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Values = = Trust, Friends, Family, Love, Respect, Creative, Generous, Happiness, Courage

Group Members: -Cameron Borg (CB) -Marko Matosic (MM) -Sharlene Saliba (SS)  -Shannon Dale (SD) -Christina Drymonis (CD) -Rita Sabe (RS)

Our group temperament colours Cameron: Green Marko:  Blue <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">and <span style="color: #0ffa16; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Green <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Shannon: <span style="color: #06f41f; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Green <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> and <span style="color: #f3a01b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Orange <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Christina: <span style="color: #f7d42b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Gold <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sharlene: <span style="color: #f7d42b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gold <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> and <span style="color: #0ffa16; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Green <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Rita: <span style="color: #f7d42b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gold

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">What are the strengths of each of these colours?

<span style="color: #f3a01b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Orange <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Friendly, responds to questions, gives options, making things fun and able to describe things in detail

<span style="color: #0ffa16; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Green <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Knows what to say, direct, confident, ask questions, seeks knowledge, long ranged planning, inventing and designing, strategies, independent.

<span style="color: #f7d42b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gold <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Generous, responsible, serious, friendly, considerate, open and honest, co-operative, trust regulations, direct and straight forward, doesn’t joke around when discussing series matters, wants things done and completed

<span style="color: #00bbff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Blue <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Friendly, honest, co-operative, being positive, enthusiastic

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What are the challenges of each of these colours?

<span style="color: #f3a01b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Orange- <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Can get bored easy and gets fidgety, needs space, sometimes sticks with something and doesn't want to change

<span style="color: #0ffa16; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Green - <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Can be to serious, might think of different things that don't quite fit in with what they are doing.

<span style="color: #f7d42b; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gold- <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Expects things to much in some cases, taking on to much responsibilities.

<span style="color: #00bbff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Blue- <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tries not to be combative or competitive.

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<span style="color: #91ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We’re trying to achieve a better future and to work on something that will eventually become a continuous thing to do, in make the world a better place. <span style="color: #91ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We would like people to become more generous and help out when needed. if they see our group trying to make a change, that could be inspirational for people, then they might go out and do something generous for an organisation.

=<span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Purpose: =

<span style="color: #91ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Our purpose is to help change the lives of unfortunate people to making their lives easier and happier, to help people who are in need, and to make the community we live in a better and happier place! = =

=<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> ORGANISATIONS WE PLAN TO HELP: = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As spotlight are supporting the orphans, vulnerable woman and families in Siem Reap, Cambodia as they make a few different types of handmade bags and selling them to make a fundraiser. We are hoping to help, support spotlight buy either sealing handmade bags or even to help by making some.
 * Spotlight - Changing Lives**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://www.spotlight.com.au/community-support/


 * Challenge - Helping kids with Cancer**

=<span style="color: #0468cc; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">**What attributes are we looking for in a Challenge volunteer?** =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Someone who can offer…
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">compassion to others around them
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">motivation and enthusiasm when on Challenge events
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">respect for others' race, beliefs and cultures
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">friendship and support to fellow volunteers and campers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">an understanding of children's needs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">to respect and abide by the values, beliefs and rules of Challenge
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a consideration for the health and safety of children around them
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">good communication skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a positive attitude
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a good role model

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<span style="color: #2b00ae; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://www.youthbeyondblue.org.au/index.aspx? <span style="color: #2b00ae; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">OR <span style="color: #2b00ae; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?
 * Beyond Blue - Helps with depression**

Taylors Hill Community Centre
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This program is for once the community centre opens we can go help out with the sport activities they hold and we can ask them if they are willing to also cook a BBQ and serve it to the community.

**iPlay Caroline Springs**
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Every Thursday during school term. This youth program is designed for 12-25 year olds to come along and engage in an active past time for FREE! Participating in Basketball, soccer, netball, volleyball, tabletennis, badminton, and a wide range of other sporting opportunities, is what this program is about. Non competition, just fun! So come along weekly, meet new people and keep active!

