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Members: Aim:Our Aim as a group is to help out the animals in need by working and helping out the zoos around us, helping endangered animals and working with the hurting and animals in pain. Also animals that don't have shelter, food and/or water. Instead of always working with children and the elderly we wanted to do something different and hopefully make a change. Strengths and weaknesses: S ~ Being creative, co-operative, team work, organized, creativity.W ~ remembering to do things, talking a lot, too lazy, only making a valuable contribution when interested in the subject, taking control, remembering things. Temperaments:Claudia ~ Blue - This person strives to be true to self, sensitive to others- empathic. Matt ~ Blue - Their search is for identity, meaning and authenticity.Tristan ~ Gold - These people tend to be generous, to serve and do there duty.Chante ~ Orange - They want spontaneity and fun. They seize opportunities.Mitchell ~Adam ~Some of the challenges we are going to have is Orange being to self centered, Blue expecting too much, Gold being too serious. Organisations:RSPCA ~ RSPCALort Smith Animal Hospital ~ Lort SmithPets Haven ~ Pets Haven Google Doc : Our Google Doc media type="file" key="Movie on 2012-06-26 at 11.31.mov" width="240" height="240" align="center"

= Blog : = =15/5/2012= 15/5/2012 MStepic DEAL Blog: Last Week in deal, we sat down as a massive group of kids and we learnt how to fill out the papers we are going to need to fill out in the future. Miss Williams and Ms Elmer both taught us how to fill out papers for things like the papers for approval towards the company and papers for the excursions we might be going on. We also watched the movie pay it forward to give us an idea that we as kids can make a change for the benefit of the world. Today in Deal we worked as a group just to find out who our mentor would be, and just our colours combined. Our mentor is Ms Commadeur and we also figured out what we want to do which is volunteer for the animal shelter. Our group is also Group 8. Our aim for the year in DEAL is to help animals and give them water and food if they don’t have a home or shelter. We also want to go to a animal shelter to give them food and water. We have already looked at some animal shelters like the Lort Smith Animal House and The RSPCA and some others but some of them don’t allow under 15 year old kids to enter and some are just to far but its only the start of this project so we are hoping to find one during the year.

15/5/2012 - CJZ The week before 1/5/2012 we looked as communicating with other people and their temperaments and also what we are as an individual. We also watched Pay If Forward which i found an alright film. In todays DEAL class we were assigned our mentors. We also wrote/filled in out first agenda. For this agenda i was the chair person and Matther Stepic was writing down the minutes. We worked on our strengths of each of our colors, the different directions that the team wanted to go with and what we really wanted to focus on. A few of the organisation we started to look at the RSPCA and Lort smith animal hospital companies, we found that they both have a great volunteer program that we can work out with but the only problem we had was with RSPCA and the age limit. Tristan and Chante are 15 at the moment so we were wondering if they would still let us help if they knew the majority of us where still turning 15 this year. Hope fully it all works out.

15/5/2012 - MP ~ AWAY

15/5/2012 - AJW Today in Deal class, we had to preform similar to the show The Voice and got a mentor assigned to us, 3 teachers turned around to want to work with us, Ms C, Ms Costa and Ms Saunders. We ended up choosing Miss C and we picked a group name “H.O.P.E” standing for Hold On Pain Ends. This was our very first group meeting and had to make our agenda and choose a chair person and a minutes person.. We chose Matt to count our minutes and Claudia was to be our chair person.

15/5/2012 - C.S Today in DEAL, we spent the whole day doing our outreach, fixing our group and choosing our mentors.. the way we got to choose our mentors was fun because it was like we were playing on the game The Voice, the groups had to say a 2 minute speech about there goals and the what they want to achieve in there outreach program.

Our group H.O.P.E (Hold On Pain Ends )talked about how we wanted to help the animals and the wildlife and so Mrs Saunders, Mrs C and Mrs Costa wanted us, so we chose Mrs C. And during the rest of the day we were choosing the groups we wanted to wok with :)  Also on this day we made our first agenda, writing down who our chair person was and our minutes counter was, our chair person we decided to be was Claudia and our minutes person is Matt, after this we deiced to look at different organizations like the Lord Smith Hospital, RSPCA and Lost Dogs home, all organizations had great opportunities and volunteer work.

15/5/12 - TC Today in DEAL we were assigned a mentor. We had auditions similar to “The Voice” and we were lucky enough to have 3 teachers turn around. This was probably the most intimidating presentation I have ever had to participate in. They were Miss Costantino, Ms Saunders and Miss Comordoor who we eventually chose to be our mentor. We also had a meeting analyzing our strengths, weaknesses, challenges, goals and aspirations. The group brainstormed decided where we would and to “Reach Out” and we will be working with animals. We will be soon trying to get in contact with the RSPCA or a dog shelter. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to it.

