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**OUR AIM AND PURPOSE:** Our aim is to work and reach out to children in the wider community, whether they may be sick, disabled or unfortunate. The reason why we aim to achieve this is because our common values are love, trust and respect and we believe everyone deserves to be loved, have someone to trust, and to be respected; especially children. All for love, and love for all! :)

**OUR ORGANISAT****IONS:**

**MEETINGS:** **OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:** **MOCK EMAILS & PHONE CALLS:** **OUR MOTIVATIONAL POSTER:**

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**Certificate of Appreciation** //(Click on the images to be redirected to the letters of gratitude)//


 * 01/05 & 08/05 **

__**WB 01/05**__ Today, for DEAL, I learnt a lot of things, things that I have to actually type down to remember. The first thing we learnt today is about documenting. Now, for the Outreach program, we’re going to have to do a lot of documenting, both for legal and educational purposes so this lesson from Ms Elmer and Ms Williams about documenting is definitely extremely helpful. In this time, we learnt about what to do and what not to do when documenting and also why we should and shouldn’t do these things. I ended up typing an entire page full of documenting tips and notes. The second thing we learnt about was meetings. Since in this Outreach program we will be meeting up with professional organisations and workers, we do need to know what and what not to do in meetings so that our meetings will go well and not end up making ourselves and the school look bad in front of the people we are actually meeting, and also so that we accomplish whatever we needed the meeting for in the first place.We learnt proper meeting etiquettes like what to say and what to do. We learnt the specific terms that is said in meetings so we understand what it is we are actually talking about when going into a meeting, like the word ‘agenda’ and ‘minutes’. The third thing we learnt was how to write up an activity form. This is another form of documenting. On the activity forms, we had to know what to write down so that when it comes to the actual activity, we are all prepared and sorted and just need to do the activity, not needing to worry about finance, venues and other things we sort out on the admission form. The fourth thing we learnt today was our temperaments. There are four different coloured temperaments: Blue (people who usually associate themselves with emotion), Green (people who usually associate themselves with straight information), Orange (Optimistic, happy, fun people) and Gold (a mixture of blue and green/emotion and information) and I learnt that I was a green, which didn’t surprise me because: I’m not overly optimistic, I do not like feelings and talking about feelings, and I like to just get the important facts, not other minor things that I don’t need to know or that won’t help me. For the rest of the day, we watched the movie ‘Pay It Forward’ which was very inspirational and made me want to do good deeds for people, ‘just because’. For homework, we had to watch the segment on the show ‘The Project’ about A Thousand Acts of Kindness. After watching this segment, I have learnt that scientists have discovered that random acts of kindness results in and is the key to a ‘helpers high’ which is basically personal happiness. There is a website that gives you examples of what random acts of kindness you could perform to help get this helpers high. I have also learnt that it doesn’t matter if the motivation of the kind deed is to make yourself feel good because in the end, everyone is better of; it’s a win-win situation! :D

Today for outreach we learnt how to write an agenda, run meetings, write up a proposal and how to write an activity submission form. After learning all of the paperwork we did an activity which was to find out what temperament you are. I ended up being a mixture of gold and green. Gold people respond well to responsibility, accountability and predictability. They are also serious, concerned and seek security and stability. A green person is inquisitive, seek knowledge and see’s everything as conditional and relative. They trust reason and logic and encourage individualism. My strength that I can contribute to my group is my organisational skills so I have been put down as the chair man for the first meeting. After doing all of those things we watched a movie called ‘Pay it Forward’ and had to write down the meaning of the story that we got from it. The movie was about a boy who had an assignment at school (in his social study class) which he had want to get a good grade on. His idea to achieve this was to do three nice things to three different people and those three people will do something nice for three different people and so on. By doing this he thought it would make a world a better place and that in time everyone would have been a part of it. He tried to achieve this is many different ways, some seeming impossible. He went through a lot and did suffer throughout, but in the end when he had accomplished his goal after doing all this hard work he ended up being on TV and he had spread the news of this around, making it become one of the greatest stories ever told. In the end of the film he got stabbed whilst trying to help someone and eventually ended up dying. When he did die, I do not think he had any regrets because he did what was good and he knows that. Next lesson I am hoping to be able to work in my full outreach group, as half of them were at an excursion today and be able to get started.
 * SA 08/05 **

Hmmmm, how to put this...... Well today we learned about very important things on how to manage our Outreach groups such as the roles we played into our groups such as a chair person. We learnt about how to document things correctly and what not to do in the documents, oh and also not to make ourselves look really bad infront of really important people who are really important to the success of our Outreach group, or unless they are just important for some apparent reason. We also learnt about what our colour temperaments are, there is Blue, Orange, Green and Gold. In short, Blue people are really emotional, Orange are people who are usually happy (as well as annoying) Green people are people who like facts and stuff like that and Gold are people who happens to be a mixture of blue and green, Which means that they are emotional and likes to be right and stuff. I happen to be Blorange, a mixture of blue and orange. (it's a word I came up with) Other than finding out our colour temperaments and finding what to do and what not to do, we watched a really inspirational movie "Pay it Forward" which was about a young boy named Trevor. He was given an assignment by his teacher to do something that can affect the world in any way they could. Trevor had a design where you help 3 people with whatever they need, and then you tell them to help 3 more people, which creates a big chain of events so that everyone can help each other. So pretty much, this day was filled with fun (which I enjoy a lot actually) so I really enjoyed today!!....
 * AB 01/05 **

Today we watched the movie “Pay It Forward”. This movie was about a young boy named Trevor, who was 12 years old. He was given an assignment by his social studies teacher to do something that would change the world. Trevor came up with the “Pay it Forward” movement that brings the sense of generosity to the world. The concept of this is that a person helps 3 people, those 3 people each help another 3 people, so on and so forth. Trevor’s “Pay it Forward” mission didn’t work for him, but the movement was passed on all over the world. The message that the movie brings is that small things can make big differences. You will be surprised as to what small things can give you and the results that they put forward. It was his “Dream Big” concept that helped change the world and make it a better place for everyone. Sadly, at the end of the movie, Trevor dies, but his “Pay it Forward” movement still lives in the world and is continuing to be passed on. Along with watching the movie we learnt about the documentations and other requirements needed for anything to do with our Outreach group/project. This included learning how to run meetings, writing proposals, as well as writing up an activity submission form. We were also given some good tips/advice about these documentations and about working as a group. I have taken the tips/advice into considerations, especially those about team work, because my strength is to get the team working together. On this day, we found about each of our own different temperament and how to work with people, of specific temperaments. My temperament was gold. People in which are gold are said to be the generous, responsible, helpful, serious and logical people. Being a gold person, I am able to contribute with my generosity, responsibility and logical thinking to my group. Today was a really helpful session where I learnt many things that I can apply to Outreach, as well as in my daily life.
 * MB 08/05 **

Overall in today’s Deal lesson, we looked at the Year 9 Outreach Proposal for this year and learned about the different agendas, planning methods and the various expectations that were expected of us in order to succeed in our project. We learned that a lot of commitment and dedication needed to be put into this and that each member of their group was responsible for pulling their own weight. If not so, they would be held accountable. We not only have to work harder, but smarter and logically. I learned that a lot of organisational skills are required for this project and planning and I feel that my organisational skills are my weaknesses. I feel that throughout this year I will be pushed quite a lot out of my comfort zone but hopefully my team members and teachers will help get through it and that I just have to consistently carry a positive attitude. There is a high possibility that things can go wrong if we don’t work as a team and follow the rules and expectations but if we pull all our heads in together we might just get through it in the end and achieve our primary goal. After recess we watched a movie called Pay It Forward, which is about a boy who is given a school project to make a difference in the world and is told to put it into action. This boy takes this into mind and seriously thinks about what he could have to possibly offer. He starts by doing random acts of kindness to three people, calling his method pay it forward, meaning doing a favour or a random act of kindness towards someone or a stranger and hopefully they’d pay it forward rather than back to the original person. A movie about hope and setbacks but in the end the boy definitely made a difference. After having watched the report on the 100 Million Acts of Kindness on The Project, it shows that people really can’t expect the unexpected. People were surprised when strangers performed a random act of kindness towards them and the people who were ‘paying it forward’ felt a surge of fulfillment and what they now call ‘helpers high’, a high that you experience once having fulfilled a random act of kindness. Luckily this is not an illegal matter but something that we should all undergo at least once in our life. That feeling of joy and relief after helping a stranger really gives you that satisfaction knowing that you’ve possibly made someones day or are slowly making a difference in the world by offering your kindness.
 * MM 01/05 **

In this deal lesson, we learnt everything we'll need to know about to make sure out Outreach project will be successful. Our teachers explained to us what they expected us to complete or actually achieve. We learnt the correct ways document our findings and how to create an activity form. Our teachers gave us helpful tips. Ms. Elmer and Ms. Williams also taught us how to conduct a meeting and what is needed to make it run smoothly. There are different roles to be played during a meeting. For example, there's a minute person who writes down everything being said in the meeting as well as keeping everyone on track and make sure everyone's paying attention as to what is being said. A chairperson, is the who runs the whole meeting. We learnt about our "colours". It defines us, and what type of people we're like. This also helps us figure out what our group members are like as well and how we can work together even though we may be different. I'd learnt that i was the colour blue. Which says that i'm an emotional person. The whole group is made up of all the colours which is a great thing. We can all work together. The last thing we'd done is watch a movie called 'Pay It Forward'. It's an amazing movie in general. I find it amazing how a 12 year old boy can create a movement without even knowing he'd created one. That young boy has made a difference to the world, even if it's a small thing. A act of kindness towards another person, weither it's small or big is a great feeling to have. It also proves that there are people out there who will be nice enough to pay it forward and be completely honest with their choice of their act of kindness. This movie actually made me cry, because this young boy didn't do anything but try to make the world a better place and he was killed. He really didn't deserve it.
 * ARM 01/05 **


 * 15/05 **

Today was the first time our Outreach groups came together again, after a long time. The first thing we did was get into our groups and work as a team trying to stack a house of cards. Although we didn’t accomplish the task due to that fact that it was extremely hard, we still had a good time. The second task our group had to do was to play a game called ‘the Linking Game’. This task was a lot easier than the first task and we managed to accomplish the task and have a good time as well. After recess, we got into a serious mood and started working on our outreach. We had our first meeting as a group and it went really well. We managed to complete everything we needed to do, as stated on our agenda. We even managed to have time to research some organisations that we wanted to help and we chose one we could actually associate ourselves with! We got out our activity submission form guide and started to write the draft version of our first outreach activity. Our mentor Ms Williams (whom we chose after a parody version of ‘the Voice’) told us ‘well done’. That made me feel like I accomplished something great. I’m really excited for our next outreach meeting so that we can get onto all of our documentations and everything so we can finally go out to our outreach excursion!
 * __WB 15/05__**

Today for outreach we got to work in our outreach groups. It has been a long time since I last saw my outreach group so it was good to see them again. The first activity we did together was as a group to determine how good our team work is. The activity was run by Ms Saunders and the idea of the game was to build a house made out of a deck of cards. At first we all just grabbed some cards and tried to build up a house of our own. After we communicated with each other and realised that the best way to win was to build one together taking turns and deciding who was doing which part of the house. The cards were slippery and could not stand up still, this caused all of us in the group to get frustrated and made us want to give up. As a group we overcame this challenge and decided it was easiest to build mini houses because it does not get knocked down as easily. We also realised that there was a rule which was to use all of the cards and connect them somehow. At first we had no idea’s on how to connect the cards together but the someone in our group thought ‘why not connect them but putting a card inbetween them so everything is touching’. We all agreed on that idea but sadly in the end we did not end up winning. It didn’t matter that we didn’t win though because we all knew that we had very good teamwork and that was all that mattered. The second activity we did was with Ms Commadeur, which was a game known as ‘The Human Knot’. To play the game, you get a bunch of people to stand in a circle and put there hand in the middle. You grab the first hand you touch (not the person standing next you) and once everyone has a hand, you have to try and untangle yourself. First we did it in outreach groups and we untangled ourselves very fast because of our great use of teamwork and communication. We lost to the first group by a split second. The second and third time we played this it took a lot longer than our first time because we were not working together effectively. After doing these activities we had our first group meeting. We started off by choosing who would be the chair person and who would be the minute keeper. We decided that the minute person would be someone who could take down notes fast and still keep up with the conversation and the chair person would have to be someone who could stay on task and not easily distracted. For our first meeting it ended up being Wendell as the minute person and me as the chair person. During the meeting we just answered questions from the agenda. After doing that we wrote a speech on what to present to the teacher’s for the voice. There were three teachers who ‘turned’ around for us. They were Ms Commadeur, Ms Constantino and Ms Williams. After hearing the feedback each of the teachers gave us, we struggled on deciding on who to pick. We thought it was one of the hardest decisions we were going to make. In the end we chose Ms Williams. After doing the ‘auditions’ we as a group named our aims and our goals. After researching many organisations we found two idea’s that we wanted to do. They were a play for the children, like a puppet show and the other one was to package items for the children. Overall I think we had accomplished everything and we are very proud of our work so far.
 * SA 15/05 **

How to sum up today's lesson......Hmmmmmm, well today we did multiple things really. Most of today's lesson was to improve our friendship and teamwork within the group. Our first activity with Mrs Saunders, what we did was to create a house made up of cards, well we didn't do this activity very well, (the cards were very slippery) so instead of making a really big house, we made a bunch of small houses to create one big village. So we didn't really win that activity. The next activity we did with Ms Commadeur, was to play a game called "The Human Knot". The aim of this game is simple, everyone goes into a circle, grab someones hand that isn't next to you and try to untie yourself. Just like before, we didn't win this one, so to make things harder, Ms Commadeur merged two groups together. I think we won that one. The next level was to merge all of the groups together, we obviously won that one since we were apart of it. After that, we had our very first proper group meeting, we researched what companies and organisations we would like to work with, if I can remember correctly, we are helping children by packing food for them and also doing something I am really looking forward to, A PUPPET SHOW!! (although I'm not sure if this is finialised yet) The next thing we did was kind of awkward and weird at the same time. We had to choose our mentor to guide us I think. Well the process of doing this was just like "The Voice" (for those who don't know, it's when the contestants do their thing and the mentors press a button to spin around which shows that they want you.) The teachers who pressed the buttons were, Ms Commadeur, Ms Constantino and Ms Williams. After a dramatic group conversation about who to pick, we chose Ms Williams. So yeah, thats the whole day, so after all of this, I think I will put up a very awesome quote after every reflection starting now, so here is my quote of the day that I personally like and which I think everyone should do too!!
 * AB 15/05 **

"It's not about what happened in the past or what you might think will happen in the future, it's about enjoying the ride."