Active Girls- Zumba []

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a new program on Monday afternoons aimed for girls aged 12-25years only. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ZUMBA has proven to be a fun form of fitness, and those who attend will ceratinly 'feel good' or better about themselves afterwards! Instead of going home after shool to do nothing, come by and take advantage of this FREE program that runs during school terms throughout the year of 2012! Come one come all!

Agenda: = Documents- = Google docs: <span style="color: #2b00ae; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OD2eAwtWpsEIwzAi4vInrAQBKuO-Ngai7KHILodjCt0/edit

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In todays lesson, we finally made our Outreach groups that we will be working with for the rest of the year. We all had to write down what we value in a person and then we had to try and find someone who had the same or similar values, from there we formed bigger groups which turned into our Outreach groups. The common values in our group where Friendship Family, Courage and Trust that most of our group had. The group I am in consists of Sharlene, Cameron, Marko, Christina and Rita, and I think that we have a really good group as we all listen to each other and agree with one another. I think that we have a really good team which will be vital to have for the Outreach program to work, because if team members don't co-operate and agree then this project won't go very far. - SD
 * 24/4/2012 **

<span style="color: #50ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In todays DEAL class, we watched the movie Pay It Forward. This movie is about a young boy named Trevor, who is given a project by his new year 7 teacher. This project was to come up with an idea or plan, that could hopefully, change the world or to make the world a better place. The movie sees how Trevor and his plan of ‘Paying It Forward‘ starts a big chain reaction of kindness, just by helping three people, who then go and help three more people and so on. Trevor’s simple yet effective plan was working and had slowly started to reach other states of America. His idea had sparked kindness in many people who started being kind to other people, and slowly more people started becoming more friendlier and helping out when ever they could, to make the world a better place. This phenomena started to get a reporter interested and he wanted to meet the person who had started this act of kindness. However, when the reporter found out that it was in fact Trevor, a 7th grader, the reporter wanted to interview him and wanted to find out just how this young boy could think of something like this, that could potentially make the world a much better place. This movie was very inspirational as Trevor was a character who we could try and relate to, as we aren’t that much older than him. If someone younger than us could come up with this idea and make it work, then so can we! Also, there is an episode of The Project (30th of May) that had a segment on kindness. Australia has always been very strong and supportive when it comes to helping out others especially when natural disasters strike - the floods in Queensland to the bush fires throughout the country - and when Australia helps other countries. There is a website which goes to prove just how much people really care about others and try to keep the spirit of kindness going. The websites goal is to try and get as many people to register to help spread kindness around the country, and to hopefully reach 1 million acts of kindness, possibly even more! But nobody needs a website to tell us that we need to be kind to others, so even if you don’t register you could still be kind to others. I have however joined the website and the goals are pretty simple and straight forward like, helping out voluntary at community outings, helping someone with their groceries, washing parents cars, helping someone out with their work and even just smiling to strangers in the street. These acts of kindness are so simple and easy to achieve that anyone and everyone can take part in this challenge to make the world a happier and kinder place! - SD
 * 1/5/2012 **

In DEAL today we had our first group meeting. We discussed what each persons colour temperaments where and how their strengths, weaknesses and co-operation would affect our team. Our whole group has either one or two of the four colours - Green, Orange, Blue and Gold - and I am the only person in the group who is orange and green. Soon after our talk on colours, we looked and came up with some organisations and foundations that we could possibly help for our OutReach program. We ended up with a couple of organisations and groups including:
 * 15/5/2012 **

Spotlight's 'Stitch in Time' - http://www.spotlight.com.au/community-support/ Challenge (Helping Kids with Cancer) - http://www.challenge.org.au/generic.asp?pageid=2 Beyond Blue - http://www.youthbeyondblue.org.au/index.aspx? OR http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx? Taylor's Hill Community Centre - []

After our meeting we then prepared ourselves for our group audition for "The Voice". We discussed who will be saying what to the teachers who where in the judging panels before we where called up for our auditions. Once we where auditioning, we had to explain what our group name is, our colour temperaments, who we would like to work with and what we hope to achieve in Outreach. As we where one of the last couple of groups, most of the mentors - our teachers - groups where filled up and the only remaining mentors where Mrs Saunders and Ms Costantino. As we started our auditions we managed to have both teachers wanting to mentor us, so it was our groups decision as to who we would like to work with... and we decided to go with Ms Costantino. After we chose Ms Costantino we where then assigned a group number for the outreach page which we are able to customise and updated as we progress throughout this project. - SD

