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==.................... HELPING OUR GENERATION ................ ==

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'Helping Our Generation' is a team of different people who bring different ideas and point of views to the group.

Our aim is to help the people of our generation, whether it be an act of kindness or to help someone in need, or an organisation that could use our help.

' Helping Our Generation ' members: Daniel Milligan - Green Temperament Tanisha Calleja - Blue Temperament Joshua Custo - Orange Temperament Carolyn Cutajar - Blue Temperament Nathan Peeters - Orange Temperament Leandro Anes

Mrs. Saunders (Team Mentor) - Gold Temperament

Shared Values:

Family Humor Trust Friendship Honesty Determination Precision Respect

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Organisations:

Anglicare (As we go, more will be included)

Aim and purposes:

Our aim is to collect everything from blankets, to toiletries, etc through a series of donation drives, before delivering them wherever they need to go. (For example; in the first drive, we will find out what Anglicare need, then start collecting in the following week, then deliver what we have collected in the week after)

Desired Outcomes:

The best possible outcome for us as a group would be to succeed at collecting as many items as we can- in order to help as many people as we can.

Questions we need to ask and answer:

What organisations can we help? What are we going to collect for each organisation respectively? How long will we work with each organisation? What sort of preparations will we need to make before we can start? How are we going to get to and from where we need to go? Who will we need to consult beforehand? Which organisations would we be able to help the most?

Documents:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AHNbD0b8vD6zcmcppDINR3oxKS2UMgaXS91E_bnHfc/edit

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15/5/2012 Hi Team!! Just to let you know I am very excited to be your mentor!! I can't wait to hear all your ideas and to be part of making your dreams and goals come true!!! Remember I am here for you, so let me know, at any time, if you need support!! Mrs S.

1/5/2012 Nathan Peeters: Today in DEAL we were assigned to our outreach groups by our five values. I was one of the few who had unique values so I just slotted into a group with an extra slot. This is also how Daniel was assigned to the group as well. The majority of the group shared a couple of values including love respect and family. our group got along well in the beginning which was good. At first I thought the values thing was just another small activity, but then I realised it was a year long thing. I guess thats ok because our group has people of different strengths and we can probably get work done. Our group's initial idea was to help kids in need, but if that doesn't work we should be able to do something else despite the attachment to the idea from some people in the group. Our initial name was the Helping Hands, but three teams had the same name so we changed ours to Helping our generation.

1/5/2012 Daniel Milligan: Today in DEAL- according to our shared group values- we were placed in a group for Outreach. I didn't share many values with anyone in the year level; but I did share a value with Nathan, and was therefore put into a group with him. The rest of the group that had shared values included Joshua, Carolyn, and Tanisha. Our group also brainstormed on ideas for both names for the group and ideas, based on our shared values. A name we thought of was 'The Helping Hands', but a number of other groups also had the same name, so we will probably have to change it. Also; we thought of a few ideas, but we haven't really gone into much detail as of yet.

1/5/2012 Carolyn Cutajar Today in Deal we were assigned our Outreach groups by our five values we had. I was surprised who i am getting to work with and at the same time excited to see how well this is going to work out. Im looking forward to working with people who i don't really interact with. We worked on what our values were, our strengths and weaknesses are. Im looking forward to working in this group

Joshua Custo 1/5/2012: Today in Deal we were all assigned to our outreach groups according to our five values. We were quite overwhelmed that we had the chance to have a lot of the different values and that we knew that we would not argue now because we all can help each other with problems that we come up with because if orange cannot do something the blue can then blue would be able to help us and we would all be able to share our temperaments and the group dont really talk to each other very much so i think that this could be an opportunity for all of us to get to know each other and this would be a great year because we all do get along and we all have great ideas on what we want to do and we would be able to work very well together and we would use our class time effectively and we would be able to achieve our goals for the year and we would be able to work very excellent together and i think that this year we would have a lot of fun as well as completing our tasks.

1/5/2012 Tanisha Calleja: Today in DEAL we were assigned our outreach groups, we had alot of different values and we also had some of the same values like love, respect and family. At the beginning our group got along very well and we were talking about all of our values and colours. our group has different strengths and weaknesses and we could all help each other with them and get assigned to different parts depending on our strengths and weaknesses.