In today’s DEAL session, we did a number of things that involved teamwork and working together. This was the first time in a very long time that we had been together with our Outreach groups. One of the many things we did was try and build a house of cards with Mrs Saunders. We all realised how much teamwork was required to do this. It was quite hard because the cards kept on falling and slipping. We all grew frustrated and annoyed, so we had to come up with an alternative yet creative idea. Instead of building one big house, we decided to build a little village of houses, like a camping site with heaps of tents around an open fire. We didn't win this game, but still, we were proud of what we had produced as a team all because we cooperated, communicated and worked together. Another thing that we did was play a game called “The Human Knot” with Ms Commadeur. This game also required a lot of teamwork, trying to work as a group to untangle ourselves from a knot. Our group did this very well, but we lost to the other group by just a second! The group sizes increased, where the groups started to all join together and it was a lot harder to untangle each other. This was quite hard and it needed a lot of communication as well as teamwork. Both of these activities were a heaps of fun and enjoyable for everyone. As a group, I think we did a really great job at completing both of these activities. After this, we got into our first group meeting, where we talked about the organisations we would like to work with, our temperaments, our goals, our aims, etc. For this meeting, Stacy was the chair person and Wendell was the minutes. We managed to finish all the work that was set in the class time that we had, all because of our amazing, incredible and wondrous teamwork! After lunch, it was finally time to choose our mentor. The process of choosing our mentor was done like “The Voice”. Our group was the first to go up, it was very nerve-wracking but in the end, it was good to get it over and done with. There were three out of six teachers that turned around for us. The teachers that turned around were Ms Commadeur, Ms Williams and Ms Costantino. As a group, after a quick negotiation, we chose Ms Williams to be our mentor. We hadn't planned to choose her, we actually had a different mentor in mind, but we just had to work with what we got. Today was a great and enjoyable day where we accomplished many things, together as a group.
 * MB 15/05 **

For today’s Deal lesson we worked together more as a group and utilized each of our individual skills to complete the following tasks. It tested our abilities to work together as a group while co-operating and enjoying ourselves at the same time. We were required to build a house of cards which certainly proved difficult since only one of our members had accomplished this task before. When time was up, we ended up making a miniature village of several huts which we didn’t think we’d achieve in the first place. Our originality in the end helped us succeed this task which was a win in our eyes. The following task after this required us to hold hands and tangle ourselves to make a human knot. This task proved to be frustrating since we collaborated with many other groups and there were so many of us. The aim of this task was to untangle ourselves and return to our beginning circle. In the end we did succeed with the help of perseverance, teamwork, co-operation and just trying to have a good time. As a group, I think that we worked well in completing these activities. In our first group meeting, we discussed multiple organizations that we might like to consider working with, our goals and temperaments. In this meeting Stacy was chosen as the chair person and Wendell as the minute-taker. After lunch our group was chosen to be first in saying our speeches, in order to choose our mentor. The process of choosing a mentor was set out like ‘The Voice’ which motivated our group and excited us. As a group we all decided on choosing either Ms. Elmer or Mr. Jilbert as our mentor. Unfortunately neither both of them chose us so as a last minute decision we agreed on choosing Ms. Williams as our mentor, which was a satisfying decision. As a group I think that we all work together just fine and we definitely pull our own weight which makes it so much easier for the rest of us. All in all today was a pretty successful day for us as a group (:
 * MM 15/5 **

This deal lesson was one of the most important lessons that will come our way. We were tested as a group and made us comfortable with each other. It made us realise that we are now a group and we have to work as a team at all times. We were put to the test by completing a set of activities for us to complete as a group. This really binded us together and made us a lot closer. The fun part was the audition we had to go through to mind out mentor. The teachers had decided to create a "The Voice" theme audition where we had to come up with speeches to discuss our plans and what we want to achieve. Our group was the very first team up to audition so it was pretty nerve wracking. Although, we did end up having 3 out of 5 teachers turn around for us, since one of the teachers weren't present there was only 5 teachers instead of 6. I guess this is were we tested out our group skills properly, and it went exceptionally well. We ended up going for Ms. Williams as our teacher mentor. After that we all worked together by limiting out charities and choosing the ones were we can help without having to do any fundraising. After a long process we decided to stick with a certain organisation. We completed out whole agenda and we're all set for our mentor to tell us what to do next. As a group, I think we're really good working together. We get our work done as well as have fun doing it. We're all close since we were already friends before Outreach so it does make out whole experience a whole lot better. We're so advanced as to what should be done and we're always on task. Our teamwork doesn't really need any building up on because we're already great as a team. I mean, look at what we've created so far. I honestly think that this Outreach group will be absolutely successful because not only do we have great teamwork, but we're always on task, we have fun and we have faith in each other. We know that we'll do well and who knows how far we'll go.
 * ARM 15/05 **


 * 29/05 **

__**WB 29/05**__ In today’s DEAL day, we were working in our Outreach groups for the entire day. We started our day with a meeting, discussing what we have done, what needs to be done and how we are going to go about achieving these goals. Last week, we started writing our agenda and our minutes on a Pages document but we decided to use Google Docs instead as this would allow everyone to be the minutes and read what ever was being discussed in the meeting. We also decided to put every other document our Outreach group was working on in Google Docs as well for the exact same reasons stated as before. The documents that we transferred into Google Docs were our meeting minutes, outreach activity submission forms, mock emails and phone calls and our conversations and evidence (mostly our conversations in Skype). In the middle of the first two periods, our team was awarded ‘Best Blog of the Week’ for our Wikispaces page. We were each given a badge on Edmodo as well! This achievement motivated us to be the ‘Best Blog of the Week’ every week, so we all decided to log onto Wikispaces and ‘pimp-out’ our Wikispaces. After we had finished this, and after recess, we got back into our Outreach groups and started working on our outreach activity. During this, Mr Jilbert was holding a compulsory Masterclass, which one person from every group had to attend. I was chosen from my group to attend. This masterclass consisted of Mr Jilbert informing us of the benefits of using Google Docs. Fortunately, my team had thought about this before had so everything that he had said in this class had already been done by our group. When I got back to my group, I had found out that they had worked very hard in discussing our outreach activity. Since our initial outreach activity had a possibility of not being able to be performed, they had come up with an alternative, a second outreach activity. We all discussed this and set out planning it and writing up our submission form. Since Ms Williams, our mentor, was absent, we had Mrs Saunders to help us with this task. It was all very stressful and at the end of the end, we had barely gotten half way to planning. Next week, we plan to get right on to our planning so we can have more time to review everything later then actually set our task in motion. Before the end of the day, each team was given the task to create a motivational poster. Our team used the quote “We don’t love to be loved; we love to love” which ended up really well. We are proud of the poster we had all created. This was today’s lessons, full of work and productivity, which I and everyone else in my group, fairly enjoyed.

For today’s DEAL lesson we had another group meeting (group meeting 2) and we had created as a group our first agenda. We started off by choosing who would be the chair and the minutes for our next group meeting. From last week we had decided that Marielle would be our chair person and Mia would be our minutes. Next group meeting Alma would be our minutes and Austin would be our chair person. We first thought “Which organisation are we going to work with?” After discussing and researching for organisations we found one that we had wanted to work with. It was the Camp Quality. They wanted people of any age to come and present a puppet show to the children. We all agreed to do that because it was something that we had wanted to do and we knew we would enjoy it. After finishing our second group meeting we all showed each other our mock phone calls and emails. We had done this by using a google docs account and all typed to each other using the small chat on the side. After finishing our mock forms and emails, we had started our submission form. It wasn’t long before we had gathered all of our details and finished the submission form. Shortly after we found out that we got given the badge of ‘blog of the week’. Our whole group felt honored that we had accomplished something and we hope to keep doing so. After that there was a masterlass being held by Mr Jilbert and one person from every group had to attend. In our group Wendell attended. Whilst he was there he told us he had learnt hot to use google docs and how to upload links onto our wikispaces. During the time he had learnt that we were suppose to meet up with our mentor teacher Ms Williams but since she was not here today we met up with Ms Saunders. We talked to her about what we have done and what we have wanted to achieve. We also told her our aims, our challenges and our plans. After coming up with backup plans just in case one of them didn’t work she told us to send our mock email to Ms Williams and get her to check it and hopefully we will soon be able to start working with that organisation. The next task everyone in the year level had to do was to create an inspirational poster that presented us, our organisation and our values that we share as a group. After each of us were assigned on specific jobs to help create the poster we all came together and presented what we had. In the end our poster came out looking really good and we were all happy with what we had ended up with. The quotes we chose was “We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” We chose this quotes because it represented what our group is about ‘All for Love’. Overall today was a very busy day and we got plenty done, after getting the approval of Ms Williams we will soon be able to got out and reach to the community.
 * SA 29/05 **

Uhhhhhhh, well today we were supposed to start off with out "Rock and Water" sessions, but we couldn't do that since one of the teachers (Ms Williams) who do "Rock and Water" wasn't here today. Today we had yet another meeting. This meeting's chair person was Marielle, while the minutes was Mia, the meeting was done over Google Docs, which I personally found soooo much fun!! We were all talking to each other over Google Docs as well as Skype, so there wasn't a lot of talking done at that time. Our group was awarded with the badge on Edmodo of "Blog of the Week" so we all got a badge!! All the teachers were very proud with our blogs and they even showed it to all of the year 9's. Mr Jilbert held a masterclass for Google Docs which Wendell attended, while we had a small meeting with Mrs Saunders acting as the temporary Ms Williams. We just told her our plans on what we want to do and also our back up plans if one fails. Mrs Saunders helped us a lot by giving us vital information on how to be prepared for a situation like this. We also sent Ms Williams our mock email that is to be sent out to Camp Quality. Oh and Mrs Saunders also told us to present our puppet show to the Year 9's too, which is going to be soooo weird. Our back up plan is to help a foundation called "That Girl in Pink Foundation", which is a foundation that Alma came up with since she is the Ambassador of Australia. This organisation helps children with cyber bullying. After that, we created a poster to promote our group, and to do that, we chose a quote of ours. The quote that we used was "We don't love to be loved; we love to love." Other than that, this lesson was a lot of fun. Well, I think most of our Deal lessons are fun. Anyway here is the quote of the day!!!
 * AB 29/05 **

"It's not about what type of life you live in, it's about what you do with the live your given that counts."

Today was yet another DEAL day when we got to work in our Outreach groups once again. Today we conducted another meeting, our second meeting to be exact. This time the plan for the meeting was that I was the chair person, and Mia was the minutes. This meeting was conducted over Google Docs, so technically, everyone was the minutes. There was very little verbal discussion in our meeting, as we were all typing and discussing to each other over Google Docs and Skype. Beforehand, we had prepared some mock emails and phone calls, which we merged together to make one whole, official mock email and phone call. Our group was awarded the “Blog of the week” and we all received badges on Edmodo. We got some very good compliments on our Wikispace, and the amount of work that we had put into our blogs. We were all very happy that we had achieved this, as we were not aware that there would be a “Blog of the week” award that would be given out. After recess, a masterclass was being held by Mr Jilbert, in which Wendell was the person who attended it. They did some work on Google Docs and were taught how to better use it as a great tool on how to organise some of our documents. We also got to have a small meeting with our mentor, however, Ms Williams wasn’t there, so Mrs Saunders took over instead. We basically told her all about our project, our plans, goals, aims, steps and the work that we have done so far. Mrs Saunders gave us some really good feedback and some advice to consider. She advised that we email Ms Williams our mock email, ready to be sent out to Camp Quality, as well as find something to do while we wait for the reply from the email. Alma suggested that we work with an organisation called 'That Girl in Pink Foundation', which she is an ambassador for. This organisation works with those involved in cyber bullying and people who have Cystic Fibrosis. In order to help, we are planning to hold a walk-a-thon which would raise awareness about Cystic Fibrosis, so we got straight onto planning for that. After lunch, we were required to create a poster to promote and represent our group. We decided to put in a quote that sums up what we do and what we value. The quote that we used was, “We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” This quote perfectly explains what our group, ‘All for Love’ is all about. This day was very tiring for all of us. It was full of productive, co-operative and effective work. We had worked extremely hard - planning everything, organising things and going through meetings. All this hard work was worth it because it would enable us to get out there to act and reach out to the wider community as soon as possible. Our group worked exceptionally hard and we are all proud of the work that we have done so far.
 * MB 29/05 **

This DEAL session was quite successful for us as a group. We were able to work in our Outreach group for the entire day since Ms. Williams was unfortunately absent, so as a year level we were unable to do Rock & Water. We also ran our second meeting today and I volunteered as the minute taker and Marielle was the chair. Our meeting was run a little differently this time because our meeting was held through Google Docs so really all members acted as minute takers. We discussed using this tool and also through multiple conversations on Skype. Surprisingly we were awarded the ‘Blog of the week’ badge by Mr. Jilbert on Edmodo, which I wasn’t quite expecting but I had heard that the other groups had barely any progress on their wiki space compared to ours. Our wiki space was also used an as example to demonstrate to the rest of the year level what the requirements were of what each wiki space had to include. As a group we were most definitely proud of our wiki space and my gratitude certainly goes out to Wendell for ‘pimping’ our space with his professional I.T skills (: Just before recess had started, Mr. Jilbert had announced that he would be holding a masterclass where one student from each group was required to attend to. As a group we decided that Wendell should attend since he had the most knowledge regarding I.T. Since Ms. Williams was absent, Ms. Saunders came to check up on our group to see how our progress was. We discussed a lot of things regarding our organisations, the possible outcomes if something were to occur and time management. All-in-all we had done our research but after our discussion we realised that we had to dig deeper and research more.  Alma had also just announced to the group that she was an ambassador of an organisation called ‘That Girl In Pink’ Foundation, which attends to children who are cyber bullied and people with cystic fibrosis. We decided to utilize her membership with this foundation and select this as our back-up organisation. We notified Ms. Saunders about this and she thought it was a brilliant idea. Luckily as a group we didn’t see Ms. Williams’ absence as an obstacle so we were able to strive forward even without her, all because of teamwork and perseverance. In the last two periods, our task was to create a poster advertising our Outreach project, our values and it had to reflect on us as a group. All members got to work straight away in finding a quote that would best represent what we stood for as a group. I was so glad to see that the quote I had contributed to the group was used to represent us and was to be used on the poster; the quote being ‘We don’t love to be loved; we love to love’. Whilst Wendell was working on Photoshop, the rest of us were focussing on the finer details such as the font, the colour etc. Fortunately enough we were able to finish our poster and print it out in an A3 size just in the right amount of time. We were all proud of what we had produced and this day could not have been more successful than it already was, regardless if Ms. Williams was absent or not. Overall we were quite productive as a group in this DEAL day and we couldn’t have been more happier (:
 * MM 29/05 **

Today's DEAL lesson was very successful. We were initially supposed to do Rock & Water during the first two periods, but since Ms. Williams was absent we couldn't continue onto that activity. Instead, we worked with our outreach groups for the entire day. We started off with a meeting to discuss how we've been doing the past weeks. We also discussed what we need to work on during this lesson. During this time, we'd also decided as a group to transfer all our documents onto Google Docs to make it more beneficial for us, and our teacher mentor Ms. Williams. We'd also found out that our group had won 'Blog Of The Week' and Mr. Jilbert had also given us badges onto edmodo. He also used our blog as an example as to what everyone else's blog should look like. Since we were very proud of our blog, we all decided to make our blog even better by adding new designs and making it look even more beautiful. During the two middle periods, we'd gone back into our groups to continue on with our plans and gather more information about how we can reach out. Wendell was currently absent during this time, because he was at a compulsory masterclass for our group, held by Mr. Jilbert. Just because we were one man short, we still continued on with our work. Since Ms. Williams was absent, Ms. Saunders had replaced her. We discussed what our big Outreach project was about. She went through a check list as to what we've done so far and we're well advanced. Since she isn't our mentor she couldn't really tell us to go out and send the e-mails we've created so she advised us to e-mail it to Ms. Williams first. So that's what we had done. Ms. Saunders had also informed us that while we wait for a response from our initial Charity, there will be some time that we won't be doing anything, so she advised us to think of something we can do during that free time. Something popped up into my head as to what we can do during this time. I'm an Ambassador for 'That Girl In Pink' Foundation. It's a foundation that helps reach out to children who are being Cyber Bullied as well as people who have Cystic Fibrosis. I was supposed to hold a big walk-a-thon to raise awareness to Cystic Fibrosis. So i thought about bringing this project to my outreach group. We spoke to Ms. Saunders about this and she thought it was an amazing idea. Next thing we know, we were planning for this event to happen. So far, our day was very successful. 'All For Love' has been working exceptionally well together and we're always on task. Just because our mentor wasn't present, we didn't let that stop us from doing the best we can. During our last two periods, we were to create a poster which reflects on us as a group, our values and our Outreach project. With some intense quote hunting, we've decided to use the quote “We don’t love to be loved; we love to love”. This reflects really well on our group and what we stand for. With Wendell creating the poster and the rest of our group contributing on ideas, we finally finished our poster and printed it out. It turned out beautifully and we're all equally proud of it. This day was very productive and we worked well. Not only that, we had fun working together as a group, which makes this whole experience worth while.
 * ARM 29/05 **


 * 05/06 **

In today’s DEAL day, we were working in our Outreach groups from period 3 onwards. We started our Outreach session with a meeting, as usual. Unfortunately, for the first time, we had to write an Apology because Stacy was absent today. In our meeting, we talked about our two Outreach Activities concerning two organisations “Camp Quality” and “That Girl In Pink Foundation”. We discussed and completed our submission form for our Camp Quality activity, and also rehearsed our mock phone call and finalised our mock email. After getting our email approved by Ms Williams, our mentor, we sent our email to Linda Lippens, the volunteers coordinator for the Camp Quality office in Victoria. After lunch, we were surprised to find a reply so quickly, exactly three minutes after we had sent our email. Although this was good news to us, the content that the email contained was bad news. Linda informed us that we were too young to participate as a volunteer for Camp Quality, as the minimum volunteer age was 18 years old. Even though this was bad news for us, we told ourselves that this would not let us down. We decided for our next Agenda, we would discuss investigating a new organisation and coming up with a new outreach activity, not letting this keep us from reaching out to the rest of the community.
 * __WB 05/06__**

Throughout the day, we also worked on our second Outreach activity concerning That Girl In Pink Foundation and our 5km Walk-a-thon proposal. We gave ourselves a task to complete: Marielle (and Stacy) were to decide on the dates and times, Austin and Mia were to decide the route of the walk-a-thon and Alma-Rose and I were in charge of advertising and raising awareness for the activity itself. We decided this towards the end of period 4 so we never got a lot done. Marielle decided on the date 25th July 2012 (which is in term 3 after the holidays) and we all decided on the times 9-10am for Year 7s and 8s and 1:40-2:40pm for Year 9s and 10s. After lunch, Mia and Austin finally completed the route for our walk-a-thon, after creating the route on Adobe Illustrator, and uploaded it onto our Outreach Activity form. Alma and I have yet to create our posters advertising our activity, but we have discussed what we will be putting on it, as well as other advertising alternatives like speaking at a school assembly and putting the notice up on the student bulletin. We did not accomplish as much as we had completed last Outreach session, but we did complete a lot. We did manage to contact our first organisation: Camp Quality (even though they declined our volunteer offer) and we are right on our way to going through with our second Outreach activity, as we had already made contact with That Girl In Pink, Benni, throughout the course of last week. I am very proud of what my team has completed and I am very excited for our next Outreach session so that we can finally finalise everything and get everything approved so that we can continue on with our actual Outreach activity.

