man Fund and there were a lot of speakers their including the famous Les Twentymen and Heath Scotland. They spoke to us about there plan to help decrease violence and gang wars in the Western suburbs and increase the education for the disadvantaged youths of the Western suburbs. We then had a break and some of the year 9’s took photos with the police officers and previous football players. I took a photo with Health Scotland which was pretty cool. They talked about pro active and re active laws. The 20th Man Fund helps people to do rights things and stay at school. There is an alarming number of teenagers not attending school there is an average of 8,000,000 days taken off each day. Caroline Springs Collage Springside campus also came to the youth summit to also listen to what the guest speakers had to say. I found todays experience very informative and very interesting. The main goal of the 20th man fund is to keep kids in school but keep them off the streets. We started the summit at 10.30 and finished at lunch time which is at 12.45. It was a very long day, but i learnt a lot. It made me

Tessa: 14/08/12 Today we held a summit, it started at 10:30am and finished just before lunch at 12:45pm. Les Twenty-man was there. He talked to us about his charity the ‘twentieth man fund’. There were many guest speakers, they spoke to us about the youth and how it is going to effect us in the future. They told us many stories included things like a boy on the beach was throwing star fish back into the water and the man said to the boy you cant throw all of them back in how are you making a different, and he picked one up and said I’m making a difference to this one. The guest speakers told us who they were and what they do they shared many personal experiences they had with the youth. It was really scary to hear about some of the stories about all the violence that was happening in our youth. One of the guest speakers said they were trying to raise us right because we were going to be the future and run it. There were people form others schools listening to the summit and hopeful they took as much information as we did. I found today really insightful and very inspiring.

Bao: 14/08/12 Today in Deal, Les Twentyman and other special guests visited our schools and they hosted a summit with us in the hall. Les Twentyman and his guests spoke to us about the violence in youth. They told us many stories about themselves, how it connected to the fund and how it helped the youth. They hosted a summit to spread the word and notify people about the fund, that the fund helps youth. They said that crimes are increasing more and more and the people who do the crimes are mainly youth. They talked about Pro-Active and Re-Active Laws, Pro-Active law is using the tax money to build and help people and Re-Active law is when the tax money is used to build more prisons as crimes are increasing. We all had a vote and majority of us agreed on Pro-Active law as it helped people, we don’t need to waste tax money to build more prisons but should use that tax money to help and guide people on the right path so that most youth will not end up in prison. The 20th man fund helps the youth to stay on the right path, the fund helps youth by providing them with shelter, food and water.

Charnae: 14/08/12 Today for Deal, we went to a summit which was held in the hall. All of the year nines were invited and a few students from another school came too. There were several speakers. Les Twentyman was the man who founded the 20th man youth foundation. This foundation helps the youth that have been abused and they help give education to those who need it. I found that today’s summit was actually quite inspiring. All these different type of people came to teach us about what they do and who they are. They also were able to tell us a story about one of their personal experiences or an event that they had witnessed. Each of these stories had a message and were connected to the the fund. The 20th man youth foundation wanted to notify us about what’s happening to the youth. All of these people who spoke, wanted to help the youth. There are many crimes being committed and majority being caused by the youth. They talked about Pro-Active and Re-Active laws, Pro-Active law is when tax money is used to build and help people. Re-active laws is when the tax money if used to build more prisons as the criminal rates are increasing. I personally would vote for Pro-Active laws because they are actually doing something about it and having faith and hope that the young people can change. One of my favourite stories was the story of the starfish. I love how the man who was helping the starfish wasn’t stressing or anything like that. He was determined enough and had the patience to get to all of the starfish for as long at it took. What also caught my eye was when they said that there’s 20% of youth in the world but they are the 100% of the future. I really liked this because all youth is the leader and doers of the future. These guest speakers are very all average people but they are all very inspiring as they have the passion and ambition to help the next generation.