8/5/2012 Nathan Peeters: Today in DEAL we took notes about the paperwork side of Outreach, we did work on temperaments and we watched Pay It Forward. The paperwork that was explained to us today seemed like the balance of the Outreach program. I felt that the paperwork is not just for legal reasons, but it is good to do it just so you are sure to double check all your work and all that you have done, it also shows you if there actually is something achievable. The activity about temperaments was very revealing and interesting because in the beginning I thought I was green, but then after hearing more about the different temperaments I figured I was orange. This activity helped me to understand why some people act in certain interesting ways and now afterwards I know how to communicate and work well with other people of different temperaments. The film Pay It Forward was a very good and inspiring film which taught me about giving of yourself. This film showed me how much of an impact people can have by giving themselves. Trevor showed that through determination you can accomplish something big and that determination is something that is truly needed to accomplish big things. In the end of the movie, it is clear that Trevor’s determination brought his downfall because he faced his objective right in the face and it got the better of him. I think that in Outreach, we are called and inspired to do what Trevor did, to give of ourselves and to think about others. I think that this weak was very insightful to see the legal requirements along with paperwork that needs to be done in order to get what we want out of Outreach. I also think that 'Pay It Forward' was also very insightful, showing us what we can achieve in reaching out to the community in it's full potential.

Daniel Milligan: 8/5/2012: Toady in DEAL; we watched the movie “Pay it Forward”. The main idea behind the film was that the 7th grader that started it would help three people; before they each help three more people, and so on. The film promoted the idea that if everyone helped a few other people- so long as what they did made a big enough impact- the world could become a better place. I think that this concept is an interesting one, because- even thought the ideas behind it are simple- it seems as though the initiative would spread quickly, and help many people. The execution of the plan is also important because- despite how the idea stated that whatever would be done, it had to be ‘big’- it didn’t look like the boy did anything that he needed help to do; showing that it doesn’t matter who you are; you can still help the people around you.

Joshua Custo 8/5/2012: Today in deal we watched a movie called pay it forward i thought that the movie was a really good movie and that people may have worst of problems but if you give them a little sympathy and help them they may get through it the movie was about a woman who is held hostage and the man breaks through the garage with a car and smashes into another mans car the police follow the guy and the man is stuck with no car and a man offers him to take home his jaguar car but he at first thinks that it is a little risky but he ends up taking it. the child's mother is an alcoholic and her son soon finds out and he throws all her alcohol. Its his first day in the 7th grade and the teacher proposes a project to try and help them to help others and the boy brings a homeless man home and stay the night he comes up with an idea that if he helps one person they will then go onto help 3 others so he also tries to help his teacher who has burns and he tries to set him up with his mother so he organizes a meeting and then he sets up a table with a candle and then he stays for dinner they become closer and closer each time so he then spends the night at the house and the child wakes up and sees the teacher in his underwear and gets exited but the teacher doesn't like that he got caught and leaves the house. The man finds out more about the car and then he asks why and he explains a story of how a man helped a man get his daughter into the doctors before him and he explains the movement. The child’s father comes back but the child doesn't like him because he's an alcoholic the father tells the mother he is now sober but then she soon realizes that it was all just a lie and she leaves him and gets back with the teacher and then the child sees the bullies picking on his friend so he rides his bike to them and starts hitting them but then the bully pulls a knife out of his pocket and stabs the child and the child goes into hospital and then a doctor comes out and tells the mum and the teacher that he passed away and they break down and then they get a knock on the door for an interview about the sons idea and tells them how it has now become a movement.

8/5/2012 Tanisha Calleja: Today in DEAL we watched the movie “Pay it Forward” This movie was about a school boy that wanted to help three people and those three people would help another three people and it will keep going on untill alot of people are involved. The movie showed us that if someone takes time to help someone in need it can help a big amount of people. This movie was very interesting because even though this boy was in the seventh grade he still wanted to make a big difference, this movie was very inspiring and taught be that if you are devoted and determined to do something it can happen. No matter what age you are you can still help people around you and this movie has really inspired me that anyone can make a difference.

15/5/2012 Nathan Peeters: Today in DEAL we did a range of things. First we did a team building activity where one of us was blind folded and another team member had to guide them through a maze to pick up bean bags, if they touched any cones they were theoretically dead. This was a good activity because it helped us build trust within the group and it helped us bond and build a sense of community within our team. Afterwards, we had our first official group meeting, with the agenda covered by the teachers. This didn’t go very well because it was hard for some to keep on topic. We had our meeting with the teachers to allocate a mentor. Since most of the teachers were already full, we had a choice of Ms Saunders or Miss Constantino. We chose Ms Saunders because throughout our group we have no gold temperaments and we though that Ms Saunders could fill the void of having no gold temperament people. After this, we did research on more organisations, and our group had a little debate about what we wanted to do, so we researched both sides and will compare next meeting. I also hope that next meeting we come up with a list of preferences of which organisations we would like to help out. Next lesson we have Rock and Water so besides that, we might be doing other things besides from Outreach. I hope we get enough time next week to progress further into our Outreach project.

