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17/4/2012 DEAL lesson 1 In DEAL today we had a first rock and water session we learn’t how to stay grounded, centered and focused, We learn’t how to stay strong and focus while we are in the red zone. We did rotations and went to the library. We learn’t about how to write a sincere letter and e-mail and we also learn’t about how to introduce yourself in a job interview. Then after recess we were put into groups based on our values. The members in my group are Patrick G, Alex BB, Jofer, Maria, Jess M and I. We got into groups for our out reach project and we discussed our values. We also discussed our strengths and our weaknesses. We then made a decision to work together and assign ourselves to the things that we are good at. Then after lunch we had two guest speakers Mr. D-fazio and Ms Jones talked about there out reach projects and how they made/are making a difference in the world. Mr. D-fazio spoke about how he volunteers at a homeless shelter in the city. He explained to us how he helps others and the simple things we can do to help others. Then Ms Jones spoke to us about her project overseas and what she did to help others and how it changed her perspective on life. Ms Jones taught english to disadvantaged children overseas. Ms Jones spent 6 months teaching children the things that we know here in Australia. I found both there stories very interesting and there stories inspired me to do something that would help make a difference in society or in other countries over the world. I am very excited to help an organisation or foundation to make a difference. Hopefully there stories inspired other people in our year level to make a difference or help out in some way... Alanah Buhin

24/4/2012 DEAL lesson 2 In DEAL today we had another rock and water session and in that session we learn’t about how to punch gradually and to stay as calm as possible while defending yourself. We also learn’t how to make the KI noise while breathing out.We spent most of the day working on our out reach projects and preparing ourselves for the coming weeks and wrote down, what we plan to do for the next coming weeks. We had a new member join our group today and her name is Maria. she recently moved here and has been allocated to our group. Hopefully with a new member in our group we will have more knowledge and more enthusiasm added to our group. We started researching all the organisations that we could have access to in order to begin planning our mission for this out reach project. We decided on our names and started discussing who would be suited for certain roles. We discussed our strengths and weaknesses. Together as a group we decided to work on the things we are good at and to help eachother with the areas our other group members struggle with... Alanah Buhin

1/5/2012 DEAL lesson 3 In DEAL today we did rotations. In each rotation we learn’t new things. In one of our rotations we learn’t about meetings and how to run a meeting. In our next rotation we learn’t about phone etiquette, How to write a formal e-mail and letter and How to act during a job interview. Later on that day we watched a movie called ‘Pay It Forward’. Just briefly the movie was about a boy who was willing to do 3 good things for someone only if they would do the same. So some people started reacting to this great idea. They began helping others and the good work would continue. We then finished our DEAL for the day and were given a task to watch one of the projects interviews. We were told to watch a recent episode on The Project TV show. The episode was about a million acts of kindness. A million acts of kindness is a cause where you pledge to do something nice for someone and they have to pass on the good deed. A million acts of kindness is a very similar concept just like the theme for the movie ‘Pay It Forward’. If everyone does something good for someone the good work will continue and it will make the world a happier and easier place to live... Alanah Buhin

8/5/2012 DEAL lesson 4 In DEAL today we went on our out reach excursions. My excursion was Marvolous Melbourne. We spent the whole day walking through melbourne and looking at all the awesome architectured building surrounded in melbourne. We went to Federation square, The Princess Theatre, A beautiful anglican church and more. We answered questions and took many photos. We went all over melbourne and learn’t lots about our city and how it became so marvolous. We were later on rewarded and were allowed to wander in melbourne central for 30 mins then we walked around a little more and finally were on our way home. Today was a good day and I learn’t a lot from this excursion... Alanah Buhin

22/5/2012 DEAL lesson 5 In DEAL today I was absent because I was sick. I was told that they filled out the ATO forms, had people from Sydenham come and talk about subject selection and that they were given advice on future education choices and had a R’n’W session... Alanah Buhin

29/5/2012 DEAL lesson 6 In DEAL today we worked in our groups for the majority of the day. In my group we researched organisations and foundations and decided on 1 option and 2 extra back-up options. We chose the 20th man foundation which focuses on helping people that were brought up in a bad state and have had traumatic experiences in there life. We have decided to send the 20th man (Les Twentyman) an e-mail and ask him if there was anything that we can do to help his foundation. We made a draft email and sent it to Mrs Saunders. Mrs Saunders looked over our email and showed us the areas that we needed to fix up. We then began to pack up and assigned eachother with tasks to do and roughly planned what we were going to do next week... Alanah Buhin

5/6/2012 DEAL lesson 7 In DEAL today we had another rock and water session. In todays rock and water session we began our chinese boxing which I had a little trouble understanding because I was away when they were taught the chinese boxing. We rotated in a circle and every minute we would switch over and verse someone new. We then worked on our balance and our KI. Then we watched a video on a basketball game in america and we expressed our opinion of the disagreement in the video. We then continued learning how to stay balanced. After that we switched rotations and went to the library and had a discussion with ms costantino about exams and we asked her any questions we were unsure about. Then shortly after we had a 10 minute meditation session to relax our minds and to help us stay calm while studying for exams. After recess we got into our out reach groups and started uploading our blogs, we started a meeting and we continued working on our email to the 20th man. Then after lunch we worked on planning our agenda for next weeks DEAL lesson... Alanah Buhin

12/6/2012 DEAL Lesson 8 Today, We had our English exam and our Health and PE exam. For period 5 and 6 The teacher said that we could just relax and take things slowly due to our exams. We took things slowly and looked over our project. At 2:30 I left school early to attend a dentist appointment. We didn’t do much in this lesson but we planned what we were going to do in our next DEAL lesson... Alanah Buhin

21/6/2012 DEAL Lesson 9 Our DEAL lesson was changed to Thursday 21st of June because we had a day off on tuesday. In DEAL today we started off with a rock and water session. In Rock and Water we joined both the girl groups together and worked on our rock and water salute, we worked on our chinese boxing, balancing 0n our heels and expressing our KI. We then played a game where we had to run away from the taggers and join teams with others to protect ourselves. We learn’t that team work is important and having friends is important because we are all different and that’s what makes us special and unique. We also learn’t that friends can keep us from making stupid decisions and about how important friendship is. We also watched a video on being under the influence of alcohol and how it can effect us in many life threatening ways. We also learn’t that friends are an important part of our life and that they can help us make the right decisions and they can also have an influence on the bad decisions that we make. We also watched another video that expressed the humorous side of preventing bad things from alcohol while under the influence of alcohol. We then changed over and went to the arts area to make a good copy on our goals setting sheets to prepare them for our reports. Then after recess we spent the 2 periods working on our out reach project. We had a new member join our group and his name is Liam Malady. We then had a meeting and filled him in on our project and what it is that we are working towards. We assigned the people in our group to a task. Jess and I were brainstorming things that we can do to help the 20th man fund. Patrick was working on the Proposal, Alex, Liam, Maria and Jofer were working on the activities and the submission form. After lunch we continued on with tasks and planned what we are going to do next DEAL lesson... Alanah Buhin

26/6/2012 DEAL lesson 10 In DEAL today we started off with Rock and Water. Today we joined both of the girl groups together and had our Rock and Water session. In Rock and Water today we started off with some lunges and sit-ups with a partner, then we did our rock and water stance and practiced our KI’s. Shortly after we were taught a move called the bull and tourier. What we had to do was get into partners and one person had to be the tourier and there role was to block the other person from pushing them over and that other person played the role of the bull. We did this a couple times and changed partners and then we spoke about intution. We learn’t that it is important to listen to your intution because it is the thing that can stop us from making certain decisions. We tested this theory by getting into partners and one of us had to close our eyes and the other had to stand near them and using there intution they had to point in which direction that person was by trusting there intution. We then swaped over and went to the library. In the library we spent period 2 talking about boys and girls. We spoke about appearances and personality. We also spoke about being in bad situations, how they started and what lessoned was learned in making that mistake. Our discussion was also about our actions and how they can affect other people that we care about. Then after recess we worked on our first DEAL video blog. It toke us a long time to make our 2 minute video because some people weren’t willing to cooperate but eventually we finished our video. We then came inside and had 25 minutes to work on our DEAL project we started to upload our video and then went out to lunch. After lunch we were given a period to work on our outreach projects. We had our meeting, discussed what we can do over the holidays so that we don’t forget what we’ve learn’t and we discussed what we want to have finished by next lesson, next term. For the second period we then presented to other mentors what our group is planning to do and why we chose that fund. We explained to them what we did this term and what we plan to do in our group next term... Alanah Buhin

