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// JTB: Jem Tukapua-Broughton - Green Temperament //

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__** Desired Outcomes: **__
=== By the end of this OutReach program we would love to be successful in helping an organisation. An organisation with children in need that need a group of people like us. Our other plan is to help the elderly feel loved and happy with the values and talent we have. ===

Desired Organisations


BLOGS 1st of May 2012 -Frances Abary Today in DEAL we spoke about our year 9 outreach proposals and looked at the paperwork we have to fill out and what they include. On the first page of our proposal we have to have a title, our shared values, our group members, our aimour desired outcome. With our paperwork we also needed to include questions and answers, a contact list, a reflection of each lesson, meetings and timelines and activity permission forms if needed.This all had to be prepared before our next meeting so that we are able to discuss it with our mentors. After talking about our outreach paper work we moved along to look about temperaments. There were 4 temperaments, blue, green, orange and gold. I was the blue temperament which meant I am true to myself and relationship orientated. Then for the rest of the day we watched the movie “Pay it forward” which was a very sad and touching movie. The movie was about a boy who reaches out to three people and then because of him the three people he helped will pay it forward and help other three people.

1/5/12 KT: Today in DEAL, we looked at the paperwork needed to contact organizations for our DEAL outreach program. With our paperwork, there were also a number of questions that we had to answer, a contact list, a reflection of each lesson, meetings and timelines and activity forms if needed. All of this had to be prepared for our next meeting so it could be discussed with our mentors. After discussing our paperwork, we worked on colour temperaments. I found it hard to discover my colour but I eventually came to the conclusion that I was an orange. After this event, we started to watch the movie “pay it forward”. I thought it was overall a good movie with a message that we all need to convert to our everyday lives.

01/05/12 AJ: Today in DEAL, we learnt about our Outreach Proposals and how we should construct our meeting and what we should always include in them. We then had a practise meeting and we put Kane as the chair and Frances as the minutes. We also learnt about the different types of personalities, and how we should approach and have a conversation with them. There were 4 types: Gold, Orange, Blue and Green. Orange was the least likely result, as there are not many orange people. We all high-lighted what we thought applied to us in each colour and I got Gold. I thought Gold fit me the most, so I was happy I got it. After that, we watched the movie “Pay it Forward”. It was a really good theme, showing all the difference that one small boy can make to the world, and it was also really sad at the end, when he died, which adds the emotional aspect to the film. I think overall the day was a really good DEAL lesson and that we learnt heaps that can go towards our Out-Reach programs in our groups. -Alannah (:

8th of May 2012: Today we watched a movie called "Pay it Forward". It was a film about a kid making a difference and thinking outside the box. We also looked at our temperaments. We found out the temperament colour that was right for us. We also looked at some paper work that we needed for the DEAL unit. Those paper work are the things we need for our outreach group. - Roniel

8th of May 2012. Today in deal we look at some paper work we needed for deal. We started by going over paper work we had to fill out about ourselves and our aims on what we what done.We learnt about the 4 different temperaments colours which are gold, orange, blue and green. Our group colours are 3 green 1 bule 1 gold and 1 orange. We also look at a film called Pay it forward. The film was about a boy trying to make a difference and helping 3 different people and then those 3 people would help 3 different people and so on. - Jem Tukupua-Broughton

8th of May 2012: Today in Deal we looked through all the paper work needed throughout the DEAL unit. We started by going through the OutReach Proposal where we had to fill in details about ourselves and our aims and purpose. In meetings we need to make sure our agenda is filled in before they are arranged. We learnt about the 4 different temperaments which were Gold, Orange, Blue and Green. I fit in the Green temperament category. Green people: seek knowledge and are calm. For the rest of the day we watched Pay It Forward. A film about a little kid who thought of an idea to help three people, then those three people help another three people. -Jurell

15th of May 2012 -Frances Abary Today in DEAL we got into our out reach groups and looked at our first agenda. Our chairman of the day was Kane and our minutes was myself. Our first agenda was to talk about our Temperament colours in our group and to talk about our strengths and our weakness of each colour. My group is made up of 3 greens, 1 orange, 1 gold and 1 blue. Our strengths were, that greens are calm and inquisitive and seek knowledge, orange are a natural negotiator and see and seize opportunities, gold tend to be generous and respond well to responsibility and blue are relationship orientated and strive to be true to self. Our weakness are greens always think in different terms and always ask why, orange are very hyperactive and get distracted very easily, gold always likes to be the leader and gets very distracted and blue can be very sensitive. After discussing our agenda’s we had to plan a speech for our presentation to the mentors. The way we were going to get a mentor was through the process “The Voice”. So before lunch we prepared our speech. In our speech we included our group name, our strengths and our weakness, our aims and the temperament colours in my group. Once we wrote up our speech we presented it to the 6 mentors. Unfortunately only 1 mentor pressed the button when we were hoping for at least 3, but we were very lucky to have Ms. Costantino to press the button and have her as our mentor. After this process we went back to our table and discussed what organizations we wanted to work with. Ms. Costantino also informed us that by the end of the week we need to have all our reflection onto our wiki website.

