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Group 10

 * Mentor:** Ms.Elmer - Blue Temperament


 * Group Members: **

JF:Jasmyn Fautua - Blue Temperament TM:Tayla Mazzone - Blue Temperament CS:Courtney Sandham - Blue Temperament AP:Alex Pugliese - Blue Temperament RA:Ricardo Almeida - Blue Temperament NS:Nikola Salapura - Blue Temperament MC:Marlon Carub- Blue Temperament


 * Organisations:**
 * Animal Aid
 * Pets Heaven
 * Early Learning childcare & kinder

Our aim is to help the youth of our community and help them grow into our community and get them involved in a fun and enjoyable way, or to help animals
 * Aim:**


 * Desired Outcomes:**


 * Values:** Love, Respect, Adventure, Trust, Happiness, Passion **&** Honesty
 * Motto:** Love with passion, honesty and happiness while taking adventure and trusting people with all respect.
 * Strengths:** Confidence, supportive, helpful, organised, happiness, good with IT
 * Weakness:** Easily Distracted, not comfortable with IT, not comfortable infront of a big group and talk a lot.

What are some things that the shelters may need, that we can help provide? How old can we be to be able to volunteer? What things are involved in volunteering? Will we be able to go every tuesday to help out? What are some jobs we can help out with? Can all of us be able to volunteer? Which hours are suitable for us to volunteer?
 * Questions you need to ask and answer...**

__** 1-5-12 **__ NS- Absent

JF- Today, was a quiet day because half the year level went on an excursion. We had Ms.Elmer and Miss.Williams for the day and we were getting advice and ideas on what we could do for our outreach project. We done a very fun and interesting activity which was called “What temperament am I?” I found it very useful and interesting to find out what type of person I was, and how that effects the way you work. I am a blue temperament and I found it useful how to persuade other people to get what I want using their temperament. It was also interesting to find out what other people are and if you have to many people of the same colour in your outreach group, your project will go a specific way. After we finished this activity we watched a movie called “Pay it forward.” Its about a little boy who is given an assignment by his new teacher to change the world. He comes up with a great idea that starts with him. He will help three people who will help another three people and soon if every-one keeps doing it, it will make the world a better place. The little boy had tried to help the homeless man, his new teacher and and boy from school. Although he didn’t realise it, he made a difference to these people and they did the same thing to others and it kept going, even thought the results weren’t shown straight away. When he succeeds with helping the boy from school he gets stabbed by others kids from school and dies. It had an amazing effect on his communities life and this also started a campaign in America. On Monday the 30th of April, segment 2 the television show “The project” showed a something called “Kindness Challenge.” It is the same thing as Paying it forward. Its when people help others that can’t help themselves and they do the same thing. It has been shown from research that if you volunteer to help you may get a kindness high, which is when you want to help people do everything. A common questions that was asked on the show was “isn’t it selfish to help others because it makes you feel better?” but the person that was getting interviewed said that it didn’t really matter because the helper and the person getting helped are both getting kindness out of it, just from different perspectives.

C.S : In the first class we had had to choose 5 (five) values that with think that is the most important to us and then we got split into a group who as the same values and each other and luckily I good people in my group which is: Alex Pugliese, Jasym Fautua, Tayla Mazzone, Nikola Salapura and Ricardo Almeida. Once we got our group we had to come up with a name for the group it and, we came up with the best name, it is called ‘ // A Hopeful adventure’. // The reason why we made that heading is because we want to have a fun and safe adventure with the outreach program we are doing. After making up the heading we decided to make a motto because we thought it would be a great idea and in pour motto it as our five values a it goes like this ‘ __ //Love// __ // with // __ //Passion// __//, // __ //Honesty// __ // and // __ //Happiness// __ // while taking // __ //adventures// __ // and trusting // __ //people// __ // with all // __ //Respect// __// ’. //

TM: Today in our DEAL we got our new outreach groups which we will be working with for the rest of the year. In our group we have Jasmyn, Ricardo,Alex,Courtney, Nik and I. We chose our groups according to our values which were Love, Respect, Adventure,Trust,Happiness,Passion and Honesty. We decided to name our group “ A Hopeful Adventure” We chose this name because we all decided it was a good name for anything that we wanted to do. Then we had Mr. De Fazio and Ms Jones come and talk to us about volunteer work they have done. First Mr. De Fazio Talked to us about how he helps out at St.Marks to feed the homeless and help them out. Then Ms Jones told us about how she went to Tanzania in Africa to help out a school with education and equipment. I really liked the presentations, they really showed us how lucky we are to have a house and food to eat. I really enjoyed todays DEAL lesson and am very excited to get started with out outreached groups.