__Tuesday, 1st May__ Today in our Deal lesson, we spoke about the paperwork that we needed to do in our Outreach Programs. I learnt that you have to make sure everything is precise, and clear as to what you want. I never knew how much work that had to be put into paperwork, so I was really shocked and I was a bit scared as to when I have to do it. I learnt that you must do research before you go calling organisations, and that you don’t need to go to organisations that have a lot of money like the Royal Children's Hospital as they get 15 million dollars a year at Easter. We learnt how to plan meetings with our group and in a meeting, someone takes the minutes, someone goes over the agenda and someone is the chairperson which is the person who runs the meeting. We also watched the movie Pay It Forward. This movie is about a little boy, Trevor, who is in school one day and gets an assignment to help the world and make it a better place. Trevor does it by feeding a homeless man, helping his mum and his teacher ‘go out’ with each other, and when he see’s his friend getting bullied, he sticks up for them, even though it ends really bad. At the very beginning of the movie, a man’s car has been crashed and he has no way to get home, when another man gives the man his car and he expects nothing back. It’s like a random act of kindness. Which leads to the next point. I watched the One Million Acts of Kindness articles on The Project, and it was all about doing something small but nice to someone can light up their day. Simple things like hugging someone, or baking cookies can make someone smile. Jess M

__Tuesday, 15th May__ Today in our Deal Lesson, we got in our Outreach Groups and went through the agenda and the minutes for our first group meeting. As it was our first meeting, the teachers had given us a template so that we know how to conduct and set up the meetings that we have in the future. When we had done that, we were told that we were going to be given our mentors, but in an audition way, like The Voice. We had to talk to the Year 9 teachers about our group and what we plan to do and then the teachers would tell us if they would like to be our mentor. Our mentor for 2012 is Ms Saunders. While we were waiting for other groups to do their presentation we were told to look up organisations that we could help throughout the year. Jess M

__Tuesday. 29th May__ Today in our Deal lesson, we mainly focused on working with our Outreach Group. We first had to add all of our blogs to our wikispaces page. After we added our blogs, we started to talk about what direction we wanted to go with our Outreach Group. Our main focus was to help children who are our age who are less advantaged than us. Ms Saunders (our mentor) came to talk to us, and we told her our ideas. She said that we need to have a more clearer idea on what children we want to help, whether it’s kids with cancer, kids who have trouble reading etc. After we talked with Ms Saunders, we wanted to help kids with cancer, but then most organisations that help kids with cancers, you need a working with children's check and you need to be over 18. So then we researched organisisations that are in the western suburbs. After a bit, Maria had found the 20th Man Foundation, by Les Twentyman. His foundation is about helping children who are in need of help and support. We told Ms Saunders that we had found the 20th Man Foundation, and she told us that we should write a email to Les Twentyman. But we first wrote it to Ms Saunders so she could check it before we sent it. After lunch, we had to create a poster that describes our group with a quote. We chose the quote ‘We see the light at then end of every tunnel.’ We created it and then printed it off. And then it was time to go home. Jess M

__Tuesday, 4th June__

Today in our Deal lesson, we had to run another meeting in our Outreach Group. Our group took a bit of time to get our meeting started, but in the end, we didn’t end up running our meeting. Instead of doing the meeting, I was working on my Rock and Water Evaluation. We had decided to start our meeting at 12:00, but when it reached that time, we didn’t do the meeting. Instead, Alanah and I worked on the email that we sent to Ms Saunders for Les Twentyman and we fixed up all the mistakes that we had. When Ms Saunders had found out that we didn’t run the meeting, she came up to us and she told us that we need to work as a team and next Tuesday during our Deal lesson, we are going to have a meeting with her, and on the top of the agenda, we are going to focus on being a team and working together. Jess M

__Tuesday, 12th June__

Today in Deal was pretty laid back. It was laid back because we had just finished our first lot of exams and we were pretty happy that they were done for the day, so Ms Saunders allowed us to take it easy. So because she said ‘take it easy’ I did nothing except talk to people about non related work stuff. I wasn’t really fussed because I was really tired as I couldn’t get to sleep the night before, and I just wanted to relax. Jess M

__Tuesday, 21st June__

A few days before, Les Twentyman had replied to our email about him coming to talk to the year 9’s, and his manager replied with that he’s available to come and talk to us. We notified Ms Saunders, and she said that she was going to look for the available dates and notify Les Twentyman. So today, Patrick is writing the proposal, Alex is doing the permission form and Alanah and I brainstormed what we could do if we do end up working with Les Twentyman. We also welcomed Liam Malady into our group and he has quickly understood what we do in Outreach. Jess M

__Tuesday, 12th June__

Today we had our English and Health and P.E exam, so Ms Saunders allowed us to take it easy during this outreach session. We didn’t do much as we were all relieved our first lot of exams were completed. Jess M

__Tuesday 26th June__ Today in Deal, we had to create a 2 minute video, outlining what our group has achieved and how we are going. We had a lot of trouble starting our video because people wouldn’t co-operate and they wouldn’t do what we were supposed to do. But in the end, we got our video done, and before we knew it, we only had 20 minutes left until lunch because we spent so much time on the video. After lunch, we got an extra 40 minutes to work on Outreach. After the 40 minutes, we presented to other mentors about what our group is doing. We had to present to other mentors because they wanted to know how other groups are working and they want to see the talent that we have to offer to help the community. Jess M

__Tuesday, 24th July__ Today we talked about our subject selections that are available for us in year 10 at CRC Sydenham. It was a pretty long presentation but it had important information for us. They also had year 10 students come talk to us about different subjects. It was good that they came because we got to listen to students who have undertaken the subject and we get to listen from experience. After recess, Les Twentyman was supposed to be coming to our school, but his secretary had put us in his wrong diary and in the diary that he uses, it didn’t say that he was coming. I can’t remember what we did during period 3 and 4, but during 5 and 6, we finished off the subject selection presentation and were told to go on the Sydenham website and look at the subjects that we were interested in. Jess M

__Tuesday 31st July__ Today in deal, we had received devastating news. We were told that the government has changed the excursion laws. We were told that we can’t go out to visit our organisation! That came to a massive shock as our group wanted to help Les Twentyman and the 20th man fund in any possible way. If we really wanted to go out, we would have to fill in a lot of paperwork and when I mean a lot, I mean a lot. The teachers then introduced to us an Outreach Festival. The idea of this festival was for each group to have a stall which would advertise their chose charity/organisation. When we got to our group, we had a big discussion on what we wanted in our stall and how we were going to help the 20th man fund. Our group had the idea that we wanted to place our stall outside the Viscomm room where the lockers are because we thought that would attract a lot of people, but because someone in our group put in the wrong thing when putting our request in, we didn’t get what we wanted. Our group wanted to sell cookies so that the money raised can be given to the 20th man fund, but another group was doing a sausage sizzle and they didn’t want too many people selling food, and obviously, people who are selling nice hot sausages, people would get attracted to that, rather than cookies. So we know have to think of a new idea of what to do at our stall. Jess M

__Tuesday, 7th August__ Today in deal, we were continuing with working on our stalls. A lot of people had their VET interviews (including me) so there was people going in and out all day. To be honest, I didn’t take much notice as to what was going on today in deal because I was so nervous about my interview. Jess M

__Tuesday, 14th August__ Today in deal, Ms Flack talked to us about SWL which is different to work experience. We were told all the valid info that was needed so that we can choose our place where we want to work. The major thing that I got out of that was that we need to choose a place that is related to the subject that we are doing next year. So for me, I chose food processing, if I got into food processing, I would chose something along the lines of bakery. After recess, we had a youth summit with many talkers ranging from Les Twentyman, Heath Scotland from Carlton and a woman working with the Melbourne Storm. There were plenty more people, that was just to name a few. The main message that was from every speaker was that education is the best. For example, Heath Scotland is a Carlton player. He told us that the average football player career only last 4 years. That’s not a long time. If your lucky enough to get in when your 20, you will be done by 24. There are some lucky players who play for years, for example, Dustin Fletcher from the Essendon Football City. But if football players want to have a successful life, they need to have some sort of education behind it, whether or not it will be carpentry, journalism etc. He also said that he needed to sacrifice things to become a football player. He sacrificed going out with his friends on saturday nights because he was determined to get to his goal as an AFL player. So this Youth Summit was telling us to never give in what we want to achieve and that education is very important, even if we don’t think that while we are in school right now. Jess M