**SA 05/06** Absent

Well, in today’s lesson one of our members, Stacy Angel was missing in action, so we had to do things without her and hope that she would log onto something like Skype so that we could talk to her, but other than that we had yet another group meeting. In this meeting, we finalised a few things like our email to Camp Quality’s Volunteer Coordinator, Linda Lippens which we later on sent to her. But unfortunately, we just got rejected since we weren’t the right age, the minimum age was 18. So we have to fall back to our back-up plan which is actually two foundations, one is which is the “Alannah and Madeline Foundation” and also “That Girl in Pink”. In the “Alannah and Madeline Foundation” we are going to pack bags for children and also for “That Girl in Pink,” we are going to give away wristbands to everyone. Unfortunately, we cannot perform a play for people, which I am soooooo depressed about!!
 * AB 05/06 **

Well after that, Mia and I were in charge of creating a map for our route for the Walk-a-thon. Stacy and Marielle were in charge of deciding on the dates and times for the events, while Alma-Rose and Wendell were in charge of advertising the event to everybody. Mia and I did our own maps on Adobe Illustrator to begin with, but neither of them was, let’s say good in a way. But after a long and dramatic thinking session, we have decided to use Mia’s map. Soooo, that’s pretty much a summary of what we did today, anyway here is the quote in the email Camp Quality sent us when they said that we couldn’t volunteer.

“Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.”

Today in DEAL, we worked in our Outreach groups once again. One of our members, Stacy, was away today, but we still were able to do the work without her. Like always, we held a group meeting and this time, Austin was the chair and Alma-Rose was the minutes. This meeting was held over Google Docs, so everyone was contributing in being the minutes. We also met up with our mentor, Ms Williams, to update and catch her up on what we have done so far as she was not present last week. She had finalised both our draft email and phone call to Camp Quality so we were ready to contact them as soon as possible. We also continued on planning for our walk-a-thon for the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation.’ This included finding a date, time, location and other details for the walk-a-thon and in order to fully complete our activity submission form. We each had our own job to do, to help with the planning process. I was in charge of the dates and times, Austin and Mia were in charge of finding the route of the walk-a-thon and Alma-Rose and Wendell were in charge of the marketing process - advertising and promoting the event. In order to promote and inform people about the event, we need to announce it at assembly and perhaps put a notice in the school bulletin.
 * MB 05/06 **

Just before we went out to lunch, we ended up emailing Linda Leppens, who is the Volunteer Coordinator for Camp Quality. She is the person who is in charge to getting volunteers for the many programs that are being held by Camp Quality. We were very surprised as to how quick we got a reply, we found that she had replied to us, 3 minutes after we sent the email! Unfortunately, we were rejected, as we did not meet the age limit required for volunteer work for their organisation. We were very disappointed that we had been pushed back, but luckily, we already had a back-up all planned and in place, ready to be put into action as soon as possible. Our back-up organisation is the ‘Alannah and Madeline Foundation’, and we were planning on doing some volunteer work for them. We will still need to contact them about the requirements, hopefully this time, we will not be rejected again. We worked very hard today, as we got a lot of planning and preparing done. Even though we got knocked back, we were still able to rebuild and start again. That’s how life basically works, it may knock you down, but you can always get back up again, no matter what.

In today’s DEAL session we worked in our Outreach groups starting from period three. Stacy was unfortunately absent today but we didn’t let her absence prevent us from working any harder. We held our third meeting where we discussed and planned our agenda for today. Austin was in the chair for today and Alma was in charge of the minutes. We verified our mock email and phone call script to Camp Quality’s Volunteer Coordinator, Linda Lippens, with Ms. Williams, which she then corrected and confirmed for us to send. Alma officially sent the email at 1:35 and unexpectedly, we received a reply just three minutes later, but we were having lunch at the time. I honestly think that we got our hopes up a little with this organisation but at the same time we didn’t have to worry since we had a back-up plan and organisation. Unfortunately we got rejected since we were under the required age which was 18. We decided that this issue would be included in our following agenda where we’d discuss our next move in reaching out. As a group we stayed focussed and even more determined to achieve our goal(s). Austin and I were assigned the responsibility concerning our Walk-a-thon for That Girl In Pink Foundation. We were required to design the route where all the students were to walk, keeping in mind that we limited space since we were only allowed around the school. Austin and I completed our route using Adobe Illustrator which wasn’t much of a struggle for us. Last week’s DEAL day was much more productive than today’s session but we all equally accomplished what needed to be done, regardless if we were rejected, at least we had our second organisation to follow through with. I’m glad that we were prepared for a situation like this so being rejected wasn’t such a big disadvantage for our group. If it’s one thing that our group has learned from today’s lesson, it’s that life isn’t fair, that you can’t just simply expect and get what you want. You have to keep your chin up, move on from the past and keep moving forward, not letting anything prevent you in doing so!
 * MM 05/06 **

In today’s DEAL lesson, we had rock and water. We learnt how to punch people properly haha! For outreach we just finalised everything we need to go to the next step. Since Ms. Williams is back she was able to catch up with us as well as approve of our email to send to Linda Lippens the Volunteer Coordinator just to inquire about our application to become puppeteers for ‘Camp Quality’. We also finalised our routes and other information for ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’. We also came up with the idea of talking to the school at assembly and putting up more information on the bulletin. After sending the information to Linda at 1:35pm, we got a reply at 1:38pm saying that we were too young for this project. Thankfully beforehand, we were all warmed by our teachers not to get too attached to a certain project while we haven’t got accepted yet, so we weren’t as disappointed when we got rejected. Since we’re also an advanced group we already had a back up plan so we automatically went back to work and started our new agenda as well as brainstormed what our next project will be like. Even though we still have ‘That Girl In Pink’ project, we do need another project for us to continue for the rest of the year.
 * ARM 05/06 **

For our raising awareness for 'Cystic Fibrosis' Mia and Austin finalized our routes while Marielle proposed the time and dates for this event to happen, and Wendell and I have yet to decide on what the posters will look like and come up with speeches for Assembly as well as come up with information to put up into the bulletin. This Walk-A-Thon is going great and will definitely happen and we'll try to make it as enjoyable as possible. We will be providing Wristbands to raise awareness for Cystic Fibrosis and that will come from TGIP foundation free of charge. (THANK YOU BENNI AND PATTI!). Hopefully things will go well and we'll become quite successful/

So far we’re becoming more and more successful in things that we do even if we were rejected. Pati Cinkle, the president of TGIP foundation also email us regarding consent forms for people who want to be in our video. Next week will be quite interesting since we’re going to have to start again from scratch and do more research on our new project. We accomplished a lot today. Even if we got rejected, at least we sent the email!


 * 12/06 **

The majority of today was consumed with exams so we weren’t able to work on our Outreach activity for long. We were only given 2 periods to complete as much as we could. Within these 2 periods, we were able to conduct our fourth meeting which we mainly used up talking about our Outreach activity for ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’. We discussed the video that we had to send to the organisation. We set up a time, place and date for the filming of our video. Now, all we have to do is get permission from this school to actually do this and we’re on our way!
 * __WB 12/06__**

Since we had so many things to do and so many things to get approved concerning our Outreach activity, we decided to create a Google Docs ‘To Do List’ to help us become organised to make our Outreach experience less stressful. We spoke to our mentor, Ms Williams, and explained to her of our activity and plans and she helped us my providing us with facts regarding legal documents and ideas. After our meeting, we further analysed our Outreach activity, and created new outreach activities concerning a speech and advertising activity at assembly, and a post on the Student Bulletin.

Although we managed to complete quite a bit today, considering our minimum allotted time, we still have plenty more things to do like write letters and create advertisements before our Outreach activity can officially be set.

Today we had exams for four periods so we did not get to work on our outreach project for the whole day. However we did get a lot done within the two periods we got. We started off the lesson by looking through our progress and what we had accomplished so far. This was the first time we had got together with our mentor Ms Williams and talked about our project. We discussed what our idea is and what we are heading to, what challenges we would face and how to overcome them. After we told Ms Williams that we were working with a foundation called ‘That Girl in Pink’ and that we wanted to do a walk-a-thon for the school and Ms Williams asked us “Why not go even bigger?” So as a group including our mentor we thought about how we could get the community to get involved. We decided that we would try to have a walk-a-thon and maybe if we could a picnic. Families would all get together to have a walk and bring their own picnic and mat that they could sit and relax on after the walk. After discussing about this, Alma brought up how she had a deadline this walk had to be done by because the founder wanted to present this in her presentation. So we asked if we could move the date all the way to September instead of July so that more people would want to come because of the warmer weather. This is good because we get a longer period of time to make this occasion the best it can be. After talking to our mentor we wrote up a speech for what we would say in our video that we were creating and chose what outfits we were going to wear and where we were going to film it. We also added and ticked off our to-do list. We added the jobs of who would play what role whilst the walk was taking place. Marielle and I were going to film the walk. Mia and Austin were going to lead the walk and Alma and Wendell were going to clean up and do part of the filming. During this lesson Mia and Austin’s job was to measure the route of the walk-a-thon. We planned on creating posters and advertisements that could be read out in the bulletin and read out in the school assembly. We may not have had as much time as usual today but we got a lot of work done and hopefully soon we can get the outreach program running.
 * SA 12/06 **

Well, in this day of working, we only had two periods of Deal since the dreaded exams took over for most of the day, thus leaving us with two periods. Well anyway, in today's lesson, we had a talk with our mentor Ms Williams about what we are doing in the future to do some sort of fundraising to raise awareness about Cystic Fibrosis. We are having a Walk-a-thon but apparently there was a few problems, I think Benni wanted to have a fundraiser, but we thought that not a lot of people would have donated, so we thought of having the entire community join in, so we had Alma-Rose ask Benni if we could push the Walk-a-thon till September because there would be nice weather for a great picnic.
 * AB 12/06 **

So we thought of some sort of roster to organise who could do what. Stacy and Marielle are in charge of filming the entire thing, Wendell and Alma-Rose were in charge of cleaning things up, while Mia and I were in charge of measuring the distance of the entire walk. Mia and I are also in charge of leading the group in the walk which I think is kinda weird. Benni also asked us if we could create a video that she could show to people, we are going to film it at Wendell's house I think. Soooooo that's the summary of today and there won't be another blog for two weeks since we have no school on the tuesday next week but we have Deal on the next Thursday........... Oh and soon we are going to get our pink shirts that have the logo and the company on it that we are going to wear...... Anyway, here is the quote for this week!!

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Today, we only had two periods of Outreach since we had exams all morning. We didn’t have a lot of time to work on Outreach but we got to really have a proper meeting with our mentor, Ms Williams during this the two periods. We told Ms Williams about what we have done and our plans for the walk-a-thon for the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation.’ While discussing with her, we had come across some problems that we never thought that we’d had. We eventually worked out some solutions to those problems and doing so, Ms Williams encouraged us to think bigger, bigger than how we were already thinking. She suggested that we get the whole Caroline Springs community involved in our walk-a-thon, rather than just the student/teacher community in the school. We had originally planned the walk-a-thon to occur on the second week of term 2, but since we are doing a much bigger project and also because of weather purposes, we have moved the event forward to September where the weather will be perfect for walking, as well as give us more time to prepare things.
 * MB 12/06 **

During the two periods we also wrote up a speech for a video that we must film, talking about what our group is doing in Outreach and for the walk-a-thon, which we need to send to Benni - the person in charge of the foundation. Before this Outreach lesson, we had sorted out some t-shirts that we are planning to wear during the walk-a-thon in order to further raise awareness along with the wristbands and the posters/signs that we are planning to make. We also created a to-do list, organised our jobs for the day of the walk-a-thon/finalised a few things where we wrote up some speeches, measured the route - which was Mia and Austin’s job. We talked furthermore about advertising the walk at assembly and in the student bulletin, we also created a few more activity submission forms. Even though we had very little time today, we still worked effectively as a team to get the work done. We are making great progress so far and I’m sure we’ll be out there taking action soon!

Today’s DEAL session wasn’t as productive compared to our other sessions since Outreach only ran in period five and six due to the exams that we had taken in the first four periods. We held our fourth meeting and discussed what our next jobs were, deadlines and what needed to be achieved in order to meet them. We were in deep discussion with Ms. Williams who was interested in our goals and was eager for our succession in meeting the required deadlines. We let her know about our intentions of co-ordinating a walk-a-thon within the school to raise awareness for ‘That Girl in Pink’ foundation. Ms Williams, the amazing mentor that she is, told is to strive for more and thought, why not go for even bigger? We took this into consideration and we aimed to get the entire community involved and maybe even have a picnic. Unexpectedly, Alma announced that she was given strict deadlines as to when the walk-a-thon was to be done by, so Alma emailed Benni asking if we could re-schedule the walk to alter date, preferably in September rather than July for better weather conditions. Marielle and Stacy were in charge of filming the walk and Wendell and Alma had the job of cleaning up and partially filming. For today Austin and I had the task of measuring the distance of our route for the walk-a-thon. We both also had to keep in mind that we had the responsibility of leading the walk. It was a good feeling to get out of the classroom and do something more productive. Even though we accomplished a few tasks, we still have a long way to go in order to reach out and achieve our main goal!
 * MM 12/06 **

During this DEAL day, we only had two periods to work on our outreach since we had Exams on this day. We discussed our progress so far and looked at what else we have to do. The issue came up about the weather and what if people won’t donate to the foundation so we decided to go even bigger! We decided to get the whole community involved so our project will become even bigger and we’ll be able to raise awareness to a bigger audience as well as get some more donations to go to the funds on finding a cure for cystic fibrosis.
 * __ ARM 12/06 __**

Mia and Austin went off to measure the route of the walk so we have a rough idea as to how long we’ll be walking and how far. Everyone was given jobs that we’ll be doing on the actual day and our group created a To-Do-List to keep us on track. I had organised Benni to send us Shirts for the team and Wristbands to sell to raise donations. Today was a productive day as well but it was a stressful day since it was the first day of Exams. We’re on our way to a successful outreach project!