RA: In our first deal class we had to choose five values and then we had got into groups with: Alex, Jasmyn, Nik, Courtney and Tayla. Then we had to think of a group name and we came up with A hopeful adventure. We also decided to make a motto what was ‘love with Passion, Honesty and Happiness while taking adventures and trusting people with all Respect’. Also Mr DeFazio and Ms Jones came and talked about them helping out and Mr DeFazio helped out at St. Marks feeding the homeless and Ms Jones went to Africa to help out with there education.

__** 8-5-12 **__ JF- Today I went my inovation excursion with Ms Saunders, Shannon, Claudia, Nicolle, Charnae, Christian, Mia, Stephanie, Austin and Maria. We went to the Arts Gallery in Federation Square and had an amazing time learning about art and we learnt about how people expressed what happened in their lives and how they felt by the way the brush they use, the colour they use and by the feeling of the painting. We were able to play around with the paint and learn how to mix. We also learnt how much water we needed to use and how that effects the colour. We had a lot of fun and I would like to do it again.

A.P- Today i went to an excursion in the city with miss Commadeur and mr Jilbert. We went around and looked at the kinds of architecture. It was a really fun day and we got to see different building such as churches and theaters, and got to see what they were like and the types of architecture used. We had quick lunch at Melbourne Central and had to get back on the train. Overall we had a great day and it was even a great time taking the train into the city.\

TM: Today was a really exciting day because we got to choose our mentors for our outreach groups. We chose Miss Elmer because out of everyone that wanted to work with us we felt she was the best choice as she would keep us focussed and on task. we then started our first meeting, we chose that I would be chairmen and Jasmyn would me minutes person. We then looked up places where we could help out with kids or animals.

NS- Today I was supposed to go to the Mars space centre but i was unable to go due to being sick.

__** 15-5-12 **__ JF- Today we got our mentors. We had to fill out an outreach agenda and then present to the teachers (mentors) our details as a group, and if more then one mentor wanted us we were able to choose. We went into the auditions positive and ready, we had already decided on our mentor and all we were doing was trying to convince her to want us as well, but when we got all the teachers to turn around except for Mr.Jilbert we changed our decision and decided to go with Ms.Elmer. We chose Ms.Elmer because she has experience in the Outreach Project, she is good with law, great at getting what she wants, is in the wellbeing team and is the learning development leader. After we had gotten our mentor we started talking about what we wanted to do, how we’re going to do it and where. It was obvious that we wanted to do something with children, but it was a hard to agree on which children we wanted to work with; hospital, homes, childcare, kinder etc. We decided that we would research all our ideas, so Tayla and I researched childcare centers, Nik and Ricardo researched hospitals and Alex and Courtney researched animal shelters. They’re two very different things but we are determined to help someone or something, even if its just putting a smile on their face.

//C.S -// In todays class we had to crate presentation about our group and what we have to do for the out reach program. The presentation has to be in front of all the teachers and we had to choose who will be our. After we presented the teachers had to discuss who would want to be our mentor for the group and we had nearly all the teachers to turn around and that meant we had to choose out of teachers who would be our mentor and we went into a huddle and discuss who we were going to choose, but at the end we choose Ms.Elmer, because we thought it would be fun having her and we would get things done with her. In the same day we have to discuss what we are going to for the out reach program, and we desisted to do volunteering with animals or maybe helping out with children.