__Tuesday, 21st August__ Today in deal, Mr Jilbert went through the outreach assignment rubric and the evidence guide sheet. It was a long process, listening to everything he had to say, and by the end, everyone just wanted ti get up. So the assignment is basically everything that we have done so far put together. It shouldn’t be too hard as long as we have been doing the right thing and storing all of our information correctly. Once we were finished listening to Mr Jilbert, out group got onto our stall. Last week, Les Twentyman said that he could use with some toys to give to his fund, so then we decided that we could collect secondhand toys and maybe buy some. Our group thought that we should put posters around the school, put a notice in the bulletin and newsletter to let people know to that they can donate any toys that they don’t want or need anymore. Alanah and I came up with the idea of going to the classes and giving them a little speech on what we are doing. We came up with Alanah and I going to the 7 and 9’s and I think it’s Liam or Patrick going with Jofer to the 10 and 8’s. So today, we made a bit of progress, but I feel as if we are running out of time as there are only 3 more lessons left. Jess M

__Tuesday, 28th August__

Today in Outreach, we had to focus on how we are going to advertise our stall, so that people come to it. We had come up with multiple ideas such as a video, going to each classroom, speaking over the loud speaker, but when we told Mr Jilbert our ideas, he said that they had already been taken. So after we couldn’t come up with any more ideas, we kind of didn’t do much work, until I decided that we need to do something. I went to the library and got paper and I started working on the poster, advertising the 20th Man Fund. I managed to write the title and our names, but I got distracted throughout that time, so I’m going to do the poster at home and have it ready before next deal lesson. Jess M

__Tuesday, 4th September__ Today’s Deal class was a really good one for our group. It took us a while to figure out where we were going in the beginning of the day, but after we had talked to Ms Saunders about where our group has to go, we finally got moving. We had two decisions to choose from. We were either going to collect toys for our stall by placing boxes in each homeroom or at the start of each lunchtime, we would wait at the front of the library and get kids to come and give us their donated toys. We decided that placing a box in every homeroom was better because they could just place it in there in the morning and move on with the rest of the day. So, Alanah and I went to work to find 22 boxes. We ended up collecting 17, but for the year 9’s we will probably only use 1 as we work as a team. Maria was woking on the posters that would go around the school and on the boxes, Alex, Jofer and Liam were working on how the stall would look, and I think Patrick was working on a brochure that was going to be in our stall. When we printed the posters, we put some around the school, and when we got back, everyone was putting posters on the boxes and they were all done by the end of the day. I also emailed Ms Tomsic about advertising our stall in the bulletin, which I think is a really affective way to get the message across. Jess M

__Tuesday, 11th September__ Today in Deal, our group started off really really slow. We asked the teacher (not Ms Saunders as she was away) if we could send out the boxes to place the toys in for our stall, but we weren’t allowed to go. It was a bit of a shame because that was basically the last time we could do anything Outreach related. So instead of being upset on that, we started working on advertising our stall. Maria, Alanah, Liam and I painted a poster that said: The Miracle Workers Helps The 20th Man Fund”. Maria had done a fantastic job writing all the words so that we could paint it. We came up with the idea of painting our hands and then putting them on the poster, as hands is the motto of the miracle workers. While we were doing the poster, Jofer, Patrick and Alex were focusing on the paperwork that needed to be completed. Jess M

__Tuesday, 18th September__ Today was the big day. The day where all of our hard work went into show in our stall. From 9:15-10:15 was dedicated to setting up our stall and getting it ready for when the classes came through. It took us a while to set up as some people didn’t want to show the toys whereas some people did, so in the end, we only ended up showing only 4-5 toys. We had a problem with where were going to out our poster, that was promoting the miracle workers and the 20th man fund, so after many tries, we finally decided to put it on the poles outside the science lab, even though it wasn’t a great spot, but we couldn’t be fussy. It was then recess, and some students came up to our stall and we told them all about the 20th man fund and what we were doing with the toys. When it was time for the year levels to walk through the school and looking at the stalls, we didn’t get much people coming to our stall. I kind of had a feeling that we wouldn’t get a lot of people as we didn’t prepare enough on promoting our stall and we left everything to the last minute which made us rush even more. As I was walking around, I was looking at other student’s stall and some of them were really great! The promotion was done really well, and what they had in their stall was really inviting. Our group did get a bit distracted by other people and at some stages, our stall had no people in it which wasn’t really good. Then lunch time came and then it started pouring down with rain!! We started packing up our stall and the rain just kept coming down. I wish the rain couldn’t come so that we could get more time, but at least we got a good 4 periods. We then came inside and started reflecting on our day. Jess M

Today in our DEAL class, everyone had to write down what their most important value was. After that had happened, we then had to find four other people who had at least three values that the four other people had valued. Once we had found our four people, it was our group for the year for our outreach program that we are doing. I was happy with my group as I got two of my friends that I know. But, the other two people that are in my group, I sort of know them, but are not considered friends. I know that they will get their work done that they are assigned. I also know that they will not talk like some of the other kids in my class. We were then instructed by Mr Jilbert to think of a team name out of the values that all of our team members had valued. Our group then thought of a Team name, which was “the miracle workers.” I think that “the miracle workers” is a good name for the group that I am working in as it shows out our team values. They were; respect, honesty, trust, kindness, and family. (This was from the 1st value to the last value in order).
 * ABB 24/3/12 **

Today in our DEAL class, we were instructed to open up a new pages document and we started to write out the information for regarding our Outreach Program. The first document that we had to type up was the CRCCS Year Nine Outreach Proposal 2012. This document had contained information on what you need to include on your project; like shared values, all of your group members shared values, your group members, your homeroom, your aim and your purpose, your desired outcomes, and your reflection: how you saved your issues, what happened. We then had to create a table with the following information: your name, phone number, address, email or website, the timeline, plan/tasks, resources and the group member responsible. We then opened a new pages document and was called the activity submission form. It had the title of the activity, submitted by: subject and class, rationale for the activity: How does the activity impact on student learning? It then had year level/class level organising the activity, the details of students involved, name or names of the teachers involved, the proposed date and times and the detailed arrangements for the day. Which would consist of explaining what will happen on the day, timeline, where it will be held, transport, meals, the uniform, etc. After that, we then opened yet another new pages document which was called the agenda table. It had the information of the date, time. Then we had to create a table with topic, action, person responsible and the due date. After that, we then got a sheet which was called; “what temperament am I? It had lists of information for four colours which were gold, orange, blue and green. We then had to highlight what information sounded like us. The colour that I was was Green. Green people are generally calm and inquisitive, they seek knowledge, they trust logic and reason, and they encourage individualism and they are fiercely independent. (I was just naming a few.) We then got another sheet for “tips for communicating with other temperaments. I believe that this sheet was given out because it would help us a lot when talking to other temperaments in our outreach groups. In period four, we then watched a movie called; “paying it forward” Which was made in 2001. This movie is basically about a child who got given a humanities assignment which went for the whole year. It had said to change the world to be a better place. Basically, the eleven year old child had made up that someone does something good to someone, (it has to be of a big act) and then the person that receives the good from someone then goes and does it to three other people so that it was like a chain and that it would keep on going. His humanities teacher had said that it was a much of a big ask for an eleven year old to do such a thing like that. But when the eleven year old was cycling home, he had spotted a couple of homeless people in a sort of mud home. He then felt sorry and helped one of them. (The mother also has a drinking problem by the way and works two jobs and is also an alcoholic as well). Later on in the movie, you see the homeless guy getting off a bus and you then see a woman who is about to jump. He says; “I had gone to get my fix, but when I saw you I instantly forgot. Please don’t jump.” The chain goes around to so many people. In the end of the movie, the eleven year old gets interviewed by some people and they say how he thought of this idea. He basically said that it was from his humanities teacher who had set the assignment for the year. After, when the eleven year old was walking down the ramp, he saw this kid who was getting pushed around and was getting bullied. He then tried to stop them but the kid who was bulling the smaller kid then pulled out a knife and stabbed him. The eleven year old then collapsed to the ground holding his stomach. Eventually you see a nurse come out of a room with the school principal (who is the eleven year olds dad), and you see the mother collapse to the ground holding her mouth and was crying. In the end, you see the parents at the house and there are some people at their front gate holding torches or lights. As the camera zooms out, you see a lot more people. Then when it zooms out again, you see many cars parked along their street and even more people were coming. The act of which the boy had done had obviously touched many people and the boys death. It was sad that the boy got stabbed for trying to help someone out of the own kindness of his heart. This movie also links in with our previous religion assessment which was called; dream big! This was basically our day of DEAL.
 * ABB 8/4/12 **

