Group+4


 * __Our Main Goal__**: Help out the Australian Army in East Timor

__**Our Google Docs:**__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jORNlKl4ryr0l2ZHnmx5VHOX3tsb8YCyTk7NfyYASBk/edit

__**Nevin, Nathan, Alicia, Cynthia, Catria, Michealla, Kris.**__



(8/5/2012)Nevin George:
 * Today in the adventure we call school, we watched the movie Pay it forward. It was a weird but average. The movie itself was too predictable however which made it hard for me to take very seriously. The movie showed us that one person no matter the age or size can change lots of things through one action. **

Out reach blog 1# 8/5/2012 N.Fava
 * Today part of the year 9s watched the movie called “Pay It Forward”. It was about a boy changing the world by doing something good to three people. those three people then go to three people each and it keeps going on ad on. This movie was interesting because this year 7 boy used this topic for an assessment and it spread across the country. I didn’t like how at the end of the movie the boy died. It just didn’t fit with the rest of the movie instead, what the boy should have just stood up to the bullies as the movie was and the bullies went away and no one got hurt. **

8.5.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in D.E.A.L we learn’t about the proposal documents, meetings, activity submission, and the right ways to fill them out, and organise meetings. We then watched a movie called “pay it forward”, which was about a year 7 student, who has a tough house hold and his social studies project is about changing the world, so he creates a project were he helps three people and those three people each help another three people etc. It got us to realise that your action doesn’t have to be big to change the world, it can be small and grow to some thing bigger. This helped us understand more about the out reach program we are doing for the rest of the year. We also looked all the different temperaments there is and what temperaments we are, and how to act around the people with different temperaments, we also learn’t that having people with different temperaments in our out reach group will get different strengths and weaknesses. **

8.5.12

Cynthia May.
 * Today in deal we watched a movie “ Pay it forward” it was about a little boy who had a task and he chose to help 3 people and hopefully they go out of their way and helps 3 other people. Before the movie we had some sheet and we figured out what type of person we are. Some of us were orange where they are always happy and energetic. But in our outreach group we have a variety of people and their colours. With our groups we are just up to talking about what we would like to do and what is simple but effective. **

out reach blog 2# 15/5/2012 N.Fava
 * Today in class after the NAPLAN tests and recess we got into our outreach groups and went into one of the class rooms. We played a game that was suppose to help us with team work. It was very funny to see the blindfolded person walk around (nevin) because they had to trust the speaker and follow their directions. After lunch we got back into our groups and filled out a table that we are going to use in the future to help us in out reach. We also used it today to present our talk to the teachers. The talk was to see what teacher we would get as our mentor. After that we continued with the table and answered some questions. **

15-5-12 Michaella. M
 * Today we got put in our Outreach groups and played some games that is suppose to help us develop some team working skills. One of the games involved someone being blind folded which was really funny and exciting to watch because someone has direct the blinded person by just using their voice. After lunch we had to fill out a table to what our goals and dreams would be for our outreach group. We also got the opportunity to talk and share a bit about our group and what were about to the mentors and we got chosen by Ms Saunders as our mentor and hopefully she will bring us luck. **


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


 * Thanks Mrs S. **
 * N. Fava **

Nevin(15/5/2012)


 * Today in out deal classes that we had after NAPLAN, all of the year 9 groups were separated and we had to do this unusually fun teamwork based game. One person was blindfolded while one other person guides the blindfolded person. As soon as we were finished we had Lunch and after that we had to get our mentor which required us to fill out a certain table to present to the mentor and it will apparently help us in the future as far as outreach and D.E.A.L goes. Our mentor turned out to be Mrs. Saunders which I think would be a good mentor for our group. **

15.5.12 Alicia.S **Absent**

15.5.12

Cynthia.M
 * Today in deal we made a bit of a speech to do in front of the teachers like the auditions on the show “ the voice.” This was the time where we got to get our mentor\s and we ended up getting ms sunders and we now have to plan what we would like to do int he future and what the steps are to achieve the goal. **

From C.R (29/5/2012)
 * So far in our Outreach group we have came up with a name “ 6 Faiths”, we also watched a movie called “Pay It Forward” it was very interesting but yet it was really random just having this going on while another problem was happening. I am very excited to start with a different social group because it will be good to know each others strength and weaknesses, having new people put into a group is great to have that connection and bond with each other. **