15/05/12 AJ: Today in Deal we completed two activities that forced us to work together as a team. In our first rotation, we were given a sheet and we had to number from most needed to least needed. We got the first couple of necessary things right, but then after we decided on different things to a couple of other groups. We were both right because we had thought of reasons to back up our answer, but we did get a couple wrong or switched around in the process of the whole thing. Our second rotation was building a tower of cards using the whole deck with our group. This activity required patience and teamwork. We ended up taking out the activity, so we were happy that we were able to work as a team and get the job done. After Recess we continued working with our groups, and then the teachers informed us that they would be doing something similar to “The Voice” where we go and present what we would be doing and they see if they want to be the mentor of our group. After lunch we did that and unfortunately only got one teacher mentor to turn around, which was Ms. Constantino, so we became one of their groups. This was definitely not what we expected and we thought we had worked hard enough for more teacher mentors to turn around. To finish off the day, we started researching some organisations we wanted to help, and we were allowed to use Skype to communicate with other groups and team members in your own group whilst “The Voice” choosing was going on. Our teacher mentor then came around and gave us a small chat about what we were doing, and also gave us some advice for the future of the OutReach program. -Alannah (:

15/05/12 KT: Today in DEAL we got in our groups and were given team building exercises. In our first exercise we were given a list of 15 items that we had to place in order of importance if we were to be trapped on the moon. We unfortunately were not very good at this and failed to put the correct items in order. Our next activity was to build a tower of cards. Luckily for us, Pete had some experience in this and we went on to win this event because we used Pete’s knowledge to help us work together. After recess we came back and were told that we were having auditions like the voice. We would say our proposals and what we want in for our group and teachers that like it will turn around their computers. I thought our proposal was good. We had only one person turn around for us which was Ms Costantino. Ms Costantino was now our new mentor. After lunch, our mentor came around and told us what she wants us to achieve on the outreach program and then gave us some advice for us to take in.

15th of May 2012: For DEAL we completed two team working activities. For each rotation we had to work in our DEAL OutReach groups. The first rotation was to complete this sheet with various tools needed to survive on the moon. Our group failed to get the correct tools in order from most important to least important. We promised to work together as a team for the next activity they’ve got for us and try win. The next activity was to try build the highest tower using a full deck of cards. I was actually experienced at this game so i lead our group in winning the game. After recess we began our first meeting with our OutReach groups. We decided that Kane was the Chairman and Frances as the minute person. During the meeting we had to answer questions that were given by the teachers in the agenda. Before lunch the teachers informed us about the new process of choosing our mentors, it will be similar to ‘The Voice’. We wrote up our speech after lunch and presented it to to 6 mentors. Unfortunately only 1 chose us which was Ms Costantino, though fortunately we were chosen. To finish of the day we researched some organisations that we would like to give assistance to. -Jurell

15th of May 2012. In deal we had to do two team work activities. The 1st activity we had to do was survie on the moon. Our group failed to have the right tools in order to live but we competed the next activity. The next one was about a deck of cards and making a house out of all the cards. We came 1st thanks to the help of peter playing this game before. After recess we went in to our outreach groups.Our chairman is Kane and our minute person is Fances. We also had to choose a mentor but only one turn around for us and that was Ms Contantino. At the end of the day we finished by researching some organisations that we would like to help out. - Jem Tukupua-Broughton

29th of May 2012 -Frances Abary In todays DEAL lesson my group fixed up our wiki spaces blog. The first thing we did was we designed our group logo, added our aim, purpose and our desired outcomes. Once we had completed these tasks our group designed a poster to promote our group. On our poster we added out group logo and a quote. Our quote was “ Faith makes all things possible, Love makes all things easy and Trust makes all things work”. Miss Costantino loved our poster which we were very proud of. We also got to create a group Google Docs page which we added to our wiki spaces blog. At the end of the day our teachers brought us to briefing and set us a new task. We had to write up our agenda for our next meeting which was due by the next DEAL lesson so we were able to run our next meeting.

29/05/12: In todays DEAL lesson we were working on our wiki spaces, updating it and adding all the things about our group. We designed a group logo all together but it was made by Peter and Roniel, with our names, a little symbol and our quote; “Faith makes all things possible, Love makes all things easy and Trust makes all things work.” We made it into a poster which Ms Costantino really liked and was really proud of us for making it. We also created a GoogleDocs page that we can use to update all of our information and put all of our contacts and agenda meetings on there too. -Alannah (:

29th of May 2012: Today in the beginning of our DEAL lesson we got into our groups and started discussing how we were all going with using Wiki spaces. Our group hasn’t done well in updating our Wiki spaces page though we got our page filled done in no time. We worked together decorating our page with adding our logo and some colours. Our logo was just made today by Me and Roniel, using our I.T skills we managed to produce a magnificent logo that every single person in our group loved. Before the end of period 2 we had all our blogs and our logo on our Wiki spaces page. After recess we continued to work on our OutReach project. While we worked on our project, one person from each group went into this “master class” with Mr Jilbert, all about how to use Google docs to assist us in sharing paper work and documents with our team. We kept on working on our DEAL project until the end of period 4. After lunch we went in to the briefing area and the teacher made us aware of the next task. Every group had to make an inspirational poster that was to be about your group values and a quote that outlines your groups importance. Our poster turned out really great, our mentor loved it and so did the other teachers. At the end of the day, we really worked successfully. -Jurell

29th of May 2012. In deal we had to go in our outreach groups and talk about how we are using our wiki spaces. Our group needs to be more better in updating our wiki spaces but the teachers gave us some time to write in our wiki spaces. We also added a logo to our group the people that did our logo was Peter and Roniel and our group all love the great logo they did. After recess one person from every group went into this master class with Mr Jibert. It was about how to use Google docs. After lunch all the groups had to do a inspirational poster it had to have your group values. Our poster turn out very good thanks peter and Roniel we showed our mentor and she love it so did the other teachers. -Jem Tukapua-Broughton