Today in our DEAL class, we were instructed to open up a new pages document and we started to write out the information for regarding our Outreach Program. The first document that we had to type up was the CRCCS Year Nine Outreach Proposal 2012. This document had contained information on what you need to include on your project; like shared values, all of your group members shared values, your group members, your homeroom, your aim and your purpose, your desired outcomes, and your reflection: how you saved your issues, what happened. We then had to create a table with the following information: your name, phone number, address, email or website, the timeline, plan/tasks, resources and the group member responsible. We then opened a new pages document and was called the activity submission form. It had the title of the activity, submitted by: subject and class, rationale for the activity: How does the activity impact on student learning? It then had year level/class level organising the activity, the details of students involved, name or names of the teachers involved, the proposed date and times and the detailed arrangements for the day. Which would consist of explaining what will happen on the day, timeline, where it will be held, transport, meals, the uniform, etc. After that, we then opened yet another new pages document which was called the agenda table. It had the information of the date, time. Then we had to create a table with topic, action, person responsible and the due date. After that, we then got a sheet which was called; “what temperament am I? It had lists of information for four colours which were gold, orange, blue and green. We then had to highlight what information sounded like us. The colour that I was was Green. Green people are generally calm and inquisitive, they seek knowledge, they trust logic and reason, and they encourage individualism and they are fiercely independent. (I was just naming a few.) We then got another sheet for “tips for communicating with other temperaments. I believe that this sheet was given out because it would help us a lot when talking to other temperaments in our outreach groups. In period four, we then watched a movie called; “paying it forward” Which was made in 2001. This movie is basically about a child who got given a humanities assignment which went for the whole year. It had said to change the world to be a better place. Basically, the eleven year old child had made up that someone does something good to someone, (it has to be of a big act) and then the person that receives the good from someone then goes and does it to three other people so that it was like a chain and that it would keep on going. His humanities teacher had said that it was a much of a big ask for an eleven year old to do such a thing like that. But when the eleven year old was cycling home, he had spotted a couple of homeless people in a sort of mud home. He then felt sorry and helped one of them. (The mother also has a drinking problem by the way and works two jobs and is also an alcoholic as well.) Later on in the movie, you see the homeless guy getting off a bus and you then see a woman who is about to jump. He says; “I had gone to get my fix, but when I saw you I instantly forgot. Pleas don’t jump.” The chain goes around to so many people. In the end of the movie, the eleven year old gets interviewed by some people and they say how he thought of this idea. He basically said that it was from his humanities teacher who had set the assignment for the year. After, when the eleven year old was walking down the ramp, he saw this kid who was getting pushed around and was getting bullied. He then tried to stop them but the kid who was bulling the smaller kid then pulled out a knife and stabbed him. The eleven year old then collapsed to the ground holding his stomach. Eventually you see a nurse come out of a room with the school principal (who is the eleven year olds dad), and you see the mother collapse to the ground holding her mouth and was crying. In the end, you see the parents at the house and there are some people at their front gate holding torches or lights. As the camera zooms out, you see a lot more people. Then when it zooms out again, you see many cars parked along their street and even more people were coming. The act of which the boy had done had obviously touched many people and the boys death. It was sad that the boy got stabbed for trying to help someone out of the own kindness of his heart. This movie also links in with our previous religion assessment which was called; dream big! This was basically our day of DEAL.
 * ABB 15/5/12 **

Today in our DEAL class, there was no outreach because a person from the taxation office had came and explained about the different taxes.
 * ABB 22/5/12 **

Today in our DEAL class, we had done many things, so I have to type them down to remember everything that had happened during the day. First off our group had to add all of our replies to the CRCCS DEAL Wikispace. After, Mrs Saunders (our mentor,) then came and started to talk to us about our ideas for what company we are going to reach out to. We then sat down and had started to brainstorm some ideas for our group. This had taken a far bit of a while as we had many organisations to think of. After recess, our group then got back to work and I attended a “master class” which was run by Mr Jilbert. Mr Jilbert had talked and did a run through of how to use Google Documents and how important it is to us. I then went back to my group and had told them how to use Google Documents and had invited all of my group members to collaborate on a document that we had started working on which was the agenda table. We all also started to work on different things such as the “mock email.” Our group members then sent it off to Mrs Saunders and she had a look at it. After lunch, all of our group members then had to make a poster with a quote that describes all of our values. Our quote was; “We find light always at the end of every tunnel.” After, we then continued to work on our agenda table and before I knew it, it was 3:06 and we had to pack up. Today was a VERY busy day today.
 * ABB 29/5/12 **

Today in DEAL, we had the first period of studying in the library, and the next period after that doing Rock and Water. The first thing that we did in Outreach, we had to create an Agenda table, and we wrote down what we had to do in Period 3 and 4. After our group had finished off our Agenda Table, we then started our meeting. We had talked about what we were going to do for the Twenty man fund. We had got a reply from Mrs Saunders giving a comment saying that "it looks good. You are ready to send the letter! Good luck!" After lunch, Mrs Saunders then came and had a talk about what a team is and how we can become one. After, I then went on the 20th man website and looked at it to see if we are allowed to work with them. I then looked, and it said that we had to have a working with children check. Mrs Saunders still said that we should send a letter to them, just in case that they will still accept us. We then sent the letter and are now waiting for a reply from them. Today was a good day today.
 * ABB 5/6/12 **

We did not have a very long session of DEAL today as we had exams. Yay! Anyway, we had two periods to do some work but Mrs Saunders had said; "you have just had exams so I want you to take it easy. But, don't take it too easy. You need to do some work." I believe that our group did not get many things done today as we were all a little bit tired from the exams. But some members of our group (I am not naming names), thought that since Ms Saunders had said that we were allowed to take it easy in the last double period, this was their chance to start to talk to each other and what movies they like. It turns out that only a couple of our team members were actually focused and had remained on task. Today was not a good DEAL day as such since that we did not accomplish very much during the 5th and the 6th period. I believe that in our next DEAL session (not next week, the week after), will be when we accomplish a lot. I only hope now that we get a lot done in two weeks. Today was not a busy Outreach day today.
 * ABB 12/6/12 **

Today in our DEAL class, we were first instructed to go into the Arts building and the Design Tech building for the finishing off of our Term 1 and 2 goal setting sheet which would go onto our reports. This had taken up one period. In the second period, we then went up to the Year Nine area for Rock and Water. Then, in periods 4, 5 and 6, we were doing our Outreach Program. Today, we welcomed a new member of our group who was called Liam Malady. I was then instructed by my Mentor that I had to bring him up to speed with what we were doing. I had shown him the Google Documents Page of our page on our Agenda Table and our meeting. I had also shown him the Skype Conversations Google Document. I had also explained to him on what "Outreach" was and that we are "reaching out" to the 20th man fund who help youths who have faced Racism, Drug abuse etc. We have also got back a reply from the 20th man fund last week and they said yes! Our group is really happy with this result. The person who replied then said that we would have to make a time and a date as he/she organises Les twentyman's
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 19/06/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">diary. I had also put in the links for the non-profit organisations and their logo with it. (Maria had done the Challenge and Variety logo, but I had put the links in for both.) I had also put in the Google Documents logo and had attached a link to our Agenda table and Outreach meetings. I had also put in a Skype logo and again put in a link to our groups Google Documents on our conversation on Skype. This was basically our day of Deal.

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today in our DEAL class today, we were instructed to make a 2 minute video on our group members and were to name our group values and were also to say what organsiation we were going with and why. We were also to explain what the 20th man fund does to help the community. We were also to explain why we had chosen the team name of "The Miracle Workers." We had also got a reply today from "<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bronwyn" and we had today organised a particular date for Les Twentyman to come to our school and talk to our group. This was our day of DEAL today.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 26/06/12 **

Today in our DEAL class today, there was an announcement from Mrs Saunders saying that there has been laws that have been changed form the government, which means that there can not be a small group of students with just a one teacher. Unless you want to fill out a lot of paperwork. This was a shock, but the teachers have announced an "Outreach festival." This is where all of the groups make a stall which promotes the organisation they were working with. They basically "promote" their chosen organisation to the CRCCS community. For half an hour, our group discussed on what we should be selling to the CRCCS community. Our group then had decided on the Locker rooms where the Viscom Room was to put our stall, but someone else had taken it. Even though our group had initially put in where our stall was, someone else in our group had submitted ANOTHER form in, and Mr Jilbert had looked at that form and had submitted it. The person had requested a acoustic guitar? What? Don't know what that person was thinking about. Anyway, we then had decided to sell cookies, but someone else was selling Sausages, so we were beaten. Also, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Ms. Commadeur had said to broaden your thinking, and not just have "tunnel vision" and only think about selling food. All our group has to think about now is to know where to sell our chosen product. This was our day of DEAL.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 31/07/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today in DEAL, our group for Outreach had to pick where we were going to sell our chosen product. Our group had talked a very long time about selling the cookies, if we should be selling them in packs, how much would each cookie cost, how many tables and chairs that we needed to have, and also what type of cookies they would be. I had thought about peanut and nut allergies, so we were now narrowed with what cookies we were going to pick. We had also decided on who was cooking the cookies which was Maria, Liam, and I, the people in our group that were bringing the ingredients were Jofer, Alanah, and Jessica, the person that was hendling the money was Patrick, and the people that were organising the music were Patrick and Jofer. After lunch, Mr Jilbert had brought up a keynote presentation and had marked all of the places that we could pick for our chosen spots. The spot that our group had chosen was the place that was near the Year Nine and Year 8 building. This is a great place to have picked. Mrs Saunders had said to everyone again that someone else has already doing sausages and that there can not be food stalls from every single organisational stall. We now have to think of something different. This was our day of DEAL.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 5/08/12 **

