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Mentor: Mr. Jilbert - Green Temperament **C****C**: Christian Cansancio - Gold Temperament **JM**: Jeremy Mifsud - Gold Temperament **LC**: Laura Camilleri - Gold Temperament **SS**: Sasha Sant - Blue Temperament **CA**: Chelsee Alexander - Blue Temperament **BD**: Brooke Dohmen - Blue Temperament

Organizations:
Salvation Army

Values:
Friendship: Being able to stay together through thick and thin. Trust: Allowing each other to do whatever they please knowing that what they'll do is not causing harm to each other. Compassion: Having kindness between each other. Honor: Respecting each others Ideas and values. Caring: Displaying each other with kindness. Equality: Not thinking oneself is of a higher rank than everyone else; everybody has the right to say what they want and no one is to be treated unfairly.

Aim and Purpose:
Our aim and purpose is to help the wider community, wether disadvantaged or not, wether they are rich or poor, we want to help. To help our community, we would try to contact and volunteer to help our main Organisation; The Salvation Army. We'd try to help them through volunteering to help with any of their functions even with just handing out flyers or collecting donations- we could even get the school and its students to donate some clothes or food to the cause. With Plant a tree day we are trying to help everyone breathe better even by just planting one tree it could potentially still help people. Even though it is indirect contact, we are still helping people, and that is what counts the most.

Desired Outcomes:
Our Desired outcomes would be that we could plant at least Three trees throughout the course of this year. We want to see the smiles on the people from Salvation Army when they see how much donations we gathered and the smiles on the people who benefit from those donations. As our Mentor, Mr Jilbert had said, It would be a great way of helping the community and 10 years from now we would see the tree that we had planted and say, Thats how I helped this community and just smile.

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 * What are activities or volunteer work our group can participate in?
 * Are we allowed to participate into those events?
 * Would we need to bring anything with us?
 * How long would they need us to stay there for?
 * Can the whole group of six come along or...?
 * Will there be a timetable to which there'd be days when we can and can't go?

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WEEK ONE.
=== JM ~ Today we didn't do much because we were getting in to our groups, we were assigned groups by witch values we most liked so i was put into a group with; Chelsee Sasha Chris Brooke and Laura i think our group was alright but i think we need to ban together more to get our work done, because there a big chance that we will have trouble in staying on task.we next went on to find some things to do some of the things that got thrown around was plant a tree day and kinder visits. plant a tree day got shut down because half wanted it and half didn't, so we were left with kinder there is a chance it would change because it would be hard to find a kinder that wants us. ===

=== BD ~ Today, we did our first lesson on our Out-reach program for 2012. We first had to work out our groups by writing down five of our main values that mean the most to us. The first three of our top values created our group and my group now consists of five of us who include Chelsee, Laura, Sasha, Christian and Jeremy. Our similar values were Respect, Family/Friends and love. We also started preparing and planning what our group wanted to do for our out-reach. So far, we have been thinking about doing something with Guide dogs Australia or something to do with children like attending a kindergarden. Overall, it was a really good start to our 2012 out-reach program and I’m looking forward to continuing with it. ===

=== CA ~ Today we chosen our values and formed a group that had values in common within the people. Then we planned on what we wanted our Out Reach group wanted to be named and we decided to name if Making A difference because we are going to make a difference within the community and each other. We designed a poster showing our values and our group name and also our strengths and weaknesses within the group. ===

=== CC ~ Today We formed team Making A difference. Chelsee, Jeremy, Brooke, Laura, Sasha and Me.We came together through having the same values: Friendship, trust, imagination, honor, Caring, etc. We then came together and made four main Ideas: Salvation Army, Helping children, World Tree Day, and Guide Dogs. The one that we have chosen as a group was Helping the children at our local schools and educate them on the importance of how people are suffering and the ways that we can help them. ===

=== LC ~ Today in deal we all wrote down our 4 favorite colors on a piece of paper, then we all had to get into groups of our favorite colors. I was in purple group which was my first favorite color, we then had to join with our second favorite color the groups all suddenly got smaller. When we were in second favorite we had to find our third so there were all small groups, once we were in them groups we wrote down our values. After we wrote down our values we joined together and made a group called Make A Difference. We written stuff on our posters to show the teachers our values and strengths and weaknesses and our group name. ===

=== SS ~ This week we got our groups assigned by choosing our favorite color’s and top 5 value’s, we got put into group’s that have similar values and favorite color’s to us, we were told that our groups must have evenly mixed genders and we then got processed to a room where we had to tell our common values and our group members to a teacher our common values included: Trust, Imagination, Friendship, Kindness. We then assigned one of our group members to create a Wordle of all of our values. my group members include myself, Chelsee, Laura, Brooke, Christian and Jeremy. Some strengths that our group has includes organization, cooperation, hard working and fairness our weakness’s include handing things on time and keeping focused. ===

WEEK TWO.
=== JM ~ Today we did not work in our group but we worked and took notes on some valuable things that we need to no about and must remember when planning to leave the school or do our programs. some of the things that we went through was temperaments and planning slips that are need by law to leave the school, time lines were also explained in great detail so that when we go to outside organizations we have a good chance of getting what we want from the organization we are trying to approached or get something from them. we watched the movie pass it forward it was good to get some inspiration so that our projects take shape and be useful in the community. ===

=== BD ~ Today, half of the year 9 students that went on an excursion last week got to watch a movie called ‘Pay it forward’. This movie was about a year 7 ordinary kid with a very complicated life. This kid (Trevor) had an assignment for his social studies class and came up with this unusual but brilliant idea. In the end, the boy sets up his single mum with his amazing inspiring teacher and as they go through there ups and downs - Trevor ends up trying to ‘Pay it forward’ saving on of his classmates in a fight and gets stabbed and has a tragic death. The message in the movie was that good deeds do go a long way - no matter how little you are, you can still make a difference. Today we also learnt what temperament we are and what colour we are - I turned out to be blue which shows emotion. ===

=== CA ~ Today we planned what we are going to do in our Out Reach group. First we planned to do something with sustainability and the environment but then we discussed that we had to help people out. We were thinking of Guide Dogs as well to help dogs and the people out but then we thought we should help little kids out because they will progress in generations about reaching out within the community and the world. ===

=== CC ~ Today, we watched ‘Pay it forward’. It was about a kid who wanted to try help three people at a time hoping that those people will help three others. We are to use this as inspiration so that we could go and help other people in OUR community in a way that the little kid did in the movie. The story of this movie was that no matter who you are, you can still make a difference in the world; hence our group Name, Making A difference. ===

=== LC ~ Today, half of the classes went in groups to go on there excursion. While the rest stayed back and learnt about our temperaments. We got given a piece of paper and to highlight what suits us best in the category of colour. There was, blue, orange, green and gold. The thing that I highlighted most was blue, so my temperament is blue represents caring, loving and trustworthy, they are easy to talk to and goes with any ideas. For the rest of the day we watched a movie called ‘Pay it Forward.’ ===

=== SS ~ This week we researched what organizations we would like to help and what kind of things we could help the community with in a way that can incorporate our values. we thought of many idea’s some of these included: === === Plant a tree day, working with the salvation army, working with guide dogs, working with young children, helping child care centers in the community.We researched each of these ideas and options and established which we each were most excited about and which of these options were the most possible and most likely to succeed. We decided that guide dogs was a unlikely option as we were unable to find centers in our area that were able to to allow us to help them. We also established that many groups would be working with children and we wanted to do something different and more interesting. We finished the lesson with a open mind between plant a tree day and salvation army, however some of our group members still wanted to explore other ideas. In the last periods we listened to inspiring stories off our wellbeing teacher’s, which inspired us to further succeed. ===