Breanna: 14/08/12 Today in Deal all the year 9’s went into the Hall for a Summit. It started at 10:30 and finished at 12:45. There was a lot of guest speakers there. All the guest speakers all had a story to tell about helping people and staying in school. Some of the guest speaker were teachers, ex- police man, youth workers, current police officers, and football players. Les twentymen created “twentieth man found“ and has been running it fro over 30 years. It as helped thousands of young people in the western suburbs. The summit today was about the increased violence levels. Its was about helping people and using your voices in the right way. One of the stories that they told us was about a boy on the beach, he was picking up star fish and putting them back in the sea. A man came up to him and said why are you doing that, you can not save all of them as there is like 1,000. The man said yeah i know and pick up one star fish and said look i just saved that one. They said that there was not a lot of people going to school this year in victoria, there has been 8 million people that have not been going to school this year in victoria. It was a really good day and i learnt a lot and it opened my mind up and mae me think about the people who need help.

Jess: 14/08/12 Today in DEAL our school held a summit for Les Twentymen. It was a huge deal, as Les is considered a bit of a hero in our outreach community. He has helped so many young people to better themselves and complete there education it was truly inspiring. He arrived at our school at 10.30am in the gym along with many other guest speakers including, teachers, youth workers, ex police officer, current police officers, football players, and many other supporters of the twentieth man fund charity. Les Twentymen founded the “twentieth man fund” almost thirty years ago since then they have helped thousands of young, troubled teens from the Western suburbs. The summit today was about the increased violence levels amongst the youth of the Western suburbs and the increased gang related violence. Caroline Springs College Springside Campus my former high school sent some of there more academic students to our college to attend the summit, although they left early due to lack of enthusiasm and boredom. Many speakers told true stories about how they came about the twentieth man fund and how they make a difference in the Western suburbs. The main goal of the twentieth century man fund is to provide education to the young people in the Western suburbs. I found todays experience to be extremely insightful and really gave me a deep understanding of what is happening right under our noses and what can be done to help.

Jordan: 21/08/12 Today in DEAL we got into our OutReach groups and kept doing what we were doing. Then Mr Jilbert talked to us about the rubric and what we are expected to do. Then he talked to us about the evidence and what we are expected to do for that. Then we had our meeting and we went on Skype to talk about what we want to do and and out OutReach festival is working out well we think it is anyway. Now we are making a phone call to Pauline who is helping us out for our Variety stall and we are just calling her up to get some stuff so we can be prepared for our stall which is soon.

Charnae: 21/08/12 Today in Out Reach, our leader, Jess, was away and we were wondering what to do as per usual. First we were planning about what we could do and getting a clear picture of what our stall will look like. I then took out my design of the stall from a prior session and made sure that everything would still be there on the day of the festival. My group and I used skype to talk about our ideas and plans for the day and the way our stall would look like. It was an easier way to talk to our mentor on skype as she was busy with other groups but still in communication with ours. We were also putting everything about the day and what we were doing on our google docs. We also put our skype conversations on the google docs. Afterwards, I was going to e-mail Pauline about what things we needed at the stall, if there should be costs for merchandise, and if a person should be required at the stall from variety but instead, we decided to call her as it would be easier and we wouldn’t have to wait. It would be straight forward and direct. I ended up calling her using Tessa’s script. What I really love about my group is that we all use each others ideas and incorporate it together. I also like how we all ask about each other's ideas and if we all like one we’ll end up doing it. As I called Pauline, she told us that they didn’t have wristbands and instead, they had pins that would be sold for 2 dollars. She said that she would send us posters and banners and pamphlets as well. To get all of these, we would have to fill out a form that she sent Jess. We decided that we were going through with the face painting but we would be using our own money. We would chip in about 2 or 3 dollars each then I would go out and but the paints. The only problem, was that we kept on leaving things to Jess and relying on her. Our mentor pointed this out and we took action on it straight away. We printed out another copy of the form sent by Pauline and kept it with Jordan. We then printed out a copy of the evidence sheet as we were getting ready to collect it. However we didn’t get to start because it was time to go, so I decided to keep the sheet. Today I was chair and Bao was minutes. Overall I think that today was good even with out Jess because we were able to have a clear picture of our stall for the 18th of September and that we would be different from other stalls because of people having their faces painted.