Today in DEAL, we looked at our "future" jobs which we had look at on the internet. At 10:15 PM, we were informed about how Les Twentyman and many other guest speakers that had came to our school and was coming to our school to hold a "summit" which was to educate about us about how there are youths that have been either abused physically, or sometimes sexually. He had talked about how some youths our age did not have the right education as he had used an example when there was an eight year old child who did not bring a text book to class, the teacher had then said to her to bring it to next class, or else she could not attend the class. The family could not afford this as they did not have enough money to support the girl. So, it is like a cycle, the family does not have enough money to support the girl, she can not get her textbook and succeed in her school life. Also, there were a number of guests that had spoken about their life and how they should have payed more attention in their studies and not other things such as parties. But, all of the guest speakers had shared a message that was common... stay in school and get a good education and do not muck around.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 14/08/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today, as soon as homeroom had finished, we instantly got into the required area where our mentor would be. Our group then had went into Google Documents (now called Google Drive), we had then started our Outreach meeting. We had talked about what we were doing for our Outreach stall. As a group, we had all decided that we were going to get students to give us roughly around 5 to ten dollars. (They can go over that amount if they wish). At the Outreach stall, we will also be using the brochures that we had collected at the "Summit" that was held by Les Twentyman. Also, the money that we will collect from the students, our group will then buy the toys for the 20th man fund. With the toys that we give, our group wants to provide entertainment to the young youths who have ran away from home, or who have faced abuse, either physically, sexually, as well as mentally. This has really changed from what we had wanted to do before. We had wanted to sell cookies and give the money to he 20th man fund, but now instead our group is going to be collecting money from the students at CRCCS, and with that money, we will buy the toys for the young youths at the 20th man fund. This was our day of DEAL.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 21/08/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today in my Outreach group, we had first got onto Google Documents and had started to begin our meeting. First, we had assigned jobs to one another. Today, I was the minutes and the chair was Maria. First, Jofer had thought of creating a song about the 20th man find to help advertise our stall to people. But then Liam had suggested that we could make a website that is advertising the 20th man fund and in the website, we would took about what the organisation does to help support the young youths that are out in the west. Our group had agreed on the idea, but then Patrick had another idea that he had wanted to contribute to help advertise the 20th man fund. He had suggested that we could do a drawing competition. This was not a popular idea in our group. So, just as we were going to agree on the idea to do a website to help the 20th man fund, Mrs Saunders had given as the idea of going onto an application that was called Activinspire, and we then had used something in Activinspire which was called “Tickertape.” This had allowed you to make a banner either going through the centre of your screen, going on the top of your screen, or on the bottom. You can type in text for the banner as well, and you can adjust the texts speed. We had thought that this was a really good idea as we could use this at an assembly to help promote the 20th man fund to the students and the teachers at Catholic Regional College Caroline Springs.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 28/08/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today, at the start of the lesson, our outreach group had immediately got onto Google Drive and had started to work on our Outreach agenda to start the meeting. First off, we had discussed what the stall was going to look like. Jofer had received Patricks stall on Skype, and he had immediately got to work on editing it. Patrick had thought that the Summits Brochures (where Les Twentyman had come and visited us) had looked really good, so he had decided that he would "recreate" it on a Pages document with a Brochure Template. Liam and I are also working on the stall with what it is going to look like. As a group, we had all decided that we would "advertise" our group in the school bulletin since that all homerooms get the school bulletin, they would be able to hear what our group is going to do on the Outreach festival. In period 5 and 6, our group had also decided that we would get boxes (hp Printer boxes and others) from the library and also the front office. We had received 25 boxes which was good because that is one for each homeroom. We had then printed 25 copies of Maria's logo for our group that she had made on keynote, and as a group, we had all then stuck the logos with duck tape onto the boxes. I thought that this was a really clever idea as now we could be advertising our group through the bulletin, AND also through the boxes that we had sent to each homeroom. Next week, we are going to send them to each homeroom since we have kept them in the storage room. In my opinion, I think that this was a very productive day, as we have got a lot of things done. This was our day of DEAL.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">ABB 4/09/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today, at the start of our DEAL lesson, our group had immediately got onto Google Drive and had started to plan out what we were going to do in our Outreach meeting. We had talked about what our stall was going to look like and then Ms Elmer had said to all groups that we had to use the exam chairs for the setup of our stall. After, Patrick and I had decided that we would work on the timeline aspect of the work assessment that we were doing bad in. We now just have to organise the timeline part of it now. After, Patrick and I had printed out the Brochures that Patrick had made, and Liam and Jofer had helped Patrick and I help fold the Brochures. Eventually Liam and Jofer had helped work on the Poster with Jessica, Allanah and Maria for our stall that we were going to set up for the Outreach festival. Patrick and I had continued to work on the timeline part of the assessment. As for the outreach festival? I am still not too sure that we have EVERYTHING done, but we will have to wait and see what will happen on the day. This was our day of DEAL.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 11/09/12 **

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Today we went to the meeting area and we were informed off what was happening today with regarding to the outreach festival. We then had to go and get exam tables from the hall. We had joined two exam tables as this was going to make up our outreach stall. We had put our brochures and also our posters on our tables to show the people what charity we are promoting. We then had stuck up our big poster on the 20th man fund on a pole, and we then had some lunch. Eventually the year sevens had came and only a couple of people had came to our stall. The year eights had then came and a couple of people had came to look our stall. I was quite happy as a person who was in year eight who had collected a brochure earlier, had came up and had donated three soft toys to me. The year tens had then came and no one had came to our stall. Most of the people were down near the barbecue area and were near where sometimes people perform. They were also near the group who got to throw water balloons at the person. Many of them were also down where the group was selling fairy floss to people. If these groups were not here, our group would have got a lot more people coming and visiting our stall to see what it was about. It seems to me that people only had wanted food and only wanted to play games. This is what had disappointed me the most. Anyway, I suppose it was a good day today of the outreach festival as I know that the toys that my mum had donated will go to the 20th man fund where children will get to play with them, which is what makes me happy the most.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 18/09/12 **

When I had started DEAL today, the first thing that any of my group members had done was that they had gone onto the computer. We had all logged into Google Drive to make our meeting. We were instructed by the teachers that we had to make a certificate of appreciation for them, and we had to also make a letter to them thanking them on how much of an inspiration that they were to us to help us in the Outreach festival. We also had to do an evidence guide to show what sort of work we had done to show this. At the start I had put the letter onto Google Drive so that everyone could work on it, but only Patrick, Liam and I were only working on it. Then, Patrick and Liam had decided that they would work on the evidence guide instead. After recess, in Periods 3 and 4, the teachers had said these were the last two periods to finish off this work. So Patrick and Liam were working on the evidence guide, and I had added something in it which had sounded really good. I had looked over at Jofer and had seen his Certificate of Appreciation. It was actually going really well! But then Ms Saunders had came and had said that why weren’t Jessica and Alanah doing any work? So, Patrick and Liam had decided to give some of the work to them as well. After we had finished, we had printed out the certificate of Appreciation and the letter to Mrs Saunders who had corrected it for spelling mistakes and such. We had then printed out the Evidence guide, the letter, and also the certificate of Appreciation just before the 4th period had ended. After lunch, 9 Bunjil, 9 Wonga, and also 9 KO had to go to the hall to pack for camp, so I had stayed with 9 Wonga and also 9 Barack to work on some other work. I will be going on camp next week. Today has been a very productive DEAL day.
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 09/10/12 **

Today was a really short lesson of DEAL because our group only had one more period left to finish off the letter to the 20th man fund on thanking them for the inspiration and also the guidance to help guide us through the Outreach festival, and we also had to finish off the evidence guide, as well as the Certificate of Appreciation to the 20th man fund as well. All we had to do was print out the Certificate of Appreciation and also the letter for Mrs Saunders so that she can assess our work. We had done everything so we did not have to do much work today. This was our last ever Outreach lesson and it had gone so fast! Bye!
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">ABB 16/10/12 **