Daniel Milligan: 15/5/2012: Today in DEAL, we brainstormed ideas for our initiative. We were also assigned to our mentor teachers who will guide us and help us shape our ideas into a suitable, realistic plan. Our group- the “Helping our Generation” group- were assigned to Ms. Saunders when we went and presented ourselves as a group to the teachers. We also found out that- within our group there are two blue temperaments, two oranges, the only green being myself, and the absent space for a gold temperament being filled by our Teacher/ mentor; Ms. Saunders. We tossed up a few ideas for organisations that we could possibly help with our initiative, and together the group considered Starlight foundation, The Salvation Army, The St. Vincent dePaul society, and (very briefly) the RSPCA. Our group had a wide variety of ideas, but not one idea was popular among the entire group; and the disagreements may be a result of the differences in our temperaments as a group. Agreeing on something is going to be the next hurdle in our work, I think... Our first official group meeting went reasonably well, with Nathan carefully taking notes on everything that was said as the minute, and with my lead as the Chair. However; we will need to be able to agree on an idea or a number of ideas if we are to be able to continue on with what we are doing in the next lesson.

Joshua Custo 15/5/2012 Today in deal we got our mentor groups and we all decided on mrs Saunders because we did not have a gold in our group and i think that that is what i need and then we would be able to help each others strengths and weaknesses and this would help us a lot more we had to play a game i think that it was mostly based on trust because you need to trust your partner to not let you hit the cones and help u get the bean bag and show you how to work as a group. We also had to come up with a speech and we had to talk in front of our mentors and then the teachers that turn around then we can choose what one we want i think that this is good because then we could all be interested in the same thing. As a group we are privileged to have a group with a lot of different colours and we know that there would be minimal arguments because we all fit in like a puzzle because we are all different.

Tanisha Calleja 15/5/2012 Today in DEAL, we completed a team building activity where one of our group members were blindfolded and another team member had to instruct them through a maze to collect the bean bags, if they touched any cones they would be dead and we had to have another member have a turn. After we played that game we had our first group meeting as an outreach team, it was very hard to choose a topic we wanted to do because everyone had different opinions. We had our meetings with the teacher and we explained what our group is planning to do and who we are going to help.We had to chose from ms saunders and ms constantino. We decided to chose Ms Saunders because none of our team members had the colour temperament of gold. After this happened we did research on some more organizations that we would like to help. I think we are working really well together and we will be a really good team.

Carolyn Cutajar 29/5/2012 I was away this day.

Nathan Peeters 29/5/2012 Today in DEAL we did many things in means of outreach. First we made a group logo. We decided on putting a sun ray because it reflects that people who are unfortunate as being in the dark, and we are the sun rays through their dark lives by helping them by brighting up their day. The hands are just there as a generic symbol of peace and belonging. We created this on Photoshop and Illustrator. We also made a poster with the logo and the quote "Freely you receive, freely give". This quote reflects us as a group because it's quite meaningful and something we don't realise. We also came up with our aim, with help from out mentor teacher. As it says above, our aim is to go on a series of drives for different organisations in order to provide for many people and to have a large impact on the community. I feel very confident about this idea because it is very possible and is a big help for many people. I hope that during next outreach session we get more work done.

Daniel Milligan 29/5/2012 Today in DEAL; we worked on developing a logo for our group (can be found at the top of the page), followed by a motivational poster; both tasks involved a lot of Adobe Photoshop, and illustrator. As well as this; we also worked on our idea for our outreach project, and came up with the one outlined above. Basically- as a group- our aim is to go on numerous drives, collecting a different type of item in donations each time, before donating them to various organisations, the first we hope will be Anglicare. With this idea, we may also be able to visit the actual organisations, in order to find out what they may need, and also to see if we can help in some way. Using this concept, we will be able to do work with numerous organisations, as well a goals for ourselves. This will assist us in helping as many people as possible.

Joshua Custo 29/5/2012 Today we got to work with our groups at the start we were a little worried because one of our team members were absent but towards the end we felt quite confident that we were going to all be happy with our ideas as a group we think that we got quite a lot of work complete and that we have created a great logo and a great poster i think that we have been greatly organized and that we are going to have a lot of fun working as a group and that there would be minimal arguments because we have all got some great ideas and we are all mixing our ideas into one big event so that we can have our help day. I think that as a group we will all achieve our goals and that all together we will defiantly have someone great fun along with getting all our work finished.