29/5/12 KT: Today in the beginning of our DEAL lesson we gathered into our outr each groups and discussed how we will be using our WikiSpaces efficiently. We haven’t quite been up to scratch lately in our blogging but we got it done in no time. We worked together decorating our page with adding our logo and some colours. We were lucky enough to have the help of Pete and Roniel, using their I.T skills we managed to produce a magnificent logo that I’m sure we all loved. Before the end of period 2 we had all our blogs and our logo on our Wiki spaces page. After recess we continued to work on our OutReach project. While we worked on our project, one person from each group went into this “master class” with Mr Jilbert, all about how to use Google docs to assist us in sharing paper work and documents with our team. We kept on working on our DEAL project until the end of period 4. After lunch we went in to the briefing area and the teacher made us aware of the next task. Every group had to make an inspirational poster that was to be about your group values and a quote that outlines your groups importance. I’d have to say our poster was one of the best, even our mentor and all the other teachers agreed. We worked efficiently today.

5th of June 2012 -Frances Abary Today in DEAL the first thing we did was we got into our outreach groups and started our first meeting on the agenda that we had made on the previous lesson. The agenda we worked on was which charities or foundations we were going to work on, why are we going to help them and how we are going to help them. My group came up with 3 foundations. The Lighthouse foundation which deals with homeless kids suffering from abuse, rape, neglect, abandonment and other severe issues that children have been suffering. The second foundation we researched was the Australian Childhood Foundation who deals with children who suffer from child abuse. Lastly the last foundation we wanted to help was the Oz child foundation who deals with children that can’t not live at home and suffer form abuse. We also looked at the elderly and the retirement villages we can help around the area. After this we started to plan and write our first email to the Lighthouse Foundation and hopefully send it out by the next lesson. After doing this we planned out next agenda that will be taking place next lesson.

05/06/12: Today in DEAL we started with Rock and Water. It was a really good lesson because we started with learning to punch and then we practiced our punches as a group, first doing it all together and then doing it separately. We did other things and then we went to the library. Ms Constantino was there and she explained to us about not getting stressed for the exams as its not good for your health and you also might not get the result you want by stressing. She gave us tips helping us not to stress and then we had a meditation session where she played music and we laid down and just focused on the things we wanted to accomplish for exams. After recess we got into our Outreach groups and we started to start composing our letter to what organisation we wanted to help. We finished off the day by writing some of our letter, but not all of it. We hope to achieve finishing it off and sending it by next lesson. -Alannah (:

5th of June 2012: Today in Deal, our group had a meeting on what we are planning to do for our project. We decided to help out on an organisation for homeless kids and for a retirement village. We planned to help them by entertaining them and by giving them some food for the day. We planned this through our Google docs that I have set up. I think our group is making a big process in this project. Good job to everyone in the group. - Roniel Limueco

5th of June 2012, In deal we had a meeting on what we are going to do for our project. We decided to help out a organisation that helps homeless kids and a retirement village. We planned all of this on our google docs that Roniel set up for our group. We are making big process in our project. If we are not able to help the homeless kids we still have two more ideas to fall back on. - Jem Tukapua-Broughton

5th of June 2012: In DEAL our group started off writing an agenda for our second group meeting for this program. Today we assigned me as the minute person and Frances as the chair person. In our meetings we discussed topics about our organisations. We decided to research three organisations which are OzChild foundation, Australian childhood foundation and The lighthouse foundation. At the end of the day we started writing our first letter to The lighthouse foundation. -Jurell

5/6/12 KT: Today in DEAL we started off with a meeting discussing who we wanted to work with for the remainder of the Outreach year. We researched three organisations to see who we wanted to work with. These were the OzChild, Australian Childhood Foundation and The Lighthouse Foundation. At the end of the day, were up to the stage where we were in the middle of writing a letter to OzChild. I believe we made the most of the two periods we had.

12th of June 2012 -Frances Abary In today’s DEAL lesson we started off with our agenda. I was the chair and Peter was the minutes person. In our agenda we followed up on the charities we are attempting to help out. The first charity we followed up on was the Light House Foundation and we found out that you have to be 16 to volunteer which made us feel down and a bit upset but with the encouragement of Ms Costantino we were able to discuss other ways and were even able to send out our email to them and to at least give it a try and knowing that we at least attempted to do something. In our agenda we spoke about how we are going to help them which we said we were going to provide books and tutor them. If we were able to help out at The Light House Foundation we spoke about when is the soonest we can help which was as soon as we get a reply saying that we can help. In this lesson we were also able to write up a phone script that we will be using to ring up The Light House Foundation which Lani will be doing in her own time. Peter and Kane was researching the Oz Child Foundation and while researching they came across an organisation, which is the Big Buddy Program who works with children who are economically, educationally and emotionally disadvantaged. We were so excited they came across this organisation because the things they did we though was brilliant and we would love to work with organisation. As a group we wrote up another letter and sent it off it off the the organisation, and now is hoping for a positive reply. In this session we were also to write up our agenda for our next DEAL lesson which is next thursday. Before the end of our session we all provided with each other with homework and will be following it up next thursday I think my group is going very well and is very determined on doing this program. I think as a group we are working very well together, co-operating with each other and we are all getting a say. :)