 * 21/06 **

Today was a really busy day. First of all, we started with Rock and Water and then went straight into our Outreach group for the rest of the day. Getting into our agenda, the first thing we talked about was our Outreach activity concerning ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’. Now, we had first acknowledged the countless changes that has been made in this outreach activity, and there were A LOT. The first thing that changed was the date, time and place. After last DEAL lesson, we had decided to make our outreach activity walk-a-thon on the 8th of September at Caroline Springs Lake within the local community. Unfortunately, this deemed a too great of a a feat for 14 and 15 year olds like us so in today’s meeting, we all decided to revert back to our original date, time and place of conducting the walk-a-thon on the 25th July, at lunchtime within our school community. This activity seemed more realistic, accomplishable and less stressful for us which we were all happy to do. Also, doing the local walk-a-thon would include a lot of communication between us and the Melton Shire Council which, to be honest, just freaks me out. That seemed much too big for me to do, organising a big activity with the Melton Shire Council for the ENTIRE local community, so I was very happy to conduct our walk-a-thon within our school. After we had discussed this, Ms Williams, our mentor, came to us with unfortunate news. She informed us that we were unable to create our two videos for Benni, the Founder and Vice President of ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’ due to legal and privacy reasons. This really set us back and made us contemplate whether we’d like to continue with our walk-a-thon. BUT! After picking ourselves up from the pits of doom, we all realised that the videos were insignificant compared to what we really wanted to do, which was to conduct the actual walk-a-thon to help raise awareness and funds for Cystic Fibrosis. We went straight back into our Official Activity Form and started to fill it out with in detail. By the end of the fourth period, we had managed to complete, print and send our Official Activity Form to the school leadership committee, as well as write and confirm our speeches for assembly (that we’ll hopefully be allowed to announce) to inform our school of what we are doing (the walk-a-thon) and why (to raise awareness for CF). We had also completed a mock copy of a notice that we’re hoping to put into the student bulletin informing the students of what we are doing and why (but in a less informative fashion compared to our speehes.) After lunch, we created and completed our group proposal, which we also handed in to our mentor. Then we went back to our outreach activity and started creating poster advertisements for our walk-a-thon. We had set this advertisement task for homework as well so on our next DEAL session, we’ll all have something to give in. I had created our next meeting and agenda on Google Docs, and also updated our wikispaces to make it look even better than it already is! lol. We have done so much and I am very proud of what we have done throughout the entire DEAL program. I feel accomplished.
 * __WB 21/06__**

Well, today was different because we had our Deal lesson on Thursday since we had a day off on Tuesday. The day still ran just as how it usually does. Anyway, what we did today was have a group meeting on Google Docs with our Mentor about our agenda. Ms Williams said that we were not allowed to create a video since it broke some policies that the school had. So, Alma-Rose had to tell Benni that we couldn’t make any videos and while she was doing that we decided to only have the Walk-A-Thon within the school community. I think that was much more better because preparing for the entire Melton Shire Community, although it would have been sooooo much better because we would have had sooo much fun doing it. We then set the date of our Walk-A-Thon to July 25th instead of our original date which was September 8th. After, we continued with our To Do List and edited a few things because we had a few setbacks and also finialised a few documents. We also finialised our documents on our proposals relating to the Walk-A-Thon which were then printed out and handed to Ms Williams. Wendell and Alma-Rose went and checked in with Ms Williams, while that was happening we created posters that tells people about the up coming Walk-A-Thon. We then finished our speech for assembly, completed our draft version that is going to be on the bulletin and also took some things off our To Do List. Soooo, we did a lot of things today so it was all good.
 * AB 21/06 **

Anyway, here is the quote for the week!! "Take in the small moments that you never noticed, because in the end all the small things might be the greatest."

Today was Thursday and it was not our normal DEAL Tuesday, however it ran like a normal DEAL day. We started off the day by looking at what we needed to do and what we have accomplished so far. We went to our google docs and looked at our agenda. Whilst looking through this Ms Williams came up to us and had some bad news to tell us. After consulting with the leadership team it turns out there are rules to which we have to follow that will not allow us to take any footage or images that concerns of the school. We as a group were dissappointed as we put so much effort and time into planning on creating our video and had already created the script for it. We were still happy though that we were able to do the walk-a-thon even though it meant not creating the video. Ms Williams suggested that instead of including our whole local community in the walk-a-thon we can just include the school as it means less preparation and we can get it done earlier. Our walk-a-thon has now moved back to it’s original date which is July 25th instead of September 8th. After hearing about that sad news, we all talked to each other which was a good thing as we should talk to our group members about how we feel and not just do nothing. We all helped each other try and move on and as a person part of this team I have to say we did a vey good job in comforting one another. We then moved on to our to do list and added assignments that we needed to complete and took away the ones that were finished. We mainly worked on the proposal and the activity submission form during this DEAL lesson. We worked on these firsts because we wanted to make sure that this walk-a-thon was happening and the sooner we get everything confirmed the more prepared we become. After finishing them we printed them off and half of the group went to finalise it with Ms Williams. While they were finalising the papers, the other part of the group that was left behind worked on a poster each advertising our walk-a-thon and including all the details. We all used our own creativity and our I.C.T skills in making this a good poster. We didn’t get a chance to complete these posters because we had another task that we had to do, so we got assigned to finish/ or create these posters before the next DEAL lesson. We then moved on onto adding details that would be read out in the bulletin and the assembly. We then referred back to our aim and purpose and thought about what direction we were heading at. Half of the group were to work on the reflection and reflect on how we are going in outreach so far while the other half were looking for some new organisations that we could work with. Sadly our backup plan has already been taken by another group so and our back up, back up plan can no longer be executed so now we have to find a new back up plan. We didn’t end up finding a new back up plan but we did discuss as a group a list of activities that we would like to do. Today our outreach group has accomplished a lot and most of it was because of our teamwork. Keep up the work!
 * SA 21/06 **

Today was our DEAL day, as we had a day off on Tuesday, the timetable was swapped around. It was a full on day for us as a group. Like always, we started off with a group meeting on Google Docs, with our agenda. During our meeting, our mentor, Ms Williams sat with us, but had bad news to announce. After meeting up with the leadership/year 9 team, they have rejected the idea of filming the videos that we were planning to send to Benni, explaining our walk-a-thon event, and what we are doing as part of our Outreach program. This was because of legal reasons and privacy reasons, which we must follow. We were very disappointed, as we were really looking forward to filming these videos. We then realised that we could still do the walk-a-thon without having to do the videos, but we had to break the bad news to Benni. As they say, "Onward and upward!" is the direction we must go. Ms Williams had also suggested that we go back to our original plan, which is to only do the walk-a-thon within the school community. It would have been a big task to gather the whole local community of Caroline Springs to participate in this walk-a-thon. There would be a lot of preparation as well as planning required, and it would be quite challenging. So with that, our walk-a-thon is now scheduled to the original date, which is the 25th of July, during lunchtime, on the second week of term 2. After our down moment, we got back up and continued on with our work. We got straight onto finalising some of our documents, so that we could get approved for our walk-a-thon, and know that it is actually going to happen. We had to finalise two documents in order to prepare us to hold our proposed walk-a-thon. These documents were, the Official Activity Form and a Proposal document. We eventually finished them, printed them out and handed them to our mentor. While Wendell and Alma went and checked in with Ms Williams, the rest of us started designing posters, advertising our walk-a-thon. We were set to complete these posters for homework so that we could show them to each other next DEAL lesson. After doing all the important things, we finished off our speech for assembly, completed our draft notice for the bulletin and added/took away tasks on our to-do list as we went along. Today was a productive and hard-working day for all for us. It was full of ups and downs, but we did manage to go smooth. At times the road may be bumpy and rough, but as you drive along, it goes smooth again. We have done a lot of work in Outreach this term. We have gone through a lot as a group together, throughout our journey to our main Outreach aim and purpose. Our group has accomplished numerous things over this term, and I am very proud of that. Teamwork is what has gotten us this far, it has accelerated us to be where we are, it has enabled us to make progress and it is what has gotten us very successful.
 * MB 21/06 **

Thursday ran a little differently today since we had a swapped timetable and a Deal day had been arranged. All members were present today and we ran our fifth meeting on Google Docs along with our agenda. Ms Williams broke to us the unfortunate news that we weren’t allowed to take any images or footage including the school in any way, shape or form. Our group was pretty disappointed since we were looking forward to filming it and all our excitement had been put into it. In a result of this, Alma had to let Benni know that we were now incapable of making a video but we didn’t completely lose hope since our plans for our walk-a-thon were still going to go forward. The date of the walk-a-thon was changed to the 25th of July instead of our original date, which was on the 8th of September. We ran through everything as per usual; our To Do List and we went over and confirmed a few of our documents, one of which included our proposals dedicated to our walk-a-thon. As soon as we were finally satisfied with what we had done, printed it out and half of our group handed it to our mentor Ms Williams. They also discussed into detail with Ms Williams while the rest of us were given the task of creating a poster which advertised our walk-a-thon. We found ourselves unsuccessful in completing this task so it was assigned to us as homework and was expected to be completed by the next lesson. Afterwards we had to finalise and add details to what was to be typed or said in the bulletin and hopefully, in assembly. We all ended up referring back to our aim and purpose which in the end guided us in the right direction of what we had to achieve. We also had made the discovery that our designated backup plan was already chosen by another group and therefore we were left with finding a new backup plan, which was a frantic and frustrating time. As a group, we accomplished a lot today and hopefully we can keep up the work next week (:
 * MM 21/06 **

__** ARM 21/06 **__ Todays lesson was a bit muddled up. First off, it's thursday since it was a swapped timetable. As always, we start off by holding a meeting using google docs using our agenda. During this lesson, we had found out that our proposal for creating videos for 'That Girl In Pink Foundation' was rejected due to privacy reasons. It was a little disappointing since I was the one who had to break the news to Benni. We were all looking forward to filming for Benni so this was really upsetting. Even if we couldn't make the video, we still didn't give up on the charity. We're still going to continue the walk on the 25th of July. Finally, we're all set and done! During this lesson, Mia, Stacy, Marielle, Wendell and Austin all created posters for advertisements. We walked through our To Do List and had completed everything on the list. Today was very successful. We'd created our proposal for the walk-a-thon and printed it out. THe proud moment was when I handed the proposal to Ms. Williams. Afterwards, we'd created mock emails and speeches for the bulletin and for assemble. We'd also come up with the realisation that we do need to find another organisation since after the walk-a-thon we won't have anything else to do. So as a group we've brainstormed new organisations and how we can help :)


 * 26/06 **

In today’s DEAL lesson, we were instructed to create a video for our wikispaces, since the internet was down and we could not conduct our meeting (because our Agenda was online, in Google DOCs). This video was to be posted on wikispaces to provide viewers with an explanation of our group, group members, group aim and group activities. Our Outreach group ‘All For Love’ went straight onto our script when instructed and finished writing it within 5 minutes. Our script was a mixture of our mentor audition speeches and new information concerning our outreach activity with ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’. I had spent the rest of third and fourth period editing our video while the rest of our team went straight onto other work concerning ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’ and finding a new organisation (which they did: Moira Kelly Children First Foundation). By the end of fourth period, I had uploaded our video onto wikispaces and All For Love had also already sent an email to Anna Esposito, volunteer coordinator of MKCFF. During lunch, Alma-Rose and I went to the library to create a speech for a mentor interview in fifth and sixth period. Our speech was a mixture of the same script we used for our video and also additional information about what we have done throughout the course of term two in Outreach. We printed out these speeches and cut it up into cue cards. I had also created a supporting keynote presentation for our interview. During fifth period, while awaiting for our mentor interview, I had updated our wikispaces with photos and also links to our new mock email DOCs, the emails for MKCFF and also to Mr MacGregor (concerning our assembly speech in term two) and to Ms. Wasilewski in the Office (concerning our bulletin notice in term two). Looking over all of the work we have done over the past term, we have realised that we have accomplished so much. I do not regret anything we have done, the good AND the bad, and I am very excited for Outreach next term.
 * __WB 26/06__**

Today for outreach we started off the lesson differently. Instead of looking at our progress and our to-do list, we had to create a video explaining what our aims and purposes are for outreach. We had to discuss our plans, our challenges and what we plan for the future. We had to write a script for ourselves as everyone would have to be presented in the video. We made made this video to explain to everyone in the year 9 team explaining what our group is about, what organisations we wanted to or have worked with and what our values are. We were to discuss how our outreach journey as a group has been so far. We were in the middle of writing our script when we remembered that we had previously created a speech which included the topics that we had to cover in our video so we decided to use that and just make and add a few changes. After we finished creating the script and was happy with it we went to a quiet area where we could film our video. After filming our video the whole group except Wendell searched for organisations that we could work with. Whilst we were doing this Wendell was editing our video. We found an organisation called the ‘Children First Foundation’ which works with children whether it be there to have someone to talk to or to get involved in an activity. We did some research on this organisation and we found out that the place where this organisation is held in Melbourne is in the North of Melbourne and if we were to get a ride from Caroline Springs to their it would take at least one and a half hours. We haven’t decided on how to get transported there yet as we had to first see if we could work with them. There wasn’t anything is specific that we had really wanted to do with this organisation as we would just like to work with them. However there were some activities that we wanted to do which was to plan and do some activities with the children.
 * SA 26/06 **

Today in our occasional Deal lesson. We were told to create a video for our Wikispaces, although the internet was not working at the time so we had to wait for a while and we also couldn’t do our usual things like our agendas since they were on Google Docs. We had to create a video that explains our group, our group members, our group’s aim and also our activities. We did this fairly quickly I think, so we got to our other work fast. Wendell started to edit our video, so the rest of us went on finding new organisations. We found an organisation called “Moira Kelly Children First Foundation.” Wendell then finished our video and then sent an email to the volunteer coordinator of MKCFF, Anna Esposito. We then updated our Wikispaces with our videos and pictures, then we also made emails to Mr MacGregor about our assembly speech and also Ms Wasilewski in the office. So, this was I think a great last lesson, and we won’t have another one in two weeks!!
 * AB 26/06 **

Anyway, here is the quote that will last for the entire school holiday's...... "Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today, Hope for Tomorrow."