Tanisha Calleja 29/5/2012 Today in DEAL we were working on making a logo for our helping our generation team also making a poster, we used adobe photoshop and illustrator to complete the logo and poster and it helped us a lot. We also discussed ideas for our outreach projects we decided that we wanted to collect everything from blankets, toiletries by having donation drives. We would like to help an organization called Anglicare. We hope that we can help many organizations by donating things to them, we are very exited to see how our project goes and how we can help people with our ideas.

Nathan Peeters 5/6/2012

Today in Outreach we did many things. First we conducted our meeting. Tanisha was the chair and Joshua was the minute taker. We discussed things that we did last week for Carolyn who wasn’t here last week. After that we discussed what we were going to do and what we wanted to do in the long run. After that, we got the all clear from Ms. Saunders to send our email to Mr. De Fazio. After that, we made a template for permission slips for future use. We also drafted an email to send to the Red Cross for future use. We also got a positive response from Mr. De Fazio. We responded to him, possibly arranging a meeting with him next week. I am very confident that our Outreach project is going well and we should get more done next time.

Daniel Milligan 5/6/2012 Today in DEAL we discussed how we were going to work on our Outreach project- in terms of how we were going to manage what we were going to do, where we may be going, and who we will help, as well as how we will help them. We are going to contact Mr. DeFazio in order to find out how we can help Anglicare, but we also researched other organisations that we might be able to help in addition. As well as this, we also drafted a permission slip for any incidents in which me may need to go outside of school for our work. We also drafted, and then sent a letter to Mr. DeFazio, to which we got a positive response. Nathan also drafted a letter to the Red Cross, for later use. From here, we will go onwards to have a meeting with Mr. DeFazio, concerning the work we will be doing with Anglicare.

Joshua Custo 5/6/2012: Today in outreach my group started of with a meeting and we come up with some ideas and we decided that we are going to help a organization called anglicare this good because now that we have listed a few organizations we can now get all our work done and then we can get out in the real world and we could help more people we have not quite got our hearts set on anglicare because there may not be any possible positions for people our age to help but the great side is that if we have our organizations we could get more work done and if anything does go wrong we have a outline of what we should talk about and we would be able to prepare for it a lot more quicker. I think that we work quite well as a group apart from some disruptions but i am quite happy with my group and i know that as a group we will get most of our work done a lot quicker.

Tanisha Calleja:5/6/2012 Today in outreach my group we started by having a meeting about what we are going to do this lesson, we came up with some ideas we thought that we would like to help a organization called Anglicare, we went on there website and it said that they would like volunteers to help out with there organization, we also have listen some other organizations that we can help so we can help more then one organization, we first thought of Anglicare because with some organizations we might not be able to help because you have to be a certain age to go into the organization and have a certain age group, usually 16 to 18 and we wont fit the age recommendation. I think that we are working really well as a group is working really well together i think that we could provide for our organization if they approve.

Carolyn Cutajar 5/6/2012 Today in my outreach group the first thing we did was have meeting about what we are going to be doing in this lesson and we came upon Anglicare. It really good that we are coming up with great organizations to help. Today i also worked on reaching other organizations just incase our original idea doesn’t work out for us we have more to choose from. I feel we are accomplishing a lot and its only the start i think we will get very far with outreach if we continue to work like this.

Nathan Peeters 12/06/2012 Today in Outreach we met with Mr. De Fazio. He gave us all the information that he had obtained for us from his boss at Anglicare and from Brendan O'Connor and his personal assistant. He told us that we could start collecting blankets, mens clothing and non perishable goods. I'm feeling very confident about our project because either way we have achieved success. If plans do not go ahead with Brendan O'Connor's office, we can go with our original idea. Mr. De Fazio said that he is happy to help and guide us through our work.

Daniel Milligan 12/6/2012 Today, we had DEAL after two of our exams. In this short lesson, we met with Mr. DeFazio- who told us that we should start collecting items we plan to donate as soon as possible. After meeting with mr. DeFazio, we have agreed that we will start collecting blankets, mens clothing and non- perishable goods, as they are some of the items that the people from Anglicare need the most right now. Also, if we are unable to help Anglicare for any reason; the items we collect will go to people from our area. This way, we are definitely helping someone with the items we collect, as they will get to people who need them no matter what. From here, our group needs to start advertising our project inside (and probably outside) the school, so that we can collect items to donate. Because of the short lesson, we were able to plan what we would do, and meet with mr. DeFazio, but not much else. We will also meet with mr. DeFazio at a later date to discuss the project further.