A.P 15-5-2012 Our outreach groups got to chose who they wanted as their mentor. Each group had to come up with a speech talking about what the goals of our group was and what we were wanting to achieve. We had to talk about our values and what our strengths and weaknesses are. We had a couple of the teachers turn around but we chose miss Elmer. After we decided who was our mentor, we had to go back and start thinking about in more detail what we wanted to do for outreach. We’ve had a couple of ideas that are either going to a hospital with teddies to give to all the children as we probably wouldn't be aloud to do anything else in the hospital, we thought that this would be a good idea as most children in hospitals need some cheering up and it would be great to be able to put a smile on their face. Our other idea was to go to an animal shelter to help out with maybe walking, washing, feeding etc with all the animals that are at the shelter. We aren’t really sure which one we would rather do, so we are researching more about them.

Outreach Reflection 15-512 NS-Today in outreach we got mentors. Our Group had to fill in our values and present then to the teachers (mentors). When we presented our little presentation to the teachers I thought it was pretty good and all the teachers picked us except Mr. Jilbert but if we had more then one teacher choose us we got to decide who we wanted and the teachers that picked us were Ms Commadeur, Ms Costantino, Ms Saunders, Ms Williams and Ms Elmer the teacher we chose. I wanted Ms Elmer for our mentor because I think she will be a really good contributor to our group in the way that when we want to go out somewhere she will push for it and she will be encouraging us to go out and help and get our work done. Also last week we all researched different child care centres and aslo we looked at a few hospitals. Also today we have been talking with Ms Elmer about what our ideas are and what we wanted to do, we have not yet decided what we want but we have an idea to help animals and to help kids. They are two very different things but we feel that it is a good idea because there are a lot of kids that need our help and also a lot of animals in shelters that need our help. and all we want to do is put smiles on there faces and have heaps of fun with them and make them feel good.

C.S: In today class we had to get split up into our reach out groups and we had to have a meeting with our mentor which is Ms.Elmer. In the meeting we talked about what we going to do, and we decided to do something with animals. We hope to help any kind of pets or animals that are needed to take care of, we hope to donate blanks, animal food and a lot more. After the meeting we had to research on how to take care of animals and what good and bad for them.
 * __ 22-5-12 __**

A.P- today we decided that our first option was to go to an animal shelter and if that doesn't work out then we’d look at hospitals and children. We spoke to our mentor and it seems like a good idea. We started finding places but they were all a bit too far, so we are currently trying to find ones that are closer. We also finished off our reflections and organised a poster that represents our group. It turned out really good and we enjoyed making it.

29/5/2012 NS- Today in Outreach we had to split into our groups and have a small meeting with our mentor which is Ms. Elmer and we talked about what we wanted to do and we had the idea of helping animals and like them things like toys and blankets and other things like that. After the meeting we went of and researched on some animal shelters that we might go to and when we would go and like how we would get there and what we would take and other we researched for the rest of the lesson.

JF-Today we started editing our website. We put all our reflections on it and we’re able to make final decision. We decided to try and help animals, and if we’re unsuccessful then we will look at helping children. We had a small meeting with our mentors and she also believes that its good that we have a back up plan just in case we get knocked back. After the meeting we kept researching and finished off our reflections and count up with anything we didn’t finish.

__** 29-5-12 **__ A.P- Today we had rock and water in the morning. After the morning we got into our outreach groups and fixed up our wiki pages and our google docs. We did our agenda and had a bit of a discussion together talking about what we want to do and the kind of things we need to sort out. We printed out our poster as well and it looked awesome on a big piece of paper

5/6/2012 NS- in Outreach today we did a lot of research on what we wanted to do, we have are still keeping an open mind on what we want to do but we have one idea that we really want to do, we want to go to an animal shelter and help and play with animals. One reason we chose this is is because originally we wanted to go to a hospital and help the children but we didn’t go with that idea because most of the groups had the same idea and we wanted to do something different to everyone else. Also today we have been working on a poster and the poster consisted of our group name and our group motto we made this because we wanted people to see what we were all about. We are also working on our logo for the group, and the last thing we have been doing is our reflections, doing a reflection is a really good thing to have so you don’t forget and so u can recap on what you have been doing the past weeks.