=== JM ~ To day we worked on NAPLAN for most of the day, but we had some time to work on outreach today we started with some games to build our relation ship between each other, the first game we played was a card house building game we managed to finish our house. one of the problems that we occurred was that we could now decide on a suitable structure so we wasted half of our time, we managed to settle on a one story house. the next activity that we worked on was the human knot we did this tack overly well with us wining the prize. From there we made a speech that we presented to the teachers so we could get a “Teacher Mentor”, we got mr Gilbert i think he will be good for us because he is green (green is organized which our group is not.)and will be organized and i think he will help us the most. ===

=== BD ~ With Ms Saunders activity, we had to be with our group and about five other groups. All of us groups had to make a house of cards using all the card given to us. In the end, the group next to us won having theres being first built. It was really interesting how everyones group was all different and no houses were even nearly alike. After completing that activity, we moved onto another activity were it was like a human knot and the first group to untangle themselves win. We also completed our very first agenda which was created by Ms Costantino for our future reference. On the provided agenda, there was a series of questions that our group had to complete which we did successfully. Our group said a speech and the teacher or teachers who like it most would battle it out for us to chose. In the end - our group chose Mr Jilbert. Overall I think that for the limited amount time we had, we used it efficiently and productively. ===

=== CA ~ For DEAL the first period was working on Naplan. But afterwards we played games/activities for team work and responsibilities to show that we can work in team works and we can show that we are willing to do things to support our OutReach Group. Our group ‘Make a Difference,’ answered questions and made a speech to get our Out Reach group leader it lead us. We went up and spoke about our Out Reach group and Ms Saunders, Ms Commander and Mr Gilbert. We chose Mr. Gilbert because we think he will lead our group Making a Difference into a good direction and would support us. ===

=== CC ~ We got into our groups and were made to get into groups and go to specific teachers. We then did a few activities, a few of which were the Card castle activity and untangling activity. Both of these taught us how to interact with others in the community. (Haha we won the untangling game.) We had ‘The Voice’ competition between who should get each teacher. We finished our speech and we chose Mr Jilbert as our Mentor. Before the competition, we had our first meeting where we came to a conclusion that helping However Mr Jilbert has told us that our plan to help the children was done by many other Groups and said that Our Tree Idea was much Better and unique. So that was what we are going on for now. ===

=== LC ~ Today, we were in our groups still deciding what to do for our Out Reach groups. We decided who our leader is going to be and we presented in front of the teachers. We chose Mr. Gilbert and he sat down with us ad helped us to decide what to do for our Out Reach group. We decided todo planting trees for the environment and everyone to show how sustainable we can be. It is also helping the community out to plant more trees to make the areas prettier and, also as said sustainable. ===

=== SS ~ In period 2 we took part in activities that helped our teamwork such as, building a house of cards I believe this helped our group work better and better as a team it helped me recognize my team and its weakness’s and strengths, it helped me realize for example if i needed someone to do a creative aspect of our outreach project which member I should go to for help and who I Should turn to to help me out with certain things. We also picked our mentors by doing a audition made to feel like the voice TV show, Me and my group worked through lunch time to make sure we had a good audition speech and everyone had a copy that they could look back on through out our speech, our speech contained things like, Group name, Our temperaments, want we want to achieve and what we look for in a Mentor Ms Commodore and Mr Gillbert chose our group and after our group discussion we decided we were happy with Mr Gilbert as our mentor. We then focused on researching ideas for our projects and after having a chat with our mentor Mr Gilbert we decided that we wanted to go with the plant a tree day idea because we liked the idea that we could look back and see something that will always be present in our community. ===

** WEEK FOUR. **
=== CC ~ Today we actually did a whole lot keeping in mind how much time we wasted, we managed to 'Pimp out' our Wiki spaces page and gave it color, a sparkling heading and many others. After a few minutes of arguing, we then came up with a conclusion that instead of Making " Plant A Tree Day" our main, we made that our secondary project, making our other idea: "Helping out Salvation Army" Our biggest goal. As a group, we fought about why and why we shouldn't do this and the main reason why we should is that it would give us more Marks for outreach. Simply planting a tree for "Plant a tree Day" would be way too simple and once we have planted that tree, what would we do after it. It made us all think that Helping out salvation army first would probably be the best option for our group. Something else that I did was learn about Google docs and what we should be putting into our Google documents. It taught me that we could use google docs to inform the people that are absent and let them know all the changes that we had done during the lesson. ( 5: 47pm Tuesday - Cleaned up the Wiki Spaces; fixing few spelling and Grammar errors, changed and added to The Aim and purposes and also the desired outcomes ) ===

=== JM ~ To day we worked on our web site and tried to add many things to make it more appealing to the reader. we have made changes like a sparkly mouse and a good heading, i did this through the HTML this is a good way to add things to your website in an easy an friendly way. We also asined some jobs like chris to read over the website and for Sasha to go over the savation army website and bring back some ideas, because we are unable to acceses the vic. website. ===

=== BD ~ Today for our outreach program, we progressed far. First of all we worked on our wikispaces, at first we had a bit of trouble getting all our blogs up to date on the website but as our end result we got it up and running. Then we started to discuss what direction we would go in and what type or style of project we were all interested in doing. Laura, Christian and I decided that we should do something with the Salvation Army and volunteering to help in one of there programs. On the other hand though, Chelsee, Sasha and Jeremy thought that it would be a good idea to get with an environmental organization and perhaps plant some trees to help reduce environmental issue on our Earth. Both sides argued until we came to a decision that we shall do both but still I and Laura weren't happy with that. We then settled this by asking our mentor and he said that we should chose one for now and use the other as our back-up plan in case one doesn't work. After we settled that, we started to make our wikispace more creative by adding some sparkly titles and sparkly cursors so when you move the mouse sparkles come out from underneath it. We also created a ‘voki’ which we did delete afterwards cause we couldn't get it to work properly. After that we created our own poster that displays what our group is, what our values are, and what project we would like to complete. We made ours with our logo and with the saying ‘from little things, big things grow’. I think today we got a lot done and I think that this was our first real lesson on our way to becoming a good team. ===

=== CA ~ Today, we sat in our group and talked about what we were going to do with our website and still what we were going to do in our group we decided to do Salvation Army but due to the website not working we’re thinking of planting a tree day by planting trees around the community. Still progressing, we made a poster of a group called Making a Difference. We did also Google Docs while we had some time editing the page out to make it perfect and good. For the whole day we did working on our group which was good because we became closer and we’re a well team working group Making a Difference. ===

=== LC: Today we had accomplished a lot even though it looked like we weren't doing much, === === we had decorated our wiki spaces and added all cool stuff to it after we were all satisfied we were having a 'profesional' argument about if we should keep the idea plant a tree day as out first idea or move salvation army to our main idea. After a lot of points being thrown and deifferent ideas on why it should be moved we finally decided that we would focus on ===

WEEK FIVE.
=== CC ~ Today we had our third official meeting. We talked about our main outreach project, ‘Salvation Army.’ We questioned each other on wether or not we should or shouldn’t do it because we were having issues on entering the victorian website. Mr. Jilbert had fixed this issue by finding us a website that was for the other territories. This gave us enough morale so that we could start communicating with our organization. We managed to finalize the decoration on our wiki spaces and also got started on a letter that we are going to send over to Salvation army; asking if there is anything that we could help out with. With a third of our group missing, we had to make do with what we had and despite the little amount of arguing and mucking around, we got a whole lot done. ===