Today in deal, everyone had to write down what our most important values. After we wrote down our values, we then had to find four other people who at least have the same shared values as you, once we found at least four people, that four or six will become our group for the entire year for our outreach. It was alright to have four people in my group but then ms commandeur told us that there will be another person joining the group so we welcome her or him but at least those four were my friends but I don’t know much bout the one cause she’s new. I know that they will get work done with me but one of them is smart, one of them knows computers and the rest I know can get work done. Mr jilbert told us to create a group well told all of us to create a group name and my group called ourselves the miracle workers or short for TMW. **Jofe A**
 * 24/3/12 **

Today in deal, the teachers told us to open a new pages document and we started to write out the information for regarding our outreach thing. The first thing we had to write was the crccs year 9 outreach proposal 2012, this document had to contained information on what you need to include on your project, like the shared values, group name, members of the group, homeroom, aim, purpose, desired outcomes, reflection, what happen and etc. we had to create a table about the name, phone number, address, email or website, timeline, task, resources and the group member responsible. We then watch a movie about pay it forward. **Jofe A**
 * 8/4/12 **

Today in deal, the teacher told us to open a pages document and we have to start to write out the information for regarding outreach thing. The first one was to write about the crccs year 9 outreach proposal 2012. As you already know that you have to write about the name of the group, members of the group, homeroom and etc. We then have to watch a movie about pay it forward again to finish it off. **Jofe A**
 * 15/5/12 **

today in deal, there was no outreach because a man from the taxation office has to come in and speak to us about our tax file number, but some of us have to stay in room 20 because we didn’t bring our permission slip for to listen to the guy. **Jofe A**
 * 22/5/12 **

Today in deal, we had done so many things like our mentor has to talk to us about what we have to do in our group and stuff, we had to open wikispaces and add all of our blog into our outreach group for example for my group we were the first one so we are group 1, we had to chose organization that suited our values or that most suited to our age but also that have the same values that we had as a group, then our mentor came back and talk to us how we doing, like did we pick a company yet like that kind of stuff. For me it wasn’t that kind of busy but for some is very busy but for other is not busy. **Jofe A**
 * 29/5/12 **

**12/6/12** Today in deal class, we didn't do much because people are doing other stuff, like studying for the exams tomorrow and some other stuff, the girls are talking about other stuff except for maria. **Jofer A.**

1/5/12 //Maria C// - Today for DEAL we had to revise all our values, weaknesses and look through our agendas. As I was a new member to this team and a new student to this school, this revision helped me to know my team members better. We selected the chairperson and minutes for the team, thankfully for us, no one disagreed with whom the post was given to. We had to search up a number of charities and organizations we can help, we had to consider certain things like the age limit, time and distance of these charities and organizations. Most organizations we were eager to help had an age limit, mainly for people above the age of eighteen, which did disappoint us. We kept on searching and managed to find nearby charities that didn't have an age limit and had to type them down to finalize. After that we had to make a presentation on our team to impress our judges, who were our homeroom teachers, to select our team so that they can mentor us. Kind of like the X factor, or The Voice where the judges choose to mentor us, but if more than one teacher turned around, we get the choice. Our presentation didn't go very fantastic because we thought two minutes would go faster than we expected, but we still won Ms.Saunders as our mentor which I am rather excited about! Altogether, today I learned about my team better and we know who our mentor is.

22/5/12 //Maria C// -Today we didn't have DEAL because a man from the tax office came to lecture us on what tax is and why we pay tax.

29/5/12 //Maria C//-Today we had to sit together and select on what type of problem we wanted to help. We thought of helping children with cancer or dyslexia, unfortunately for us, we weren't able to find an organization related to our idea due to age restrictions. Ms.Saunders came to us and gave us advices and tips on what to focus on and how to find a good organization or charity. We made a universal google account for our team so that we could just sign into one account to find out what we are going to do or other notices, also we can use the same account at once, it's kind of like Skype but you can get your work done at the same time. Finally after surfing through the web, we agreed on a charity called 20th man which is a charity for children who have trouble with drugs, face racism, etc and this organization helps those types of children. We were glad to find that no age restrictions were posted on the website, which gave us hope for helping this organization. After showing it to Ms. Saunders, she told us to do a draft copy of a letter we would send to Les Twentyman (The founder or 20th man) and send it to her, after we get the 'green sign' we can send the letter to Mr. Twentyman. During the last periods we were given the task of creating a poster with our logo. The team agreed to the idea of the logo being "we find the light at the end of every tunnel'' and designed the title and added a picture, after we finished making our poster, we printed it on an A3 paper and gave it to the teachers. Overall, we were able to finish the task of finding an organization.

5/6/12 // Maria C - // Today for DEAL, Ms Saunders checked and forwarded the letter back to us, she highlighted the sentences we had to change. Alanah, Jessica and I rewrote the letter by correcting the grammar, removing sentences and adding some more. Ms Saunders helped us with our doubts and we were able to finish the letter. After that some of us searched on more information about the 20th man site, to our disappointment Alex found out that we couldn't help out of we didn't have the 'working with children check.' Ms Saunders said that we should send a letter too the 20th Man Fund, but thankfully we found out that the WWC check was not required for children under the age of eighteen. Unfortunately, we didn't work well as a group today but I'm sure next week we'll do better, much better!

12/6/12

// Maria C - // We didn't have a long session of deal today because of exams. Due to the exams Mrs Saunders told us to take it easy, but my team took it too easy that we weren't able to finish much work. Plus Alanah left early so we couldn't find out if we had any replies from the 20th man fund. So instead we planned on what we'll do next week. Hopefully next DEAL class, we'll have something exciting to see!

19/6/12 //Maria C -// It was student free day, so no DEAL today.

21/6/12 //Maria C -// We received a reply from the 20th Man Fund and we got...ACCEPTED! Mr Bronwyn, the person who arranges' Mr. Les Twentyman's diary has asked us to give him a specific date so that he can arrange a time for us. Ms Saunders will give a phone call so that she can arrange the time. We received an activity submission form and a proposal form. Our group had to fill it up, and now what's left is to arrange a time for more meetings, time for attending the 20th Man Fund and what the reply was when Ms Saunders calls them. So altogether, we know where we're going and finished a bit of paper work.

17/7/12 //Maria C -// There was no DEAL today because we had the Ballarat excursion.

24/7/12

//Maria C -// Today, the teachers went through the subject selections. They talked about the various subjects and what it can lead to, some of the year 10 students who do some of these subjects came up and spoke about their own experiences too. The teachers gave us advice, answered our doubts, told us what each elective can lead to, the importance of a VCE/VET subject, what you require, etc. Nearing to the end of this session, just after the second break, we had to go to the school gates so that we can escort Mr. Twentyman to the year 9 block. Unfortunately, he didn't show up in a long time and Ms. Saunders sent someone to tell us that only two people need to remain at the gates. Alannah and Jessica remained behind while the rest of us went back in, Ms. Saunders asked us to tell the class about the 20th Man Fund, what they do, what they needed, how they got the money in which I was able to answer most of it. After talking about the 20th Man Fund and answering Ms.Saunders questions, Mr. Les Twentyman still didn't show up! So in the meantime, the teachers gave everyone a goal setting sheet. While I was doing it, Ms. Saunders asked the Miracle Workers to up to her, and when we reached there, we received bad news. Mr Les Twentyman said that he accidentally checked over the wrong schedule diary and that's why he wasn't able to come over. He also claimed that he had to go somewhere because there was some kind of problem going on there. Even though our plan in getting Mr. Les Twentyman to come here and speak to us was shattered, we were still determined to get him to speak to us another time. Ms. Saunders told the class about it and the teachers brought up another task for everyone to do, in this task we were given three coloured papers. On these papers we had to write the name of three people you always rely on when you're taking a serious decision. Afterwards, the teachers gave us a few more tips and advices on picking our electives and told us to take what we want.