JF-Today we started off with Rock and Water in the morning. In outreach we got into our groups and edited all our reflections and our google docs. We did our agenda and then spoke about what we wanted to do for the animal shelters. We came up with the idea of having a competition and making a dog kennel and a cat post.

TM: ABSENT

//C.S:// Today I explored the wonderful journey of writing reflection nearly all day because I forgot to write it last week, so I had to write today reflection and last week, so I did that most of the day but, other then that it was like a catch up lesson and we just discuses what we have to do for here on in, like how are we going to raise money for everything that we would need? and What we would need? to do.

__** 5-6-12 **__

JF-Today was our last outreach lesson before our exams. We didn’t make much more progress, and we could have gotten a lot more things done. The absence of our group doesn’t help us and therefore it is very hard for us to evenly spread out the amount of work. We all worked together to fix up our website, but we still have some things to finish. I made the agenda for next week as well as catching up on my reflections. Alex, Courtney and Nikola researched animal shelters, which was hard because we had to find a suitable place, as well as a close place, as well as a place that would take us in. We didn’t get time to discuss any plans with our mentor yet, but we definitely will next week.

TM: ABSENT

A.P- Today we had rock and water in the morning. After the morning we got into our outreach groups and fixed up our wiki pages and our google docs. We did our agenda and had a bit of a discussion together talking about what we want to do and the kind of things we need to sort out. We printed out our poster as well and it looked awesome on a big piece of paper.

//C.S:// Today for out reach program, we had exams for period 1,2, 3 and 4 so now we only have period 5 and 6 and the only we have to do as much as we can, but we are all mostly working on our reflections for today and if we have missed out on anything these passed lessons we will catch up on it, so this is like a catch up lesson.

NS- Today in Outreach we had our exams period 1,2,3 and 4 so we only had periods 5 and 6 to work on out Outreach and for most of the 2 periods we just did some catching up on our blogs and caught up on any work on wiki spaces that needed to be done.

__** 19-6-12 **__ NS-In Outreach today we have got a lot done, we made 2 phone calls to Lort Smith Animal Hospital and also a phone call to Bunnings Warehouse. We called Lort Smith to ask if it was possible to make some things like kennels scratch post etc. they said they would love for us to do that we just needed to set a date and time for when we could go so we have to send of of that information in an email at a later date. We called Bunnings to ask if they could donate some materials that we may need to assist us in buildings the stuff for the animal hospital. When we rang they said we need to send an email telling them what materials we need and when by and we also said to them if they need anything for example to assist in an sausage sizzle we could do that. We also started to write our email to Bunnings we have finished it and got it checked by a teachers and the teacher just proof read it and them we had to make a good copy with all of our grammar corrected. We also talk to our mentor, Ms Elmer about how we are going to organize it and when and where we are going to do all of it.

//C.S:// In today out reach lesson we had to call Bunnings in Caroline Springs and a animal hospital called Lort Smith which is in North Melbourne. So the first person we called was the animal hospital and we booked a appointment to go meet with them on the first week when school starts which is really exciting and then after we called them, we had to ring Bunnings to see if we could some supplies like wood and tools to make a couple of dog kennels and two cat scratching post to donate to the animal hospital. But they said that we had to make up a letter and send it off to them so it can maybe get approved of us getting.

JF-Today we were very organized and we called the LortSmith Animal Hospital and Bunnings Warehouse. We called in Lort Smith in regards to ask if they were interested in our donations of a dog kennel. We called bunnings to see if they would be kind enough to give us the equipment we need. We wrote a letter them and are now waiting for the reply.

AP-Today in outreach we called both the Lort Smith animal home and Bunnings, we called the Lort smith to see if we could organise a time for us to go there and help out with the animals, we organised with them that we will go in on the first week of next term which was pretty exciting for all of us. We then called Bunnings to see if they could supply us with wood etc so we could make a few kennels and scratch posts to donate, but they said that we need to put it in writing and send the letter to them. __** 26-6-12 **__ //C.S:// In today's out reach lesson we had to call Bunnings in Caroline Springs and a animal hospital called Lort Smith which is in North Melbourne. So the first person we called was the animal hospital and we booked a appointment to go meet with them on the first week when school starts which is really exciting and then after we called them, we had to ring Bunnings to see if we could some supplies like wood and tools to make a couple of dog kennels and two cat scratching post to donate to the animal hospital. But they said that we had to make up a letter and send it off to them so it can maybe get approved of us getting.