=== JM ~ Today my fellow members and I of making a difference have made more changes to the wiki space we have also made an email that must be sent to the salvos after we have gone over it three times for grammar, spelling ext. before it is sent we also have to give our email to mr gillbert to check and read over then it can be sent. The changes are a bit more minimal to the changes that we last changes because we almost have the website how we like it, we just have to go over how we are doing the coloring and decoration. We are having some trouble working out how to change the background of our wiki but chris and i are going to try and research and find out how to do it. ===

=== CA ~ Today, we started off completing our rock and water session and then going into the library to ask questions and talk about exams for next week. For today for our OutReach group to talk about from the previous week and to talk about what we are going to do and finalize which is Salvation Army and for our back up we are doing plant a tree day. We did a few more edits to the page and we created a letter for Salvation Army to send to about our interests about it and wanting to help out. Mr Jilbert talked to us and looked over what we are doing and giving everything the okay. ===

=== BD ~ Today we started off completing our rock and water session and then going into the library so we got the chance to ask questions about anything thats troubling us for exams or anything we need to clarify. Afterwards is when we started doing our Outreach program and continuing on what we were doing the previous week. We started drafting an email that we can probably send once Mr Jilbert checks it and approves it, and we also edited our website to make it more clearer and more effect (also to the point, not adding elements that weren't needed). We also tried to add a more colorful background but unfortunately unable to do so for unknown reasons. Overall we had a very productive lesson and we are just about ready to send off our first email to our chosen organization (Salvation Army). The challenge was to access there website, because for some reason there website doesn't work on our school Macs and we can access it only at home which will put us back a lot. ===

** WEEK SIX. **
=== CC ~ Today we had our first day of exams, we didn’t get to do much today but I had managed to get an email sent to our organization and we are hoping for a reply. In the Mean time, we are planning on sending an email to Plant a tree day to host one at our school. I have managed to get our group working without Jeremy. Barely. And we didn’t really get much done today. ===

=== BD ~ Today, we had our first day of exams which was really quiet daunting for us but we didnt really get many things done for outreach seeing we only got period 5 and 6 to do OutReach. We did not get that much done, seeing we only had limited time to do things but we mangaed to get our very first email out to our organisation The Salvation Army regarding on how we want to help the organisation and how much we want to be a part of raising good for there charity. We got the contact details off Mr Jilbert last week though this week was our opportunity to get more done and submit our final draft on google documents. During this lesson we also considered emailing the 'Plant A Tree Day' organisation which is organised by 'Planet Ark'. we just started to draft what we were going to say in case we decided to actually get in proper contact with them next week. This week i personally think was a let down considering there was a lot of valuable time lost because of exams and also because we weren't on task as much as we should of been but we did get an important part of out OutReach done and hopefully by next week we get a reply and then we will be well on our way to pursuing our OutReach goal. ===

===** LC ~ Today, we had our first exams which was very daunting and was a lot of pressure. So we didn't get much done when it was time fore deal, but we did get to send an email sent out to our organization and we are now waiting for a reply. While we are waiting we have discussed on weather we should write an email to our back up organization, which is plant a tree day. **===

WEEK SEVEN.
=== CC ~ Today during our outreach program, Brooke, Laura and I ( the only part of the team who were present) managed to plan and call to the nearest Salvation Army Shop to volunteer in working. The call that we made was somewhat of a bad standard but it was good considering that it was our first actual call to the shop we were volunteering for. We told them who we were, what we were looking for; eg: cleaning, clerical duties; anything that we can do to help them, help the community. After the call we also planned on calling other organisations like Working Wonders and Anglicare but we ran out of time before we got to the phone. ===

===[[#x-WEEK SEVEN.-BD ~ Today in our OutReach lesson, it was really productive and we managed to get a lot done and completed to a much better standed then usual and we worked much harder then my group normally does. There was only three of us, Christian Laura and I and we all put in an equal amount of effort. We started off making a call to our organisation The Salvation Army regarding the reply to the email we got sent back saying that it should be alright and giving us a location and a number we could call. Christian and I called up Salvation Army explaining what OutReach is and why we wanted to help and we were discussing what possible things we could do considering the age we are. While we were doing that, Laura was trying to find where the closest Salvation Army shop was so we could possibly help there and sort out clothes or do something else productive in the shop. The phone call didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, seeing Christian and I weren't that confident in what we were saying because this was our first official call we have made. After the call we went back to see what Laura had found, and she was on google maps researching where about's we could go. The nearest Salvation Army shop we found was in Deer Park - but the problem was we had no bus routes to take us exactly there because it would still be a fair walk from the bus stop to there. After figuring out different problems we decided on forgetting about the Salvation Army FOR NOW so we could look on another organisation in case this one didn't work. We found others like anglicare, starlight and working wonders but none of them really was set out and none of them was like the Salvation Army in what we desired. In conclusion we had a very good lesson and got loads done with the limited amount of people we had.]][[#x-WEEK SEVEN.-BD ~ Today in our OutReach lesson, it was really productive and we managed to get a lot done and completed to a much better standed then usual and we worked much harder then my group normally does. There was only three of us, Christian Laura and I and we all put in an equal amount of effort. We started off making a call to our organisation The Salvation Army regarding the reply to the email we got sent back saying that it should be alright and giving us a location and a number we could call. Christian and I called up Salvation Army explaining what OutReach is and why we wanted to help and we were discussing what possible things we could do considering the age we are. While we were doing that, Laura was trying to find where the closest Salvation Army shop was so we could possibly help there and sort out clothes or do something else productive in the shop. The phone call didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, seeing Christian and I weren't that confident in what we were saying because this was our first official call we have made. After the call we went back to see what Laura had found, and she was on google maps researching where about's we could go. The nearest Salvation Army shop we found was in Deer Park - but the problem was we had no bus routes to take us exactly there because it would still be a fair walk from the bus stop to there. After figuring out different problems we decided on forgetting about the Salvation Army FOR NOW so we could look on another organisation in case this one didn't work. We found others like anglicare, starlight and working wonders but none of them really was set out and none of them was like the Salvation Army in what we desired. In conclusion we had a very good lesson and got loads done with the limited amount of people we had.]][[#x-WEEK SEVEN.-BD ~ Today in our OutReach lesson, it was really productive and we managed to get a lot done and completed to a much better standed then usual and we worked much harder then my group normally does. There was only three of us, Christian Laura and I and we all put in an equal amount of effort. We started off making a call to our organisation The Salvation Army regarding the reply to the email we got sent back saying that it should be alright and giving us a location and a number we could call. Christian and I called up Salvation Army explaining what OutReach is and why we wanted to help and we were discussing what possible things we could do considering the age we are. While we were doing that, Laura was trying to find where the closest Salvation Army shop was so we could possibly help there and sort out clothes or do something else productive in the shop. The phone call didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, seeing Christian and I weren't that confident in what we were saying because this was our first official call we have made. After the call we went back to see what Laura had found, and she was on google maps researching where about's we could go. The nearest Salvation Army shop we found was in Deer Park - but the problem was we had no bus routes to take us exactly there because it would still be a fair walk from the bus stop to there. After figuring out different problems we decided on forgetting about the Salvation Army FOR NOW so we could look on another organisation in case this one didn't work. We found others like anglicare, starlight and working wonders but none of them really was set out and none of them was like the Salvation Army in what we desired. In conclusion we had a very good lesson and got loads done with the limited amount of people we had.]][[#x-WEEK SEVEN.-BD ~ Today in our OutReach lesson, it was really productive and we managed to get a lot done and completed to a much better standed then usual and we worked much harder then my group normally does. There was only three of us, Christian Laura and I and we all put in an equal amount of effort. We started off making a call to our organisation The Salvation Army regarding the reply to the email we got sent back saying that it should be alright and giving us a location and a number we could call. Christian and I called up Salvation Army explaining what OutReach is and why we wanted to help and we were discussing what possible things we could do considering the age we are. While we were doing that, Laura was trying to find where the closest Salvation Army shop was so we could possibly help there and sort out clothes or do something else productive in the shop. The phone call didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, seeing Christian and I weren't that confident in what we were saying because this was our first official call we have made. After the call we went back to see what Laura had found, and she was on google maps researching where about's we could go. The nearest Salvation Army shop we found was in Deer Park - but the problem was we had no bus routes to take us exactly there because it would still be a fair walk from the bus stop to there. After figuring out different problems we decided on forgetting about the Salvation Army FOR NOW so we could look on another organisation in case this one didn't work. We found others like anglicare, starlight and working wonders but none of them really was set out and none of them was like the Salvation Army in what we desired. In conclusion we had a very good lesson and got loads done with the limited amount of people we had.]] BD ~ Today in our OutReach lesson, it was really productive and we managed to get a lot done and completed to a much better standed then usual and we worked much harder then my group normally does. There was only three of us, Christian Laura and I and we all put in an equal amount of effort. We started off making a call to our organisation The Salvation Army regarding the reply to the email we got sent back saying that it should be alright and giving us a location and a number we could call. Christian and I called up Salvation Army explaining what OutReach is and why we wanted to help and we were discussing what possible things we could do considering the age we are. While we were doing that, Laura was trying to find where the closest Salvation Army shop was so we could possibly help there and sort out clothes or do something else productive in the shop. The phone call didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, seeing Christian and I weren't that confident in what we were saying because this was our first official call we have made. After the call we went back to see what Laura had found, and she was on google maps researching where about's we could go. The nearest Salvation Army shop we found was in Deer Park - but the problem was we had no bus routes to take us exactly there because it would still be a fair walk from the bus stop to there. After figuring out different problems we decided on forgetting about the Salvation Army FOR NOW so we could look on another organisation in case this one didn't work. We found others like anglicare, starlight and working wonders but none of them really was set out and none of them was like the Salvation Army in what we desired. In conclusion we had a very good lesson and got loads done with the limited amount of people we had. ===