31/7/12

//Maria C// - Today, we got some news from the teachers that steered us in a whole new direction. They got everyone to come into the briefing area and told us about the issue, the issue was that there is a new law enforced in Victoria about Outreaching. We have to a have a special card or an adult with that card had to accompany us when we're going out for outreach due to several safety issues. As we don't have this card and so does the teachers, the idea of going out to the fund or organization was out of the question. A lot of us were angered by this situations and some of us even asked questions relating to it, and advices on finding loopholes to this law but all of those questions and advices were covered by law. The teachers brought an other idea though, they said that instead of going out we are still going to continue outreach but in a different way. At the last tuesday of the term, the whole of year 9 will hold up stalls and have a festival to promote each groups fund or organizations. The groups had to find out what they're doing for their stalls and come up with ideas on how we're going to promote the organization or fund we're trying to help. We started our meeting with Patrick being the Chair and Jofer being the minutes. Verbally, we talked about different ideas on what we want to do with our stall, how the stall will look like, what we're selling, and where we're selling the products. This conversation went on for 30 minutes, and we decided on selling cookies. Mr. Jilbert made an announcement about the venues, he said he has put up this submission form in the DEAL page, where we have to select where we want our place. We first thought of the room in front of the Vis.Comm room, but one of the groups already selected that. Unfortunately, one of the team member started mucking about and sent a submission form saying Acoustic Guitar. Mr. Jilbert accepted it because no one else wrote that, and it wasn't even a venue! This caused a huge conflict in the group but we decided on telling Mr. Jilbert about it. The conflict was overcome quickly though, we all agreed that we can't change the past and the only way forward was to move on, we then onwards handled the situation better. We accepted the fact that the mistake that was done was done and we have to talk to Mr. Jilbert about the venue. The cookie idea was also a bit beaten by another group who was making BBQ's, and Ms. Commaduer told us to broaden our mind and not have a "tunnel vision." So now what the group has left is to find a venue.

7/8/12

//Maria C -// Today I was the chair and Patrick and Alex was the minutes. We all went on Skype and started our meeting, Alex made up the table in GoogleDocs and the minutes started minute-ing. Today I got right down to business, posing different questions up and bringing up ideas. Other members of the group contributed well today, they all brought up ideas and questions relating to our stall. For around about 30-35 minutes, we talked about what type of cookies we're selling and what the price would be. There was a small debate on the price but we finally agreed on selling them in packets for $3.50, some of us thought the idea of selling it in packets would be too hectic and thought of selling them individually instead, this became an unfinished question because of the other questions that came up and we haven't reached a conclusion on that. Some ideas we're communicated verbally which was recorded in GoogleDocs, but most of our meeting was done on Skype. Alex gave us a site where we could search up different flavours for the cookies, so far we have agreed on choc-chip, double choc-chip, and caramel cookies with choc-chips. We discussed about how many tables and chairs we might need, what all we can put up in our stall. We decided we would have around about 4 tables and 7 chairs, and though of playing music in our stall. Mr. Jilbert then called everyone over to the briefing area where he showed us a map of the school with each venues highlighted in a letter or number. He told us that these are the places that can be occupied for the festivals and that he has put up another submission form, so that we can select a venue again. Our group decided on the venue that was in front of the science rooms immediately and submitted it. So the previous problem we had in last Tuesday was thankfully taken away thanks to Mr Jilbert. Also, I asked Ms. Saunders if I should send another email to the 20th Man Fund, she said yes and gave me the dates that I should tell them that are available. I sent a message to the 20th Man Fund and now I'm waiting for the reply. Then we had briefing again, this time once more my group received yet again another challenge. Nobody else could sell food besides the two groups that are going to sell BBQ and drinks. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to discuss what we could do instead because it was already time to go home. So altogether, when we finally got back on track another challenge came and blocked away, but I'm keeping a positive mind for this as I guess we would be able to think of something next DEAL class.

14/8/12 //Maria C -// Yesterday I received a reply from the 20th Man find in which I showed Mrs.Saunders. The mail said that Mr.Les Twentyman is going to hold a summit in our school, Mrs.Saunders told me that they are aware about this and she sent a reply. In the morning we had to search for our "future" jobs and what we're planning to do on the internet. Later on, around 10:15, I think, we went to attend the summit. Each speaker spoke about their own experiences, what they did before becoming a social worker or a story. One story that stood out the most for me was the starfish story. It was about a man seeing another man throw starfishes into the sea from the shore. He asked the man what he was doing and he replied that he's saving the starfishes, to which the other asked, "Bit what difference does it make?" This man then took one starfish and threw it at the sea and replied, "It made a whole lot of difference for that one." This really touched me because it made me understand that by changing something in a person's life for his/her betterment, we are actually helping their whole life get on the right track. Most of them spoke about education, how some children are facing abusive behaviors outside the school gates and their own experiences. I was expecting rather a long speech from Mr.Les Twentyman, to which I was surprised that he didn't. Although, he did tell us a funny story of his own experience which was rather good to hear, considering how long the other speeches lasted. One of them spoke about how his passion in sports stopped him from partying and mucking around with his friends all night, he told us about how determination can actually help you get where you want and even to stay focus. And because this came from his personal experience, it proved to me that I can do anything as long as I have determination and passion for it. During the break our group went and met Mr.Les Twentyman, and I was glad that we met him because he gave us the solution to our challenge! He mentioned that he needed money but he also mentioned something else that gave us an idea. He said that every christmas they give the disadvantage kids presents and we though of raising presents for these kids. Mr.Les Twentyman did agree to this and gave us ideas on what aged children received these presents. Altogether I guess the main message was the education is always the key to success, not only in just getting you a job but also helping you in so many several ways you wouldn't even dare to imagine!

21/8/12

//Maria C -// Today for DEAL, we were talking about how to raise the gifts and what type of gifts must we collect. Jofer was the chair and Alex was the minutes for this session. We discussed what the price would be, and we all agreed to 5-10 dollars. People can donate money to us also and we can buy toys with them. We though of getting toys that are not harmful and suitable for children around 10 and under, we continued this discussion through Skype and some messages are recorded in google docs itself. We then started talking about how we can get this news around the school, Alannah and Jess suggested that we should pair up and talk to each year level about the fund, why we are holding the stall, what we need, etc. I thought of putting up flyers so that it can get the attention of people passing by and they can check the venue and stuff incase they missed out on our presentation. I personally think this was so much more effective than selling cookies because when you're selling food, you can either make a profit or a loss, and loss is something you don't want to encounter. It would also relate to the 20th Man Fund and also it would help the 20th Man Fund a lot too. So altogether, we have planned out the publicity part and other parts relating to the stall.

28/8/12 //Maria C -// Today for DEAL, I was the chair person and Alex was the minutes. We didn't use Skype today because some of the people in our group takes IT, and their laptops were taken for an upgrade. Mr. Gilbert gave everyone the task of finding a way to publicize our stall and also to promote our fund, allowing other children to know about it. As we did previously talk about this in our last session of DEAL, Patrick went up to Mr. Gilbert and he came back with an unfortunate news. He said that it was already taken and that we would have to think of another way to publicize. Jofer brought up the idea of creating a song, which Mr. Gilbert agreed to and said that was a great idea, unfortunately not everyone in the group agreed to it and preferred not to sing. Liam came up with the idea of creating a website and though of putting it up on our school site, but that wouldn't help us because very few people get on the school site. Another option was to put up the website on EDMODO, when Patrick asked Mr. Gilbert about it, that idea was already taken. This caused us to rack our brains even more but unfortunately we couldn't think of anything else. Most of the things we though of were taken by other groups and we ended up disappointed till Ms. Saunders showed up! She told us that another idea is to create an electronic banner, and present it during assembly on the projector. I thought this was a great idea! The reason being is that when we are projecting it on screen in front of the whole assembly, no-one would miss it! Some students in the assembly tend to get bored easily and start getting restless, obviously the next thing they would be interested in reading is the flashing banner being displayed above, which gives us a huge advantage over the other teams! Thank you Ms. Saunders!!! The boys were taught on how to create a banner on an application called ActivInspire, they used a device called "Tickertape" to create the banners. While they were doing that, Alannah and Jess started creating a hand drawn poster while I did an electronic one on keynote. I showed it to Ms. Saunders who complimented on it and told me to print it in an A3 size, unfortunately the slides on keynote only print in A4 sizes, and i couldn't find the page option either. So I asked Ms. Saunders for a black chart, so that I can paste this sheet on the chart and create a poster with it. So, altogether we now know how we're going to publicize and promote the 20th Man Fund, as well as I got homework which is to complete the poster!