JF- In todays class we called the Lort Smith in North Melbourne and Bunnings in Caroline Springs. First of all the Lort Smith and we booked an appointment to go meet on the first week when school starts. We were really excited that we finally were getting somewhere and making progress. But to be successful we would need to write a letter. So we did and Ricardo took it in on his way home from school.

AP- In outreach today we called the Lort Smith again to make sure that we were still going in on the first week of next term and they said that everything was good which we are happy that we are finally getting to do something. We also had to draft a letter to bunnings about the supplies we needed, Ricardo dropped that off to them after school so we are know waiting for their reply. __** 31-7-12 **__

//C.S:// In today’s class it was very dramatic because there is a new law saying that kids in schools aren’t allowed to go out of school grounds without teachers supervision at all times, so that kind of stuffs up nearly all the out reach groups. But the Hope for the future group (my group) was struggling just a little bit because we had everything under control but we have to change a few thing but we are still on track, but we have o figure out, Who we are donating the cat scratch post and dog kennels too?

JF- Todays class didn't go to plan. At the start of our lesson we were told that a new law came in that students from any school were not allowed to go out of school without teacher supervision at all times. This totally stuffed up our plans and we were all forced to work around the problem. We were told that at the end of the term we will be having a school festival/carnival so that we can still promote our organisations and give them what they need. We had to call up the Lort Smith and tell them that we were no longer able to go there and help them but we would some how make it up to them. We also had to call bunnings and let them know we were no long able to go there and pick up any of our equipment that we needed so we cancelled that too. Marlon told us that he had his dogs old kennel that he was happy to donate so we called up the Lort Smith again and told them that we would still be able to help them.

AP-In today’s class we got told from the teachers that new laws have recently got put out that we can’t go anywhere without a supervised teacher,-which kind of wreck our and everyone else’s plan for outreach. So our year level decided to have a fair/carnival kind of thing where each group will have a stall set up where we need to promote our foundation to the school. This makes things a bit tricky for us as we have to cancel the Lort Smith and tell them what is happening now. __** 7-8-12 **__

__** 14-8-12 **__ = = NS- Today in outreach all of the year 9 got to meet Les Twenty Men. We had a lot of guest speakers come as well, a lot of it was a bit boring but i did get a lot out of it. they talked a lot about gangs in melbourne and how that a lot of kids now are not going to school and getting into trouble with the law. We evan had heath Scotland come to talk to us about how he grew up and how he didn’t like going to school, but he told us that we need our education to get to where we want to go. Overall it was a very good and inspiring session and i got a lot out of it and i think everyone else should watch and listen to the 20 men group because they are very good at what they do.

A.P- Today we had lots of different speakers to come talk to us. Some were hard to understand and a little boring, but overall it was good. The most thing that they brought up is that not attending school and not caring about school can have a bigger impact than we think, even footy players need to have an education because after they retire they still have a lot of times that they need to have a job. Also that people who aren’t in school are getting into more gangs and trouble because they’re on the streets instead of school, Heath Scotland said that sometimes you have to take sacrifices in life like he did for his footy career, he couldn’t go out and drink with his mates or go out very much.

JF- Today we had a variety of speakers come in and talk to us about children that live on the street or who have been abused at home. Some where very boring and hard to listen/hear, but the ones I could hear were really good and I was very touched because that was the type of work I've always wanted to do and here were people doing exactly that....my role-models. One guy said that sometimes you need to give something up now so that you can succeed in the future.