Nevin (29/5/12)
 * today in our outreach lesson, we had customised our blogs and fixed them up a little bit using colours to code the days on which thae blog was on. After recess we had started to brainstorm some of our ideas so that it can be used in the upcoming future and help us out by a lot. It will also act as an easy source for us just incase of failure of our default plan. So if our idea of going to a nursing home fails we can have another option to back up to. **

Nathan(29/5/12) this is or draft email 12:47 PM Dear Arcare,
 * Today in outreach i the first two periods we went over our blogs and talked more about what we wanted to do. We talked more about helping out at the elderly homes (arcare) and we also talked about our other alternatives like helping out at schools and what we can do. We also had a talk with our mentor about our ideas and what we wanted to do. Our next step is to type up a draft e-mail. In the next two periods one member from each group went into a room and the teacher talked to us about Google docs and what we have to do with it. After the groups continued with their blogs and out reach stuff. We then started to type up our draft e-mail. **

We are called the 6 Faiths and we are part of an outreach group in our school, Catholic Regional Collage Caroline Springs. We would like to ask if we could come to Arcare to entertain the elderly people. For example we could talk to them, play games like chess, and help them with their every day needs. If you need to contact us you can e-mail us at fav291@crccs.catholic.edu.au

Yours sincerely The 6 Faiths **After Lunch we started our agenda for next lesson's meeting.**

29.5.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in D.E.A.L we started to brainstorm what we are going to do for the nursing home idea that we had, we came up with running a program with a nursing home and doing different activities like: entertaining, games etc. I found it challenging to stay on task because I kept getting distracted and started to talk to my friends. I think I could get over this challenge by taking small breaks every now and then so I can stay on task more. **

Michaella(29-5-12)
 * Today we had to complete our blogs and post them. We also had a meeting with our mentor Ms Saunders and talked about our ideas and what we want to do, one of the main things we all decided on and really want to do is go to a nursing home and just run a program there and do different activities with them and maybe go there every fought night. We also are working on our letter to send to the managers of the nursing home so that we hopefully get an approval to start our program. **

Nevin(5/6/12)
 * Today in our Deal classes after Rock and Water. We had a meeting for out outreach groups. It was about what our transportation options for arcare. We also discussed about back up plans and what we could specifically do in those situations. The chair was Nathan and the minutes was Alicia. We had recorded all of the conversation into a google docs presentation. The link can be found above below the pictures of our group logos. **

Nathan(5/6/12)
 * Today we started off with a meeting. We discussed what we had found out about Arcare and cleaning the community. After the short 10min meeting we agreed to look for some more information about Arcare and cleaning the community. We found information about Arcare like their address and phone no. We also found some info on cleaning the community in the Melton shire. After lunch we came inside and started to create the agenda for next class. **

5.6.12 Alicia.s
 * Today in D.E.A.L we had a meeting between the group, I was the minutes, Nathan was the chair, and Cynthia, Nevin, Catria and Michealla were talking about the ideas we had. I think this would help our group stay organised and it will let every one in our group what is going to happen. I think that our group has had a few challenges on staying on task. I think we can fix this problem if we all try and leave out our personal conversations until later on or maybe even take a brake every now and then. **

//Michaella//(5/6/12)

 * Today after rock on water we got into our outreach groups and had a meeting we talked and contributed our different ideas about what activities we could do with the elders from ARCARE. We also talked about what our group wants to achieve as a team and discussed our back up plans just incase we don’t get approved from ARCARE. We also created an agenda for the next class. **

Catria 5/6/2012
 * Today in DEAL we had a meeting in our group, Nathan was the chair man and Alicia was the minutes and the rest of the group was talking about any ideas we could think of for Cleaning up the community **
 * but in walking distance in Caroline Springs. But I am finding it hard to find any places. **

Nathan 12/6/2012
 * Today in class we didn't really do much. All we did was have our meeting and think of some ideas on what we could do with Arcare and cleaning the community. Next week I wont be here as I'm going to the best place in the world....... MALTA!!!!! **

12.6.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in D.E.A.L we had our meeting about the information we had by researching arcare and our back up plans if it doesn’t work out. I found it challenging to stay on task after doing exams because it was really tiring so we have all been taking it easy, next lesson we will be having another meeting to see what we have all done over the week. **