12/06/12: Today in our DEAL lesson we started off with our meeting, in which Frances was the chair, and Peter was the minutes. We kept talking about our charities and what we wanted to do. Afterwards, Frances and I decided to follow up on a couple of our organisations in mind. We followed up with the Lighthouse Foundation first, and we found out that we had to be 16 years of age to volunteer, so it was officially our first knock back. We were all a bit down and upset about it, but we had to lift our heads up high and keep going. We ended up just sending off an email to them making sure and letting them know that we had attempted to help them. Peter and Kane were researching the OzChild foundation and while doing this they stumbled across an organisation they came across the Big Buddy program, who works with children that are economically, educationally and emotionally disadvantaged. We were all so excited that we found this organisation and wanted to come up with some ways that we could help them. We wrote up a letter script, checked it with Ms Constantino, and we sent it off to them, hoping for some positive news. By the end of the day the whole group felt like we had done some good work, and I am very proud of what my group has achieved so far! -Alannah (:

12th of June 2012: For today’s DEAL lesson we were separated into our mentor groups. We began with writing our agenda down for today’s meeting, i was the minute person and Frances was the chair person again. In this meeting we updated each other on our 3 different charities we are going to try give assistant to. I informed them on the research i’ve done on the lighthouse foundation that you had to be an age of 16 or over to participate as a volunteer at their foundation. And plus you also had to be an experienced worker if you wanted to work at a higher level. We ended up still sending our email to them just for a slight chance of them giving us a chance to assist them in anyway. After our group meeting we allocated each one of us a task to do for the rest of the lesson. Me and Kane went on researching the OzChild foundation and found some great information. We also found a page where we could fill in forms and details on becoming one of their volunteers. As a part of this form we are going to attach our letter to them giving them a little bit more information about us. Later on towards the end of the lesson, Kane, found this amazing Big Buddy program. We decided to work on that for the rest of the lesson. Before the class ended we provided each of us a homework task due before the next DEAL lesson. I had to prepare our next agenda for our next meeting. -Jurell

12th of June 2012. Toady in our deal lesson we were separated into our mentor groups. We started with writing our agenda down for today's meeting, Peter was our minute person and Frances was the chair person. In our meeting we talk about the three different charities we are going to try to help. The lighthouse was one of our choices but we have to be over 16 to participate as a volunteer at their foundation. We wrote a email to the lighthouse to see if we could help if they wanted our help. After our meeting we all went and did some more research on the charities. Later towards the end of the lesson kane found this Big Buddy program, kane and Peter did some research about how they run and how they work. -Jem Tukapua-Broughton

12/6/12 KT: Today we had a quick meeting and talked about our homework. The two people out of the 6 in our group had to research a charity. It was Pete and I's responsibility to research OzChild. We explained all we knew about the organisation and the rest of the group liked what they heard. But after hearing all three, we decided that our favourite was the Lighthouse Foundation. There was a catch though. You had to be 16 to work with the foundation. We wrote an email to the Lighthouse Foundation to see if we could be excepted from the rule. After this, we went and researched about more charities. Towards the end of the day, I stumbled upon an organisation named Big Buddy. This organisation specialise in mentoring young people and acting as a big buddy. The rest of the group were keen on finding out more about this group. For the rest of the day, Pete and I researched more about this organisation.

21st of June 2012 -Frances Abary Today’s DEAL lesson was a very successful lesson. Another member was added to our group, Donte who is a new student from Mowbray. In this session we explained to Donte what we had been doing and gave him a n idea on what we wanted to do for outreach. After this, we started on our agenda, in our agenda we made a follow up on which was about the update on our charities. We received an email back from The Lighthouse Foundation and sadly weren’t able to volunteer there due to personal and confidential issues. In our agenda we also spoke about on what we wanted to do today and what we wanted to achieve by today. By today we wanted to try call both Big Buddy and the Oz child Foundation and even the Retirement Villages as a back up. After our agenda meeting we realised that the Big Buddy program was in America so we all did some research. While researching Miss Costantino found an organisation which was the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Organisation which was similar to the Big Buddy program. After this me and Lani went to call the Oz Child Foundation and the Big Brother and Sister organsation while the boys worked on our proposal. The first organisation we rang was the Oz Child Foundation. This call was very successful as they agreed on us helping out. They said that we can help out during the christmas time by providing things to children and putting it under the christmas tree. As a group we were very happy because of this but then realised that it was a long time a way so we decided to ring other organisation to see if we can help out with them during the time being. The next organisation we rang was the Big Brother and Sister organisation. After them we rang the Australian Child Hood Foundation. While on the phone to them they said that they will ring us back to see if we could help. After them we rang the Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance, but unfortunately we weren’t able to help out but told us to keep trying and to look around in the western areas and so we did. We came across the Deaf Children Australia organisation, which work with the children that are deaf. When we spoke to them on the phone they said that they were going to get back to us. We were all very happy and successful in todays DEAL lesson and hopefully will get a call back from the organisation that we contacted. I am very proud of my group as we are working very well and we are very determined in getting this project up and running ! :)