Today is our last DEAL day and Outreach lesson for this term - term 2. This day was focused on finalising everything, before we go on holidays. As per usual, we opened up our agenda on Google Docs, and conducted our 6th meeting. We were set a lot of tasks to complete during today’s lesson. The first task was to film a video, explaining what our group is all about, what we are doing, which organisation/s we are working with and our Outreach journey so far. Before filming, we prepared a speech as to what we were going to say. Wendell then got on to editing our video, and posting it on our wikispace page. While Wendell was busy with that, the rest of us were searching for a new organisation that we could work with after holding the walk-a-thon for the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation.’ Mia had found an organisation called the ‘Moira Kelly’s Children’s First Foundation.’ We all read through the website, looking at what the organisation does, and most important, how, we, as a group can help. We had found out that volunteer opportunities were available, so we firstly checked in with Ms Williams, and told her about this new organisation that were planning to work with. She approved, so we created a mock email and phone call, in regards to contacting Anne Esposito, the volunteer coordinator of the foundation. We got the email proof read by Ms Williams before sending it off. Now all we have to do now is wait for a reply. After getting that out of the way, we got back to focusing on our walk-a-thon. First off, we had a look at each other’s posters to advertise the event, that was set for homework from last week. Everyone’s posters looked great so we decided to use all 6 of our posters to hang up around the school. Along with advertising, we need to further inform people about our walk-a-thon, so we wrote up mock emails that we need to send off to Mr MacGregor and Mrs Wasilewski (the teacher in charge at the office) asking for permission to speak at assembly, as well as put a notice in the student bulletin. We are now all set for the holidays, we don’t have a lot of work to do, but we will still be sure to keep in touch during the two weeks. We have all worked exceptionally hard this term, we have achieved many things, and got a lot of work done. We had our ups and downs, the good and bad, the pretty and the ugly moments, but we got through to the end of the term, all extremely happy with our efforts. We are well on our away to pursuing our Outreach dream, also our aim and purpose as a group. I can’t wait to continue Outreach next term, to hold our walk-a-thon and hopefully, start working with ‘Moira Kelly’s Children’s First Foundation.’
 * MB 26/06 **

Today was our last Deal day for this term and our first instructions from the teachers was to create a video that was to be uploaded onto our wikispaces that explained our group, our aims and basically what we were trying to accomplish. A script was written and prepared and we all were assigned different parts to read. Unfortunately no one was able to access the internet at school since it was down and they were still in the process of fixing the problem. Since our agendas and meetings were held on Google Docs, a meeting wasn’t conducted as per usual but we managed to work around through it. As soon as we finished recording our video, Wendell went straight ahead to editing it and added a few details to jazz it up. Whilst he was doing that, the rest of us knuckled down and worked hard in finding an organisation that complimented our values and was our aim. Surely enough, I was successful in finding an organisation called the ‘Moira Kelly’s Children’s First Foundation.’ I suggested that the rest of my group members read through the website to see if they were satisfied with this organisation and were looking forward to working with them. We told Ms Williams about our great find and she approved of it which was a great achievement for all of us as a group. We then went straight to preparing a mock email and phone call to contact Anne Esposito, who was the volunteer coordinator of the foundation. Ms Williams had checked our email and we were all set to send it off. After this we focused on our posters which was assigned as homework from last week and all of them turned our pretty good so we decided to use all of them to be displayed around the school. Once this had been finalised we also had to write another mock email which was to be sent to Mr McGregor, informing him about our walk-a-thon and an email to Mr Wasilewski, asking for his permission to put up a notice into the bulletin and being able to speak at assembly. A lot of work was accomplished today and I’m actually impressed that we didn’t slack off since it was our last Outreach day for this term. We’re eagerly waiting for a reply from Anne Esposito and if this goes well then I can’t wait to see what we’ll be able to achieve next term and throughout this year.
 * MM 26/06 **

The start of this lesson was actually really fun and entertaining. We were instructed to create a video to put up onto our wikispaces that should explain our group and what we're about. We'd recycled our audition speech and just changed up some lines and words to make it brand new :) We all had our own parts to say so that we all get a say. Since the internet was currently down as well, we weren't able to conduct a normal meeting since our meetings were on google docs so we just had to improvise and just catch up once the internet gets back on the track. We'd also continued to find a new organisation to go onto after 'That Girl In Pink Foundation' and luckily enough, Mia had found the 'Moira Kelly's Children's First Foundation". As soon as we discussed this and did furthur research, we went straight into conducting mock emails to send to the foundation about our enquiry as well as mock phone calls in case we needed one. Once we'd shown Ms. Williams our new mock email she gave us the yes I went ahead and sent it out to her. After 4 minutes, we'd gotten a reply. Unfortunately, we'd gotten rejected once again due to our age. Once again. But it's okay, we'll just have to find a new one. Like always, we planned out our walk-a-thon even further than we've already had. This was a very chill session yet we still accomplished a lot. :)
 * __ ARM 26/06 __**


 * 31/07 **

In today’s DEAL lesson, we received very unfortunate news from our teachers. Apparently, the laws in Victoria concerning group excursions has changed and has become a lot stricter. This increase in security for us students is preventing us from going outside of school for our Outreach activities, cancelling all possibilities of going out for our Outreach activities. So as to not waste the effort all Outreach groups have put in throughout term 2, the leadership team have approved of holding an Outreach festival on the last week of term 3 where we as an Outreach group are allowed to set up a stall in any way we like and promote our organisation. This is very exciting for our group because we are passionate about our organisation and we already have available resources to use for our stall (like our wristbands and t-shirts). During our Outreach sessions, we have decided to perform a song about Cystic Fibrosis and managed to write a song to the tune of Status Quo from the hit Disney movie High School Musical. We are all very hyped up about this and look forward to performing this in front of our school. Unfortunately, Austin wasn’t here today so we didn’t manage to practise completely but we did it to the best of our abilities. We are now looking for other inspirations to help make our stall the greatest! I’m so hyped for this right now! Lots of love, Wendell xo
 * __WB 31/07__**

Today in DEAL we started the lesson off with bad news. We as a year 9 group found out that we could no longer go on excursions for outreach due to some laws that the government made. This did not help us and we had to do something almost entirely different for outreach since most of us were going out on excursion. Now that we could no longer do the activities outside of school we are now going to create a stall at the outreach day festival during the last outreach lesson we have for term 3. It was hard for us as a team to process this new information we had received today but we coped through it exactly how we did last time we got knocked down, we talked to each other about it and then comforted each other as we all felt the same way. After having our discussion about ‘what would happen now?’ we stayed in outreach groups and discussed some idea’s that we could use for our stall. One of the ideas we put down on our brainstorm that we all came up together was wearing our ‘That Girl in Pink’ t-shirts and wristbands, also we had decided to sell the wristbands we got from that foundation and sell it at the stall as well as cupcakes. Other ideas we brainstormed was creating a song and performing it at our stall, with some back up music. Another idea we had was connecting the macbook to a speaker and playing the video we created explaining about cystic fibrosis. We started working on the song which we named ‘cystic fibrosis no!’ based on the same song from high school musical ‘stick to the status quo’. Most of periods 3 and 4 was of us writing up our song for the stall. The difference between our song and the high school musical version is that our version explains cystic fibrosis and what you can do to help. We have filled out an email that says what equipment we would need for this song such as tables, chairs, microphone etc. After doing that we continued working on the agenda we had started at the beginning of the lesson. We ended of the lesson by adding the final touches to the song and sung it aloud to each other, to see if we should change anything. Our homework we have for the next couple of weeks before the outreach festival is learn the lyrics to the song. We have already booked an area of the school and the equipment we need for this stall to happen. I think we have worked very hard today and I am looking forward to try singing our new song!
 * SA 31/07 **

Unfortunately I was absent today so I wasn't able to work with the team and get updated on the news that everyone received today. But I'm still going to put up the quote of the day.
 * AB 31/07 **

"Imagination is far more important than Knowledge because without it, there really is no point of knowing anything. Imagination is Everything."

Today was the first Outreach day this term, as last week we were on an excursion to Sovereign Hill. Unfortunately, we were greeted with some bad news. The law for going to excursions was changed by the Government, and as many of the Outreach projects are based on going out in the wider community, it is impossible for us to do this with the new law in place. We were all filled with mixed emotions, disappointed, concerned and frustrated. The best thing to do now is to just move on, and continue on. So, now for the rest of this term instead of doing our Outreach projects, there will be an Outreach Festival that is going to be held at the end of the term. This way, all the work that we have done over the past term will not go to waste. Each group is to have their own stall, promoting their Outreach project and which organisation they have chosen to work with. We came up with many ideas as to how our stall will look like, how the day will run, and what we could do to get people to come to us. Our stall is going to be focused on the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation.’ To make use of the wristbands that Benni sent to us, we are going to sell them. On the day we will also be wearing our pink t-shirts that were sent to us from Benni as well. During the day we are also planning to perform a song that we have written about Cystic Fibrosis to inform and draw people in to come to our stall! We used High School Musical's 'Stick to the Status Quo' song, as our base, and wrote our own version talking about Cystic Fibrosis and what we are selling at our stall. It is a great way to inform people and catch their attention. In the end, the bad news didn’t turn out so bad, everything just fell into place and worked out. We all handled the problem, and turned it into something great. It was good to finally work with my Outreach group after a very long time. We worked productively today, dealing with the situation as best as we could. We re-built from where we left off and are ready for what is to come next. I am now looking forward to the day of the festival!
 * MB 31/07 **

Today was our first Outreach lesson for this term and we received some pretty heartbreaking news, news that we’d have to eventually break to Austin since he was away. A new law had been enforced that we were no longer allowed to go on excursions without teacher or parent supervision. This was mainly due to safety concerns and would benefit us. The whole of year nine was of course devastated to hear this and did unfortunately defeat the purpose of the Outreach program, which was to reach out to the community in several ways. The teachers thought of a solution to this so that all the hard work and effort we had put in wouldn’t go to waste. They had planned for us an Outreach Festival where all groups would set up their own stall and raise awareness etc. Once we were dismissed, our group re-focused and considered possible ways we could raise awareness for cystic fibrosis in a unique way and to somehow stand out from the rest of the groups. Wendell came up with the idea of writing lyrics for a song that we could perform to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis, using the tune to “Stick to the Status Quo,” from the movie “High School Musical.” We had come to the conclusion that we were going to wear our TGIP t-shirts that we had received on the holidays and sell all the wristbands for a dollar each. Along with that we thought to include a free cupcake if you were to purchase a wristband, which will hopefully go forward. We would have our cystic fibrosis video playing in the background to inform people who were unsure of cystic fibrosis and educate them. All we have to do know is memorise the lyrics and we’ll surely pull off our performance and eventually end up with an amazing stall (:
 * MM 31/07 **

In this DEAL lesson, we had received disappointing news. Due to new laws that the government had decided to make, no one is no longer allowed to leave the school premisses for any outreach activities. It didn’t affect us that much because our initial idea was a walk-a-thon in the school ground. Since the leadership team had rejected our proposal, due to the fact that ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’ was not an Australian charity, we were going to start fresh. Hearing this news did come with a better one so that our Outreach won’t completely go to waste. The teachers have come up with an idea to hold an Outreach fate to raise awareness for all charities. We spoke to Ms. Williams about what charity we should do since ‘TGIP’ wasn’t Australian. Luckily she told us that we can do it, and we can sell our wristbands :D So something good came along with the bad news. As soon as we got to our tables, we went straight to work. We came up with possible ideas as to what our stand will consist and what it’ll look like so that part was pretty fun :) Wendell had also created a song for us to perform and we might create a music video for it. Other than that, this DEAL lesson was very productive and we did quite a lot for the first lesson back to DEAL. This will be really fun. I’m looking forward to it all <3
 * ARM 31/07 **


 * 07/08 **

Absent
 * __WB 07/08__**

Today in DEAL we continued to work on our outreach. Today there was two people away due to production rehearsals so only Marielle, Austin, Mia and I were present, while Alma and Wendell were at production. As how we would normally start our lesson we ran a group meeting and agenda. We then had to come up with idea’s for our stall during the outreach festival, this was hard to do as we had to keep in mind of what our other team members and what they wanted to do. We came with a lot of idea’s such as selling food like candy floss, cookies and cake pops. We decided that we would probably not sell food, as plenty of other stalls are already doing that idea. We had also decided that we would decorate the stall with lots of pink so that when people walk by they would notice it and come to us, asking why our stall is so full of the colour pink. We discussed about some idea’s that we would put on our posters that would help raise awareness for our organsiation ‘That Girl in Pink’. We thought that we should have two posters, one that we had created and the official organisations poster. We had changed the way we would perform our song to the audience, instead of just performing it on the stage we would perform it in a flashmob style. We found out that the group that came up with the best idea would be rewarded. After coming up with all the idea’s we began practicing and memorising the lyrics to our cystic fibrosis song. We didn’t end up remembering all of it but we ended up changing some of the lyrics to make the song easier to sing and remember. After practicing our song we had to put in the spot for where we wanted to hold our stall. Luckily we were one of the first ones to put our name and our place down, so we got the exact spot that we wanted. After talking with some other groups in outreach we had come up with the idea to share the stage as another group was also performing and that we would take turns every few hours. Which led us to coming up with the idea of starting a flashmob that start at the beginning of the year 8 lockers and towards the stage, so that we could get more audience interaction and it would be more enjoyable for everybody. When the day was over we came up with a last minute decision that we would sell pink bubbles instead of food because it was a unique idea and it had a good meaning behind it. We had wanted to bring in a bubble blowing machine and let pink bubble flow out from there so that everyone could see it and would want to buy one. They would also ask why the bubbles are coloured pink which is then when we explain about ‘That Girl in Pink’ foundation. Even though there were only four of us today, we worked very effectively and hopefully all this effort will come to good on the day of the outreach festival.
 * SA 07/08 **

Well, what happened in today’s DEAL lesson was that we continued to work on our Outreach. In this particular lesson, two people were away who were Alma and Wendell, which just left Marielle, Mia, Stacy and me. We had to come up with ideas for what we could put up in our stalls for the Outreach festival. At first we came up with the typical ideas such as cup-cakes, but then I suggested that we could changed it from everyone else's by having Fairy Floss since I had a Fairy Floss machine. We then received news that we couldn’t have any thing related to do with food. So we then came up of an idea of selling Bubbles because we had the thought of having people be grateful of being able to breath properly unlike the victims of Cystic Fibrosis, we wanted people to know how hard it is to live Cystic Fibrosis. Mr Gilbert also announced that whoever has the most creative and innovative way to get the crowds attention will be rewarded with a special prize. Other than that, we practised our Cystic Fibrosis song and Mia also had the thought of having a thing similar to a flash mob for our performance for our song which I don't really know how it's going to work. I am sooooo excited for the Outreach Festival and I’m sure it’s all going to go right!!
 * AB 07/08 **

It was that time of week again, Tuesday, a DEAL day and the time to work in our Outreach groups. Today, it was just Stacy, Austin, Mia and I who were present in our group. Alma and Wendell were out for production rehearsals. We started off with a meeting, and filled out our agenda. We talked about our stall, how we could present our organisation in the most creative way and how the day of the festival would run. We continued with getting more ideas, in case some of our plans would not be approved or if they are taken by another group. We came up with many ideas, such as selling candy floss, cupcakes or cake pops, singing our song in a flash mob style, decorating our stalls with pink balloons, pink streamers, a pink table cloth - all things pink, perhaps even spraying people’s hair pink to represent the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation.’ After coming up with ideas, we decided to go off and practice our song, ‘Cystic Fibrosis, No!” Mia had the movie on her laptop, so we sang along with the movie with the lyrics that we wrote. Our lyrics fit the tune of the song really well, and it was fun practicing and trying to memorise the words as well as who is singing what part. We secured our spot of the stall, which is the concrete area in front of the music room, as we need to use microphones, amplifiers, speakers, etc for our performance. We were asked to put down in our agenda our vision what we want to get out of this festival and what we want people to get out of this festival, going to our stall. As a group, we want people to know about Cystic Fibrosis, this horrible disease that kills many people and has no cure. We also want people to know that there is an organisation out there, that tries their best to help victims and their families, along with scientists doing research for the cure, also hospitals/other care facilities that are taking care of patients with this disease. This will hopefully inspire people to donate to the organisation regularly or try to help them in other ways - that they too can help spread the love one heart at a time. Afterwards, we were then told that there were too many groups having food stalls, and that it wouldn’t be a good idea to have that many food stalls going on. So that’s the selling of cupcakes, candy floss or cake pops idea, scratched. Time to think again and compromise! It was last minute that we thought of selling little bottles of bubbles. Since we are so privileged to have healthy lungs and to be able to breath properly, we should show how lucky we are by blowing bubbles. It will raise awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and will also bring people to our stall. The four of us worked effectively, even with some of our members missing. I can’t wait for the Outreach Festival! I know that our stall will be amazing and if all goes well, fingers crossed, will get a lot of people coming to us.
 * MB 07/08 **

For today’s Outreach lesson Wendell and Alma were absent due to production rehearsals so the rest of us were left with the responsibility of making decisions, but to also keep in mind any wishes that they had. Today we held our 8th meeting in Google Docs and we had to discuss how and what would become the main basis and foundation of our stall. The teachers suggested that we think outside the box when it came to attracting people to our stall. Almost everyone had the same idea of using cupcakes to lure in customers ‘effectively’ although this wasn’t the case since everyone would be up against each other and the competition would be fierce. Mr Gilbert had also announced that a reward would be given to the group who are the most creative and innovative in attracting a crowd and so we went straight to brainstorming ideas. The catch was that whatever it was, it had to have a connection with the foundation that you were doing so that there would be a decent purpose. Our first idea as a group was to sell finger food that was preferably the colour pink. We thought of several foods but this was before the announcement was made that food was no longer an option. We also thought of spraying people’s hair pink but we thought that would be a lengthy process due to Stacy’s last experience of colouring people’s hair. For the last 30 or so minutes left in period four, we decided to practise our ‘Cystic Fibrosis’ song whilst recording ourselves to look over and see our flaws. We needed to speed up the pace and to be more enthusiastic. One of our ideas involving the song that would help attract people’s attention was to put on something similar to a flash mob. Since the tune to our song was taken from the movie ‘High School Musical’, a bit of acting was involved and we feel that merely standing and performing was just not enough. At the very last minute, nearing the end of the lesson, I thought to suggest bubbles instead of pink finger food. Since ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’ was all about cystic fibrosis, which affected the lungs, I thought that in order to blow or breathe, our lungs played a vital role in doing so. In order to successfully blow bubbles, of course, you needed to blow and that would involve your lungs. People with cystic fibrosis are unfortunate and therefore do not have the opportunity to blow bubbles. We also agreed as a group that the bubbles would be pink since our organisation was in fact ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation.’ This idea was just suiting as well since I actually have a bubble blowing machine, although we had to find a way to somehow produce and purchase the pink for the bubbles. Even though Wendell and Alma were absent today the rest of us did get through a lot of work and we continued on persevering, not giving up!
 * MM 07/08 **