=22/5/2012= =We had a rock and water class and a man came in and spoke to us about our tax file numbers.=

=29/5/2012= MStepic 29/5/2012 - Today In DEAL We work on our wikispaces for a long time just to fix it, edit it and add pictures to it. We worked on that for a long amount of time which was basically the entire day but it was worth it as our wikispace page looks awesome. We also had to put our blogs on it and we had to write another which is this one. Our group is just getting started which means that we haven’t started to contact any organisations but we will soon. We also had to make a poster to promote our team which is H.O,P.E and the last thing that we did was we created another agenda for the next meeting for next weeks meeting.

29/5/2012 - CJZ Today in DEAL, we worked a lot on the wikispaces page and made it look awesome. Majority of the page is done and all we can do and just add along the way. We also made our own agendas for the next week to come and set homework for each other to complete. We created a poster to promote and show every one what we are about and what we are planing to do. I feel that we are getting there slowly and can't wait until we can actually get out in the community and help out animals.

29/5/2012 - C.S In today’s DEAL class we worked on our outreach program, we had a really productive day by creating posters for our group, writing our agendas for the weeks ahead, and also figuring out witch organization we would like to work with. We choose the organization Pets Haven, they have all different volunteer work like walking the pets, bathing the pets and looking after the pets in every way :) I really like this organization because the ways we help animals in this will help out alot with the oranization.

29/5/12 - TC Today in DEAL we completed a poster about our group. In this poster we included our team members, name of our group, values and goal for our assignment. I attended Mr Jilbert’s master glass about using google docs and we used wikispaces. Now that we know how to use those websites and have filled them out we can put all of our work and process on there. We began searching for an organization we could possibly volunteer for. We came across many of them but want found one we could actually help called Pets Haven. Pets Haven heavily relies on volunteers to fully complete there services. Should we volunteer for them we would help by walking, cuddling, feeding and cleaning dogs, cats, kittens and puppies. This sounds very appealing and we are starting to take steps to working with them. Next Outreach lesson myself and Claudia will be completing a draft email that we will run by Miss Commadeur and once she is happy with it we will contact the organization via email. Our task looks very promising at the moment however we are prepared for rejections and difficulties before we achieve what we want to achieve.

29/5/2012 - MP ~ AWAY

29/5/2012 - AJW

=5/6/2012= MStepic 5/6/2012 DEAL Blog: Today in Deal, we firstly had to have a meeting. Our groups meeting was mainly about what organisations we would like to be apart of for our outreach groups. We chose Lort Smith, Pet’s Haven and RSPCA. We also were finishing up on our wikispace and Tristan and I came up with a mock email to Pet’s Haven and Lort Smith Animal Hospital. We also had Rock and water for the 2nd period. We learned in that about intentional and unintentional punching or hitting another person. We also learned about the chinese boxing or sticky hands. Now we have to create another agenda for next lessons meeting or the next meeting we have.

5/6/2012 - MP ~ AWAY

5/6/2012 - AJW ~ AWAY

5/6/2012 - CJZ Today in DEAL we had rock and water and then we started to work on our OutReach Assignments. We had a meeting to start off and then talking about breaking down the three organisations to one. We also talked about e-mailing all three before just incase the one we want can't have us help out. The Guys and Chante drafted up an e-mail to be pre read my Ms C. before sending off while i finished off the Wikispaces and working out if we had all dates and blogs right for each DEAL class. Each lesson we have to create an Agenda at the start on what we are going to complete that lesson and at the end on what we need to have done by the next meeting, i feel we are getting better at creating them and understanding exactly what need to be written. The group worked really well today and got through the things that needed to be done.

12/6/2012 - C.S ~ AWAY

5/6/12 - TC

Today in DEAL we began the day with an exam study session followed by Rock and Water. During the exam study session I practiced my English by planning an essay using TEEL. In period 3 and 4 we worked on our Outreach assignments. We drafted an email we will run by our mentor before we send it to the organization. We drafted emails to The Lort Smith Animal Hospital, RSPCA and Pets Haven. Hopefully Miss Commaduer is happy with how the emails will look and it is not to long before we are able to reach out to one of these organizations. Next lesson we will be able to show Miss Commaduer the emails, make the necessary changes and then contact the company and work out how we can help.