=== LC ~ Today half our group was away so it was just brooke, christian and i we managed to get a lot done. We were able to contact the nearest salvation army store to see if we could volunteer to help out in the shop. When we called her it wasn't perfect, we missed out on a couple of important information that the lady that answered needed to know also we were a bit unclear. Overall they tried to transfer us to the manager but she was busy so the lady had said that she would call us back. so we had to wait until she did, we tried to organize how to get there and the costs in the mean time, It was a very efficient lesson. ===

WEEK EIGHT.
=== CC ~ We didn't really get much done today, we did get a call into our organization only to be told that their manager wasn't present. I'm going to have to call them back tomorrow so that we can go and actually volunteer at their shop. As a group, we were told to go make a two minute video. this two minute video turned into a 15 minute feud into which everything was messed up, our video was actually pretty good and now all that needs to be done is that it needs to be uploaded onto here. By next term we are hoping that we can go and volunteer at their shop at least twice. ===

=== BD ~ Today in our OutReach program we did have a lot of time but did not use it wise enough but we also had major dilemmas which affected the amount we did entirely. We started off by calling our organisation once again just to clarify some things over with them. But when Christian and I called, we got told that there manager wasn't avliable at the moment. That really left us with little to do in that lesson because we planned that we would base this lesson depending on the phone call's result. Christian said that he would ring them back tomorrow so we could get a progress on next week. After the failing call we decided to brainstorm some more on some other ideas we could do seeing we were leaning on not doing planet arks 'Plant a tree day'. We decided this because plant a tree day wasn't what we really expected it to be when we actually went on its website so we started to research some other organisations which would do us good. We found very few that we were interested in but we still wanted to do Salvation Army seeing we came so far into this we couldn't just quit it now. After lunch we then got told to make a 2 minute video for our blog site to show others what our values are and what our desires and outcomes are. Though this video took much longer than expected giving us all grief with many interruptions and stuff ups we had along the way but in the end we did it though we had some troubles actually uploading it onto our page. Overall this lesson was alright though it could of been better if our call worked out better and we got more of an answer. ===

=- Change of Plans -=

WEEK NINE.
=== JM~ Today my team and i have be blasted out of the water because we have now been told that we are unable to leave the school, this was because of new laws put in by the government to make excusions more safe for children. As a result of this many people have had to abandon the projects. To fix this problem the teachers have put together a fair to raise awareness of the salvation army and to raise money.To raise money we need to sell cookies to the school. to day i have also worked hard to find a path for my group to go down and find direction. ===

=== CC ~ Because of the new laws, my team had to change our plans to help the salvation army workshop. Instead we were told to make a Stall to take part in the School Fair. Our team decided to make cookies to sell the School. We ended up calling Salvation Army's Glenyse and ask her to send us some supplies that we could use in our Stall. She told us to call a person named Jenny That coordinates these types of things. In the end, we weren't able to get anything because the Salvation Army Simply did not have the things that we could sell. ===