21.6.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in D.E.A.L we had another meeting and about arcare, nevin and Catria called them up and talked to them about our ideas, unfortunately other groups were also trying to go there so we are going to get Nevins mum to give the boss a letter from us. I think we did really well today because we worked non stop, but we also had a really good time working on our project. we got a mowbray student named Kris in our ** **group as well, he is very funny and smart.**


 * 21-6-12 (Michaella) **
 * Today in Deal we did rock on water in the morning then we got into our outreach groups and discuss what where going to say when we call Arcare then we found out some disturbing news that another outreach group already has them. But we have connections because Nevin’s mum works at Arcare so now we are working on a letter to give Nevin’s mum’s boss from Arcare so that we will hopefully get an approval from them to go reach out. We also received a new person in our group from Mowbray his name is kris and is very funny and smart. **

21/6/12- Nevin George **Today in our outreach group were going to phone arcare but we didn't end up calling them because we figured out that another group had already called them but arcare had not decided yet. So we decided to make a letter that will go to arcare. My Mum works there so it is very lucky that my Mum works there. I will have to give it to her today so she gives it to them as soon as possible.**

26/6/12- Nevin George
 * Today in our outreach we had to make a 2 minute video explaining what we have done so far in outreach. We also had to write a reflection on how good our team is doing and what we have done so far. I think my group explained it very well. The letter that I had to give to my Mum could not reach there because my Mum didn't have any shifts between the 21st and today. Our group printed out another copy of the letter for another person to deliver. This person will be able to deliver it because her friend lives near the area. **

26-6-12 (Michaella)
 * Today in deal we did our 2 min videos we had to explain about what we have done so far in our outreach groups and the challenges we have faced. We also had a bit of a problem today as Nevin explain he couldn’t get his mum to hand in our letter to the boss of Arcare as his mum didn’t have any shifts as she works casual shifts but the problem was then resolved as cynthia’s friend lives near Arcare and can give it to them. **

**Today in DEAL we worked on our 2min video we were explaining what we have done so far in the terms and what we have came across and also some of the problems and distractions that have been in our way, like for example another group has already got Arcare in the options and they bet us in calling them they replied to them and said they would get back to them. So we are trying to juggle 2 options so if Arcare fails us then we were thinking about making posters and putting them around the community but also turning them into QR codes so that it is more technological for the Gen Y people of this world, this might be more interactive for people and interesting to what's inside the code. Cleaning up the community I think won't do much but it might surprise me and be a challenge to archive.**
 * 26/6/12 Catria Rokodovu**

26.6.12 Alicia.S


 * Today in D.E.A.L we made a video to upload onto our wiki spaces to help tell other people that look onto our page what we are doing and trying to achieve. we also filled out the activity form and proposal document for arcare, I think we found it challenging to get our work done because it was really easy for us to get distracted, but it turned out good because we got it all done in the end. **

24.7.12 Alicia.S **Absent**

31/7/2012 Nathan.F
 * Today in out reach we were told that we could not attended any excursions. so instead we are going to have a big out reach fate to show off our work and what we have done. Our group is going to try and donate supply's such as food, items and money to the army. We are going to create posters and flyers to promote our cause and hopefully we will be able to get to give something to the army. After lunch we worked on designs for flyers and posters **

31/7/12-Catria Rokodovu


 * Today, we were shocked to hear that the government had changed some rules around and due to that we are not allowed to go anywhere. Now we have to run a stall on a specific day to promote or fundraise an organisation. So far we have chosen the army to supply things. Our secondary option is to promote Arcare. We chose Arcare because it seemed to be a good thing to promote considering that it is a company that doesn't have a lot of popularity. That is all that we had accomplished because we were all down from the bad news. **

31.7.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in outreach we had some bad news that it would be really hard to go out on outreach excursions so instead we are going to hold a all day festival for our outreach organisations. We also changed our organisation from arcare to the Australian Army, we are planning to sell cupcakes for 50 cents and have different toppings they can dip in for 50 cents a dip. I think the challenges of this would be changing our organisation and we have to organise it all over again, we could get over this by putting our heads down and working really hard. **

Nathan 7/8/2012
 * Today in outreach we started planing for our outreach fate. we had a sit down with the teachers and discussed some issues that were going on and then we got stuck into the work. I planed the design for our stand and Nevin created some posters and flyers. After lunch We continued working for the fate. I completed the plan and started to help Nevin with the posters. We also talked about what we can do next lesson. **

