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=Group 17=

Mentor - Ms.Elmer

GZ - Grace Zammit (Leader) CM - Carla Mizzi (2nd Leader) AC - Ashlee Calleja (Member) OC - Olivia Czopowski (Member) JC - Jayden Cuzzupe (Member) AF - Alex Favorito (Member)

__** Desired Outcomes - **__ After some outcomes, the Helping Hands have eventually decided to choose the Starlight Foundation. We hope to help these children and raise money for this foundation as it gives children their life back.

**__Aim/Purpose -__**
Helping hands' aim and purpose for our Out Reach project is to raise enough money by a fundraiser at the Catholic Regional College Caroline Springs fete. Being able to do this will mean so much as we would love to know that we are making children happy and helping them out in ways we are able to. We are aiming to do activities with children so we can help them 'Put a smile on their dial.'

__Questions we need to ask and answer.__
1. How can we help? 2. What are some goals that we can achieve by the end of this? 3. When are we going to go to our organisation? 4. Which organisation are we going too?

__** Blog Entries **__

AF - 1st May, 2012 - Choosing Our Values Todays lesson consisted of the whole year level choosing 3 of their favorite values. I decided to choose values which I ran by, these were respect, humour and trust. After this groups were created from the people with similar values, unfortunately all my values weren't exactly the same as anyone else. Instead I was put into a group which had 2 similar values these were respect and trust. In this group was Grace Zammit, Ashlee Calleja, Carla Mizzi, Olivia Czopowksi and Jayden Cuzzupe. This surprised me as I didn't really talk with these people much and it had seemed like we had never had anything in common. This was then followed by us creating a poster which included our group name and similarities. We agreed on the name 'Helping Hands' and I was given the poster to bring home and create a wordle out of.

AF - 8th May, 2012 - Choosing Our Foundation During this lesson, I brought back the poster along with its wordle and it was time for our group to choose what foundation they wanted to work with. After quite a while we had passed various companies as we were either too young or we lacked the requirements to volunteer for the groups. Instead, we had saw the Starlight Foundation and immediately had our heart set on it,this was great as it had a close relation to our groups values. The Starlight Foundation was a company which helps children which are sick or injured reunite with their childhood which was once taken away from them.

AF - 15th May 2012 - Choosing Our Mentor This lesson started off a bit slow. The group tended to separate at times and none of us were really getting any work done. Although we eventually managed to pull ourselves together and get some work done. The teachers decided to put together an audition based style used within 'The Voice'. Our group put together a speech which was aimed to persuade the mentors into picking us. This speech was successful as most of the mentors chose us, meaning we had a choice on who we wanted to mentor us. We chose Ms Elmer as we saw her as the the person that would guide us best. After this it was time to continue looking into how we would help our foundation.

AF - 29th May 2012 - Going Further Into Depth Most of the group way away today, so we couldn't do much. Though I did still learn new things and the group got a fair amount of work done considering there was only four of us. I was taught how to use 'Google Docs' which was a big positive as helped organise work much easier and efficiently Whilst the rest of the group further worked on the page and blog, creating a logo for the group and making certain sections more appealing and organised. I also showed the others in my group how to use the docs which seemed to help them work faster as well. Together, the group created a poster which was used to //advertise// us. The poster looked somewhat like our logo, except it had all our names on it and our motto which was 'Put a smile on your dial'. The idea of the motto came from Ashlee and i suited the groups theme.

AF - 5th June 2012 - Contacting the Foundation Today our group began further looking into contacting Starlight and unfortunately our mentor was away, meaning we couldn't actually make contact, instead we decided to plan our message to them so it was ready for the next lesson. The lesson started with a meeting in which we decided the roles of person along with our main goal as well. My role was to write up a letter explaining who we were, what we did and why we wanted to join them. This was put into the Docs.

AF - 25th June 2012 - Finally E-mailing the Foundation Today the group communicated well and managed to get quite a lot of work done. We managed to finalize our letter and E-mail it to Starlight. Throughout half of the class we had 2 members leave and as 1 was already away that meant half the team was left. We gave the blog some extra features as well as changing a few things around. We were introduced to a new page called 'Organisations Contacted' which led us to finding out our foundation didn't accept volunteers which were under 16. This was a disappointment, although luckily we had a backup foundation called 'Shine for Kids' this was a good thing although after sending an email it was confirmed to us it would take 2-4 weeks to receive the paperwork back. There were many ups and downs today, though we managed to get through it.