===[[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK NINE.-BD ~ Today, came to much disappointment. We got told that some new laws have been implemented stating that we can not go out on an excursion because there is a lot of safety rules for this matter which would be way to hard so let everyone go. This pretty much ruined everything that our group had planned and it has ruined all the other Outreach groups plans as well. Then the teachers started to get our hopes back together...a bit, by saying how there is other ways we can still raise awareness of our selected charities. The teachers all came up with a brilliant idea that we could have a little fair for our school and do something to raise money or do a little stall for out charity. We had lots of discussion at the start, we thought of having a mini game contest, raffle, cookies, bake sale, show bags, flyers, handouts, clothes, donations, face paint, music, fun run, fundraisers, hair spray competitions and heaps more but we really liked the idea of the cookie making. We started thinking that Laura and I could make 100 cookies each while Jeremy, Christian, Chelsee and Sasha could make 50 each. But then it came crashing down to us that Ms Saunders had said that we cant make food at home regarding health and safety rules and regulations. We were really unsure on what we were going to do but we had the layout of our stall all organised. We said that we would put up posters everywhere around the school advertising the Salvation Army and we would have a red and white theme. We would put little donation bowls at the front and have a mini raffle in the end. Todays lesson was pretty jam packed and full on but hopefully next week we can work something out in the end.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK NINE.-BD ~ Today, came to much disappointment. We got told that some new laws have been implemented stating that we can not go out on an excursion because there is a lot of safety rules for this matter which would be way to hard so let everyone go. This pretty much ruined everything that our group had planned and it has ruined all the other Outreach groups plans as well. Then the teachers started to get our hopes back together...a bit, by saying how there is other ways we can still raise awareness of our selected charities. The teachers all came up with a brilliant idea that we could have a little fair for our school and do something to raise money or do a little stall for out charity. We had lots of discussion at the start, we thought of having a mini game contest, raffle, cookies, bake sale, show bags, flyers, handouts, clothes, donations, face paint, music, fun run, fundraisers, hair spray competitions and heaps more but we really liked the idea of the cookie making. We started thinking that Laura and I could make 100 cookies each while Jeremy, Christian, Chelsee and Sasha could make 50 each. But then it came crashing down to us that Ms Saunders had said that we cant make food at home regarding health and safety rules and regulations. We were really unsure on what we were going to do but we had the layout of our stall all organised. We said that we would put up posters everywhere around the school advertising the Salvation Army and we would have a red and white theme. We would put little donation bowls at the front and have a mini raffle in the end. Todays lesson was pretty jam packed and full on but hopefully next week we can work something out in the end.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK NINE.-BD ~ Today, came to much disappointment. We got told that some new laws have been implemented stating that we can not go out on an excursion because there is a lot of safety rules for this matter which would be way to hard so let everyone go. This pretty much ruined everything that our group had planned and it has ruined all the other Outreach groups plans as well. Then the teachers started to get our hopes back together...a bit, by saying how there is other ways we can still raise awareness of our selected charities. The teachers all came up with a brilliant idea that we could have a little fair for our school and do something to raise money or do a little stall for out charity. We had lots of discussion at the start, we thought of having a mini game contest, raffle, cookies, bake sale, show bags, flyers, handouts, clothes, donations, face paint, music, fun run, fundraisers, hair spray competitions and heaps more but we really liked the idea of the cookie making. We started thinking that Laura and I could make 100 cookies each while Jeremy, Christian, Chelsee and Sasha could make 50 each. But then it came crashing down to us that Ms Saunders had said that we cant make food at home regarding health and safety rules and regulations. We were really unsure on what we were going to do but we had the layout of our stall all organised. We said that we would put up posters everywhere around the school advertising the Salvation Army and we would have a red and white theme. We would put little donation bowls at the front and have a mini raffle in the end. Todays lesson was pretty jam packed and full on but hopefully next week we can work something out in the end.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK NINE.-BD ~ Today, came to much disappointment. We got told that some new laws have been implemented stating that we can not go out on an excursion because there is a lot of safety rules for this matter which would be way to hard so let everyone go. This pretty much ruined everything that our group had planned and it has ruined all the other Outreach groups plans as well. Then the teachers started to get our hopes back together...a bit, by saying how there is other ways we can still raise awareness of our selected charities. The teachers all came up with a brilliant idea that we could have a little fair for our school and do something to raise money or do a little stall for out charity. We had lots of discussion at the start, we thought of having a mini game contest, raffle, cookies, bake sale, show bags, flyers, handouts, clothes, donations, face paint, music, fun run, fundraisers, hair spray competitions and heaps more but we really liked the idea of the cookie making. We started thinking that Laura and I could make 100 cookies each while Jeremy, Christian, Chelsee and Sasha could make 50 each. But then it came crashing down to us that Ms Saunders had said that we cant make food at home regarding health and safety rules and regulations. We were really unsure on what we were going to do but we had the layout of our stall all organised. We said that we would put up posters everywhere around the school advertising the Salvation Army and we would have a red and white theme. We would put little donation bowls at the front and have a mini raffle in the end. Todays lesson was pretty jam packed and full on but hopefully next week we can work something out in the end.]] BD ~ Today, came to much disappointment. We got told that some new laws have been implemented stating that we can not go out on an excursion because there is a lot of safety rules for this matter which would be way to hard so let everyone go. This pretty much ruined everything that our group had planned and it has ruined all the other Outreach groups plans as well. Then the teachers started to get our hopes back together...a bit, by saying how there is other ways we can still raise awareness of our selected charities. The teachers all came up with a brilliant idea that we could have a little fair for our school and do something to raise money or do a little stall for out charity. We had lots of discussion at the start, we thought of having a mini game contest, raffle, cookies, bake sale, show bags, flyers, handouts, clothes, donations, face paint, music, fun run, fundraisers, hair spray competitions and heaps more but we really liked the idea of the cookie making. We started thinking that Laura and I could make 100 cookies each while Jeremy, Christian, Chelsee and Sasha could make 50 each. But then it came crashing down to us that Ms Saunders had said that we cant make food at home regarding health and safety rules and regulations. We were really unsure on what we were going to do but we had the layout of our stall all organised. We said that we would put up posters everywhere around the school advertising the Salvation Army and we would have a red and white theme. We would put little donation bowls at the front and have a mini raffle in the end. Todays lesson was pretty jam packed and full on but hopefully next week we can work something out in the end. ===

=== SS: Absent. ===

WEEK TEN.
=== CC ~ This week when Sasha came back, she made a new plan to sell pizzas instead of cookies. This plan was probably much better than our first. We planned to send out notes to the school to make orders and then on the day, give them to the students on the day. Alongside that we would be selling donuts and asking for donations that we could send to The Salvation Army shop that we were suposed to help last term. For this plan to work we are going to need to work as a team. We are going to need Donut King, A local Pizza Shop, the students of the school and Salvation Army. ===

=== CA ~ Todays lesson this week we planned to sell Pizza's instead of cookies. Because thinking of pizza a lot of people like pizza and have more of chances to buy to donate to Salvation Army. We planned to send notes out to the school to place there orders and on the day we give the pizza's out to the students who have ordered. Also we are thinking to do a local area for Pizza Shop to see if we can get a great deal. We are also thinking of doing raffles of winning prizes! ===