21/06/12: Today automatically started off positive as we gained a new member in our group, Donte. Donte is in my class, so we both knew who each-other were and and I was able to fill him in on what we were doing easily. We then started with our meeting, and discussed the reply we had gotten back from the Lighthouse Foundation. Sadly, we weren’t able to help out due to the children's personal and confidential issues. After the meeting we started researching the Big Buddy program. After research, we figured out that the Big Buddy program was in America, so then Ms Constantino helped us out by finding the Big Brothers Big Sisters organisation, which was very similar to the Big Buddy program. After this, Frances and I went to call up both the OzChild Foundation and the Big Brothers Big Sisters organisation, and the boys worked on our proposal. Our call to the OzChild Foundation was successful as they said they would love to help us out, and suggested that we help them out at Christmas time by providing gifts for the children and putting them under the Christmas tree. We called a couple of other organisations and they all said they would contact us later on. Today was a very successful DEAL lesson and we hope to receive all of our replies by next week! -Alannah (:

21/6/12: Today in our DEAL lesson, we found out that we could not help the Lighthouse foundation, but we did not lose our hopes. We called up different companies, and we got accepted in OzChild. What we're doing is giving gifts for the kids that cannot afford gifts for Christmas. We are also calling up more companies that we could help as well. We also wrote up our proposals for our activities, and some emails. - Roniel

21/6/12 KT: Today in DEAL we had our group meeting, Frances was the chair person and Alannah was the minutes person. We were told about the email that we received from the Light house foundation and that we got rejected by them. Though we didn’t give up and went on forward to work on our other organisations. In the meeting we also discussed about what we are going to do for the rest of the lesson. We got a lot of work done today, especially some phone calls. After recess we acquired a new member into our group, his name is Donte. We humbly welcomed him into our group updating him to what our groups has been doing for the past few weeks. We also got him to read through the temperament sheet and chose which one he fits in best, he turned out to be an orange. One of the foundations we were working on was OzChild, Frances and Alannah called them and got great feedbacks. They said that there was this event in Christmas where we could buy presents for the kids there who can’t afford to buy Christmas presents. While we are waiting for Christmas to come we are researching and calling up more companies that we could volunteer as helpers. After lunch we had to work on our OutReach proposal, it was quick and easy for me since our group already completed it ages ago. When the day ended it felt pretty quick as we completed many activities and made so many calls, we all worked very hard.

21 of June 2012. Toady in deal we had our group meeting. Frances was the chair person and Alannah was the minute person. We were told about the email that we got from the Light house foundation and that we got rejected by them. Though we didn't give up and went on with different organisations. We also talk about what we are going to do for the rest if the lesson, we got a lot of work done today and made some phone calls. After recess we add a new member to our group his name is Donte. We told him what we do for deal and ask what colour temperament he is. We called one of our organisations and got some good feedback it was OzChild who we called. After lunch we had to work on our outreach proposal, it was quick and easy because our group completed it ages ago. At the end of the day we made a lot of phone calls and got a new member in our group -Jem Tukapua-Broughton.

26th of June 2012

-Frances Abary

Today in DEAL we started off in briefing. In briefing they gave us dates in which we are able to use for outreach and what days we can go out for outreach. The teachers also told us that we had to get our outreach done by the end of term 3. After this we went straight to our outreach groups and started our next agenda meeting. In our meeting we realised that the Oz Child Foundation said we can help out but it was during christmas time and outreach had to be completed by the end of term 3, so we weren’t able to make it. As we were discussing this matter we came down and said that we are still going to do this but in our own time, which we all agreed on. In this meeting Ms Costantino also told us that not 1 of the organisations that we called last DEAL lesson rang back. As a group we were pretty disappointed but still moved on. We decided that we were going to call back the organisations and see what they would say. The first organisation we rang was the Deaf Children Australia organisation. When we were on the phone to them they said that we could help out but in September. We were very happy with this outcome but realised that it was so far away, so we decided to call back the other organisations. The second one that we rang was the Big Brothers and Sisters program. They were very happy in what we told them and would loved if we were able to help out with them. On this day we were also told to create a video blog which exaplained who we were and what we were doing. This took many attempts to do but in the end we were able to get it done and place it onto our blog.

26/06/12: Today in DEAL we continued with our Outreach program in periods 3, 4, 5 and 6. In Period 3 and 4 we firstly had to make a video with our group explaining who we were, who was in our group, our challenges and what we had achieved so far. By the end of the lesson, our video was complete and we had uploaded it on to our website. It took a lot of attempts, and we had a lot of blooper videos left over for memories, but we completed it. It was a really good way for our group to connect and just have a laugh together. -Alannah (:

31th of July 2012: Today in DEAL the teachers informed us with bad news. They told us that we weren’t allowed to continue with our OutReach program because of some sort of laws that the government made. This news didn’t really affect our group that much because we weren’t really up to the plan of going out to the community. So instead the teachers decided that we have a day where each group can create a stall around the school to promote their organisation. The organisation we chose to promote was ‘Big Brother, Big Sister foundation’. We are going to promote the foundation by giving out posters or brochures about our foundation. During the double session we had a group meeting where we discussed how we are going to prepare for the festival. Me and Roniel were designing banners to display at our stalls. -Jurell

31/7/12 KT: Today in DEAL, we had our first outreach session since term 2 and we were given some bad news. Due to a new change in the law, it was nearly impossible for us to be sent out to reach out to the community. We discussed this and the teachers came up of an alternative idea. An outreach festival was planned where we would have a stall to promote a chosen organization. Without a second thought, our group chose Big Brothers Big Sisters because we really liked what they stood for and what their organization is about. So as a group, we brainstormed about what we wanted to do for our stall. We thought of a lot of stuff like Popcorn machines, Fairy Floss and stuff like that but we were forbidden from using food, so that made us think harder. At the end of the day, we gave roles out to people to do stuff like making the Stall and designing posters and banners.