AF - 31st July 2012 - Some Bad News and Some Good News Today the year level was announced some bad news. The government had released some new rules which restricted the outreach program from continuing, the students were not let out due to certain restrictions. Though the Outreach Program had to go on, so instead the teachers had thought of another idea. Instead of going out into the community and helping the foundation we chose [The Starlight Foundation], we had to create a stand which would benefit this foundation. The year level was given a talk about what had occurred and why. This calmed the frustration which was swarming around. This was because the year level, including myself had become quite angry at the factor of doing all this work and now having to restart this. Though after the speech it was explained that our research would be relevant to this new project.

AF - 7th July 2012 - The Stand's Area Now it was time to choose the area in which the stand would be. The groups were once again joined and the whole year level sat in the briefing area. After this Mr Jilbert gave a brief explanation on what was happening with the stands and also showed us how we would pick our area. This was followed by each group going up and selecting 3 areas in which they wanted their stand to be. Whilst the rest of the groups awaited their turn they were made to begin

AF - 28th August 2012 Half of the group was missing today and those who were away the previous week were here meaning most of the group was unsure of what they had to do, although we still managed to push through this. Carla decided to Skype some of the others that were away to gain some information of the task. After this had happened the group began to work. I continued on creating the poster as Carla and Jayden began making some new designs for the poster. This was done for most the lesson.

GZ - 1/4/12 Today in DEAL 2012, we started on the topic 'Out Reach'. We needed to find out what our values were, and find who had similar values to us. After that, we all formed a group that will be our out reach group for the term. Once we found our group, we need to come up with a name that's catchy to help reach out and make a difference. The name we decided to use is 'Helping Hands' and using our similar values, we needed to choose 3 values that suit our group. In our group we value; Respect, Love & Trust.
 * Grace Zammit
 * Ashlee Calleja
 * Carla Mizzi
 * Olivia Czopowski
 * Jayden Cuzzupe
 * Alex Favorito

GZ - 15/5/12 Today, the group played the game ‘The Voice’ and needed to convince the teachers of the best organisation. For this Out Reach session, I was absent so I didn’t participate in this Out Reach session.

GZ - 29/5/12 Today, we created our logo, which represents ‘Helping Hands’. We also created our group poster, which is what’s going to be advertised around so that people know that we are willing to help with kids in need. This poster includes our three values, Love, Respect, Trust.

GZ - 5/6/12 Today, we researched our organisation and had a meeting about what we needed to plan for our email and eventually we need contact the ‘Starlight’ foundation.

GZ - 21/6/12 In today's session of Out Reach, we re-wrote our email and added some more detail, so that we can persuade the CEO of the Starlight Foundation, Louise Baxter. We also researched several other organisations just incase the Starlight Foundation don't work out as well as planned.

GZ - 31/07/12 In today's lesson for Out Reach, the teachers had announced that we were no longer able to continue with the original Out Reach program like we planned. So the teachers said that instead of us going and volunteering for our foundation, the school is having a fete where the year 9's need to create a sale or stall to support their foundation. The foundation we decided to do is 'The Starlight Foundation' which helps towards sick kids get better. As a group, we are open to ideas of what we could to as a fundraiser for Starlight. We as a team, we thinking of creating a cupcake sale and maybe a cookie sale.

GZ - 14/08/12 Today, I learn't that in life if you want to go far and try to have the best success, you need to take sacrifices in everything you do, in school and in any industry you work in. Since some of us are starting our Vet courses at CRC Sydenham, its important to be determined in every piece of work we do, especially now that we are taking more on board and we need to take much more responsibility.

GZ - 9/10/12 In today's lesson, we are working on a Thank you letter to the Starlight Foundation as the CRCCS school festival was a success, we wanted to thank them for everything they did for us and how much we appreciate their hard work for the young children. Also, we are working on a certificate to give to the Starlight Foundation to show our appreciation. Except, on the day of the festival, I was absent as I was in Thailand but it seemed like the stall was a success and people really enjoyed getting their face painted and their hair sprayed. As a result, we raised around about $50!!!

AC- 8/5/12 Today in deal we started “out reach”. We needed to find people that have the same values as us and form a group. In our group we had Grace Zammit, Carla Mizzi, Olivia Czopowski, Jayden Cuzzupe and Alex Favorito. With our group we were told to make a poster with all our common values, strength and weaknesses, logo and picture. We had to discuss colours that represent who we are as a person. Our 3 values we all had in common was Respect, Love & Trust. the group name we all decided to go with is “Helping Hands”.