===[[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK TEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson we figured out lots of new ideas and a much better plan and we were much more organised. Sasha came back and presented our group with so many new ideas which was really good because in the previous week she was away. She told us that it would be a good idea if we sold pizzas instead of cookies, though we order them. So what will happen is it will be a bit like our current subway lunch orders, where we give out an order form 2 weeks in adance. Then we will go to a local pizza shop and purchase pizzas so on the day we can distribute it to our buyers. I thought this was a brilliant idea and so much better then the cookies idea so we decided to scrap the cookies and stick to this. But then to our disappointment we got told that we have to have some space for 'LOTE' week which was coming up around the same time as the fair and they are selling pizzas as well so we had to be careful we didn't collide. We also came up with another idea with along side the pizza order, on the actual day we could sell donuts on the actual day (because we were thinking of selling the pizza a bit later on then on the day of the fair), and a mini raffle. We are all hoping that this idea works because we have spent long and hard thinking and planning everything and we all virtually know what this is going to look like. The only problem is though is that a lot of other stalls are also thinking up of food stalls so our idea might get scraped. Hopefully it doesn't though. Overall I really enjoyed the lesson and cannot wait until the fair arrives because I think our stall will be one of the most successful out of the 24 that are running.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK TEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson we figured out lots of new ideas and a much better plan and we were much more organised. Sasha came back and presented our group with so many new ideas which was really good because in the previous week she was away. She told us that it would be a good idea if we sold pizzas instead of cookies, though we order them. So what will happen is it will be a bit like our current subway lunch orders, where we give out an order form 2 weeks in adance. Then we will go to a local pizza shop and purchase pizzas so on the day we can distribute it to our buyers. I thought this was a brilliant idea and so much better then the cookies idea so we decided to scrap the cookies and stick to this. But then to our disappointment we got told that we have to have some space for 'LOTE' week which was coming up around the same time as the fair and they are selling pizzas as well so we had to be careful we didn't collide. We also came up with another idea with along side the pizza order, on the actual day we could sell donuts on the actual day (because we were thinking of selling the pizza a bit later on then on the day of the fair), and a mini raffle. We are all hoping that this idea works because we have spent long and hard thinking and planning everything and we all virtually know what this is going to look like. The only problem is though is that a lot of other stalls are also thinking up of food stalls so our idea might get scraped. Hopefully it doesn't though. Overall I really enjoyed the lesson and cannot wait until the fair arrives because I think our stall will be one of the most successful out of the 24 that are running.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK TEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson we figured out lots of new ideas and a much better plan and we were much more organised. Sasha came back and presented our group with so many new ideas which was really good because in the previous week she was away. She told us that it would be a good idea if we sold pizzas instead of cookies, though we order them. So what will happen is it will be a bit like our current subway lunch orders, where we give out an order form 2 weeks in adance. Then we will go to a local pizza shop and purchase pizzas so on the day we can distribute it to our buyers. I thought this was a brilliant idea and so much better then the cookies idea so we decided to scrap the cookies and stick to this. But then to our disappointment we got told that we have to have some space for 'LOTE' week which was coming up around the same time as the fair and they are selling pizzas as well so we had to be careful we didn't collide. We also came up with another idea with along side the pizza order, on the actual day we could sell donuts on the actual day (because we were thinking of selling the pizza a bit later on then on the day of the fair), and a mini raffle. We are all hoping that this idea works because we have spent long and hard thinking and planning everything and we all virtually know what this is going to look like. The only problem is though is that a lot of other stalls are also thinking up of food stalls so our idea might get scraped. Hopefully it doesn't though. Overall I really enjoyed the lesson and cannot wait until the fair arrives because I think our stall will be one of the most successful out of the 24 that are running.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK TEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson we figured out lots of new ideas and a much better plan and we were much more organised. Sasha came back and presented our group with so many new ideas which was really good because in the previous week she was away. She told us that it would be a good idea if we sold pizzas instead of cookies, though we order them. So what will happen is it will be a bit like our current subway lunch orders, where we give out an order form 2 weeks in adance. Then we will go to a local pizza shop and purchase pizzas so on the day we can distribute it to our buyers. I thought this was a brilliant idea and so much better then the cookies idea so we decided to scrap the cookies and stick to this. But then to our disappointment we got told that we have to have some space for 'LOTE' week which was coming up around the same time as the fair and they are selling pizzas as well so we had to be careful we didn't collide. We also came up with another idea with along side the pizza order, on the actual day we could sell donuts on the actual day (because we were thinking of selling the pizza a bit later on then on the day of the fair), and a mini raffle. We are all hoping that this idea works because we have spent long and hard thinking and planning everything and we all virtually know what this is going to look like. The only problem is though is that a lot of other stalls are also thinking up of food stalls so our idea might get scraped. Hopefully it doesn't though. Overall I really enjoyed the lesson and cannot wait until the fair arrives because I think our stall will be one of the most successful out of the 24 that are running.]] BD ~ In todays lesson we figured out lots of new ideas and a much better plan and we were much more organised. Sasha came back and presented our group with so many new ideas which was really good because in the previous week she was away. She told us that it would be a good idea if we sold pizzas instead of cookies, though we order them. So what will happen is it will be a bit like our current subway lunch orders, where we give out an order form 2 weeks in adance. Then we will go to a local pizza shop and purchase pizzas so on the day we can distribute it to our buyers. I thought this was a brilliant idea and so much better then the cookies idea so we decided to scrap the cookies and stick to this. But then to our disappointment we got told that we have to have some space for 'LOTE' week which was coming up around the same time as the fair and they are selling pizzas as well so we had to be careful we didn't collide. We also came up with another idea with along side the pizza order, on the actual day we could sell donuts on the actual day (because we were thinking of selling the pizza a bit later on then on the day of the fair), and a mini raffle. We are all hoping that this idea works because we have spent long and hard thinking and planning everything and we all virtually know what this is going to look like. The only problem is though is that a lot of other stalls are also thinking up of food stalls so our idea might get scraped. Hopefully it doesn't though. Overall I really enjoyed the lesson and cannot wait until the fair arrives because I think our stall will be one of the most successful out of the 24 that are running. ===