In DEAL today we where just adding and updating our Hope For The Future page so we have all of our information needed to build up our website and make it more eye catching. We also had a meeting to look at what we have achieved and to set more goals for our group to achieve either with our organisations and in the next few DEAL lessons and for the rest of the year. We also worked on our group poster which had our team members, values, logo and inspiring pictures of hope which represented our group in our own unique and creative way. - SD
 * 29/5/2012 **

Today we basically added and updated our HFTF page. With Ms Costantino, we created an e-mail which we sent out to all of the organisations we hope to help, this email consisted of who we are, what we are hoping to achieve and why/how we think he could help that particular organisation. After school today, I had taken the time to go to the Taylors Hill Community Centre and I spoke with people there who said that they would love to have us helping. With a visit to the Centre I received a very positive response, which I was exited to let my group know just how good we went! I could tell that we where already a step further then we had thought we would reach in this time and could start helping out really soon! Our group was happy with the response and really eager to start helping as soon as possible! - SD
 * 5/6/2012 **

Today we had our meeting to see how far we are getting with our Outreach project. Over all, I think we will hopefully be able to start getting out and helping at the start of Term 3 as we already had a response from TH Youth Centre a couple of weeks ago. In todays lesson we looked at making a mini timeline of how we can start helping THYC and what steps we need to take to be able to get out of school to do this. As a group, we came up with some many fantastic ideas in which we can help out with THYC and hopefully Challenge - When we get a response back from them. Sharlene and I worked on the list and Christina and Rita joined in too while Marko and Cameron thought of ways we could help run the iPlay programs at THYC. Unfortunately, Cameron's laptop got wiped so their plan was erased and all the work they had done in todays lesson was gone. Thankfully, we had all worked together in giving each other ideas so I think we are still able to pick ourselves up from this incident, try to remember what we had done, start fresh and move on. In this lesson I also worked on the Activity Submission Form and the proposal with Sharlene. - SD
 * 21/6/2012 **

17/4/12 This is the first official blog from me and here I will be writing about my experiences throughout my outreach project. To start off our first day we started a program organised by the teachers called 'Rock and Water' which taught us how to control our emotions and remain focused. Then we were split up into groups where we did rotations, some of the rotations were tips on how to get a job, how to approach someone in an interview and to properly write a letter. I really injoyed this day and I hope we can continue. -RS

24/4/12 In today's lesson of DEAL we continued the program 'Rock and Water' which we did last lesson. In this session we learnt what a key eye is, a key eye is a shout that people use to unleash their 'power'. It was very interesting to hear everyone's key eye because everyone's were unique. And finally afterwards we were given our outreach group. The way we formed our group was by writing down our individual values as a person and we were told to find people with the same values and those people had the same. The shared values were friendship, courage and trust. I am a little worried about our group because everyone in the group has friends that they hang out with and I'm afraid we will get off track. -RS

8/5/12 Today in deal we took down notes in the morning from Ms Elmer on film and then we watched pay it forward, I came into this movie thinking it was going to be a really old and boring movie, but then I found it interesting and thought about relating it to deal. By the middle of the movie it had sparked many ideas in my head and by the end I had found one final idea for the deal project that could actually relate to our original plan. I found that the movie could relate a fair bit to what we are learning about and putting into action in deal. -RS

15/5/12 Today in outreach we were given the opportunities to finally come up with some ideas for our outreach project, our group came up with helping kids who have experienced Bullying and who need support. Our job would be to help them through their time of struggles and teach them how to overcome a bully. Another idea made was to build a playground so kids less fortunate then us would have fun on this playground and use their imaginations. But we realised this was a very big task and we realised that it was very achievable to we scraped the idea. Then we Ms Constantino chose us to be her mentor, the mentor basically keeps us on track as we got through our outreach project. I feel the group is going along well for now. -RS