Absent
 * ARM 07/08 **


 * 14/08 **

Today, we attended a summit in the school hall concerning reaching out to youth and keeping youth in schools, off the streets, and educated. Many speakers came to talk to us for two and a half hours while we sat down and listened for two and a half hours. In this two and a half hours of listening, we have learnt that 20% of the population are youths and 100% of our future depends on the youth of today. This means that the 20% of the population needs to be well-educated to lead the future. We have also learnt that education is key because knowledge is power and gives us the opportunity to not only have options but to make them as well, and make good choices at that! We heard many stories about crime events in the Western suburbs of Melbourne alone, stories of gangs and fights, and even of horrific events that occurred like the amputation of the arm of a youth. I have gained the opinion and belief over that two and a half hours, that we, as a democratic country, need to be proactive, not reactive. This means that we need to stop crime rates from happening, rather than finding a solution after they have actually happened. I have gained the strong belief that the government need to stop using money on creating more jails and put the tax-payers money towards creating programs to educate the youth, to give them the ability to live life fully, but also justly. I have learnt that although there are some youth programs out there, there aren’t enough to help the 20% of the population become clean and well-educated. We need to create a brighter future for the future generations and to do this, we need to step up, reach out and do something about the problems of the world. Especially concerning the youth, because the youth is our future. They are ones the future depends on. They are the creators of the future. Two and a half hours, and now I know more, and know that we, as a community, are and can be more. By gathering as a group, we can change the world. Thank you.
 * __WB 14/08__**

Today for outreach we spent most of the day listening to speeches about the key to education to youth. Speakers from different organisations came and spoke to us for a few hours. The 20th man fund organisation held a summit at Catholic Regional College, Caroline Springs and got selected students from all over the school, community and they year nine team to come and participate. I learnt there were plenty of ways to get involved with helping the youth. The one thing that stood out the most to me was the pro-active and re-active plan. The money that we use to build more prisons is a large amount and the money we spent to keep just one person in prison is more then enough to get the pro-active plan up and working. If this happens then there will be a less amount of people always going to jail and have ‘no purpose’ in life, which means that more people would not be homeless and have no jobs, so they have a bright future. One of the speakers talked about how 20% of the population are youths and that 100% of the future depends on them. If the youths were still making the wrong choices they are making today, then the future would not be a place you would be looking forward to. We found out the difference between making choices and having choices and that you should think very carefully about them. Most of the speakers related the situations they handled to the real life situations to the ones we live today, which helped us connect to what they are saying. There was one story that was mentioned which really got to me, which was the starfish story. The story is about a young boy who was throwing something into the ocean. Another man walked past and saw what he was doing. He saw that the young boy was throwing the starfish that was left by the tide on the shore back into the ocean. The man asked why he was doing that as he would not be able to help all those starfish. The boy picked up one of the starfish’s and threw it back into the ocean saying “at lest I made a difference to this one”. This story shows that one person can’t help everyone, but if they just help one, they are making a big difference to the world. If everyone were to make a difference to just one person then it will just be like helping everyone. After participating in the summit I have learnt a lot and I am going to take this information and use that knowledge to help the world!
 * SA 14/08 **

Today was a special day and was much more different than the rest. This was because the Miracle Workers had organised for Les Twentyman from the 20th Man Fund to teach is about the importance of education. There were multiple speakers who were talking to us about eduacation and what it can do to people who didn’t get educated properly. They asked us questions about our life and what was right, like if we should get people from the community educated or should we just build more prisons. Today was a very inspirational day and that we should be thankful that there is an organisation out there who helps people outside the community and that we should all thank the Miracle Workers for this inspirational event. THANK YOU MIRACLE WORKERS!!
 * AB 14/08 **

Today was a different DEAL day for us. The year 9s attended a summit held by Les Twentyman from the 20th Man Fund at our school. The summit started around about recess, and ended at lunchtime - two and a half hours! There were a number of different guest speakers who talked to us about saving youth, keeping them in schools and away from the streets. Each of the guests talked and gave speeches about the programs that they have in place in order to help the youth in the community as well as their views on this issue. Within the two and a half hours of us listening, we got some very useful information, tips and advice from the guest speakers, going by their past experiences. The several policemen, constables and detectives that spoke described some of the incidents that they had to deal with involving children/teens, around about our age. It was shocking to see that youth in our communities are getting involved in such horrible crimes/situations and are getting severely hurt from it. Gangs are being formed, guns and other weapons being used. This is an extremely big issue that not a lot of people know about. Neither are a lot of people aware that there are programs out there that try to prevent things like this from happening. The Western Bulldogs Football Club hosts a program called ‘Fresh’ which provides education for children that have not been attending school. Les Twentyman and the 20th Man Fund also have a number of programs that they run in order to help such as their ‘Back to School Program’ which like the ‘Fresh’ program, assists children to getting back into their education. Among all the speeches, there was one message behind all of them, and in particular, one story that stood out. One of the speakers told the story of a person who was at a beach, and was seen throwing starfish back in the sea. The person said, that he was saving the starfish by throwing them back into the sea. Now, there were numerous starfish with their lives at stake, and it seemed impossible that this one person could save all this starfish. Well, that person picked up a starfish and threw it back in sea saying, “Well, I made a difference to that one.” This portrays the message that one person can make a big difference, no matter what. It shows that everyone in the community, in the world has what it takes to make a difference. The concept of being ‘proactive’ and ‘reactive’ was brought up during the summit. Being proactive means to act before an event happens. Being reactive means to act during or after an event happens. The way the speaker put it was, putting the money towards people who can assist the youth in our communities - being proactive, putting the money towards building more prisons - being reactive. In this situation, and in all situations, it is better to be proactive where possible. It’s better to stop something by acting before it happens, rather than acting afterwards when it is too late. Being involved in the summit was a great experience. I learnt many things, and it has really opened my eyes to things I didn’t know about before. Thank you to Les Twentyman and all the guest speakers who came to our school today to attend the summit. Thank you for all your wise, informative and inspirational words.
 * MB 14/08 **

The Miracle Workers had organised for Les Twentyman from the 20th Man Fund to come and visit us discussing youth violence and the importance of education. There were many other speakers who spoke as well, filling us in on their experience and how important it was for them to get kids off the street. An ex-policeman spoke to us youths and how we easily get influenced. A lot of youths out there are becoming violent, getting involved in fights and drugs and they are our future. The policeman described his experience of witnessing a fight which involved a 14-year-old who fought, only with the intention of dating one of the gang member’s girlfriend’s. Why wasn’t simply asking her an option? How will we ever become dependent in our youths when they are already acting like this? The youths are the key to our future. A message that was most commonly mentioned in everyone’s speeches was that education is the key and knowledge is power. They also mentioned how lucky we are to have decisions and be able to make them. Other people aren’t even given the choices or opportunities. Another topic that they discussed was either being proactive or reactive. Choosing to be reactive meant taking action after the crime was committed and doing something after it. An example of this would be to spend more money on building more prisons for the troubled youths and more homes for boys and girls. Being proactive was preventing and trying to stop the situation from happening. To do this the money would be used more wisely to employ workers such as Les Twentyman, who can help and support youths for a second chance and live a better life. I'm very thankful to have been able to listen to such inspirational words from the man himself. Les Twentyman along with the other speakers have inspired me to do and achieve more to help the community and change the world, making it a better place.
 * MM 14/08 **

Today during outreach, we had Les Twentymen come to our school to talk to us about the youth of today. During the two and a half hours that the summit was around, we had many guest speakers to talk to us about their experiences with being a youth, working with youth as well as what they had done. They gave us heaps of advice and explained situations to us, where we may be put into or if we know someone who’s going through this tough time. There were a lot of life questions being thrown at us as well. Even though I was taking photos for the event, certain lectures stood out to me and made me think about my actions and what I really want in life. Before today, I didn’t know anything about the ‘20th Man Fund.’ I didn’t even know they existed. Now, I know that there is an organisation out there, that helps the troubled youth of today. Every single person should be so happy that there is an organisation out there who cares enough to help those people that aren’t capable of helping themselves. For whatever reason. Thank you to the ‘Miracle Workers’ for bringing Les Twentyman to our school to talk to us about a serious matter, which is us. The youth of today.
 * ARM 14/08 **


 * 21/08 **

Today in Outreach, before we got into our groups to continue on with planning for the Outreach festival, Mr Jilbert gathered all of us Year 9s into the briefing area to discuss the rubric for this assessment, as well as discuss how we can show our mentors that we have achieved these parts of the rubric. Once back at our table groups, we got straight onto Google Docs, created a new Doc ‘Meeting #10’ and started to discuss our agendas. The first thing on our agenda was to read the rubric, or in this case RE-read the rubric. After that, we went straight on to the Evidence guide as mentioned before. We all helped each other out to find documents and pieces of work that we could use as evidence to show that we have achieved parts of the rubric. To make it different and fun, I had used Photoshop to create logos for every piece of evidence for visual attraction and appeal. Then, we decided to hyperlink all of these logos to the actual piece of evidence to aid our mentors when marking our work. We have yet to complete this evidence guide as finding appropriate evidence is challenging so we have decided to continue to work on that throughout the week. I continued to update our Wikispaces, adding on the appropriate links to Google Docs that we have not added yet (like the Evidence guide), using Photoshop once again to create an appealing logo. A problem occurred that another group needed some of the same resources that we were planning on using for the Outreach activity, so we reached a conclusion and compromised to share the resources (which were the mic leads, microphones and amplifiers) of the day of the festival. Then we all decided to create a timeline using Google Docs to help us visualise what it is we need to do and by when. On our Meeting #10 Google Docs, we decided to all stop what we were all doing, gather as a group and create a SWOT chart, to help us understand what we’ve done: our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, so that we can better ourselves in the future. Our last list on the Agenda was to practise our Cystic Fibrosis song for the Festival but unfortunately we did not have time for that.
 * __ WB 21/08 __**

Today for outreach we spent most of the day listening to how we will be assessed on what we do. We got talked about each part of the assessment and what you have to do as an individual and a team to achieve the best mark possible. It was given to us in two forms, both in paper work, one a rubric and the other was an evidence guide. Once going through everything with all the year nine’s we spent the rest of the lesson getting together with our group to discuss about this and who would do which part. We decided as a group we would all split up the work, so we would get an equal amount of work to do. We spent most of the lesson working on agenda’s that were not yet completed, submission forms, checking everyone had done their blog and the google docs. During the lesson our mentor Ms Williams came to us and had a little talk to us about what we were going to do on our stall, for our outreach festival day. She asked us the question “If I was a student at CRCCS why would I go to your stall? What would I see?” We told her everything about our stall including what it looks like, what it will sell and what activities we will be running. During the time we spent fixing up all our documents, Alma and Mia made a phone call to target to check if they had any pink crayola bubbles in stock, because we were going to use that in our stall. It turns out that they don’t have any and there won’t be any time soon. We are still currently trying to figure out a solution to this problem. We haven’t yet finished filling up the paperwork that we got given today, but we are planning to work on it over the next few weeks and hopefully it will be done by the due date. We also need to make a few more changes to our stall because of the problems that we have encountered today. Overall today we worked really well as a group and got through the challenges we faced, together. I can’t wait for the day of the outreach festival to arrive, but as the saying goes “time flies fast” the outreach festival will be here in no time!
 * SA 21/08 **

Today, for Outreach, we were presented our assessment for this DEAL unit. We got introduced to the rubric, and the evidence guide by Mr Jilbert, who went through them with all the year 9s. We got a lot of information that would help us get good marks for this unit. After the long discussion and explanation, we were sent out to our Outreach groups to make a start on the two documents. As a group we created our agenda which was mostly focused on starting to fill out the evidence guide as well as making things up to standard according to the rubric. We spent most of the Outreach lesson filling out our agenda, updating past agendas and/or other documents such as activity submission forms, updating our wikispace, as well as filling out the evidence guide. We were each doing our own thing, some of us woking together looking through all our Google Docs, others catching up on blogs, others making phone calls. It wasn’t so much focused on our stall but during the lesson Ms Williams also had a short meeting with us, talking about our stall, what were are planning to do on the day, and to clarify a few things with her. Mia and Alma also made a phone call to Target, asking if they had the Crayola pink bubbles that we were planning to use for our stall. Unfortunately, they said that they didn’t have any in stock, so again, we had to improvise and think of another way we could get around this problem. We haven’t as yet finished filling out our evidence guide yet, and we will continue to fill it out during our own time, as well as in the next few Outreach lessons. We still also need to fix things up according to the rubric, making sure that it is at least up to standard and up to date, as well as finalise a few things in relation to our stall, and the Outreach Festival. Today was a hard-working and productive day for all of us. All that paperwork sure was a lot of work, but I’m sure that it will all eventually pay off in the end. We still have quite some work to do, and the stress is already starting to build up on us. The day to the stall is approaching as the weeks go by, time flies by so fast. Next thing we know it is the day of the festival, the time we get to open up our stall to the CRCCS community!
 * MB 21/08 **


 * 28/08 **

Today in Outreach, we were told that we needed to figure out a way to publicise our Outreach stall for the Outreach festival. The twist was that each group needed to figure out a way to do this that was different to another group. Using our initiative as well as our knowledge of pre-existing resources, we have decided on the following methods:
 * __ WB 28/08 __**


 * 1) Since we already made two videos about our team and our goals, we have decided to combine these videos as well as add new footage to create an ultimate video advertising our team, stall, organisation and purpose which we will distribute to every homeroom teacher to show their homeroom class during homeroom. To do this, we need to also figure out a way to distribute our video quickly and easily. One of our ideas includes putting a copy of our video on perhaps 5 different USB drives, giving it to one of the members of staff to pass it around to the homeroom teachers during a staff meeting. Another could be to post the video on some kind of video sharing site, although this method proves to be risky as someone unwanted could see and download our video, using it for other inappropriate activities.
 * 2) Our second method of spreading publicity of our stall involves using the shirts and wristbands that Benni, the ambassador of That Girl In Pink Foundation, sent us late last term. We have been approved to wear these shirts during the lunch times of the days when we have DEAL (which is typically a Tuesday), then going around the school raising awareness of our stall as well as Cystic Fibrosis while we’re at it.

Those are the methods of publicity that All For Love will be using. After we have decided this, we all gathered to continue with the Evidence guide that we have yet to complete. Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop with me due to the fact that it was with Mr. Abdul for updating purposes, but since we were all such a friendly team and were comfortable enough with each other, we all agreed to share the laptops of those with them with the ones without (i.e Austin and I). Due to this solution, we were able to all work together and finally complete our Evidence guide. I am very proud of my team.

The next part of the day included finalising the events and resources for our Outreach festival stall. Since we already pretty much nearly decided on the majority of everything for our stall, it did not take us long to finalise EVERYTHING for our stall. We created a new document called ‘DEAL Official Outreach Festival Activity’ that stated everything that is definitely happening on the day, and also everything that we will definitely be using on the day.

It was 30 minutes until lunch time so we asked Ms Williams if we could head down to the stair case to practise our Cystic Fibrosis song. That’s exactly what we did, and during our practise, we also decided to create a music video for the song to present on the day of the festival. Right now, we have planned to meet up at my house on the 8th of September to record the song and film our music video. I am really into making this kind of things, as creating music videos is my hobby as well as my forte, so you could imagine how excited I am to actually contribute one of my skills to the group in a different, fun and enjoyable way.