=12/6/2012= MStepic 12/6/2012 DEAL Blog: AWAY

12/6/2012 - AJW ~ DOING EXAM

12/6/2012 - MP ~ AWAY

12/6/2012 - CJZ Today in DEAL we worked on our E-mails and fixing them before we can send them off. Ms C. read through them and gave them the ok. Mitchell, Adam, and Matt where away so there was only Myself, Chante and Tristan in the group. We only had period 5 & 6 to work on it but we dont have any more work to do, all that needs to be done it to send out the e-mail and to see who will take us in.

12/6/12 - TC Today in DEAL we worked on our emails to the animal organisations. We showed Miss Commaduer our draft emails and she told us what we needed to fix up. After this we fixed up the necessary mistakes and are deciding which organisation we will approach to help. It was only myself, Claudia and Chante as Mitch, Matt and Adam are absent from the lesson. Due to exams we only had period 5 and 6 to work on DEAL but we re making good progress. Next lesson we will decode which orgasation we will approach

12/6/2012 - C.S In todays DEAL class it was a very short amount of time given to us because we had just finished exams and everyone was really tied. But through this DEAL class my group had two people away and we didnt really have much to do accept confirm our email with our mentor, which was really good because our emails were good :) after we had done this, the rest of the lesson we just caught up on things we had to do :)

=21/6/2012=.

DEAL Blog June 21/2012-

Today in DEAL, we had a rock & water session with all three groups and we did various activities like the ski exercise and helper tag exercise which were fun and we also looked at how one punch or bad move could ruin your entire life and put you in jail or prison for maybe the remainder of your life. After that we just we working in our outreach groups and trying to figure out what we are going to do and where we are going to go afterwards when we are going out to do things. We got our activity submission forms to and we filled it out. Also Chante and Claudia went to call about 5-6 companies or organisations to check if we could go there but we got rejected for all of them so we are just going to call bunnings for the wood to build our objects for animals and also for safeway or coles for our fundraiser.

21/06/12 - MP Today in DEAL, we had a rock & water session with all three groups all together, we did a few activities to improve our grounding. Then for the rest of the DEAL day we worked in our outreach groups to make our project go along, we called 6 company's and neither of them would accept us because of age or they just didn't have a charity program, towards the end we just decided to donate things that we can make and for homework we are writing a letter to our selected company to get a donation so we can build what he had in mind.

21/6/2012 - CJZ Today in DEAL we had a rock and water session we went through a serious of exercises and learnt a new game to work on our team work and having friends to depend on. Then we had OutReach and our group went through a series of events, we started to fill out the application form for pets haven to send with our e-mail to see if they would take is but then Ms S. came up to us, asked us what we were up too and then when we told her she informed us that another group had already e-mailed them and they replied in saying we were too young. Once we heard that we didn't know what to do next so we thought maybe we should have another look at the other organisations. Ms C. came over and we explained the situation and she told us that we should draft up a list of things to say and call the different organisations. After lunch myself and Chante planned to call majority of the organisations we had looked up and the boys where going to complete the activity formes and paper work. We called around 5-6 organisations and ALL of them other said they didn't have insurance to cover us, that we where too young or that that didn't have a volunteering program at all. This was a little sad and we didn't know what to do next. Again Ms S. gave us another idea to help out the shelters and hospitals but creating things for the animals and to donate things. Ms C. help us out in working out what companies to contact to see if they wanted to donate and things we could build and create. By doing this it get all the guys involve as they like wood work and its a fun and creative way of working. Today has made us aware of the different situations we can face during this process and made us prepare for the let downs.

21/6/2012 - AJW

21/6/2012 - C.S

Today in my outreach group we found out some bad news that to volenteer at pets haven we had to be 16 years or older..

so that was a massive set back for our group. But because we had other alternatives.

Claudia and I made phone calls to all kinds of vets and other animal places we could volenteer at, although we had no luck we came up with the ideas to makes things and also build things for the animals at the vets, and donate all kinds of things to them.

So i think the was a very productive lesson and use of our time.

21/6/12 - TC

Today in DEAL we made our first contact to an organisation when we rang the nearby Vet Clinic. We spent the first 2 periods doing Rock and Water and goal setting. We then drafted our phone call to the vet instead of an email to Pet’s Haven due to the required age limit of 16. In between that we completed the required paper work such as reflections and proposals. Claudia and Chante have contacted 4 different organisations and are awaiting answers. Next week we will organise a meeting or a date that we will complete our first session of voluntary work for Outreach.