**WEEK ELEVEN.**
===[[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK ELEVEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson, we didn’t have a normal outreach lesson as per usual. Today we started off learning about work placement, and then we got onto the real stuff - Les Twentymen from the 20th man find came out to talk to us year 9’s with many guest speakers on how important education is. A special guest speaker from western Australia came along also, and he came to talk to us about his former career as a special police officer. Then, Les Twentyman’s brother came out as well to lead the speech and he said that he was a principal in a school. Heath Scotland from the Carlton Football Club ♥ came and spoke to us about his career and how many sacrifices he had to give up to be a football player. He had to give up the opportunity to have a good time with friends and was unable to even spend time with them because he had to move out of the area to make sure he had a better education and he did not let anything affect him and his education. Les Twentyman said how the best time of our lives are at school because life is guided for us we just have to hop along and enjoy it, but once we leave school its harder for us because we have to make our own decisions and chose our own pathways. He also said that he wanted to do this because he was a principal at a school and a grade 3 student wanted to get cricket stumps and he lifted his arms up and he saw all little dots everywhere which were cigarette butt marks. Another guest speaker came in (a police man - Constable Bryan), and he told us how the youth these days get into many fights and are now uncontrollable. They get into stupid fights that deter there future over such dumb things such as fighting over a girl. He told us that now kids are going on an online chat site and discussing there fight. The message of this was to show how stupid our society can be and how dangerous things are because he also told us a story about two kids getting into a fight and one had a machete and the other had a sword. The guy with the sword got out of control and slashed his arm off. Another speaker was a bulldogs player and he came to speak to us about a program that the bulldogs support program which is called ‘Fresh’. This program provided kids going through hard times some fun in there life and gives them help and guidance. This program is the one and only program run by any club ever to do this and about 70 kids aged from 15-20 come to this program every year. Another guest speaker named Marion came to talk about her part in the Melbourne Storm. She mentioned how her son plays for a rugby team in Sydney and how fully committed he is and he would not of gotten through without education. A guy came out to us to also talk to us about a special sport he created which gives people the chance to talk to others about their lives and ways they can help each other. The main message throughout this whole experience was the education effects everything, and the 20th man fund gives people the opportunity to see that.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK ELEVEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson, we didn’t have a normal outreach lesson as per usual. Today we started off learning about work placement, and then we got onto the real stuff - Les Twentymen from the 20th man find came out to talk to us year 9’s with many guest speakers on how important education is. A special guest speaker from western Australia came along also, and he came to talk to us about his former career as a special police officer. Then, Les Twentyman’s brother came out as well to lead the speech and he said that he was a principal in a school. Heath Scotland from the Carlton Football Club ♥ came and spoke to us about his career and how many sacrifices he had to give up to be a football player. He had to give up the opportunity to have a good time with friends and was unable to even spend time with them because he had to move out of the area to make sure he had a better education and he did not let anything affect him and his education. Les Twentyman said how the best time of our lives are at school because life is guided for us we just have to hop along and enjoy it, but once we leave school its harder for us because we have to make our own decisions and chose our own pathways. He also said that he wanted to do this because he was a principal at a school and a grade 3 student wanted to get cricket stumps and he lifted his arms up and he saw all little dots everywhere which were cigarette butt marks. Another guest speaker came in (a police man - Constable Bryan), and he told us how the youth these days get into many fights and are now uncontrollable. They get into stupid fights that deter there future over such dumb things such as fighting over a girl. He told us that now kids are going on an online chat site and discussing there fight. The message of this was to show how stupid our society can be and how dangerous things are because he also told us a story about two kids getting into a fight and one had a machete and the other had a sword. The guy with the sword got out of control and slashed his arm off. Another speaker was a bulldogs player and he came to speak to us about a program that the bulldogs support program which is called ‘Fresh’. This program provided kids going through hard times some fun in there life and gives them help and guidance. This program is the one and only program run by any club ever to do this and about 70 kids aged from 15-20 come to this program every year. Another guest speaker named Marion came to talk about her part in the Melbourne Storm. She mentioned how her son plays for a rugby team in Sydney and how fully committed he is and he would not of gotten through without education. A guy came out to us to also talk to us about a special sport he created which gives people the chance to talk to others about their lives and ways they can help each other. The main message throughout this whole experience was the education effects everything, and the 20th man fund gives people the opportunity to see that.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK ELEVEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson, we didn’t have a normal outreach lesson as per usual. Today we started off learning about work placement, and then we got onto the real stuff - Les Twentymen from the 20th man find came out to talk to us year 9’s with many guest speakers on how important education is. A special guest speaker from western Australia came along also, and he came to talk to us about his former career as a special police officer. Then, Les Twentyman’s brother came out as well to lead the speech and he said that he was a principal in a school. Heath Scotland from the Carlton Football Club ♥ came and spoke to us about his career and how many sacrifices he had to give up to be a football player. He had to give up the opportunity to have a good time with friends and was unable to even spend time with them because he had to move out of the area to make sure he had a better education and he did not let anything affect him and his education. Les Twentyman said how the best time of our lives are at school because life is guided for us we just have to hop along and enjoy it, but once we leave school its harder for us because we have to make our own decisions and chose our own pathways. He also said that he wanted to do this because he was a principal at a school and a grade 3 student wanted to get cricket stumps and he lifted his arms up and he saw all little dots everywhere which were cigarette butt marks. Another guest speaker came in (a police man - Constable Bryan), and he told us how the youth these days get into many fights and are now uncontrollable. They get into stupid fights that deter there future over such dumb things such as fighting over a girl. He told us that now kids are going on an online chat site and discussing there fight. The message of this was to show how stupid our society can be and how dangerous things are because he also told us a story about two kids getting into a fight and one had a machete and the other had a sword. The guy with the sword got out of control and slashed his arm off. Another speaker was a bulldogs player and he came to speak to us about a program that the bulldogs support program which is called ‘Fresh’. This program provided kids going through hard times some fun in there life and gives them help and guidance. This program is the one and only program run by any club ever to do this and about 70 kids aged from 15-20 come to this program every year. Another guest speaker named Marion came to talk about her part in the Melbourne Storm. She mentioned how her son plays for a rugby team in Sydney and how fully committed he is and he would not of gotten through without education. A guy came out to us to also talk to us about a special sport he created which gives people the chance to talk to others about their lives and ways they can help each other. The main message throughout this whole experience was the education effects everything, and the 20th man fund gives people the opportunity to see that.]][[#x- Change of Plans --WEEK ELEVEN.-BD ~ In todays lesson, we didn’t have a normal outreach lesson as per usual. Today we started off learning about work placement, and then we got onto the real stuff - Les Twentymen from the 20th man find came out to talk to us year 9’s with many guest speakers on how important education is. A special guest speaker from western Australia came along also, and he came to talk to us about his former career as a special police officer. Then, Les Twentyman’s brother came out as well to lead the speech and he said that he was a principal in a school. Heath Scotland from the Carlton Football Club ♥ came and spoke to us about his career and how many sacrifices he had to give up to be a football player. He had to give up the opportunity to have a good time with friends and was unable to even spend time with them because he had to move out of the area to make sure he had a better education and he did not let anything affect him and his education. Les Twentyman said how the best time of our lives are at school because life is guided for us we just have to hop along and enjoy it, but once we leave school its harder for us because we have to make our own decisions and chose our own pathways. He also said that he wanted to do this because he was a principal at a school and a grade 3 student wanted to get cricket stumps and he lifted his arms up and he saw all little dots everywhere which were cigarette butt marks. Another guest speaker came in (a police man - Constable Bryan), and he told us how the youth these days get into many fights and are now uncontrollable. They get into stupid fights that deter there future over such dumb things such as fighting over a girl. He told us that now kids are going on an online chat site and discussing there fight. The message of this was to show how stupid our society can be and how dangerous things are because he also told us a story about two kids getting into a fight and one had a machete and the other had a sword. The guy with the sword got out of control and slashed his arm off. Another speaker was a bulldogs player and he came to speak to us about a program that the bulldogs support program which is called ‘Fresh’. This program provided kids going through hard times some fun in there life and gives them help and guidance. This program is the one and only program run by any club ever to do this and about 70 kids aged from 15-20 come to this program every year. Another guest speaker named Marion came to talk about her part in the Melbourne Storm. She mentioned how her son plays for a rugby team in Sydney and how fully committed he is and he would not of gotten through without education. A guy came out to us to also talk to us about a special sport he created which gives people the chance to talk to others about their lives and ways they can help each other. The main message throughout this whole experience was the education effects everything, and the 20th man fund gives people the opportunity to see that.]] BD ~ In todays lesson, we didn’t have a normal outreach lesson as per usual. Today we started off learning about work placement, and then we got onto the real stuff - Les Twentymen from the 20th man find came out to talk to us year 9’s with many guest speakers on how important education is. A special guest speaker from western Australia came along also, and he came to talk to us about his former career as a special police officer. Then, Les Twentyman’s brother came out as well to lead the speech and he said that he was a principal in a school. Heath Scotland from the Carlton Football Club ♥ came and spoke to us about his career and how many sacrifices he had to give up to be a football player. He had to give up the opportunity to have a good time with friends and was unable to even spend time with them because he had to move out of the area to make sure he had a better education and he did not let anything affect him and his education. Les Twentyman said how the best time of our lives are at school because life is guided for us we just have to hop along and enjoy it, but once we leave school its harder for us because we have to make our own decisions and chose our own pathways. He also said that he wanted to do this because he was a principal at a school and a grade 3 student wanted to get cricket stumps and he lifted his arms up and he saw all little dots everywhere which were cigarette butt marks. Another guest speaker came in (a police man - Constable Bryan), and he told us how the youth these days get into many fights and are now uncontrollable. They get into stupid fights that deter there future over such dumb things such as fighting over a girl. He told us that now kids are going on an online chat site and discussing there fight. The message of this was to show how stupid our society can be and how dangerous things are because he also told us a story about two kids getting into a fight and one had a machete and the other had a sword. The guy with the sword got out of control and slashed his arm off. Another speaker was a bulldogs player and he came to speak to us about a program that the bulldogs support program which is called ‘Fresh’. This program provided kids going through hard times some fun in there life and gives them help and guidance. This program is the one and only program run by any club ever to do this and about 70 kids aged from 15-20 come to this program every year. Another guest speaker named Marion came to talk about her part in the Melbourne Storm. She mentioned how her son plays for a rugby team in Sydney and how fully committed he is and he would not of gotten through without education. A guy came out to us to also talk to us about a special sport he created which gives people the chance to talk to others about their lives and ways they can help each other. The main message throughout this whole experience was the education effects everything, and the 20th man fund gives people the opportunity to see that. ===

CC~ In todays lesson we started out learning about work placement and where we want to go and what are goals are. Les Twentyman from the 20th man fund and a few other people from different organizations came and talked to us about how important education to our lives and how if you don’t do education you can get yourself into trouble. Like how some kid got his arm chopped off by another kid with a samurai sword. === CA ~ Today, the Year 9’s were invited to listen to stories from people to inspire us for our education and to hear stories what they have done from there past. There was ex-police officers, Police officers, People to speak about there Physical Education, etc. There was one story that was told by a man saying one day he was at the beach and saw something. He saw a guy throwing starfishes into the ocean. And he asked ‘What are you doing?’ He said ‘Throwing the Starfishes back into the ocean.’ And the person the ex-police officer said, ‘But there is heaps of them, what are you going to do?’ And the person replied ‘See, I just helped/saved something.’ If we make one difference it could help everyone in life and to do the right thing. There was also stories told about how there was a fight once and someones arm got cut off during the fight which shows that there are people on the Earth who do wrong and the things we have to do is right and to follow what we think is right and not to choose stupid decisions. Today I’ve learnt things to use in my life. ===