Our group hardly spoke to each other during period five as we were off doing our own things, even though we didn’t even talk about what we were doing, hence the reason why I cannot explain what each of us were doing. All I know is that I was creating the receipts for my stall that advertised our stall and what were all about. During the time that I was designing the receipts on Photoshop, Jesse’s group once again came up to us asking if we could move our stall to the corner of the green area outside of the music rom as it would be more convenient for the groups using the microphones; and once again we came up with a compromise - by gathering up what we know of each team, putting everything we know into consideration, then eventually coming up with an agreeable solution. By the time it was period six, I had completed the receipts, got Ms Williams to print it out for us, then we all finally started working as a team again, cutting up all of the receipts.

By the end of the day, we came up with two different publicity methods, completed our evidence guide, finalised our Outreach festival stall and also created some ‘All For Love’ receipts.

What a productive day, indeed.

Today for outreach we started the lesson by all the year nine’s going to the briefing area to learn about how we are going to show our groups work to the school community. We talked about publicity and how the groups can advertise their organisation for outreach. It was said that only one group can have that one idea that they came up with. Just like the ‘idea’s for the stall’ there was only one idea that was allowed per group. Once they talked about publicity we got into our outreach groups and discussed some of the idea’s on how to advertise our organisations. We were originally suppose to create posters and banners and place them all over the school. We found out that someone else has already taken that idea, so we sat down once again and further discussed new ideas. The new idea we came up with was that we would send the video we made on Cystic Fibrosis to all the teachers and they would play it to all their homerooms. We also came up with the idea that every DEAL day (Tuesday) during lunchtime we would wear our ‘That Girl in Pink’ t-shirts and walk around the school which would help raise publicity for our stall. After getting that checked and confirming that no one else has already taken that idea (which no one had) we worked on our DEAL meeting 11. We did all the tasks that had to be done that was written in that meeting. While we were working on that meeting, we were also working on the remaining documents that were not yet completed as well as our evidence guide. After that we as a group discussed about our stall and the supplies we would need for it. We made a new google doc page titled ‘DEAL outreach festival activities’ which is where we can find out who is by what and the quantity and date we need to buy it by. We discussed about what the stall looks like and how the equipment would be placed. After working on the doc we moved onto practicing/memorising the lyrics to our cystic fibrosis song and we decided that we would create a music video for the song and present it to the people who come to our stall on the day. From what we have planned, we have decided that we would all go to Wendell’s house to film, on September the 8th. At the end of the day our group had finished designing and creating the receipts we would give to the people who purchased our wristbands and we print out lots of copies of them and spent the last few minutes of class cutting each and everyone of them, ready to hand out on the outreach day festival. Today my group got a lot of work done and we are working hard up until the day of the outreach festival.
 * SA 28/08 **

What happened in today’s was that we thought of ideas and roles for what everyone in our team can do on the day of the festival. Mr Gilbert talked about publicity and how we are going to get attention from people to come and look at our stall. So we have concluded that we are going to give all of the homeroom teachers a copy of our Cystic Fibrosis video to show during homeroom so that everyone is aware of what Cystic Fibrosis is and when our stall is on. We also have printed and cut out lots of receipts for people who donate and purchase our wristbands. The other things we did was that Alma and Mia went to get wood for our stand which will hold up our banner and also that they called up places in search of pink bubbles, another thing we did was that we practised our song about Cystic Fibrosis so that we will be prepared for the Outreach Festival. Why is the Festival coming up sooooo fast, I didn’t know how much time we have but I am sure that the festival will be an awesome day even though I have to sing.........
 * AB 28/08 **

Today’s DEAL day was devoted to working in our Outreach groups. Before we went off to work in our groups, Mr Jilbert given us another aspect of the Outreach Festival to think about - Publicity. Now this is important because how are we going to get people to come to our stall, if they don’t know about it? Each group had to have their own way of advertising their stall, no one could have the same idea. This made it much more challenging because we had to think outside the box and out of the ordinary. So, the first thing that we talked about as an Outreach group as part of our meeting and agenda was ways to promote our stall. What we came up with was that we will make a video talking about our stall, what we are about, what we have to offer, then ask each teacher in each homeroom to show it to each class in the school. We also thought of going out at lunchtime in our pink t-shirts and wristbands every DEAL day to go and talk to students about our stall. Wendell and Alma went and told Mr Jilbert our idea straight away, in order to secure it, and make sure that no one else will take our idea. Later on Mr Jilbert set up a page where all the groups had to post up our ideas of publicity. With that out of the way, we got onto to continuing to fill out our evidence guide. We only had a few spots blank, and it wasn’t long before we finally finished off filling out the whole thing! Another thing out of the way, we focused back onto our stall and the day of the Outreach Festival. We looked at the supplies that we still need to buy, and assigned each other as to who will buy what. I am in charge of buying pink balloons. We all need these items by next DEAL day so we will still have time to figure out if there is anything missing. We then looked at the jobs on the day, the setting up, the selling, etc. For example, Austin, Stacy and I are in charge of staying at the stall, and selling the wristbands with the bubbles. After finalising all that, we got on to practicing our song, “Cystic Fibrosis, NO!” We went through the song several times, because the old saying, “Practice makes perfect!” We spent the rest of the lesson putting finalising a few things, putting it all into one Google Doc so it will be easier to find. Wendell also made some receipts that we all cut up, as we are planning to give these out to everyone during the Outreach Festival. Today, we worked very effectively and productively together as a group, in which we got a lot done because of that. I can’t wait for next week, where will will start our publicity on our stall, and is one more week closer to the Outreach Festival.
 * MB 28/08 **


 * 04/09 **

Today in Outreach, we went straight into our meeting using Google Docs. Using my initiative, I decided to create the meeting the night before so that we could get straight into Outreach and have more time to complete everything we need to do.
 * __ WB 04/09 __**

The first thing on our agenda was to discuss the day’s planned events. The first thing on our agenda was to discuss our planned events. Our second task that we needed to complete was to film our Cystic Fibrosis All For Love Advertisement. The third task was to discuss what else we need to buy/do for the Outreach festival as well as create a flow chart/timeline of the actual day. The fourth task that if we finished everything we needed to do, we could practise our Cystic Fibrosis video off by heart.

So filming went exactly as planned. After rehearsing our lines before heading out to film, just as we had planned on our agenda, we went out and went straight to filming. Filming went on smoothly. First we filmed Mia’s scenes which we decided to do at the top left hand corner of the Year 9 area. Fortunately enough, I have written on our scripts which shots were long shots and which shots were not which helped us greatly in the filming process. Then we went on to Stacy’s lines which we shot next to the cross near the school toilets. Marielle and Austin followed and both their scenes were shot near the music rooms. Alma-Rose filmed hers outside of the Year 7 classrooms and I filmed mine next to the Science labs. Filming took us exactly the time we predicted it would take.

Although, it was a very tiring process, moving around, remembering lines and doing takes so by 10am today, we were extremely exhausted. We spent the next 5 minutes discussing what it is everyone still needs to buy and we settled that we should have all of our resources at school by next DEAL lesson. We have decided to put everything into a box then hide it until the Outreach Festival so the chances of us lacking something on the day went straight to 0%. We’ve also realised that we’ve already created a timeline of the day that can be found in the ‘Official Outreach Festival activity’.

30 minutes until recess was left so we dedicated this extra time to rehearsing our Cystic Fibrosis song that we have nearly perfected. After recess, we attended this Sex Education program which took up the entire 100 minutes. The boys and the girls were split up into different rooms where we a teacher talked about sex. My teacher was Ms Jones.

Lunch time was the highlight of our day, by far! As stated before in countless documents and blogs, we decided that one of the two methods of advertising that our group was going to do was to go around during lunch, wearing our That Girl In Pink Foundation shirts and wristbands, and raising awareness for our stall and getting people to agree to come and support us, and also donate money to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Straight after we were released from fourth period, we all went straight to to the bathrooms and got changed into our shirts. Immediately after that, we began to spread awareness for our stall as well as Cystic Fibrosis. I got straight into the spirit and even easily created my own impromptu speech. For the majority of lunch, I went around with Alma-Rose dominating the area outside of the music room. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to talk to people on the oval, but luckily we still have next week to promote our cause.

Coming into the classroom for lunch, we were all tired, hot and hungry. The fact that we completed everything on the agenda before fifth period did prove to be helpful as we gave ourselves a ten minute break to just rest. After resting, we started to think of other things we could do. The following were the things we needed to do: write our blogs, paint our banner and choreograph our dance. We did start to write our blogs but then we asked Ms Williams if we would get the wooden poles to paint (since we didn’t have our banner with us to paint on today). We all went outside with the wooden poles (thankfully to Ms Williams who got them from the staff room for us). Alma-Rose, Mia, Austin and I painted the first side of the wood while Stacy and Marielle got on with the choreography. After painting one side, all of us painters then went to join Stacy and Marielle with the choreography while we waited for the paint to dry. We got half of the choreography sussed when we decided to go back and paint the rest of the wood. By the time we had finished everything, it was time to pack up and go home.

Today was the most active we’ve been all year and I’m still looking forward for our Outreach festival.

Today for outreach we started the lesson by getting into our outreach groups and working on a new meeting, this became our ‘DEAL meeting 12’ and we added a link onto our wikispace page that linked onto our google doc meeting. While we were working on the meeting we were discussing about our plans for our music video that we were going to film this Saturday. We discussed what clothes we were going to wear, and the best way to present ourselves in the video. We decided that we would wear ‘That Girl in Pink’ foundation t-shirt and our wristbands and that we would record the song into mini sections that if we muck up, we don’t have to re-do the whole video. We also confirmed the date and time of when we will shoot this music video. After finishing our DEAL meeting 12, we rehearsed the lines of the video that we were going to film which was to be sent to every homeroom so that each homeroom would watch it and have a some knowledge of what cystic fibrosis is and what our group is about.
 * SA 4/09 **

After rehearsing the lines to the video (after a few tries) we moved outside to get ready and actually put this to film. We spent most of periods 1 & 2 working on this video. Wendell had brought his camera to school, which is what we used to film the video. We all had something to say in the video, so we thought the most effective way to use our time was to film everything one person has to say and then do the same to the next person and then once we transfer the video’s onto the computer we would just edit it and place it, where it needs to be, for it to work. It was a lengthy process to film the video because there was so many distractions and complications along the way. Some of the main problems we had were the construction site that was being built next to the place where we had wanted to film and the light because most of the time when we filmed the camera was against the light and it was hard to see. Filming near the construction was a bad idea because it was hard to hear what the person was saying as the construction was so loud it overpowered the person’s voice. We couldn’t control where the light came from either which made it hard to see what was being filmed, but we didn’t want to move places because all the places we chose to film, was chosen for a reason. After we filmed all the parts in the filmed where we talked (excluding bloopers) we started to film us doing random acts which had to do with our group because it was going to be put as the main opening title which would then lead to the main video. After finishing our filming we had 20 mins left of period 2 and so we decided to use that time to once again rehearse our ‘Cystic Fibrosis’ song because we have yet remembered the lyrics. We have almost memorised the lyrics to the whole song and we have almost perfected it.

During periods 3 & 4 the boys and girls got split up because we were going to have someone talk to us, which didn’t interrupt our outreach activities by a lot. During lunch time the whole group got changed into our ‘That Girl in Pink’ t-shirts and wristbands because it was our way of advertising our group and our stall for the outreach festival day. We walked around to numerous people/groups and even some teachers talking about ‘Cystic Fibrosis’ and what they can do to help out. It was a bit nerve-wrecking at first because we weren’t wearing our uniforms which made us stand out from the crowd, but once we talked together as a group we encouraged one another and supported each other and came up with the idea to go into mini groups so you don’t feel so insecure.

After lunch it was periods 5 & 6 and we as a group discussed about when to start gathering the equipment for our stall and who has bought the items needed. We decided the the group would split up into two and one of us would work on painting and creating the banner, and the other would come up with choreography for the dance to our cystic fibrosis song. Marielle and I were the ones who got to make up the dance to the song while the others were making the banner. We first thought about the song and what moves would go best with each line. First we came up with all the dance moves that we knew of and shared them to each other, then we sang the song aloud and matched up the best dance moves with the song. After the other members of ‘All For Love’ was done painting the banner they came over to join us and we started rehearsing our dance for the song. We came up with even more ideas as a group for the song and we got most of the choreography done before the day was over. Today we worked very productively and got a lot of work done and I know that in the outreach festival, our stall will run successfully!

It was yet again another DEAL Tuesday, and the time to work on Outreach. Today, our group didn’t spend a lot of time inside the classroom, we were out and about for most of the time, which was good, especially with the beautiful weather. The first two periods in the morning were dedicated to filming our video, the video that will be part of our publicity. This video is going to help advertise our stall for the Outreach Festival, and giving them a look into what will be on offer for them. Wendell had brought his camera, in which we used it to film. Beforehand, Wendell had also prepared a small script, as to what the video will look like, who is saying what part, etc. We quickly got straight onto filming, taking turns to film our parts all in the different areas in the school. My part of the video was filmed just outside of the Arts building, in front of the year 10 lockers. We asked people from the other groups to help us film the parts of the video where the whole group was required to be in the shot. During our filming, we got interrupted by Mr Ray, who needed our assistance in carrying out the gym mats to the bus waiting outside the school. Afterwards, we continued to film, and hang around outside because it was such a nice day. Filming took up the majority of the morning, and by the time we got inside the classroom, we were hot and tired. Just before recess, we had a quick discussion as to what there is still to do for the rest of the day and anything else that we need to finalise for our stall. After recess, the year 9s had to attend an information, run by Ms Spiteri and Ms Jones. The boys are girls were split up, so my session, was held by Ms Spiteri. This information session ran for periods 3 and 4.
 * MB 04/09 **

For most groups, Outreach would not start up again until period 5, but for us, our Outreach continued on during lunchtime. Just as we planned last week, today for lunchtime, would be the time where we could further advertise our stall, this was part of our publicity. So, at the start of lunchtime, we all got changed into our pink t-shirts, sent to us from the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation,’ and with that, started walking around the school, talking to students and teachers in the yard. We all split up, taking over certain areas in the school. Our pink t-shirts really stood out. Many of the students and teachers were interested, and came up to us asking, “Why are you wearing those pink shirts? What is this for? What is this all about?” We answered them, talking a little bit about the foundation, and most importantly, the Outreach Festival, encouraging them to come visit our stall. This took up the whole of lunch, we were all exhausted, and didn’t want to change back into our uniform. We were told that we could stay in our pink t-shirts, but that we still needed to change back into our uniform before the end of the day. For the next two periods, we decided to paint the posts for our stall, as well as do some choreography for our performance. Before we did that, we took a few minutes to plan, on going to Wendell’s house on Saturday to record our “Cystic Fibrosis, NO!” song, as well as to film a music video to go with it. Stacy and I started on the choreography, while Wendell, Alma, Mia and Austin got onto painting the posts. When the others had finished painting one side of the poles and waiting for it to dry, they came to Stacy and I, then we got some of the choreography nailed down. Following the run through of our performance a few times, Stacy and I decided to go and get changed back into our school uniform, while the others went back and painted the other side of the poles. It was just then a matter of packing and cleaning up and by the time we were finished it was time to go home. Today was a full-on day for us. We got a lot done in preparation for the Outreach Festival. There is still quite a lot things to do, in such a short period of time, but I know, that we will get it all done. There goes another week, getting closer to the day of the festival and I can’t wait!


 * 08/09 **

Today was not an Outreach day for all groups, but it was for All For Love. As mentioned beforehand in previous documents and blogged, we had planned to create a music video for our Cystic Fibrosis song. Today was the day we had organised to record, film and paint (the banner). I had created an invitation (which can be seen on our Facebook evidence page as that is where I had uploaded the invite) and everyone R.S.V.P’d with positive feedback.
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All For Love began to arrive one by one after o’clock. Once everyone was at my house, we went straight to my room which turned into a recording studio. One by one, we went up to my MacBook, put on the headphones then recorded our parts onto Garageband. It took us around two hours to record everything as well as edit what needed to be edited. It was a very tiring process so we took a break, had some food to eat and just enjoyed the Saturday afternoon.