=26/6/2012= 26/6/2012 - MP ~ AWAY

26/6/2012 - AJW ~ AWAY

26/6/2012 - C.S ~ AWAY

26/6/12 - TC

Today in DEAL we started the day by discussing the use of knives and weapons in times of dangerous confrontation. We discussed how the presence of a weapon could negatively effect a situation. We followed that by rock and water. Period 3 and 4 was dedicated to Outreach. It was only Matt, Claudia and myself today with Chante, Mitch and Adam absent. We drafted emails to organisations we could get donations from to donate to other companies and to get equipment donated by Bunnings, Home Timber and Hardware to build a kennel to raffle of and give the money to animal organisation. In period 5 and 6 we are going to communicate our goals and aspirations for this unit to other mentors so everyone is on the same page. In terms of outreach we just have to send emails and wait in hope of a company being interested in donating to us.

26/6/2012 - CJZ

Today in DEAL are achieved a lot. Chante, Adam and Mitchell where aways so it was only Myself, Tristan and Matt for OutReach. At the start we had a rock and water session and learnt new games and strategies. Once we started outreach we started our draft e-mails that needed to be sent to the companies for supplies and donations. We were nearly done and then Ms C. out mentor told us that another group had e-mail pets haven (the oarganisation we wanted to go to) and they said yes to them. So we brought up our e-mail we wrote and sent it to the e-mail the other group had. We haven't heard back yet but hopefully they will reply soon. While we waited we research more companies to get things from to make our supplies for the animals and I found out that carpet court didn't have an e-mail so we had to call them which we did. Tristan and myself went into Ms S.'s office and called them. They where happy to help and we are needed to do was collect the carpet. The man on the phone said we where able to collect as much as we wanted to and seemed happy to help us out. Once we finished with the phone call we started up the other letters and phone calls to other companies for more supplies. We also had to create a 2 minute movie on what we have achieved so far and what we are going to do now seeing the changes we have been through . =HOLIDAYS=

=31/7/2012=

MS 31/7/2012 Deal Blog: Today in Deal, we were told that outreach excursions can’t be taken place due to new laws enforced by the government saying that we aren’t aloud to take excursion without any teacher supervision which really sucks but we just have to move forward and make new ideas happen. We were also told that we are going to have a fair promoting our performance in our outreach groups and projects. But, we firstly need to get all the information for it and to equipment.

31/7/2012 - CJZ ~ Agenda has our plans Today in deal being the first day back, they teachers had news for us all. The new laws have changed by the government and we weren't allowed to go and visit organisation. This didn't effect our group as much which was good. All day we tried to organise what the stall would look like and what we are going to do to promote the organisation that we want to help. Plans came along and i think it should be good. All we need to do it get a move on with making our toys and now that mitchell isn't with us we its going to be a little harder but oh well we can get through it.

31/7/2012 - C.S ~ AWAY

=7/8/2012=

MS 7/8/2012 ~ AWAY

7/8/2012 - MP ~ no longer

7/8/2012 - CJZ

Today in deal we started getting a move on, the things we want to do. We called chantes dad and he is able to give us the some pet food to donate to the companies we are focusing on, also she is going to speek to her uncle and dad and talk about the wood types they can also help us with in making the toys and kennels. On thursday i am going to talk to Ms S. about the paints and if we can use the ones in the art room. We also worked on the posters we are going to put around the school for the students to bring the supplies on the festavel day. Adam drafted up a letter to place in the college newsletter asking the families for donations as well as the students. We also made contact with masters and they are going to call when they have the chance and let us know what kind of measurements we need to make the dog kennels and the cat poles and if they could also give us a few more supplies in making the toys. I feel today was a very productive day and we all worked well.

=14/8/2012=

DEAL MS 14/8/2012 Blog: Today in DEAL we firstly just looked at Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) for next year so that we know what it is, what the requirements are, where we can work and were we can’t work. We also had The Summit talk were a couple speakers came in and talked to us about youth education, violence and troubles. In that session of 2 hours i learned that you have to make specific sacrifices in your life to follow and complete your dreams or goals and that by helping only one person can make a difference for yourself and for that person. The whole talk was extremely interesting and made you think about your actions and how they can affect you in the future.

14/8/2012 - CJZ

Today we had a summit and there were a few guest speakers. They spoke to us about people our age getting into trouble and ways that they are trying to stop this without having to put them in jail. One on the things that caught my ear was that when teachers and principals expel or suspend students it doesn’t help the student at all, it actual increases the situation because then those students may not get into other schools and will turn to gangs. They are strongly against gangs and stopping them before more trouble arrises. We were told a few stories about situations and the reason why they cause the fights. They also told us a lot of facts and numbers that make up the percent of people that are doing the wrong. This talk made us aware that here are a lot of people out there trying to stop this kind of situations.