22/5/12 In today's lesson of DEAL we did not get a chance to go in our outreach groups instead the first two periods were about TFN (Tax File Number) which I already had. And because I didn't hand in my parent consent form, I was allowed to listen to what the visitor speaker had to say instead I had to stay in a room with other people and do work. It was a good time to catch up with homework but I was a little boring because we weren't allowed to talk. Then after recess we were given tips on how to study for an exam in preparation for our upcoming exams. After lunch we resumed our 'Rock and Water' program from last week, after that session we went down to the library where we got our exam timetables. Then we prepared for our exams and that was the end of school. -RS

29/5/12 Today In DEAL, we were working on our outreach page, and edited everything we worked on what we want to do in this project, and what we want to gain as a team. We also worked on our group poster, we managed to completed it just. - RS

5/6/12 In todays lesson we added to our outreach page and worked on our organisations. Christina and I worked on a draft email that we were going to send to the person we have to contact in order for our outreach program Shannon edited it and then she sent it to our organisations. -RS

12/6/12 In todays session of outreach in DEAL because we had exams our day was we were only had periods 5 and 6. As a group we were able to start brainstorming different types of ideas that had talked about how we could help as well as support the organisations that we are wanting to help like Challenge as well as the Melton Shire youth Centre.-RS

17/4/12 This was the first session that we did Rock and Water in Deal, we had tips on how to do well in an interview going for a job because we are at the age now where we are allowed to get a part-time job so if we wanted to get a part time job we were told tips on how to talk to the interview and every other skill you need to have when you want to do well in an interview. We were also taught how to correctly write a letter this will help us in the future if we ever need to write a letter to someone we will know how to write one properly. CD

24/4/12 Today in Deal, we had Rock and Water for 1 period, then we got told out outreach groups, we were meant to pick our outreach group based on if we have the same values as each other and if we did that would make our outreach program a lot easier because you would get a long easier with picking what organisation you would like to help, because you would probably want to be doing the same thing as someone with the same values as you, because many people didn’t have the exact same values we had some people with a few of the same values and then we were put into a group decided by our teachers. We then started talking about our values and made a poster. CD

8/5/12 In Deal today we watched a movie ‘Pay it Forward’ after watching this movie, this was meant to help us understand the outreach program a little better it showed us that doing a good thing for 3 people and then those people doing good things to 3 more people that just shows that the whole world could be doing good things and thats what we want to get out of Outreach. CD

15/5/12 In todays lesson we were allowed to think of ideas for what our organisation was going to be about, we had to think realistically what is actually possible and what isn’t possible we had a few ideas in mind that we wouldn’t be able to achieve because we’re restricted with what we can do. So in the next part of the lesson Miss Costantino chose our group ‘Hope for the Future’ to be our mentor. Our mentors meant to help us with our organisation and hopefully help us think of better ideas for our outreach program and just lead us in the right direction to making our outreach program a success. CD

22/5/12 What we did in Deal today was we didn’t get a chance to meet up with our outreach groups in the first 2 periods of the day because we had a speaker come in to talk to us about tax file numbers. After that we were given tips on how to study for an exam, it was good that we had the chance to learn about this because now we have some tips in mind so when we study it will be easier and more affective on our learning. After learning about this we then had a Rock and Water session. CD

29/5/12 Today in Deal we discussed a bit more about what our aim and purpose was going to be about for our outreach program, we worked on our outreach page and added a lot to it because last week we didn’t have as much compared to what we have on our outreach page now, we worked on our group poster and completed it, and the poster turned out really good in the end. CD

In Deal today we added to our outreach page and we discussed a bit more of what we wanted to pick for our organisation, Rita and I worked on a draft email that we were going to send to the person we have to contact in order for our outreach program to take place, we had taken down notes from Miss Elmer in a Deal class before, we were taught how to write an email and had kept the sheet she gave us to help us with writing our email correctly. The notes tell us how to start off an email how to write and also how to end one. CD

13/8/12 Today in Deal in the morning we had someone talk about work experience, then in period 3 & 4 a few speakers were talking to us about how to make the world better and the things that they do to help and why they wanted to do that for a living then we talked a bit more about what the speakers said and then we worked in our outreach groups. CD