Tanisha Calleja 12/6/2012

Today we had outreach for only two periods because of our exams. During this time we met up with MrDefasio to discuss our plan. He told us that we can start collecting what we would like to donate from other people. He told us that if Brendan O conners plan does not work out we can go to our orignal idea.

Nathan Peeters 21/06/2012 Today in Outreach, we had no recent word from Mr. De Fazio. Resulting in that, we just started to organise our paperwork and advertisement. We started our activity submission which we have yet to finish and we also started and finished our outreach proposal document. We started to design our posters to put around the school and community. I am still feeling relatively confident about our project in general, however that confidence must be reinforced by some further contact and reimbursement of enthusiasm. Other than that, we need to complete our activity submission in the next week along with our posters etc. We will contact Mr. De Fazio just to remind him incase he hasn't had time or if he had forgotten.

Daniel Milligan 21/06/2012 Today in Outreach, Leandro joined our group, and we worked on a promotional poster for our project, a project submission form, the agenda for next lesson, and the outreach group proposal form. We are hopefully going to meet with Mr. DeFazio by next lesson- provided he has received word on what he needed to know. When all of this is finished, hopefully we will be able to start advertising our project, collecting blankets and getting them where they need to go. We need to wait for Mr. DeFazio because what he tells us will determine whether we help the people around Caroline Springs, or the people in the city with Anglicare.

Tanisha Calleja 21/6/2012

Today in deal, we had a new student join our group that recently moved from Mowbray. His name is Leandro. We told him what the aim for our group was and about our group name Helping Our Generation. We designed posters to put around the school advertising our plan which we are going to put around the school so people know about what they are donating. i think we are doing a good job and will get donated lots of goods.

26/06/2012 Today in Outreach we made out poster and we have done our submission form for our excursion i didn't really work hard today i think that i got a little lazy when i found out were ahead i think that i could have done a lot more work in class today i think that i did do work but i didn't really do much. we are having a few minor difficulties as Leandro does not have a computer but we worked around that and we have figured out how we would collect the clothes and how we are going to collect the clothes and we are going to have different houses and each house that hands in a blanket would get a house point. Today i felt a little confused as i was away last week and i was a little unsure of what we did but i found out what we did and how we went.

26/06/2012 Daniel Milligan Today in DEAL, we kept working on our Outreach, and managed to organise a poster to advertise our project within our school, while Nathan also organised a poster for the bin that we now plan to put in the public library. We also got an email from Mr. DeFazio saying that he hasn’t heard back from Anglicare yet, but also saying that we would be able to help the people in our area through Brendan O’Connor. We also finished the activity Submission form, and await its approval.

31/07/12 Today in outreach we got some good news and some bad news we found out that we cannot leave the school as the new law requirements require that a teacher must visit the place first so it was a little disappointing but we were quite lucky that we didn't quite have to leave the school so we had ups and we could leave the front gates.

July 31, 2012: Daniel Milligan Today in outreach, we discovered that we are unable to leave the school during school hours for any excursion without a teacher first visiting the place that we wanted to go to first. However, this doesn't affect our project so much, as our project was drive- based, and wouldn't have required us to leave the school anyway. Also- in order to replace the excursions for outreach; the teachers wish to organise an in-school outreach fete. In this fete, we would all be assigned a location for a stall within the school, and we would advertise our cause and/or organisation at that stall. Seeing as we aren't helping a particular organisation; (As Brendan O'Connor doesn't have one) w our group will either have to try and contact Anglicare again, or simply advertise homelessness, and how maybe Brendan O'Connor works as the minister for the homeless. Our group was also thinking of holding one big drive at the fete (after all of the others) in which we would collect all of the items from all of the previous drives at the same time. We might also offer an incentive for students' doing so. We discussed perhaps organising vouchers from the local McDonalds or Subway.

Nathan Peeters 07/08/2012 Today in DEAL, I found out the news about not being able to go out. Instead of this we're having a Outreach Festival where every group has their own stall. We chose our location where our stall will be. We requested somewhere which available electricity just incase we need it. We brainstormed the many ways in which we can decorate our stall and offer incentives for donations on the day. We decided on house points and maybe some vouchers that could possibly be donated to us by local fast food places. Next lesson we will just go more into depth in our planning and preparation.

August 7, 2012: Daniel Milligan Today in Outreach, we were assigned locations for our individual outreach stalls. Our group was assigned location 5. We also discussed possible methods for decorating the stalls, and for incentives for students that donate at the outreach fete. We agreed that house points would be a good idea, and we also were told we could have 10 vouchers from Subway. We also tried to organise vouchers from other places, but we were told to call back later, and were unable to do so, as this was after school hours. Next lesson, we will need to organise each of the drives that we plan to go on, and organise any advertisements we will need for the project.