14/8/2012 - AJW Today we had a summit with a lot of famous people that spoke to us about our youth and the problem and stuff happening now. One of the main messages i got out of every one talking to us was that the consequence sometimes make the problem worse instead of helping.

14/8/2012 - C.S our school had a very interesting summit about the importance the presence of gangs and gang related issues posing a threat to society. HoweverI also learnt that these kids cannot be blames for there threatening actions and anti social code of conduct. The reason for this is because they have either had no educational resources and opportunity or lack of money to fund to there education. They also have grown up in dangerous environments with no positive male influences in there lives to lead them on the right path. What has saved many kids in this situation is sport because of a common interest and passion for the game but most of all learning how to work in a team environment and make team first decisions

21/8/2012
MS DEAL Blog 21/8/2012- Today in Deal, we just focused on our Outreach group and what we are going to do for the festival. We also worked on the posters and flyers to attract different people. We also got our Assessment task for outreach and we worked on that as a group. The entire assessment task is about how we work as a group and individually during this unit and what sort of things we do to excel in this unit such as timelines, use of Skype, Wikispaces, Google Docs, how good our minutes are and how well written our agenda’s are etc. What I mainly did today was i worked on the posters and flyers for the Outreach Festival. We also had Rock and Water today which we mainly focused on Integrity and Honor and how we could use it in everyday life and how it would make us a better person.

21/8/2012 - CJZ

Today in deal we had rock and water first off and then we went through the documents for our festival. Mr J. showed us the things we need to achieve in and the things we should have already done. After lunch we to got work, Tristan worked on the evidence documents, matt worked on the posters and flyers to put around the school and I called organisation and asked for things to donate.

28/8/2012
MS DEAL Blog 28/8/2012 ~ AWAY

28/8/2012 - CJZ

Today in deal, we had a pretty productive day, the group printed out the posters matt had created and we hung them around the school. we also started to create the sign for the stall but when it came to painting it the design didn’t come like we wanted it to, so we threw it out and Chante’s mum is going to help us create the new one. Matt also continued to work on the evidence and hopefully that will be done by next week. Coming close to the festival day I’m not to sure we are going to be ready and know what where going to do. We have plans and ideas but I’m just not sure if they will be for-filled in time.

4/9/2012
MS DEAL Blog 4/9/2012 ~ AWAY

4/9/2012 - CJZ Today in deal we had the wood that we needed to complete the cat poles and kennels and once we started to cut the wood and put it into shape we relised that the wood was too thin to put nails through and would split the minute we would. This put us back also and we didn't know what to do. So the boys, Adam and Tristan continued to work out ways we could make them but didn't go so well and myself and Chante worked on the big poster that we are going to have at the table, which has our group name, what we stand for, and our key value. they poster actually came out really well and looks great. Because the wood didn't work we are all buying, things that we can donate to Lort Smith, which we're still waiting to hear back from. The group seems to be working pretty well with each other and hopefully we can still come out with a end product.

11/9/2012
MS DEAL Blog 11/9/2012 ~ AWAY

11/9/2012 - CJZ Today in deal at first I didn’t know what our group could do anymore because the wood couldn’t be used, so I asked miss c and she though that we could make something similar to a poster but that covered the top of the tables that we are using. The design was the Lort Smith logo with H.O.P.E on it and the other was Help. Out. Pets. Ever-where. I placed them in a pattern one after the other and it looks really good. Chante and Tristan stuck more posters outside and around the school. Once the big poster was put together i started on the evidence and completed it myself.

18/9/2012
MS DEAL Blog 18/9/2012 ~ AWAY

18/9/2012 - CJZ

HOLIDAYS
=9/10/2012= MS 9/10/2012 DEAL Blog- Today in DEAL, I just came back from my holiday so i had no idea about what we did during the last 2 weeks of term 3. Our group just worked on the evidence guide that is due next week and the certificates that we had to make for the companies that helped us during the outreach festival.

= 16/10/2012 =

MS 16/10/2012 DEAL Blog- Today in DEAL, we had our last outreach day or lesson as it all came to an end. All of our work was due today which was the evidence guide, all the blogs, the agenda’s on google documents and the certificates that we had to make for the companies. At 9:50, Outreach stopped and everything had to be handed in to our mentor’s. We also had to write a formal letter to the company to thank them for what they have done for our group and thats also were our certificates come in because they are certificates of gratitude.