Nevin 7/8/2012
 * Today in our Outreach groups we had gotten deep into our planning of our Outreach Stand and we had found a location to set up our stand. It is at the front of the school. Nathan had used Sketchup to design our stand and I had made posters to put up on our stand. After a while Nathan had helped me more with posters. This is pretty much all that I did at our Outreach groups. The rest of the group had done some research on the company that we are doing which is the Australian Army. **

Nevin 14/8/2012
 * What I got out of the Summit- The summit was boring at first but then after a while it had gotten interesting with the stories that had been told. These stories teach us one by one by peoples own experiences and what we should/shouldn’t do when we get to that certain stage. One of the stories were very meaningful. It was about a person that was on the beach, he had started throwing starfish back into the water because he believes that he cannot save all of them but he can save at least one.**

14.8.12 Alicia.s
 * Today in out reach we had a summit about the youth and the troubled children around our area, there was a lot of guest speakers like the 20th man, a player from carlton, police man etc. I thought it was really good that the people came out of their way to talk to us about the struggles some children have and that we should help them. I found it challenging to focus because I felt it went on for a long time so people were stating to get restless. I learn’t a lot today and I think it encouraged our out reach group to think outside the box.**

(14.812) Kristopher B

Today at school the Year 9's attended a summit held by Les Twentyman. We heard speeches from a range of speakers including Heath Scotland elite AFL footballer who currently plays for Carlton. He spoke about the sacrifices he had to make to get where he was. I heard a story about a man who was on a beach and saw another man who was doing a motion. He got closer to him, he asked what he was doing, the man replied he was throwing all the starfish back in the ocean, the other man said  What difference will that make, The man replied "It made a difference to that one'', It taught me how much things can be tied in with reaching out even something as simple a throwing a starfish back into the ocean.

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 * Today at school the Year 9's attended a summit held by Les Twentyman. We heard speeches from a range of speakers including Heath Scotland elite AFL footballer who currently plays for Carlton. He spoke about the sacrifices he had to make to get where he was. I heard a story about a man who was on a beach and saw another man who was doing a motion. He got closer to him, he asked what he was doing, the man replied he was throwing all the starfish back in the ocean, the other man said  What difference will that make,**======

21/8/12-Catria
 * Today we were working on what we were exactly going to be talking or enterprising to our audience, we were thinking about working with the Australian Army. **
 * Today we worked on about like evereything, Cynthia,Alicia and Kris were working on the email to the Australian Army to ask them what we they were needing. Michaella and I were working on information for the poster on our stall for the Fete. Nevin was working on the poster and thinking of what to right down on there and Nathan was working on the stall image and what it was going to look like at the end for the day of the fete. **

21.8.12 Alicia.S

**Today in outreach we went through the different paperworks that we need to have filled out to be assessed, we had our meeting and discussed what every one can do also nathan showed us a plan of what our stall will look like, we also made the draft e-mail to send to the Australian army and we are going to send it and wait for the reply. Some of the challenges we faced was to stay focused because Cynthia and I were filling out the evidence sheet which was a bit confusing, we could overcome this by asking more questions etc. The effects that the festival is having on our group is that we had to start all over from arcare and we changed to the Australian Army. Our group has worked together very well because, we all get along and help each other out.**

21.8.12 Kris B

In outreach we discussed the evidence sheet and rubric that we were going to be assessed on for outreach. Nathan posted a plan of the stall on google docs, I started on the evidence sheet, but swapped with Cynthia because she was in the group longer than me, so I started on the e-mail to the army. I was confused what to do for the evidence sheet but Cynthia offered to swap. I finished the letter draft and found the e-mail after Nathan assisted m,e on finding the right one. I have since finished the letter an it is as follows,

To whom it may concern,

I am writing on behalf of the 7 Faiths from Catholic Regional College Caroline Springs, we are a group of 7 students who are currently participating in the Outreach program, I have wrote to inform that we would like to promote you in our upcoming Oureach fete, we have a massive amount of respect for you and your fellow mates, we would like to help in anyway we can, if you would be happy for us to promote the army can you please e-mail back to baj480@crccs.catholic.edu.au with an attachment of what you require, we are happy to gather blankets, clothes etc. If you are happy with our idea can you send us flyers to hand out at our fete.