28/8/12 Today in Deal, in the morning we had rock and water and we had to reflect on the positives on Rock and Water and how the Rock and Water program can be improved, we got to use the punching bags and practiced our kicking with that. Then we did meditation in the library this was good for us to release stress and gave us the chance to reflect on ourselves, we had to think of the problems that we would've had to overcome and then eventually forget about those problems, it was really good that we got to relax. Then after woods we continued working with our outreach groups and we decided that we were going to have some dancing competitions and some art activities that will go on and soccer activities that our group will run. Sharlene and I were working on choosing a variety of songs for the Year 9 Festival Day, and we also thought about what is the best way to promote our group "Hope for the future". CD

30/4/12 Kindness isn't something we think about much although we know about it when it actually happens. Millions of acts of kindness challenge: group of experts have come up with this idea giving a good deed can also give you a helpers high. People feel a sense worth from helping others. Everyone is happy and better off. This One Million acts of Kindness helps out with many fundraisers, donating and really does enjoy seeing smiles on many peoples faces. This really shows that anyone can make and difference and go out there to help someone without getting nothing in return. Their are many people out there throughout the world that are willing to give a helping hand and make the world a much more happier, safer as well as a much more peaceful place then how the world is already today. Throughout todays class of deal we were being thought all about year 9 outreach proposals 2012 and for any other year to come. When I was taking down notes as well as listening to what was being said I had learnt that whenever you are writing any type of proposal you must always included the following correct information: title, shared values, aim and purpose, desired outcome, questions that you need to ask as well as answer. When you write any type of proposal you must always make sure that you have done enough research, that it is fully detailed so that it gives the correct amount of information, this all also must be clear and make the most sense as possible. I learnt what information that you must also included throughout your contacts as well as what resources will be need to do so. We were also talking about meetings, how they are formed as well as timelines: to make sure that all of your times that are needed fit in to the correct date and everyone is free and happy with this date and time when and where you are having this meeting that has been planed. We had also talked about activity submission forms as well as financial arrangements. Throughout all of this I have really gotten a clear understanding to what all of this is truly all about and I feel that I am ready to do to what is required throughout this outreach project that we will be doing throughout this subject deal in this year 2012. A good tip that I have learnt today would be to always make sure that you use the correct spelling and grammar, and to also make sure that you use capital letters, full stops (when needed to) and to always use punctuation in everything that we do throughout our daily lives.SS

After woods we had watched the movie called ‘Pay it Forward’ this movie really shows the true meaning of going out there and giving a helping hand to others that truly need it. This movie had really opened my eyes and I think that if everyone puts in a little bit here and there the world would then be a much more happier, safer as well as a peaceful place more than it already is. This movie really points out to me the factors of life and on how we got to live with things even if we do not like them. Everyone has a right to be free and speak to what they believe in. This movie is also all about making a big difference and to try your hardest and never give up so that you are ready to help someone when needed. Even if it is something really small when you are doing something for someone else, you will then be remembered as a good and nice person and you would also get much more respect like that. If you go out there and make some sort of a difference by going ahead and helping someone else. Then I am sure that others will follow to what you are doing by giving somebody else a helping hand and bit by bit everyone would be helping one another, not to get something back in return but to help someone else out so that they can see smiles on peoples faces. This is also to what had happened throughout the movie ‘Pay it Forward’ where the little boy try’s and helps somebody else out by being thought by his teacher who gives his class a project to see if you can somewhere try and make a difference and go ahead a try and help somebody else out.- SS

15/05/2012 Throughout todays lesson of outreach as a big year level we each had one of our first outreach programs, with in our outreach groups of six. The people that are in my group is Shannon, Rita, Christina, Cameron, marco and myself. Today we where asked to complete the set questions that were on edmodo that we really needed to answer. The questions related to what meanings of the colours that we were from the other lesson that we had were we found out to what colour meaning best suited us in the way of living. I was two of the four colours and they are the colours gold as well as green, out of the four colours which are shown here as the following: Gold, Green, Blue as well as the colour Orange. Each of these colours represents who we are and how we can follow up to on that. After woods we were asked to come up with different ways as a group to follow up on what federation we would like to commit to, fundraise with, donating or to even just to help someone really. All of this shows the way that we would like to go out there and help someone or even a whole community. We can not do this alone so then we would be able to if we just work in a great group with one another. Towards the end of the lesson we decided to go ahead and support spotlight as they are supporting the orphans, vulnerable woman and families in Siem Reap, Cambodia as they make a few different types of handmade bags and selling them to make a fundraiser.SS