Realising that we were running out of time, we quickly choreographed our music video inside the house. Getting everything almost immediately, we went outside to the park to beat the rainy weather. Timothy Ong from Make A Wish kindly volunteered to come along as well to film our music video. Half way through filming, the weather decided to play against us and we were all soaking wet from the rain.

Soon after running back to the house, away from the rain, Stacy had to leave. Realising we could not wait for the rain to clear up to continue filming as people were going home soon, we all decided to film it at school instead on the 11th of September during Outreach.

Unable to do anymore tiring activities, the remaining members decided to start painting our banner. Every one began to leave one by one, as they did when they arrived, during the painting process, and luckily, by the time the last person left (Alma-Rose), half of the banner had been finished.

We also agreed to continue painting on Tuesday.

Today was a productive day, and was also fun and new, and I enjoyed hanging out with All For Love outside of school.

Earlier in the week, we had planned to go over to Wendell’s house, to finish off a few things for Outreach, the main thing being to film our Cystic Fibrosis music video to go with our song, ‘Cystic Fibrosis, NO!’. We still had numerous things that we needed to get done for the Outreach Festival which is just two weeks away, and we felt that we wouldn’t get it all done just in next week’s Outreach lesson.
 * MB 08/09 **

We were all scheduled to get to Wendell’s house at around 1pm, and I arrived there after Mia, who was the first member there. The other members of our group then started arriving one by one with Alma being the last member to arrive. Tim, who was from one of the other Outreach groups was there as well, to be the cameraman and help film our video.

When everyone arrived, we all went into what would be our recording studio, which was Wendell’s room, and the first thing that we did was record our song with our voices singing along with the backing track. We used GarageBand on Wendell’s laptop to help us do this. It took us about one hour and a half to two hours to finish recording and afterwards, we were tired and hungry so we thought it was time for a well deserved snack.

After a refreshing rest and a full stomach, we got onto practicing for our music video. This included practicing choreography, camera shots, camera angles, spacing, etc. We ran through the video a few times before going outside to the park to record. During the time we were recording our song, it had been raining outside, so by the time we went out, the rain had stopped. We started recording straightaway to try and stay clear of the rain as much as possible and all was going well until it started raining again. Everyone dashed to the house all drenched and soaked by the rain. Just as we got inside the house, Stacy had to leave, leaving the rest of us to continue on with other things.

We couldn’t film anymore, so we just decided that we would film our video next week at school. With that out of the way, we started painting our banner. We all spread out onto the floor, paints, brushes and paper everywhere. It wasn’t long before I had to leave, while the rest of the members were finishing off the banner.

Today was a worthwhile day for us, considering it was the weekend and we got a lot of work done. It was great spending time with the group outside of school, and I really enjoyed it.

During the week, we had decided as a group to organise a time outside of school where we could record our music video for our Cystic Fibrosis song. We came to the conclusion that it was going to be held at Wendell’s house on Saturday the 8th of September and we would all meet there at 1pm. I was the first to arrive and the rest of the members slowly started arriving. We got straight to it since we didn’t have much time to waste and a lot of work needed to be done during that time. We used Wendell’s MacBook to record our voices with the backing track, using GarageBand and the atmosphere at the time felt like you were in a recording studio. It took a while until everyone was successfully recorded and edited. We were all tired afterwards and so we had took a break to eat and recollect ourselves. After noticing that we had wasted quite a bit of valuable time, we went straight to work and choreographed our dance, with Timothy from the group Make A Wish, as our cameraman. We practiced our dance inside Wendell’s house and we moved outside to the nearby park to record the final dance. By complete chance, it began spitting but we totally ignored it and continued dancing, confident as ever. Not much later, it began pouring down rain whilst we were still recording and we all just decided to run for it, heading for the house. As we got inside, we realised that we were all soaking wet and Stacy’s parents had already arrived to pick her up. As soon as she left, we noticed that the rest of us would soon be going home as well and there just wasn’t enough time to complete our music video. We had no other choice but to record our music video during our next Deal day and hopefully finish it, ready to present on the actual day. Stacy and Marielle had already left by the time we began working on our banner for our stall. The rest of us painted and eventually Austin and I had to leave. Alma and Wendell were left and they luckily finished half of the banner. For everyone to have an opportunity to paint the banner, we decided that we would continue painting on Tuesday. It was quite different being outside of school working on Deal work with my group but in the end I really enjoyed it. Even though we weren’t able to complete the music video we finished recording our Cystic Fibrosis song and we were proud of what we had achieved.
 * MM 08/09 **


 * 11/09 **

Today in Outreach, All For Love went straight onto Google Docs to conduct the meeting that I had kindly written up prior to today. Unfortunately, I had an appointment with Ms Flack and was absent for all of Period 1 and the majority of period 2. When I came back from my appointment, we had already come across two dilemmas. The first dilemma was that Stacy was absent today meaning that we cannot film our video. The second dilemma was that the only place that we could purchase our bubbles was at Lombards and they were selling them for $10 for a packet of 24 bottles of bubble. We needed to figure out a solution for these two problems.
 * __ WB 11/09 __**

Problem #1: Stacy Stacy is absent therefore the video will be incomplete

**Solution:** Luckily, Stacy was on Skype and we could tell that she was really unwell, so we that scratched out our idea of filming later in the week because it looked like she would be too unwell to recovery over night. She then told us to film without her since there was nothing else we could do about it.

Problem #2: Bubbles The bubbles were expensive and far away

**Solution:** Ms Williams suggested that we ask for a donation so Alma-Rose and Mia went to make the phone call. After countless conversations with several people, Lombards was happy to donate 4 packets of bubbles (24 bubbles per packet) and Ms Williams volunteered to pick them up for us! This was awesome as it saves us money AND time! :D YAY!

While Alma-Rose and Mia were making the phone calls, we were all off doing our own things on the Macbooks, doing things that needed to be done. I was calculating all of our expenses, seeing how much everyone needed to have contributed (financially) so that it is fair for everyone and no one is left better off.

I didn’t have enough time to do anything else and by the time I finished the calculations, it was time to go to recess anyway. After recess though, we went straight onto filming. Prior to period three, during recess, we all got changed into our Cystic Fibrosis shirts so that we could go straight into filming as planned.

Firstly, we spent about 30-60 minutes rehearsing the choreography. This also allowed Timothy, our camera man, to get used to camera angles and views. After rehearsals, we filmed our video twice, as we felt that the first time was not good enough. It was a very hot day but we got learnt to put up with it for our video c: We came back to the DEAL classrooms and I went straight onto editing our clip. It did not take long since it was only one video to sync with the original audio file, plus add captions here and there, and I was used to using iMovie anyway (:

Period 5 and 6 was our relax session. It had been a very tiring day and we thought we owed it to ourselves to relax for a while until we had to stress again. We did very simple activities that needed to be done like colouring in our banner with the texter and writing our blogs and checking out wikispaces for mis-directed links. It was a very chill afternoon for All For love.

Though we did plenty today, there are still a lot we need to do in the space of one week. I just hope we have the time to it.

Today was another Outreach day, but, the last Outreach lesson we have before the Outreach Festival. The whole day was dedicated to working on Outreach. One of our members, Stacy, was away today, which made things much more harder for us because the majority of things that we needed to do, required the whole group to be present. For example, we needed to film our Cystic Fibrosis music video because we were not able to finish it off at Wendell’s house. This was just one of our problems. Another problem that we had was that we didn’t have our bubbles, in which we were planning to wrap today. Nobody in our group had bought the bubbles, so we had to go on and research places where we can get our bubbles. After researching, we found that we would be able to purchase our bubbles at Lombard, except, the shop was far away and the bubbles were too expensive.
 * MB 11/09 **

We needed to find solutions to these problems, and fast. For our first problem, we decided to try and call Stacy over Skype, and talk to her about what is happening. Stacy was online at the time, so we went ahead and video called her. During the call, we realised that she was very sick, and that we could not wait for her in order to film our music video. So, we came with the solution to film the music video without her. Onto our second problem, Ms Williams thought of the idea to go and call Lombard to see if they were willing to donate the bubbles to us, free of charge. Alma and Mia went ahead and called Lombards, and came back with some great news. Lombard was nice enough to donate 4 packets of bubbles (24 bubbles in each packet). We were really happy, and relieved that we eventually did solve our problems.

After recess, we got straight into changing into our ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation’ shirts and went outside to film our music video. Tim from one of the other groups, was our cameraman who was in charge of the camera shots, angles, etc. We had a few practice runs, going through all the choreography, and camera shots so we could perfect the real thing. At around period 4, we managed to finish filming our video, and we went back inside were Wendell could edit our music video. It wasn’t long before Wendell had finished, and the end product looked great!

After lunch, it was a bit of a chill session for us. We continued to update our blogs, wikispace page, agenda as well as finish off our banner.

By the end of the day, we were all exhausted, getting everything ready for our Outreach Festival next week. There is still some things that we need to do, and we are all stressing out. But, I’m sure that we will get everything done before the day. Time went by so fast!


 * 18/09 **

THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME! The day that we’ve been planning for all term! The Outreach Festival. After a very long briefing session with the Year 9 team, all of the groups set out do put up their stalls and prepare everything that needed to be completed for the Outreach Festival! The following is the list of activities All For Love did as a group:
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 * 1) Get changed into our shirts so that we got into the spirit of the festival.
 * 2) Austin and I carried one table each to the outside part of the music room so that we had tables to put our stall on.
 * 3) Set the pink cloth on the table.
 * 4) Whilst the rest of All For Love decorated our stall with balloons and ribbons and our bubbles and wristband wrapped in cellophane, Alma-Rose and I went to the office to ask Ms Revelman to open the Music room doors so that we could show the interactive whiteboard.
 * 5) Unfortunately Ms Revelman was in the meeting but luckily Ms Cresevic (now Mrs Martins) was in the office with us and just happened to also have a key to the music room doors. She helped us open up the doors and we were all set to continue.
 * 6) Alma-Rose and I went to the Art room and kindly asked Mrs Sutherland if we could borrow the interactive whiteboard in her classroom. Carefully dragging out the interactive whiteboard, we placed it right outside of the music room near our stall
 * 7) Plugging in my laptop, unfortunately we came across a dilemma. The interactive whiteboard with the light shining on it. This was very unfortunate news. We were also losing a lot of time so we decided to cut the interactive whiteboard idea altogether so that we could go ahead with the group.
 * 8) Marielle and Stacy came up with the brilliant idea to make a runway towards our stall using the red streamers, decorated with pink balloons, to make our stall more interesting.
 * 9) Alma-Rose and I stuck our banners onto the wooden sticks we painted a few weeks ago but had trouble finding a place to put it.
 * 10) Ms Commadeur kindly went out to get us two more tables to use to stick our banner onto.
 * 11) Ms Costantino generously gave us the idea on how to stick it on and where to place it. We connected each stick to the inner legs of the two desks then placed it on the front of the runway like an archway. We then wrapped streams around the sticks to hide the black tape we used to stick the banner onto the table.
 * 12) Mia prepared the bubble machine then placed it on the right table connected to the banner. She turned it on then bubbles started spraying everywhere! It was amazing.
 * 13) Sooner than we thought it was recess already and one by one everyone went to get the food. Marielle, Stacy, Mia, Alma-Rose and Austin all helped wrap some more bubbles with cellophane while I fixed our stall up a bit.
 * 14) Then the Year 7s came out and a lot of people started to buy bubbles. We were able raise awareness of Cystic Fibrosis through our words and through our receipts. This was really big for us. It was the main point of this Outreach Festival in the first place.
 * 15) The Year 8s came out and unfortunately not many people decided to buy things from our stall but this was also good for us because it gave some of us the time to eat. Also, we decided that people would take turns taking care of the stall while everyone went out to see the different outreach stalls, eat sausages and fairy floss as well as advertise our stalls.
 * 16) When the Year 10s came out, a lot of people were buying from our stall.
 * 17) Lunch time came around really quickly then all of the teachers and visitors started to come and ask about our stalls, and also help raise funds to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis by buying our bubbles.
 * 18) It was also fun to go around blowing bubbles and spreading awareness during lunch.
 * 19) Towards the middle of lunch time, we decided to finally perform our Cystic Fibrosis song. We went out to the mics and just started singing. A lot of people gathered round, both teachers and students, it was a really fun experience.
 * 20) Soon after that it started to rain (sad face) and everyone had to rush their stalls in doors. We all began to tidy up and clean our tables, and also return them to the hall where we got them.
 * 21) For Pastoral care, we gathered into our different homerooms and filled in this reflection online of our Outreach program experience.
 * 22) One person from each group got called to count the money they raised during Outreach. ALL FOR LOVE GAINED $93.10! This was amazing. I couldn’t have imagined raising so much money from just selling bubbles. It gave me this amazing accomplished feeling.

Outreach Festival Day flew by so fast. Our Outreach Program experience flew by so fast. It was a really exciting experience and I wish I could do it again. One of the best highlights of the year. I’m extremely sad that it is ending. All For Love isn’t going to join together ever again. And I guess this will be my last blog entry as fell. For final time, ever, I’d just like to say “ALL FOR LOVE AND LOVE FOR ALL” <3


 * 09/10 **

loljks. The last Outreach day was not the last outreach day after all. Today in Outreach, we were given two tasks:
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 * 1) Write letters of gratitude to those who assisted with our Outreach experience
 * 2) Create certificates of appreciation to those who assisted with out Outreach experience

The two groups that we have decided to thank and appreciate are That Girl In Pink Foundation and Lombard. They both donated and helped us with our Outreach experience and festival, especially That Girl In Pink Foundation.

While the rest of the group went straight onto writing the letters, checking our wikispaces and updating things that needed to be updated, I went straight into creating the certificates, since that sort of thing was my forte. I decided to recycle ideas that I’ve previously used during Outreach, mainly focussing on our All For Love receipts. It took me up until 12pm on that day to complete both certificates, to Lombard and That Girl In Pink Foundation. The certificates can be found on our wikispaces page, and the letters are hyperlinked to those images for easy and quick access. For the rest of the period, we continued to check our wikispaces and update documents, especially the evidence guide. The rest of the day was dedicated to packing for camp.

Everyone thought that the Outreach Festival day, was our last Outreach lesson for the term. But apparently not! Today, we had Outreach once again, which surprised us all. The lesson today was focused on finalising everything for assessment, and sending out thank you letters also certificates to all the companies/organistaions that helped make our Outreach a big success. There were two companies/organistaions that we needed to thank. These two companies/organistaions were the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation’ and ‘Lombard, The Paper People’. We made two documents on Google Docs for each of the letters so that everyone in the group could contribute in the writing of the letters. Wendell went off and made the certificates for each of the companies/organistaions, and they turned out looking amazing! It wasn’t long after that we finished writing the letters and had them checked by our mentor Ms Williams. We will be sending our letters and certificates to our companies/organisations, and for the ‘That Girl in Pink Foundation’ a cheque with the sum of money that we raised during the Outreach Festival. The rest of the time was spent on us finalising more of our documents and paperwork for assessment as it is going to be due next week. This included looking over our evidence guide as well as past agendas and updating our blogs on wikispaces.
 * MB 09/10 **

In today’s Outreach lesson, we were given two tasks that needed to be completed by the end of the lesson but we were also given a bit of time next lesson to finalise everything. Our first task was to write letters for those who helped us advance and reach success throughout our journey in Outreach. Afterwards, we had to create certificates of appreciation for ‘Lombard, The Paper People’ and ‘That Girl In Pink Foundation’ since they made a huge contribution to our group for Outreach this year. Wendell created the certificates since he has the most expertise and computer skills and the end result was definitely applaudable (: Once all the tasks were finally completed, we looked over our evidence guide and made sure that everything was filled to its full capacity, whilst making it easy and accessible for our mentor Ms Williams.
 * MM 09/10 **

Today’s lesson was actually surprising, I didn’t think we’d be together as a group anymore, but we are :D Today, we were given two task, which is to create a certificate for Lombard and That Girl In Pink as well as create letters for those two groups. Since Wendell is the expert in compurter skills in our group, he created our certificates which turned out amazing! I created the letters for both organizations and everyone else in the group helped with proof reading and helping me during my writting blocks. We then had to finish off our evidence guide and make sure everything else is perfect!
 * ARM 09/10 **