Your’s Sincerely

The 7 Faiths

28.8.12 Nathan
 * Today in outreach we started off with the usual meeting. We then split up into groups and worked on different things. Cynthia, Kris and Alisha worked on creating a poster for our stall and Nevin and I worked on a flyer to put into the newsletter. After lunch when Nevin and I were done, we continued on with the evidence paper work. towards the end of the day we stopped and worked on our out reach blogs. **

28/8/12 Nevin
 * Today in Outreach, we had another meeting and we were planning on what people are doing. Nathan and I were working on the evidence sheet and the rest of the group was working on the flyers that we have decided to do for publication. This is the only thing that we can do for advertising because when we tried to do more than one, another group had already taken the idea and we are only allowed to have one of them. The flyers are very good in my opinion and it will most likely catch the eyes of many people. **

** 4/9/12 Catria **

 * Today in Outreach Michaella and I worked on posters and phone calls to the Australian Army, Nathan and Nevin were getting evidence. **
 * Today was a very chilled back day but we all still got work done, Kris and Cynthia were collecting and designing the flyers for the stall and I turned out to be a disaster. Students were ripping the flyers down that were put up around the school so we were very clueless on what to do next. **

4/9/2012 Nathan
 * Today I think was one of our good days, everyone was doing what they were told to do and we got some great ideas down. Today we started off with the usual meeting and talked about the festival and what we shall do. We decided that working on the fate and creating posters was going to be our main topic so we focused a lot on that. I think our group is working quiet well even though people say we don't. We got a lot done today and we will continue to work like this until we get the job done. We need to focus on the posters for the festival because we only have flyers to hand out and when people come to see our stand it wont look like much. We put up flyers today also around the school but people ripped them up and took them down. Next time when we get more flyers we'll put them up on a higher place so people can't get them. **

4/9/2012
 * Today we were all working on some posters and we also had made some advertisements around the schools. Mostly we have been working on our outreach fate. We have sent an email asking if we can put an advertisement of the bulletin. Next week we might actually be done and then we can work on our stall. There was an issue with the posters that we printed out, people were ripping them up and there were also several spelling mistakes found. **

11/9/2012- Nathan
 * Today Outreach went for pretty much the whole day, we firstly had our meeting and discussed what we would do today and what we will do on the day of the fate. For the rest of the day we were pretty much working on posters, flyers, brochures, and the evidence page. I think we could have worked a bit better today, we were getting distracted and we can not afford to. Next week is the outreach festival and I am confident that we will be ready for it, we have a letter in the newsletter and bulletin and we have lots of posters and flyers for advertising. I am not sure if we will get a lot of donations, I know that my family will have a few things to donate but I'm still not sure about the rest of the group. **

11.9.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in outreach Miss Saunders was away and it is the last lesson we have before the festival, I thought we got a lot of work done everyone participated and did what they had to do, I think we are pretty much ready to go to the festival and have a really good day, every now and then we did go off task but we still did our work really well. I think this will effect us in the festival by preparing really well and being organised. **

18.9.12 Alicia.S **Today in outreach it was the outreach festival we had a couple of problems with the music but Cynthia and I solved it by asking another group for spare radio. After that we had a really good day and had lots of fun, we got a really good amount of donations from different people, Cynthia and I dressed up like army people in army clothes and we handed out flyers. so I thought our day was a success.**

9/10/2012 Nathan
 * Today in outreach we began with the meeting and decided we would work on the rest of the evidence sheet. We also were told to create a letter and certificate to our organization thanking them for helping us with our stall. I think that the group today has not worked to the best of their ability, there have been certain people that do all the work and some that haven't done much. We completed the certificate, letter and evidence page, we have done a good amount of work today. **

9.10.12 Alicia.S
 * Today in outreach we are finishing up everything: the evidence sheet and we are making a certificate for the east timor and the army, we are also writing them up a letter to inform them of our success. We didn’t really have any big problems today because some people don’t participate at all so its put on everyone else but other than that it was pretty good. **

9.10.12 Kristopher Bajkasz In Outreach we were completing a letter and certificate to give to our organization, I wrote the letter and said thanks to them. After we had finished we worked on the Evidence Guide which we completed in a few seconds because it was just a matter of finishing it. It felt good that we were finished everything.