August 7 2012: Tanisha calleja I was away this deal lesson.

Nathan Peeters 14/08/2012 Today in DEAL we participated in a youth summit. This took place in the hall. There were many speakers from a range of organisations that gave us an insight of the situation regarding the youth in Australia. From this, I learned that school is key to many goals. I also learned that being a team player is key to life and people who don't act as a team get ousted quickly.

August 14, 2012: Daniel Milligan Today, for periods 1 through to 4- replacing our regular DEAL class- we had a youth summit, featuring Les Twentyman, and various other guest speakers. All of these people told us- as a year nine year level- about their work with the youth of today. A reoccurring theme throughout all of the speeches that I found important was that- rather than thinking of reactive methods to deal with troubled people ‘tomorrow’, we can prevent anything in a more proactive method. For example, rather than building more prisons to deal with the modern crime rate, counsellors can be employed to prevent people from ever needing to go to prison in the first place. I think that this is important because it will enable the youth of today to contribute to society tomorrow, rather than using up taxpayer dollars, merely to contain them in and provide for them in a prison.

August 14/2013 Today we had Les Twentyman come and talk to us about youth violence and he showed us about crime and the rate of crimes this was interesting but i personally found some parts a little boring. I think the most interesting one was the police man because he had stories to tell us and it gave us a little break from hearing a chat that was meant for adults but i think if i was to sum it all up it was interesting.

August 21, 2012: Daniel Milligan Today in DEAL, we continued to work on our projects for our stalls. Also, so that we can be assessed properly, we were also given a rubric and an assessment sheet that we will use to show that we have completed our work for the unit, and that we are able to be passed on Outreach. Before Outreach has finished, we will need to take the time to fill out the evidence form, so that we can hand it in as proof of the work we have done in Outreach. Also, we continued to try and get vouchers organised as incentives for donations. We will have to work especially hard for this, because we were told that we would probably be unable to offer house points in return for donations. Next lesson, we will have to work hard to fill out the evidence assessment sheet, and also try to organise something in return for donations. Our project might succeed without any incentives, but it would probably help us a lot to have something. Also, we will need to try to start advertising soon.

Carolyn Cutajar 21/8/1012 Today my group started off doing our meeting talking about what we are doing and what we need to get done. Josh and myself mad 3 phone calls to Mac Donald's, KfC and subway to check if we could still be able to get vouchers for our festival. Our phone calls were half successful because they need to get back to us but they said it would be likely to get the vouchers.

Nathan Peeters 21/08/2012

Today in Outreach, we accomplished many things. We started gathering evidence of work, we sent an e-mail to Brendan O’Connor’s office and called up a few fast food establishments asking for vouchers as an incentive for donations. Today we worked very well as a team and surprisingly, everyone pulled their own weight. Due to the setback of not being able to use food as an incentive, we thought of acquiring vouchers from fast food places as rewards. This is an easier and more convenient way of having rewards for our donations. We meant to enquire about offering house points, but Ms. Constantino was unavailable, which lead to the idea of vouchers. Since Carolyn talks a lot, we find that she is confident to talk to people. We used her skill as an advantage to talk on the phone to fast food people seeing as she has good people skills. I allocated Daniel to gather evidence for our work (with the help of Leandro), since they are more focused on accuracy and precision that they would find it easy to perform this task. On the whole, we found the phone to be a very useful tool, helping us to quickly rule in or out what is and isn’t available in means of vouchers. I also used e-mail as a communication tool, this was very suited to me because I would rather have time to think about what I am writing, read over it and make changes to what I am saying before sending it, rather than being on the phone where you can’t change what you say after you’ve said it. Overall, we worked well as a team, used resources well and got quite a bit done.

Tanisha Calleja 21/8/2012 I was away this lesson.

Joshua Custo 28/8/2012

Today we created some flyers and we have a rough idea of how we are going to encourage people to donate we choose that we will give house points to people who donate and a balloon we all agreed on paying 10 dollars and we have called bunnings to see if they could donate us a bin so that we can put all the things that are donated in the bin and then we will put them in garage bags and give them to Mr DeFazio to donate to anglicare people can donate things like non perishable goods, Clothes and Blankets we choose to decide that we are going to give house points to who ever donates to our group and we think that this will bring more people because doing a simple thing like bringing a blanket to school can help there house team. We decided that we will have a rainbow banner the sort of things that we will need are a table and our banner made of cardboard we choose to do the banner colourful because that would be more eye catching and people would actually take the time to read it.