Bao: 21/08/12 Today in Deal, we continued to work in our OutReach Groups. At the start of the lesson, Mr Jilbert talked to all of us about the rubric we will be assessed on and told us about an evidence sheet/chart we needed to complete and had to hand up to our Mentor. We then went back to our OutReach Groups and had a group meeting discussing what we will be doing for our stall. We talked about what our jobs were going to be on the OutReach Carnival Day. We have confirmed what we were going to do on the day and what we were going to do to help Variety. Two people were going to stay at the stall and help around and promote Variety by handing out Pamphlets, Bracelets/Wristbands and Show-bags. Two people will help and do the Face-painting, we are still calculating the costs of how much we should charge people, we are thinking of making most the items to be free as we are not trying to fundraise for Variety but promoting them. We wrote up a letter/script to support our call that we were going to make to Pauline, we asked her what items Variety was going to provide for us and what she suggested we do on the day which will be a fun way of promoting Variety. We are also calling Pauline to confirm with her to see if a member of Variety come to our school on the Outreach Carnival Day to help us around the stall and promote Variety by telling other people what Variety is and what Variety do to help people. The purpose of our stall is to promote Variety but also to encourage people to support variety and help those in need around Australia.

Tessa: 21/08/12 In our deal class today, we worked really well as a group we lots of work done Jess was away but we still got a lot of work done, we contacted Pauline. Today was all about confirming things for our stall at lunch time, such as making sure we will still be getting the posters and wristband and all that stuff to help promote variety, Charnae talked on the phone and Pauline and we asked her if she could send us some stuff to promote variety and she told us to fill out the form she sent us. We also sat down with Ms Williams and walked her though our stall and what i would look like and what we will be doing to promote our charity. We talked about our face painting and how we will be providing the money, we decided as a group that it wont be that expensive so we will just pay for it ourselves. We talk on Skype and discussed some stuff that we will be doing at our stall. Mr Jilbert talked to all of us about the rubric we will be assessed on and told us about an evidence sheet/chart we needed to complete and had to hand up to our Mentor.

Breanna 21/08/12 Today in outreach we worked on our stall like we do every week. Jess was away again as she has been sick recently. We held a group meeting run by Charnae as she was taking over Jessica’s role as chair. We talked about what our stall is going to look like during the outreach festival and we got a clear picture of what it was going to look like. Mr Jilbert held a a discussion for all of year nine, he talked about our assessment in Deal, what we have to do and how we show what we have done. I found this interesting as before this we hadn’t really been using google docs that often. After our group meeting and year nine discussion, Charnae volunteered to call variety. So after lunch we called variety and asked them about a few concerns of ours. They told us that they can give us pins to sell for two dollars, and the money we got from the pins we give to variety, they also told us that they can give us flyers and stuff to put on our stall to make it look better. It was a good day and we got a lot done.

Bao: 28/8/12 Today in Deal, we got into our outreach groups and continued to work on our stall. We decided who was going to do what on the Carnival Day and we split into 3 small groups and worked on separate parts for the Carnival Day. 2 people worked on the Variety Poster, 2 people worked on the documentation and two others worked on the design of the stall and the design of the flyers. In the end we all helped each other and worked on each part for the stall. Today, i spent most of the lesson designing the flyer for our pre-stall in front of the library where we were going to hand out small flyers to increase our stall’s publicity. After i finished the design of the flyers, everyone printed out 5 copies each so that we won’t waste money on one account, to make it all equal and fair. We finally designed and made the poster so that we can stick it up and advertise our stall and promote Variety. We have finished all the documentation during the class and have prepared everything for the stall already. We are planning to donate 5 dollars each for the equipment needed for the stall, some of our members are planning to go to the shopping centre on Thursday as we have a day off school, so we are taking that opportunity and making the most out of it.