31st of July 2012 -Frances Abary Today was the very first outreach DEAL lesson that we have had since the holidays. When we came into DEAL the teachers had so bad news for us that would effect our outreach program. Due to laws and legislations that have recently been implemented by the government we are unable to go out anymore which was very unfortunate and devastating to hear, but there was a back up. The teachers said that we would be having an “Outreach Festival” where we choose an organisation and promote them and try to raise awareness of this organisation by building a stall which would attract the people in our school yard. The organisation my group chose was the Big Brothers Big Sisters organisation. This was very exciting news to hear and my group was very excited to get started. Once we split into a group we began brainstorming on what our stall would have and started our meeting. We came up with many ideas such as popcorn machines, fairy floss machines setting up a playstation area in which people donate a gold coin to support our organisation. After brainstorming we each allocated jobs to do. Donte and Jem were in charge of designing posters that will be put up around the school to promote us, Roniel and Peter were in charge creating a banner for our stall which was created by the end of the lesson and me and Lani rang the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organisation to tell them that we would like to support their organisation and asked them if they were bale to send over flyers or even brochures to help us with our promotion.

31/07/12: Today was the very first Outreach lesson for term 3. Before we began, the teachers revealed that they had some bad news for us. Due to laws and registrations that have recently been implemented by the government we are unable to go out anymore. Everyone automatically thought that this would be the end of our outreach program and everyone was devastated that all that hard work had gone to waste. But then the teachers announced that there would be an “Outreach Festival” where each group would have a stall, and they would be selling things or promoting awareness for their chosen organisation. Our group automatically wanted our stall to be dedicated to the Big Brothers Big Sisters organisation. Our group split into mini groups and began working on different ideas for the stall. We came up with some good ideas straight up, like popcorn, fairy floss and a playstation tournament. Donte and Jem were in charge of designing posters to promote our stall, Roniel, Kane and Peter were in charge of creating a banner and Frances and I contacted the Big Brothers Big Sisters organisation to let them know what we were doing for them. We also asked them if they were able to send over a banner, or some flyers to kick start us. We are now waiting on a reply. -Alannah (:

07th of August 2012: Before we started our group meeting i prepared our meeting agenda. In this meeting we discussed many things such as how our group can be much more appealing than the other stalls. As a group we came up with many great ideas to have at our stalls such as selling fairy floss, having hair spray, and having a popcorn machine. Our group are still deciding on wether to promote Big brother big sister or OzChild. It was still 50/50 because we were leaning on working with Big brother big sister, but OzChild actually sent us a letter saying that they appreciated our work with them and they also provide us with a brochure with information about this fundraising event called ‘Hair gone wild’. Towards the end of the day the year 9 DEAL group brought us into the briefing area to tell us something important. They said that every group besides the group selling sausage sizzles are not allowed to use food as a way to attract students to their stall. This is because of many reasons such as allergies, food poisoning and there would be too much food being sold and too much food to eat! This information made every other group strive to become the one to stand out at the festival. We as a group thought this wouldn’t stop as that much because we had ideas like have spray paint or having a crazy hair day. -Jurell

07th of August 2012: Before we started Peter started our group meeting and peter prepared our meeting agenda. In the meeting we discussed many things such as how our group can be much more appealing than the other stalls. As a group we came up with many great ideas to have at our stalls such as fairy floss, having hair spray and having a popcorn machine. Our group are still deciding on wether to promote Big Brother Big Sister or OzChild. It was still 50/50 because we were leaning on working with Big brother Big Sister, but OzChild actually sent a letter saying that they appreciated our work with them and they also provide us with a brochure with information about this fundraising event called 'Hair gone wild'. Towards the end of the day the year 9 DEAL group selling sausage sizzles are not allowed to use food as a way to attract students to their stall. This is because of many reasons such as allergies, food poisoning and there would be too much food being sold and too much food to eat. This information made every other group strive to become the one to stand out at the festival. -Jem Tukapua-Broughton

14th of August 2012 -Frances Abary Today the year 9 students staff and other students from the college attended the Youth Summit which was hosted by the 20th Man Fund which is run by Les Twentyman and his team of youth workers. During this summit we had several of guest speakers to speak about what they were doing as an outreach program to help the youth in the western suburbs and spoke about their experiences as well. The first guest speaker was an ex police officer who now works with Mr Les Twentyman and spoke about the education of students and expulsion and suspension and saying how many students are getting expelled and suspended within the years and what happens when these students get expelled or suspended. The next speaker was Mr Les Twentyman who spoke about his past experience of teaching, being a sports teacher and his experience working with the youth in the 20th Man Fund. The next guest speaker was the CEO of the organisation, IEmpower which is a organisation that helps mentor youths after him a footy player from Carlton came to speak us about his life experiences when he was a teen. After him a lady from the Melbourne Storm and a member from the Western Bulldogs came to speak to us about the programs that they are running at their clubs to help the youths in the area. The last speaker was a man from New Zealand who spoke about the experiences he went through and what he is doing now to support the local youths.