04/09/12

Today for DEAL, I was the minutes and Patrick was the chair. Today was the second last day of our preparation for DEAL and it was time for us to finish everything up so that on the last day we only have to do the finishing touches. Mrs. Saunders came and helped us allocate the jobs each of us is in charge of. (The positions and persons are in my minutes on GoogleDocs, the page with the date 04/09/12). We all agreed to the idea of placing the boxes in each class, so as to let the children put their donations in their. This will allow us to collect the boxes by the end of the outreach festival and even get more donations on that day as well. I had finished creating the flyers and printed it, Alannah and Jess volunteered to post them around the school and they did so during this time. Alex, Liam and Jofer had started working on their stall using google sketchup, so as to create their idea and present it to us. We decided to promote our publicity through the bulletin, flyers and even adding brochures near the boxes. We collected around 22 boxes from the libraries and staff room and started decorating them, so as to recognise the fund and our outreach group. We also noticed that we were missing certain evidence for certain parts of the rubrics, and I listed them down in the minutes. So altogether we have completed our nearlly everything and the only thing to do is to complete the evidence sheet and finish the poster for the 20th Man Fund.

11/09/12 Today was the last day to prepare EVERYTHING for the outreach festival! This was our last chance and we have to make a move on. I was the chair today and Liam was the minutes. what our group had left to do was the poster/sign and the timeline. I brought a couple of black A3 paper from the cupboard and pasted six of them together, creating a long and large poster. I drew out or logo and the 20th Man Fund’s logo, and got Alannah and Jess to paint out the 20th Man Fund sign. They decided to paint it orange as the poster was black and I completed the ‘Miracle Workers’ sign and their logo. We finished pasting the posters to the box and I brought up the idea of placing our hand print on the corner of the posters. Patrick and Alex started working on the timeline and we finished the poster just on time! Nothing much was done today because we only had little to do. So altogether, we’re ready to go!

Today In Deal (8-5-12) we watched a movie called “Pay it Forward” In which a young boy named Trevor attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher “Eugene Simonet” gives him that one chance

After watching this movie, several messages can be learn’t such as

Everyone deserves a second chance

Even the smallest idea can become the biggest idea

When you are in doubt, always remember who you got to talk to

Even the smallest change can impact on society servilely and effectually

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover (When Grace was talking to Sidney)

Everyone has a heart for something

So overall, this is a inspirational movie, especially great for those who have a idea about changing the world.

Today in Deal (15-5-12) we started the day off by doing Naplan testing then after we got in our outreach groups and we played a group game that required teamwork and chance. After recess we done some more Naplan testing then after, we got in our outreach group again and work on agenda for your outreach meeting. Which was to guide us for writing our own agendas in the future. Finally after lunch we presented our outreach team, aim and group members valves and temperament colours to the teachers, with this the teachers could decide who’s group they were going to mentor. After this, the mentor teacher that chose us was Ms. Saunders!!!!!!!!!

Today in Deal (29-5-12) was a full on outreach experience. We started the day in our outreach groups by revising and going through on what we did in previous lessons, as the day went by we worked on researching companies/organizing that we could help. But most of them required over 18 students and people with working with children checks....But we did not give up, eventually mrs.Saunders told us about 20 man fund which was a fund where volunteers help other people all around Australia.

Today in Deal (5-6-12) was a unsuccessful day because we were suppose to have a meeting at 11:40 but the meeting went on at 12:00. After the meeting we all done our allocated jobs which was very little. And finally we did not work as a team and since we did not work as a team we did not get a lot of work done. Then at 2:30pm Maria found out that we under 18’s (like us) don't need a working with children check!!!!! So thank you! Maria

(31-7-12) Today in deal, we had an announcement that we as in all of year 9 can't go on any excursions in our outreachs groups thing, the teachers told us at the end of term or something like that we are going to have an outreach festival thing that we can sponsor our company that we chose for our outreach group project were we can help people as our main goal. We as group decided patrick to do the stall plan or layout, I had an idea that we could play music for people to listen to while they are looking at our stall and stuff, so we ask Jess to make the playlist, but I don't think she finish yet. The music playlist could represent the 20th man foundation but we were having trouble finding a place to put our stall, so I had an idea to put our stall infront of the year 8 classrooms, but I'm still waiting if its a good place to put it though. JA

(28-8-12) Today in deal, we had to sit in front of Mr, Jilbert in the briefing area. He told us that we need to get on our project and assessment task, he also told us that theres a challenge, which some groups already did and the challenge is about the publicity thing. When we came back to our desk or outreach group, we started to have ideas, some of the ideas were taken by other groups, but when our outreach group mentor came up to us and gave us a good idea, the idea was to have a moving banner and showing it as a background to every presentation there is that the assembly has to offer to us. We had some up's and down's but we manage to come up with something, we started making a poster and something else like fliers I think it was called. J.A

<span style="color: #ff4d00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Today in Deal, we had an announcement that we couldn't go on any excursions in small groups so it meant that our group had to deal with the new limiting rules but there is now an outreach festival that we have to now sponsor our charities through stalls that we now have to run against the other outreach groups. We had a meeting that showed different ideas that we can use for our stall but ultimately we decided to have patrick make a sketch-up draft of the stall showing a basic idea of what we wanted our stall to look like. We had other ideas of what we could add to our stall like having a music playlist that would represent the 20th man fund but it seemed that we're having trouble with where we are going to place our stall.
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<span style="color: #ff4d00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Today in Deal, we continued with designing our stall and discussing ideas of what more we could add and how the stall is going to run, the teachers told us that we had to pick locations of where the groups were going to be placed and our group got chosen the area that is across from the year 8 and year 9 building and we can use that whole area to use for our needs. The main ideas that came from this week's discussion was what we were going to sell and how we are going to operate the cookie area but it seemed to be all about the planning and the recipes that we were going to use but so far we haven't decided were the funds are coming from yet but soon we should figure out where.
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**LM 21-8-12**

Today in Deal, we were shown the rubric of the outreach festival that shows what we need to aim for in the festival, so far we continued on the gifts idea and we continued to discuss about the price range the gifts that we can bring and about how we can bring in old toys that are still in good condition. As for the stall design it's still in draft form but had been adding and changing the stall from what we had discussed in the previous 2 lessons and building on that based on the rubric that was given in Deal today.


 * LM 28-8-12 **

Today in Deal, Mr Jilbert talked about our assignment and outreach tasks that we had to get done over the nect 3 weeks we had to split our groups into 3 separate groups to work on our stall for the outreach festival which is in 3 weeks, Patrick and I were designing the flyer and also the banner which is going to be on during assembly, Jessica and Alanah are designing the poster for the advertisement. So far its been a bit hard coming up for original ideas for the outreach festival since many of the ones that we wanted were taken by other groups but we have learnt to deal with it today and I assume that we would be ready by the time that the outreach festival begins

PG: Today in Deal (31-7-12) We were all told some very bad news. The news was that the government changed the laws regarding the laws that affect us teenagers from going out to the community. The laws made it so that the people we go out to, must fill out a numerous amount forms. With this the teachers told us that now we are doing a outreach festival, where we collect funds and tell others about our outreach organization we contacted a while ago. After the announcement we planned on how we are going to set up for the outreach festival.

PG: Today in Deal (7-8-12) My group continued working for the Outreach festival by planning on what we are selling, having a outreach meeting, who doing what job on the day of the festival and deciding the location of our store for the outreach festival. Next lesson we will start making stuff so that we can collect funds to help support our organization on the day of the festival.

August 28th. Today in Outreach. We look on how we can gain more publicity for the day of the festival. We came up with multiple ideas such as, using the P.A system and by sending videos to homeroom, but they were all taken. At the end Ms.Saunders told us to do a banner running across the Macbook screen that advertises the 20th man fund during the next assembly. After Lunch. Me and Liam created most of the Flyers in which we are going to use on the day of the festival. While for the rest of the group, they went off to do their own thing for the festival.

4 sept 2012 by PG

Today in Deal. I recreated the 20th Man fund flyer that I picked up at the youth summit so that it may be given out on the day of the outreach Festival. The program I use was Pages. And I believe it worked really well for me because it provide a flyer template, with this I was able to create a perfect flyer. After the sex Ed in period 3 and 4. Me, Liam, Jofer and Alex made the boxes that are going to have toys in them for the toys donation in which are going to donate to the 20th man fund

18-9-12: Today was the anticipated Outreach Festival!!!. We set up our stall near the science labs in which we promoted the 20th man fund. What was disappointing was that our stall only had boxes for toy donations (On toy donations, we did receive some toys from the year 8’s and alot of toys from Alex) and a lot of flyers. The Day ran smooth by the year 7 visiting then the 8’s, and then the 10’s visiting everyone's stalls. All the other groups had various things to catch peoples eyes such as food, games etc. Another thing that was disappointing is that people were only interested in the food and the games not the information itself, with this everyone just group around the BBQ, the music and the fairy floss. It wasn't a complete loss because we did make people aware of the 20 man fund (and thats what our purpose was, to make people aware of the 20th man fund.) and the Miracle workers learnt a lot of skills on how to advertise next time we do a festival.

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