__** 21-8-12 **__ AP- Today in outreach we canceled our plans with the Lort Smith and contacted the Lost Dogs Home and asked if they were happy with us promoting us to the school which they were fine with, so we now have The Lost Dogs Home to promote, as the Lort smith couldn’t really help us there. We also organised with them to send out flyers to us and posters to have up at our stall, and started organising if they could be able to bring a dog in for our stall which they said they will let us know. __** 28-8-12 **__ NS- Today in Outreach we had a kennel donated to us from Marlon’s dad. After we got it we started to get some equipment together, we got some sand paper, lots of paint and some paint brushes and containers. Then when we got all of those things we started to get the news paper and put it under the kennel and then we started painting, the colors that we have been using are white and blue. We are going to be doing most of the kennel whit and we are putting blue poor prints all over it. We have now finished all of the white painting around it and now waiting for it to dry so when go do an over coat but the bad thing is we now have to wait until the next deal day to do this. We haven’t been as good on our organization lately and now its going to take longer to do and we don’t have that much time left but we should get it all done. Today we have also called the Lost Dogs Foundation and on the day of the festival they will be bringing a dog in to help with our promotions. We have also got same fliers and posters to put around the school to show everyone what we are trying to do, we also have been putting in the bulletin asking if people have any blankets or dog beds that they don’t use and to if they could donate them to our group so we can also donate them to charity.

JF-Today in Outreach, Marlons dad brought us the kennel. We were so excited we started to work on it straight away. We had a few dramas with the other groups, but it didn't matter. We were finally making progress and we now have something to show for it. It was also confirmed that we will be getting a dog to come to our store. The kennel came in period 3 and 4 so in period 1 and 2 we got all the paint, sand paper and all the instruments that we would need prior to that. We painted it all pretty fast and it only took a while before we could do the send layer. It looks really good now, all we have to do is the paw prints.

AP- Today in outreach we started painting a kennel that marlin brought in that he wasn't using anymore, we decided as a group we were going to re-paint it and donate it to the lost dogs home from us. So as soon as it came we sandpapered it and by period 5 we were ready to paint it which we did, all of us as a team. I called the Lost Dogs Home again today and they said that it was fine for them to bring a dog in which we are all very excited about. While we were waiting for the paint to try we organised more of what our stall was going to look like and organised posters to put around the school.

__** 4-9-12 **__ JF-Absent

//C.S:// For Outreach today we had to finish sanding the dog kennel the dog kennel that Marlon that Marlon kindly donated to us the pervious lesson, but we had to sand it inside and out because we don’t want any dog to get splinters in there feet. It was a really hard because the kennel is so massive that meant we had to do much more work. It is that big that Tayla and I both fit in it and we still had room for another person.

AP- Today in outreach we did the second layer of the paint on the kennel, and now the kennel looks great! all we need to do is put dog paws on it next lesson and it will be done, i again called the Lost Dogs Home to finalise details.

__** 11-9-12 **__ JF- Today is our last day to do everything. Ricardo and Marlon are making the posters, Alex is replying back to the lort smith, Courtney and Nik are doing the paw prints so that after recess we can finish the kennel. In period 3 and 4 Nik and I went on with the paper work, Courtney and Alex did the banner and Marlon and Ricardo are getting us ready to paint the kennel.

//C.S:// In today’s Outreach class we had a very productive day we had caught up on nearly all the paper work we had to fill out and we finally finished the dog kennel and we had painted the area around the dog kennel whit so it stands out and we put multi coloured poor prints on it to show that it is a dog kennel and on the frame of the dog kennel we decided to paint it and really nice blue to sand out, the paint jobs are a little rough around the sides but that just shows how much don’t do art! Today had to be one of the best moments I have had with my group for a very long time.

AP- Today was our last outreach day before the stall which was both exciting and rushed as we still had so much to do, so in the morning we all got up to date with any blogs that we had missed and then i emailed the Lost Dogs Home to tell them what time they will be coming on next tuesday while Nik and Courtney cut out the dog paws for us to use on the kennel and poster for our stall and jasmine finalised all the paperwork and Ricardo and Marlin fixed up the paint on the kennel and cleaned it a bit, Then me and courtney did the poster for our stall and by the end of period 3+4 we were ready to put the paw prints on the kennel in period 5+6. After we finished the kennel we were all so excite and proud of it.