=== JM~Today we were invited to attend a important summit to under line some main youth problems we are currently having in the western suburbs of victoria. I found the summit very informing, the summit started with a ex-police officer talked of how we can stop youth violence in our community, the answer was not very cheap the solution that almost all the speakers on the day had was that we all should stay in school and encourage other to stay in school too. ===

WEEK TWELVE.
=== JM ~ Today the day started with us getting told about what the paper work that we have to do to get a good assessment. we have started to get alot of progress done we couldn’t of done it with out the help of skype, it has been a very good and valuable partner along the way. I started my part of the paper work its abit complicated because i have to look through all of our blogs and skype conversations. When i was using google docs i liked it because it has never crashed while i have been working on it for the last 6 months. ===

=== CA ~ Today, we started doing the paperwork on the Evaluation Guide. We have started doing progress and organising the festival and what to do and what games. We used Skype a lot today to contact each other information and to keep updated on what we're doing. I started half of the paper work and Jeremy has started the other half of the paperwork to finish it off. We also worked as one big group today and did a lot of work. ===

=== BD ~ Today in our Deal program we started off the day by doing rock and water in periods one and two with our main focus on integrity and honor. After recess, we went into the briefing area to straight away discus the rubric that will be implemented on this DEAL assignment. We discussed each box providing us with examples and what we can put into the box by breaking down things. This took just over an hour, and after that we went straight back onto our plan for the stall which we will be having in around 4 weeks. My group worked really hard today on this, and we all did different things to help us finish and at the same time do all the things that we needed to have done in order for the stall and the DEAL paperwork to be done. I started working on the google sketch up plan for our stall to put on a google documents. Jeremy and Chelsee worked on the evaluation guide that needed to be done and the others did some more work on the festival. We all worked really well as a team and all really efficiently. ===

WEEK THIRTEEN.
CC~ This week on outreach we did our Evaluation Guide. I sketched up the set up for our ring toss game and put down the rules. Our group worked really well today and we solved problems like wether or not we should use darts or not because they are sharp and may cause injuries and how we are going to get materials for the game.

=== CA ~ Today, Period 1 & 2 we did our final Rock and Water lesson. Then afterwards for Period 3 & 4 and 5 & 6. We worked in our OutReach Groups to discuss and decide how to do things. We decided to make stickers to promote our group for 600 students around the school for people to wear. We also nearly finished our Evidence Guide which has been done for the past 2 weeks. We've also discussed what we're doing for the Festival which is games for the students to play. Hopefully this all works out as planned and we be successful in our OutReach groups! === === BD ~ Today in our outreach group we did a lot of work mainly finalizing our things ready for our stall which will be held in the upcoming week. Today I started off reasserting some publicity ways that we can use to advertise our stall and promote people to go there and support the salvation army. I found ways that we can use stickers to advertise our stall and make people go there. We therefore used this idea and now we have created our own sticker to support the salvation army. We also finished off the evidence guide and added some new things on our blog to make it more interesting and more colorful to interest teachers to read. Christan also did rules for the ringtoss game that we will be holding at the stall. Overall we had a very good lesson and Mr Jilbert commented on our work saying we were the best working of the day. I think we all felt good doing this because I know I did and it felt good to help such a good cause. ===

WEEK FOURTEEN.
CC~ We had our final rock and water lesson today and after that we worked in our usual outreach groups. Today we figured out how to advertise our group. We brainstormed various ideas like the p.a system, newsletter, notes, etc. But all of them were taken by other groups so we came up of the idea of making stickers. Our mentor helped us in that if we made the sticker design, he will print the stickers. We also started making our banner. We had planned to make our game today but it was unsuccessful because we didn’t ask for materials beforehand.

=== BD ~ Today, we did a lot of work to do with our OutReach group. This was our last lesson to contribute to it because the week after this is out actual OutReach program. It started off by Chelsee and I making a banner by collecting around 12 pieces of A4 paper and sticking them together using sticky tape and glue to make a huge sign to advertise the Salvation Army. We decided to start off by tracing the Salvation Army logo and our groups name telling people to come to us promoting our stall for the day. After that it was recess and we started to paint the banner. The rest of our group but Laura decided to help us paint the banner for it was really big and we needed all the help we could get. Laura was then focusing on the rest of the stickers and to fix up any lose ends that we didn't do with the evidence guide and our rubric. All of us who were painting the banner did a really good job painting the logo of the Salvation Army because it almost looked as if we didn't do it. The writing though Chelsee and I did wasn't the best though it still turned out heaps better when the rest of the group all helped out. The thing that was a problem was that sometimes we used a thicker brush when we should of really been doing but other than that issue it looked perfectly fine. After that I made some flyers to also promote our group at the stall saying there would be an iTunes gift card to be won. Our lesson was really productive and overly exciting and after Saturday we will have everything because my group is going shopping to buy some games for competitions we will be holding also. ===

=== CA ~ Today, we did a lot of OutReach group. Brooke and I started making a banner which includes groups name and our logo. The rest of the group were doing work which included the stickers aswell to hand out to everyone. Afterwards everyone decided to help us pain the banner and get everything set. ===

JM ~ Absent.
=WEEK FIFTEEN.= === CA ~ Today, we finally did our OutReach festival it was so successful it was so much fun and good to go around and see whats happening. It was successful and it was good seeing people come to your store and buy stuff. I would do again due to having fun and going around promoting our group on microphone and trying out stuff. I think everyone enjoyed themselves on this day. ===

CC~ Today was our outreach festival and it turned out better than I had expected., I don’t think that we raised too much money but I think that people know a lot more about Salvation Army than they used to. Our jelly bean guessing was a really great success and students from all the year levels came to guess. Jeremy and I promoted our stalls by going around the school giving out stickers to teachers and students. It was a great day.

=== BD ~ Today we actually managed to finally do our OutReach program! The day was so successful and we in total raised $30.00 for our organization the Salvation Army. Our day turned completely different to what we had originally planned, though it was much better also! The other girls went shopping on Saturday to get more prizes and games. Our idea changed on the weekend that we were not going to go through with the ring toss idea, but do a series of little games such as a gun shooter game and a basketball shooting game. We made rules that if you get 3 shots in the basketball out of 5 you get the iTunes gift card or if you shoot the gun in the bullseye 3 times out of 5 you get it also….. And also with the golf 3 out of the 5 turns you have. In the end though…… resulting also because of the rain which ended our day shorter it turned out to be an amazing day… couldn't of asked for anything better! We also had a guess the jelly bean competition which resulted in a year 9 winning It with many many entires submitted. We had also many other prizes up for grabs such as teddy bears, lolly bags and games!!!! Any donation maned would also get someone a lolly bag so we encouraged donations well. We also promoted our stall with little stickers and flyers posted everywhere!! Overall, the day was a total success and could not of asked for any better!!!!!!! :) ===

=== JM~ Today we had a festival day this was my first deal day back from being absent i was told that we have made a lot of progress my group also told me that i must hand out flyers and stickers out to people to try and promot our organization salvation army. We had many games like mini golf, basket ball and shoot the target, our activertys seemed not not have made people come to us in the start but as time went on people came to ojur stall. by the end we had handed out all our stickers and all of our news letters to people walking around. ===