Jordan: 28/8/12 Today In DEAL we got into our OutReach groups and Jess was back as she was away last week. Then we got into our meeting and we went onto our google dock and we discussed what we are going to do for our stall on Skype. Then Bao designed the flyer for our OutReach Festival then we printed them out to give to people. We did a mock drawing of how we thought our stall would look like and we are having a pre-stall which will be running during the book fair at the front of the library and it will be running during lunch times as well. We made a list about the things we need for the stall. We also filled out the form for Variety and e-mailed it to Pauline. The stall is 3 weeks away and is coming up fast tomorrow we have to bring $5 each and give it to Jess as she is going to Watergardens to purchase what we need for the stall. Overall we are accomplishing the most amount of work we have ever done and I am very proud of our really amazing group.

Tessa: 28/08/12 In today deal class we worked on ways we could promote our stall we came up with the idea of a pre-stall, it will be a little store just to tell everyone what our real stall will be like and information on Variety, me and breanna worked on some poster to put up on the stall and we also cut out LOADS of pamphlets for our stall. We were all here today and we worked really well together. Jess and Jordan also filled out a form to send to Pauline to get the pins and posters and stuff like that. We decided who was going to do what on the Carnival Day and we split into 3 small groups and worked on separate parts for the Carnival Day. We decided that we will all give $5.00 to Jess to help pay for the stuff we need for the stall or the equipment needed for the stall, some of our members are planning to go to the shopping centre on Thursday as we have a day off school, so we are taking that opportunity and making the most out of it. Overall we have accomplished the most amount of work we could in the time given.

Jess: 28/08/12 Today in deal my group had a meeting to discuss what I missed out on last week, they filled me in and informed me of what still needed to do. As a group we wrote down an agenda. Today Jordan and I downloaded the fundraising form and completed it first of all we filled in a rough copy/draft then we filled out the good copy in a black pen. I then went down to the library with Charnae and we photocopied the form onto her usb it came out in black and white but that didn't matter as it made it easier to read. We then as a whole group emailed the form to Pauline. We all felt very proud or ourselves as we have now officially decided on our stall and have made progress. Mean while the rest of the group was very busy Bao was designing our flyer to hand out at the pre stall, Breanna and Tessa were very busy cutting them all out as there were way more then 100! It took a few attempts until we printed the flyers into the right size but as always we figured it out! Aside from all our busy work I also made sure each member of the group bought $5 to school on Wednesday so that I could go out on Thursday (student free day) and purchase what we need. Overall our day was very progressive and the stall feels as though it’s tomorrow!

Breanna: 28/08/12 Today in outreach we worked our our stall again. We had a meeting with our whole group and we talked about what our stall is going to look like and how we can get people to know where our stall is and to get people to come. It was good as everyone was here and we got a lot of work done. We all worked really hard as a team. We all worked in different little groups. It was me and Tessa and we worked on making poster for our stall. Then there was Jess filled out the form for variety. Jordan and Bao create poster on the computer. Then all together as a team we cut out all the posters that Bao and Jordan created on the computer. We printed a lot out so we could hand then out to everyone a week before the fair as then they will know where our stall is and what is going to be happening at our stall. On the poster there is also our name of our groups and the Variety logo. We created a list of thing we need to get for our stall and then we need to do.