Today the whole year level went to a Summit, and there were many guest speakers there wanting to talk to us. The main topic of this Summit was how kids/students should stay in school to learn and not drop out. They were explaining to us how the numbers of kids dropping out of school had increased a lot and that many kids were not interested in staying in school. The first speaker spoke about how many kids were now being suspended and even expelled due to bad behaviour and not wanting to learn. Normally if a student gets expelled, they would look for a new school, but he was explaining how now that has changed, and many students are just dropping school after being expelled. Many other speakers talked about the same thing, along different lines and they also added their own personal experiences to their speech. We heard many different stories from different people, and they all taught us different lessons. I really liked the story of the starfishes because it explains a lot, and it says that even by helping just one person you are making a difference, so don’t be discouraged if there is a lot of work to do or there are a lot of people to help. -Alannah (:

14 of August 2012. Today the year 9 level were involved in the Youth Summit. We had seven guests speakers share stories of their lives and how we can help or stay out of trouble. There was three guests speakers that spoke about how football teams help out the youth of today. There was also a x cop that talked about how gangs would fight and how people would orgamise fights over the interent. The staff i took away from it is that i did not know that football teams help out the youth of toady and people orgamise fights over the interent. -Jem Tukapua-Broughton

14th of August 2012: Today the Year 9‘s attended a summit performed by the ‘Les twentyman‘ by the 20th man foundation at our school hall. In this discussion many guess speakers talked about the disadvantages of children without education. They informed us on how lucky we are to have this ability and opportunities in life; that we should we will have consequences for our bad decisions, and that we might not get rewarded for the things we have done. One of the guess speakers told us throughout our journey to success there will be a time where we will come to a blockage. And when we encounter this blockage we should find a way to go around it. One of the football guess speakers told us that if you do not work hard for your team, you’re not letting yourself down, you’re letting all your team members down. -Jurell

21/08/12: Today In DEAL, we firstly did Rock and Water. It was a pretty fun lesson because we started to punch with the punching bags with a partner and it was good to get all of our anger out. We then went into the library and we talked about integrity and honour, and we watched a video about a man in the olympics who never gave up. He kept going in his olympic race even though he had torn his hamstring. Then after recess, we came inside to briefing and learnt about the paperwork we would have to complete for Outreach. We then went off into our Outreach groups and kept working. We had our meeting and we talked about what we were doing to do with our stall. Frances and I called up Big Brothers and Big Sisters and left a message for them thanking them for the posters and flyers, and asked if there was anything else they could send over to us. We also folded up all of the flyers we received and put them in piles. Overall, it was a pretty successful day as we sent off an email to Ms Constantino telling her what we were doing on the day and getting everything organised. We are now on the right track for Outreach. -Alannah (:

21st of August 2012: Today we gathered into the briefing area to read through the paper work together with Mr Jilbert. There was two sets of sheets we looked at, one was the outreach rubric and the other one was the evidence guide. We first looked through the outreach rubric reading through the standard column on the table. There were 8 different columns that we are assessed on. After reading through rubric in great detail we had a look at the evidence guide. In this sheet we had to provide evidence of our work into this to prove that we have worked efficiently throughout the outreach project. After these set of paperworks presented to us we continued on to our outreach group where we began our group meeting. In this meeting Frances was the chair person and i was the minute person. During this group meeting we discussed again the stuff we need to bring for the festival. We came with an idea of bringing an Xbox that costs $1 for each game for every student. And with every student that plays they will receive a brochure about Big brother, Big sister. -Jurell

21st of August 2012: Today in Out Reach we sat in the briefing aria where Mr. Jilbert was discussing with us the paper work that was required of us to fill out for our Out Reach group about what we have done, he also showed us of how we are being assessed on this task. Then when we broke out into our groups Ms. Costantino had a word with all of her groups which was including my group, she was telling us that we had to come up with something that was unique. So we had our meeting and wrote down a lot of things in our Google docs and we pretty much know what we are going to do for the day of the fete (info in docs). Today what I did was continue working on the poster for around the school and I have finished it. -Donte

28th of August 2012: In today's DEAL session, our task was to think of as many ideas of how we can publicise our group and our goals. We had so many ideas but sadly, most of them were taken by the other groups. It took us quite awhile to think of our next idea. When we came up with our next idea, the teacher told us that we couldn't do it, therefore we needed to think of another one again. It took time but we finally came up with an idea that is not taken. The team worked well today, we all worked as a team, by sharing our ideas and more. - John Roniel

28th of August 2012 -Frances Abary Today was in DEAL we started off in briefing. In briefing they told us that we need to come up with an idea to publicise our event and our stall. We straight away came up with the idea of speaking on the announcement speaker but then that idea was taken away. So as a group we brainstormed many ideas such as making an Edmodo group, making a poster on a big piece of cardboard and placing it around he school, sending a note out in every homeroom tub so that each student can collect one, creating a youtube commercial that can be seen during homeroom. Unfortunately all these ideas were taken and we all became very frustrated on what to do because we had no other idea, so we then decided that we were going to finish off our evidence guide and ring Big Brothers, Big Sisters to ask them about the banner they are going to send over until we come up with an idea. This DEAL lesson was properly the most frustrating lesson as some members of the group were not co-operating and weren’t helping out, but eventually we cam up with an idea. We came up with having little packs that include information about our organisation, information on our stall and stickers of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program. As a group we will need to complete the packs by next tuesday so that we are able to hand it out by next thursday after school at the front of the gates.