Carolyn Cutajar 28/8/2012

Today in Outreach i made a phone call to spotlight to ask about helium tanks to see how much there are to buy. The group made a disunion about the money and have all agreed to pay $10. I also made a draft of what our stall will look like while the other group made posters and worked on the evidence sheet. Photo Shop and illustrator worked very well to make our posters there were no problems and they came out looking great.

August 28: Daniel Milligan

Today in DEAL, we were told that we would be allowed to offer house points as incentives for any donations that our stall receives. As it turned out, Ms. Costantino only wants to make sure that whatever we offer is fair, and- if it is- we're allowed to offer house points in return for donations at our stall.

Our group also continued on with its outreach project. Nathan and Leandro worked on flyers, Tanisha and Carolyn worked on a design for the outreach fete stall, and Josh and I worked on the evidence sheet for the work that we have done so far. Also, we had a meeting assessing where we are up to, and we are almost finished. Next lesson, we will have to make the banner to hang at the front of our stall (materials have been organised by Nathan Peeters), we will have to make sure that we have all of our advertisements organised, (we have already posted an advertisement on an Edmodo page that the whole school has access to, as well as having designed flyers to hand out on the day of the fete) and we will need to finish off the evidence sheet completely. We will also try to see if we can advertise in any other ways in addition to what we’re doing, so that we can ensure our message is reaching the maximum number of people. So far, our group has made a lot of progress in terms of organising our project, but we will need to ensure that we have a definite location to send any donations that we collect to once we’ve finished as well. We may need to post these over the holidays, as the outreach fete itself is in the last week of school, and we mightn’t have enough time to send them during the term. Finally, we will also need to make sure that we have everything we need to run our stall, and- now that house points have been approved as an incentive for donations from students- that we can complete a registration system in which we note the names, houses, and donations of each person that visits our stall. Hopefully the flyers and edmodo ad that we made work well enough for us to get a good enough response from the students here at school. Also, Tanisha and Carolyn are hoping to get helium balloons to hand out in return for donations. I'm not quite sure how this will be received by the rest of the school, but even if it doesn't work (but still gets approved) we can decorate our stall with any balloons that we have. However, we are running out of class time to work on this assessment and- while we're almost finished- we still need to make sure that we work fast enough to get it all done before the festival. We may have to work in our own time for this. Also, in regards to the helium balloons, we will need to have those organised in our own time, outside of school, as we aren't allowed to go out of school during school hours because of the new laws in relation to excursions for outreach.

The evidence sheet was also put onto the googledocs this week, and- due to the accessibility of the googledocs by all members of our group, we should be able to finish this portion of the task faster. We need to have it completed soon, so hopefully putting it there will help us finish faster. We've completed about half of the evidence sheet so far, so- with all of the group now able to work on it at the same time- we should be able to finish the rest of it.

Nathan Peeters 28/08/12 Today in Outreach we accomplished many things and are well on the way to completing our stall preparation. Daniel and Josh continued to gather evidence for the paperwork. Me and Leandro worked on advertising. Tanisha and Carolyn worked on the stall appearance. Today we didn’t work very well as a team because I ended up being the one to design the stall and the banner. We organised to all put in to buy a helium tank and balloons for approx. $50. I will bring in a roll of paper next week to make the banner. Leandro and I finished designing an advert to put on Edmodo as well as a flyer to give out on the day. We used photoshop and illustrator to make this and at one stage Daniel helped us. I think we used this tool very well because it got the job done and it looks great. I helped Carolyn and Tanisha to design the banner, we approached Ms. Elmer and she said that we would be able to use the paint and brushes next week. Daniel worked quite well on the evidence so far and from what I have seen it, his work effort has looked very promising. If we work hard in the next few weeks, we are well on the way to being successful in the festival.

Tanisha Calleja 28/8/2012 This lesson we agreed that we were going to buy a helium tank for our balloons, we all agreed to put in $10 each so we can all have a part in buying the helium tank. Carolyn made a phone call to spotlight asking if there was a helium tank and they said it was $50 which was good because we had the right amount of money. Myself and carolyn also drew what we would like our stall to look like, we had an idea of painting it rainbow but so we wouldnt use all of the paint we decided to only paint some parts rainbow.