Charnae: 28/08/12 Today for Outreach, we worked on our stalls again and began with a meeting with the whole group. We discussed as a group about what the stall was suppose to look like and we also did a lot of finalising of both our final stall. We were first spoken to about how we could become public and how we would advertise our stall and we came up with a few ideas, however, Many of which were taken as some groups were actually smart enough to reserve their advertisement prior to being told. We then thought of a pre-stall, that idea wasn't taken and we were able to make flyers which would be given out at the pre-stall informing people to know where we are and what we would be doing on the 18th. We also filled Jess in with what we had done when she was away last week so she could keep updated. Jess and Jordan were also able to write down and fill out a form about what we needed. Jess and I then scanned it and e-mailed it to Pauline. What I love about my group is that we always work in pairs and we also see if everyone is okay and if any of us needs help. We're a good team :)

Jess: 04/09/12 Today in Outreach we really had to work together as we only have two weeks left until the outreach festival. Although I had to leave early at 2:15pm we still managed to achieve a lot. Jordan was at tennis today but nether the less things went on as usual. To start off the day me and Charnae checked our emails and realised that Pauline has yet to reply to us. Charnae and I decided to call her just to make sure that she had received our fundraising form. We called Pauline but there was no answer so we tried again and the same thing happened so we left a message. In the mean time we designed two more posters one with the cost for face paint (which we have finalised) and two being one with all the colours on it. Aside from the genius Bao making our wonderful posters I showed the group the balloons, ribbons and face paint I had bought, they were all really excited and glad that we were finally making a visible progress. Unfortunately we had a sexuality forum for the first two periods and there fore we only had periods 3,4,5 and 6. Even more unfortunately for me I had to leave halfway through period 5. Overall we are really beginning to see our stall come together.

Bao: 4/9/12 Today in Deal, we got into our OutReach Groups and continued to work on our OutReach stall. Today in our group, Jordan was away due to his SACCSS Tennis, Jess had to leave early at 2:15 today. Today we had to focus very well and we had to work very hard as we only had 2 more weeks left till the OutReach Festival, our pre-stall was next week and we had to finish all the things for our stall and pre-stall and we had to prepare for our pre-stall. We all divided into small groups to work on different parts of the stall that needed to be done. I worked on the posters and finished them successfully, i made many different posters to promote Variety and our stall. I created posters which included the prices, the events that were going to be on during our stall, i created our pre-stall poster which advertises our Variety Stall. Breanna and Tessa worked on and created our Banner but in the end the wind blew the Banner and wrecked it, we decided that next week we would create a better banner for our stall.

Tessa: 4/9/12 Today in deal Jordan was away because of saccss tennis and also left Jess left at 2:15 but we got heaps of work done. Jess showed us all the things she had bought for the festival like face paint, balloons, streamers and she said to us that we need a few more things so we would have to give her some more money. We only have 2 weeks to the outreach festival and we still had heaps of work that needs to be done by then. We also organized our pre- stall such as the location and what information we would be giving them, our pre-stall would be next week at lunch time so we had to get working. Me Breanna and charnea made posters and and banners, when we went to paint our banner it was really windy so the banner ripped really bad and we had to put it in the bin. We only had 4 periods of deal today because we had sexuality speech, even though our time was shortened we still got heaps of work done. We also made a call to Pauline but she didn’t answer so we left a message for her. Boa designed the face painting sheet with the prices. Next week we have a lots of stuff to do so we cant waste our time.

Charnae: 04/09/12 Today in Deal, we got into our outreach groups again and worked on both our pre-stall and actual festival stall/ Jordan was absent due to his SACCS tennis and Jess would have to go during period 5. After giving Jess our $5, she had bought all our supplies for the day and we started the day off with looking and testing out all our supplies. Jess had bought face paints, balloons and streamers. However we had thought that the face paint was not enough and we thought we'd chip in a few extra dollars to buy one more pack of face paint. Tessa, Breanna and I were also able to make posters and a banner for both our stalls. It took us NEARLLY ALL LESSON to make the banner BUT it ended up ripped by the wind when we took it outside to put white paint on. We were so shattered and it felt like all that hard work was a waste. At the end of the day was pretty upsetting because of our ripped banners. We were going to fix it up but when Jess saw it, she didn't think it was good enough so we planned on creating a new one. Bao was able to make posters too and we all were basically preparing for the stall :)