28/08/12: Today in DEAL, we went into our Outreach groups in Period 3. In this lesson today we really had to start getting everything organised and locking in what we are doing on the day of the fete. We asked Ms Constantino about our shaving cream event that we came up with last week but she said we had to come up with how it linked to our organisation. I came up with the reason that it is something fun to do, and that the children of Big Brothers Big Sisters don’t get to have fun very often, and so we are very privileged to do this, but Ms Constantino said we needed more work on that concept and that we were capable of coming up with another reason. We also had to organise how we were going to publicly show everyone what we were doing for our stall. We came up with two ideas straight away, talking at Assembly and announcing it over the microphone but when I went to line up to tell Mr Jilbert, both of them got taken before I got there. We came up with many more ideas during the day which either got knocked back or were already taken by another group, and by Period 6 we had no more ideas left and we were really stuck. Near the end of the lesson, we came up with the idea of show-bags. We asked Ms Constantino and she told us that we should make little packs with posters and stickers and hand them out a day next week after school in front of the school gates. We asked Mr Jilbert if this was possible and he said yes and that it was a great idea. We submitted the little sticky note with this idea on the website so it was locked in. Today we were definitely off to a slow start, but we are eventually got most of what we needed to do done. Next week, we have to focus all of our energy into making the packs (as we need 300-400) and getting some of the evidence and paperwork for our group finished. -Alannah (:

28/8/12 KT: Today in DEAL we worked with our outreach groups on ways we can promote our event. Our goal was to choose a unique way to advertise what we are going to do on the out reach festival. We chose many ideas from making an animation to talking about it at the Indoor Soccer Competition. Finally we came up with an idea of making show bags that consisted of posters and stickers and information about our stall. Today, we also needed to finalize what we were going to do with our stalls. Dante suggested a brilliant idea. People would pay two dollars to throw shaving cream bombs at someone sitting still on a chair. We told our mentor Ms Costantino but she told us we had to find a way to link it to our organisation. We struggled to find something so we gave up that idea and we went back to our FIFA 12 X-Box Tournament idea. We thought this would be a good idea for the outreach festival so we delegated roles on who was bringing what and we also made a list of music to play on the day.

28th of August 2012. Today in DEAL we worked with our outreach groups on ways promote our event. Our goal was to choose a unique way to advertise what we are going to do on the out reach festival. We chose many ideas from making an animation to talking about it at the indoor soccer competition. Finally we came up with an idea of making show bags that consisted of posters and stickers and information about our stall. Toady, we also needed to finalize what we were going to do with our stalls. Donte suggested an idea were people would pay two dollars to throw shaving cream bombs at someone sitting still on a chair. We told our mentor Ms Costantino but she told us we had to find a way to link it to our organisation. So we went back on our old idea which was the FIFA 12 X-box tournament idea. We thought this would be a good idea for the outreach festival so we delegated roles on who was bringing what and we also made a list of music to play on the day. -Jem Tukapua-Broughton.

11th of September 2012: Today we had no RAW so we straight away started our DEAL program. This will be the last lesson we have together as a group to have our project completed and ready for the big day. So today we made sure that we accomplished what ever was needed for the festival. Ms Costantino approached our group and had a wanted to get an update on our group. She made sure that each and every one of us had something to do for the rest of the day so we assigned everyone a job to do. We immediately went to work on different things. Me and Jem worked on the Evidence guide while the Donte, Frances and Lani worked on the banner. Roniel wrapped up the rest of the packs together. On the banner we added the Big brother big sister logo to show that we were supporting them. While we were putting all the packs together, we wondered what else we could put inside, to increase the chances of students wanting to get our packs, because at the moment we only had a little poster giving our details for the festival. We eventually came up with an excellent idea of putting a few lollies in the bag; this will surely attract more students ! Jem’s dad brought a whole bag oh lollies during recess which we then divided it into all the packs. At the end of the day we got the banner completed and over 100 packs ready to be given to the students. Before we started packing all our mess up, we as a group had a quick meeting to finalise our plans for the festival. Here’s what we are having: Xbox played indoors on the portable board, music playing at our stall, brochures to hand out and our banner put up on display over our stall. We have also decided to hand out our packs on Thursday after school at the gates when the students are going out. This was a very productive day for our group and we are all prepared for the festival. Well done ! -Jurell

18th of September 2012 Today was the big day, the Outreach festival. Everyone had lots of fun, it was a great experience. For my groups stall, we had brochures and price bags, music and Xbox. The attraction that got most of the people's attention was the Xbox. The Xbox idea was successful. Everyone in the group and other groups worked very well today. There was great cooperation in our group and great respect. Well done to everyone in our group, and every other groups. -John Roniel Limueco

18th of September 2012. Toady was the Outreach festival. All of the year levels had a lot of on day, it was great day and a good experience. Our stall had music a Xbox, brochures and price bags.The attraction that got most people was the Xbox that was a good idea which was Kane's idea. The other stalls had great ideas as well such as face painting, water ballons and other great ideas. We also had a bucket where people could donate stationery which we could give to Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Over all the day went very well i believe we did a great job and all the other groups did a great job to.

18th of September 2012: Today was the big day. The day where we put all our hard work on display and to sponsor our charity proudly. We had all our equipment ready at our stall and we started designing our stall following the design we did on Google Sketchup. We had everything at our stall but we had a problem with the TV. The group next to us kindly allowed us to switch positions so that we were nearer to the portable screen.

Throughout the day we had a Xbox competition which required a $1 donation for 1 game. At our stall we had brochures and posters that was handed out to students walking by. We attracted students by playing music at our stall.

I believe that as a group we worked really well together to come this far. We have had little difficulties during the Outreach festival but we have worked away around it. -Jurell