From this as a group we could help these people as well and support them by raising money by ether giving it to them or using the money to sell and buy equipment. After a while we could speak to the council and hold sessions were you can make your own creator bag. After we told the teachers our plans for our outreach program project, we were then asked to decided on which teacher we would like as our sponsor for this project and as a group we had discussed and made up our minds with the whole team agreeing for our teacher to be Ms. Constantino. We had then gone to Mr. Jilbert and we told him our project group name which is “Hope for the future” and in return he told us our group number which is group 20.-SS

29/05/2012 Throughout todays day of deal in outreach we had started on getting a move on, on setting as well as laying out all of our information that was needed to be put into our outreach programs group page. The things that we had included were things like our names and what colours that had represented us and who we are. We also had included the four different types of organisations that we want to either help out in, support in or even just to take part in. We all will be very proud to be part of each and everyone of these, as we can and want to try and make the world a much more better place than what it already is in todays life. -SS

5/6/2012 In todays session of outreach in DEAL we were able to find the important information that was needed to communicate with the organisations that we are volunteering to help as well as support them. We had also completed our letter to whom it may concern for our email for outreach. We would like to hope to make this happen so that we would can go out there and be part of helping as well as supporting someone as well as some sort of community. We had shown our mentor Ms. Constantino our message and she gave it the finishing touches. She also gave us the permission to start emailing our letter to the different organisations that we are wanting to help as well as support. S.S

12/6/2012 Throughout todays session of outreach in DEAL because we had exams our day was quit short we were only left with periods 5 and 6 of our outreach time. As a group we were able to complete our outreach meetings and started brainstorming different types of ideas that had talked about how we could help as well as support the organisations that we are wanting to help like Challenge as well as the Melton Shire youth Centre. As of last lesson where we had sent our email letters to our organisations that we are wanting to help only one of them had replied which was the Melton Shire youth Centre, as we are still waiting on the other few that we have contacted like Challenge as well as Spotlight. S.S

21/6/2012 Throughout todays session of outreach in DEAL we have worked on as well as completed most of our activity submission form. We had came up with a list which has some really good information about different types of ideas that can really help the organisations that we are all wanting to help. We have also worked on our Year 9 Outreach Proposal. We are also trying to think of even more ideas that we can try to help as well as support our organisations that we are really wanting to be a big part of. SS

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28/08/2012

Throughout todays outreach day of DEAL we were thinking of many ideas as we can so that we were then able to know with what we were going to plan as well as do throughout the day of our year 9 outreach festival day which will be happening soon in a few weeks time. We had all worked out a plan that Christina and I will take part in the dance activities on the day as we have already come up with as many songs that we have thought of to play on the day of the festival. Shannon and Rita will take part in the arts and crafts part and Marko as well as Cameron will be walking around the school on the day using a loud speaker so we can then get even more people coming to our outreach store. We had also email Kat and just letting her know with what happening on the day and if she is needed to bring anything with her on the day as she will also be coming along at helping us with our store and to be part of outreach. S.S

Blog: 04/09/2012 Throughout todays outreach time that we had we were starting to make our outreach hope for the future banners. One of them was showing as well as talking about our outreach group called 'Hope for the Future' Shannon and I had worked on that one. As well as the other banner which was based on the 'Taylors Hill Youth Centre' where Christina and Rita had worked on that. We had also came up with some songs to add to on our list so that we are then able to take part in running the 'Hope for the Future dance off.' At the start of the time spent on outreach we worked on our agenda as per normal. As we now only have one more day in Deal to work on this because of the fact that the Year 9 Outreach festival is coming up real soon so we all better get everything done before this does come and happen which I am sure that we will anyways. S.S