Bao: 11/9/12 Today in Deal we continued to work in our OutReach Groups. Today everyone was present, today a new member joined the group, her name is Miyu. Today we all split into small groups again and worked on different tasks, i printed out some more copies of each poster. Today was the day we started our pre-stall, we have to work very hard today as next week was our OutReach Carnival Day. Some of our members worked on the new banner which looked better than the old one as the old one was torn apart due to the rough weather. We went to see and talk to the maintenance man to ask him if we were allowed to borrow some tables for out pre-stall which was going to take place in front of the library where we will be advertising and promoting Variety and our stall. In period 4 we went out and started to set up our pre-stall and at lunch two of our members went outside and did the stall. We planned that each day two of our members would go out and advertise the stall. Some of us are going to put posters up around the library area to notify people about our stall and give them the details.

Jordan: 11/9/12 Today in DEAL we got in our OutReach groups and continued to work on our OutReach stall. Today Jess introduced a new member of our group her name is Miyu and she is helping us with the things that we need help with. Then we had to print some stuff off we our actual stall which is next tuesday and our pre stall which is this week. Then we went to look for the maintenance man because we need a table for our pre stall and our actual stall. Everyone is here today which makes it easier to do things and everyone knows what were doing. Charne is working on the poster for our pre stall and actual stall. Soon we are going to clean the table for our pre stall and actual stall because it is dirty and we need to make it presentable for people to see. Later on we will be going over our progress and seeing how we are working as a group then we will pack up all the things like the poster the pamphlets the balloons. Overall I think we have been very successful working as a group and I think our stall will do very well.

Jess:

11/09/12

Today in Deal everyone was hear as well as our newest addition to the group the Japanese exchange student ‘Miyu’ I am her class/school buddy and I am finding it really excited and interesting to get to know someone from another country. Aside from this today is the last lesson we have before the ‘Outreach Festival’ and the last lesson we have before the pre stall as we have that today at lunch unfortunately I’m leaving at the beginning of lunch time to go to the hospital for a check up. We spent the beginning of the day discussing our stall, replying to emails and laying out the final designs for the stall. We then went on a bit of an adventure around the school to find the maintenance guy in order to find a table for the pre stall and the main stall. Luckily enough we found the maintenance guy and reserved the rectangle table in the gym! As we were on a reflection day yesterday we could not do our stall also on Thursday we have an early finish so we will be unable to run our pre stall. On a positive note this leaves three lunch times and there is six well now seven in our group so there will be two a day on the pre stall. Tuesday Tessa and Breanna, Wednesday Jordan and Bao, Friday Charnae and I. Tomorrow everyone is bringing in two dollars so we have enough to purchase the last minute things we need like more streamers, balloons, face paint and brushes. We also saw Miss Sutherland and asked her if we can borrow paint palettes and cups for face painting next week and she said this was fine. Also Pauline replied to our email and sent out the posters and badges for next week we are expecting them at any time now! We all feel as though we have made a huge progress and are all very organised for next weeks ‘Outreach Festival’!

Jordan:

18/9/12

Today in OutReach we had our OutReach Festival in period 1 and 2 we had to prepare for our Festival so we had to bring our a table and put all our things that we were going to sell and put the pamphlets on the table. Then by recess we were done preparing and people were coming up to us and they wanted to purchase stuff but we had to tell them we were closed but they could come back when there class came and they could come back at lunch time to. In period 3 and 4 we had year 7, 8 and 10’s came to our stalls first year level that came was the year 7’s and they stayed for about half an hour and then they left but then the year 8’s came to see the work that we produced and then finally the year 10’s came to see what we made then it was lunch time and all the year levels reunited and they could come to our stalls all over lunch time but then lunch time came to a close and then it started raining then we had to clean up the part that we were dreading all day so we cleaned up and then we had to go in the year 8 area because the year 10’s had a mass in the year 9 area so our group TLF enjoyed OutReach and would do it again.