September 4: Daniel Milligan

Today- for most of the DEAL sessions (we didn't do outreach work in Periods 3 & 4)- my group painted a banner that we can use for our outreach stall. After this. The paper that Nathan brought to paint on for this was ideal. However, a few of our group members were constantly going back to wash brushes, etc- so we didn't work as efficiently as we could have. However, we completed the banner painting without creating a mess, and we were also able to organise a donations bin for the blankets, clothes, and non- perishable goods that we collect (Ms. Saunders let us borrow her paper recycling bin, and we were able to use the remainder of Nathan's paper- which both worked well for this). We already have a poster design that we could attach to the binT and we only need to print it out at the start of the next lesson. Also, we have to try to contact Anglicare and/or Brendan O'Connor as quickly as possible, in order to find out where we can send donations. However, if we don't get a response from either of them, we should be able to merely send any donations with Mr. Defazio to take with him for the next time he goes to the city for Anglicare. Also, it is now unlikely that we will get anything to offer in addition to house points as incentives for donations that we receive on the day of the outreach fete. However, apart from this- the project is running smoothly, with the evidence sheet being the only major task left.

Joshua Custo 4/09/12 Today me and my group got a fair bit of work completed i think i worked well but i could of worked way more harder me and daniel worked on our evidence table and we got a fair bit of the complete i think overall we did do well and its a good idea how there is one person for every task and everybody gets it complete and i think this can get a ahead so that we are ready for the fete. Photoshop and illustrator helped us a fair bit because we used all them programs to make our advertisements.

Nathan Peeters 4/09/12 Today we only worked on Outreach for periods 1,2, 5 and 6. I organised some paper which I brought to do the banner on. We wanted to paint inside. First we thought about doing it on the table, then we thought of doing it on the floor, but in the end we decided that it would be quite convenient to put it on the wall so that we could just leave it there to dry after painting it. We could have been more efficient, however three of the six of us kept going to wash brushes and all that carry on. We organised a bin to use. In the morning, Daniel organised a flow chart showing the activities we need to perform in order of im portance. This was key because we knew what was priority and what wasn’t. This helped us a lot so we knew what to do today and the coming weeks. Our only major task left now is the evidence sheet.

Carolyn Cutajar 4-9-2012 Today in outreach my group started to paint our banner Nathan had bought us a large role of paper for us to use. Daniel and myself got newspaper for us to work on. It took 4 periods to paint but we also organized a bin to use to put all donations in. I also am working on getting the balloons for the festival.

Tanisha Calleja 4/9/2012 Today in outreach we started painting our banner, from nathans massive paper roll he brang in. We figured that it would be easier to paint it on the wall but we had to be very carefull to not get paint on there so we used newspaper to stick on the wall, the banner came out really good and we were all proud of it.

Nathan Peeters 11/09/12

This morning we printed out adverts to post up around the school, finished the bin for donations and continued filling out the evidence sheet. We finished the evidence sheet over the course of the day along with decorating the bins. We worked well as a team quite well. Outreach has helped me to work in a team in many ways, by having meeting, I have learned that everyone being on the same mindset can effect work effort quite heavily and effects the groups overall organisation. Through Outreach I have also learned how to work with different types of people than I normally work with. I think that next week should turn out quite well and we should get an alright amount of donations.

Carolyn Cutajar 11-9-2012 Today in outreach Josh and I worked on decorating our donations bin. Im kinda sad that its our last lesson on deal it has been so much fun working with people i don't really talk to. I have learnt so much over these 4 months and have had a blast i hope we do well in our festival next week.

September 11: Daniel Milligan

Today in Outreach, we finished the projects, with everything being ready for us to run our stall next lesson. All we have to do now, is- before the fete- advertise using our flyers; which we may hand out or put up around the school. Besides from this, every task so far has been completed. Personally, Outreach has been a important learning experience for me. For one, I have learnt that it doesn’t take too much work to help (anyone), especially when you have the right motivation. Also, I have learnt how to work well in a group, as I am usually an independent learner. The evidence sheet is finished, and we are able to add to it after the fete. Also, there is no other work left for outreach, so my group only has to run its stall next week.

11/9/2012 I was away this lesson

September 18: Daniel Milligan Today, our entire DEAL day was devoted to running our outreach stall. With our projects organised; we were able to successfully run the stall, as we half- filled our donations bin. Also, the bin would be left in the front office until the end of the week, (we had permission to do this) so it is likely that we will get even more donations. The helium balloons worked out well, and most of the houses got a decent amount of points from donations. Also, the contents of the donations box will be sent to Anglicare with Mr. DeFazio as soon as possible. (The food is non- perishable, so the time it gets delivered shouldn't be a problem) After seeing how successful our stall was, I have decided that our outreach project is a success.

September 18 Nathan Peeters Today, we had a set reflection to fill out, I feel that this replaced the blog as my reflection was detailed and covered most aspects normally covered by the blog.