Blog: 18/09/2012 Throughout todays Year 9 outreach festival, our group had worked as a good group should. I had gotten posters from the Taylors Hill Youth Centre and we all had handed out many of them throughout the school. There was art actives where we had to get people to design their own ideas for the Taylors Hill Youth Centre Van as well as their internet launch walls. Katrina from the Taylors Hill Youth Centre and she had a look at what we were doing and she was really grateful for what we had all done. We had given her the ideas as well as designs that people from our school had come up with and she was very happy about that. She had also come along with one of her friends from work and they both was really surprised with all the work that we have put into today as well as all the other days within outreach. I had really enjoyed today and I hope that the next year lot of year 9's get to have this great experience that we all have had this year. S.S

29/05/2012 In today's DEAL lesson our group really started to work together as a team and we decided that there are three main organisations that we would like to get in contact with. These oraganisations are the Taylors Hill community centre, Spotlight or Challenge. Our main goal is the Taylors Hill community centre where we would like to help them out with our iPlay program. The iPlay program is a program which allows 12-25 year olds to participate in sporting activities such as soccer, basketball, footy etc. Overall I think that in todays lesson our group was a very productive group. -CB

12/06/2012 In todays Outreach session we only had Period 5&6 to work on our outreach program due to the fact that we had exams in period 1&2 and 3&4. Although during the time that our group had to work together we managed to complete our meeting. We then started brainstorm things that we could do to help out the Taylors Hill Youth Center. We were also working on our response to the Taylors Hill Youth Center as they had responded to our initial response and said that they would love to have us help them out. -CB

28/8/2012 In todays DEAL lesson, Marko and myself worked on a banner for our outreach festival day stall. It took us a while to find the cardboard paper that we would use to make our banner but after asking another student we found out that the paper was under the stairs. After finding the paper we encountered another challenge, we couldn't find the tape. After we found out that another Outreach group had the tape we had to wait for them to finish using it. Then we taped our two cardboard pieces together. Then we had to pack up and write our blogs. Overall I think that today I could have used my team a bit better although in period 3+4 I did not have my laptop as I was getting a program installed on it. -CB

04/09/2012 In todays DEAL lesson my group started to work on our banners that we were going to use for our outreach festival. My group decided that we were going to make two separate banners. One of the banners would advertise the Taylors Hill Youth Center as they are the organisation that we are working with. The other banner would show the members of our group and the name of our group. -CB

24/4/12 Today in for DEAL Day we had our first official outreach day. The day started in the first two periods where we had 'Rock and Water'. From periods 3 & 4 and the rest of the periods, our day was dedicated to outreach. First of all we were all put into groups that we would spent the rest of the year with and we would do our outreach project with. My group consists of Cameron,Sharlene,Christina,Rita,Shannon Dale and I. Once we were put into our groups we were given a poster where we were required to write all our strengths and weaknesses and also write down our colour temperaments. I could consider myself lucky as most of my group members all have similar colours besides a few people who have one different to the others. This is it for day one of our outreach program and I can not wait for the many more to come. -MM

8/5/12 Today for DEAL Day we had half the year level go on their immersion day excursions. Although for the other half of the year level that stayed at school, Miss. Williams and Miss. Elmer gave us a pages document which was all about the forms that we would need to submit for our outreach project. It was all explained in detail bit by bit. Later that day once we had finished talking about the submissions forms, we watched a movie called 'Pay It Forward', which was all about the topic outreach and getting out there and helping to make a change in to society today. At the start I thought it would be boring but by the end of the film I actually enjoyed watching it and the moral of the film was very strong to me and I also got a bit of inspiration from seeing that a kid that age can change the world. After watching this movie it all made sense to me of why we are doing outreach as it is both good for us individuals and also those who need help by others that may have more than them. -MM

14/8/12 Today in DEAL had a Youth Summit

21/8/12 Today in DEAL period 3 for us was looking over and analysing the rubric that we are going to be assessed on for the outreach program. It was very informative and now I have a good idea on what I can consider while I am writing my blogs etc. After that in period 4, we went into our outreach groups

28/8/12 In today's lesson of DEAL we started off with our Rock and Water lessons. After that we went into our outreach groups and had our group briefing.

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