AC - 15/5/12 Today in deal we had to research foundations and fundraisers to focus on in our unit for outreach. With the information research we had to present it to all the deal teachers. The teachers then had to turn around if they wanted us if they did we got to choose who we wanted to mentor us. This was influenced by the voice, we choose ms elmer as, we wanted someone who will be tough and strict on us for getting work done on time. Also managing us with time and helping us we all decided she was the person we wanted to help us in outreach. We then made an agenda saying what our goals are this term, we choose a chair person who will manage the group with what to do and discussed what our values and weaknesses are. We choose to focus on the starlight foundation and the busy bee kindergarden center in hillside. We choose to focus on this because we all have a strong passion for kids and helping out.

AC- 5/6/12

Today in deal, we finished and updated our blogs we also discussed more about our foundation plans. We created a new agenda and we spoke about what fundraisers we will achieve to help support the starlight foundation. We also completed our agenda for next week. Today i didn’t work to my ability i was distracted and didn’t help my team. We did end up working together at some point but we all lack team work each week but we are improving.

AC- 29/5/12

Today in deal, we finalised our ideas by choosing to raise money for our foundation. we chose to raise money by doing activities in the community and in our school community. We found it difficult to work with each other which was a challenge to face. Ee were able to get ideas which helped us support our ideas for our foundation. We were able to get advice from ms saunders about team work which helped us get through not working together. We also had nothing on our blogs from our lack of team work we then picked up our slack and got our blog under way and up to date which helped us by not having any homework accept organising our jobs and what we were allocated to do.

AC -26/6/12 Today in deal we did a lot of work on our project we changed our foundation, to The Royal Children Hospital. Although when we called we got a No which, set us back again. Most of our group was away so there was only Alex and I so, it was difficult although we have our group organised and set. We now decided to go with honey bee kindargarten, we called them and they approved we have our times and transport all figured out our blog is on track and our google docs so, we have really picked up our game and we are making progress as we haven’t been so productive as a team. Ms elmer approved of all the information and our foundation so Alex and I got our group together in the time given today.

JC 29/5
 * Today I explored the values and found other peoples values are the same as mine like friendship loyalty and respect.

because helping people is a good because it is groups values.
 * I think it is important to know about the organizations that can help people


 * This new learning will affect me in the following ways because it can help me in my everyday life.


 * Today I discovered that helping and working can help people and bring people together.


 * With the learning I did today I will be able to help the people and bring more to the table.


 * Today I learned in the lesson we got know each other and we can do the the work.

Ms Elmer is the best mentor and she knows how to work with us.

JC 31/7 I think that the star light foundation has a good look at donateing and is very good at what thay do.

JC 28/8 today we made a design for a stall and we made a poster and i think we made a lot of progress with what we did i fill today was a good day.

JC 16/10 Today

CM- 1st May, 2012 In todays lesson the whole year level chose 3 of their favorite values. The values I chose were respect, love and trust. After this groups were created from the people with similar values, I had the same values as Ashlee, Grace and Olivia. 2 other people were added into my group. In this group was Grace Zammit, Ashlee Calleja, Alex Favorito, Olivia Czopowksi and Jayden Cuzzupe. This was then followed by us creating a poster which included our group name and similarities. We agreed on the name 'Helping Hands' and Alex had the poster to take home.

CM- 8th May 2012 In today's lesson it was time for our group to choose what foundation we wanted to work with. After a while we had been through many companies as we were either too young or we didn't have the requirements to volunteer for the groups. We had saw the Starlight Foundation and immediately had our heart set on it,this was great as it had a close relation to our groups values. The Starlight Foundation was a company which helps children which are sick or injured reunite with their childhood which was once taken away from them.

CM - 15th May 2012 Our group started to separate at times and none of were really working well. But in the end we managed to pull ourselves together and get some good work done. The teachers decided to put together an audition style used within 'The Voice'. Our group put together a quick speech which was made to persuade the mentors into picking us. This speech was successful as most of the mentors chose us, meaning we had a choice on who we wanted to mentor us. We chose Ms Elmer as we saw her as the the person that would guide us the best out of everyone. After this it was time to continue looking into how we would help our foundation.

CM- 29th May 2012 - 5th June 2012 - 21st August I was absent all three days.

CM- 28th August 2012 Today in my group there were three people away so only 3 were here. The three that were here was Alex, Jayden and I. As I was away last week I was quite unsure on what to do because I didn't know what stage my group was at. But in the end I made a poster with Jayden, wrote a list of things we will need for our stall and created an idea for how our stall will look. It was a pretty slow lesson because there wasn't much for us to do.