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=Group 11: Hands of Hope: For Kids= = MEMBERS =

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= Our aim/purpose- = Our aim is to go to different hospitals/orgainisations to help kids believe that they can have joy in their lives, although they may not feel that they can. Our purpose is to put a smile on all of the children's faces, and to make them feel like they belong.

=Desired outcome- = Our groups desired outcome is to help sick children in hospitals or organisations around melbourne and give them a chance to smile. We want to make them happy through there hardships and make there faces light up.

=Our Name- = Our name; Hands of hope 4 Kids, was chosen because we want to give sick and disadvantaged children hope. We are like the hands who reach out to children and give them hope to feel like they belong and have a place in the world, even though they may not feel that this is true.

Strengths: -We can work as a team when we co-operate. -We listen to each other and give each other advise.

Weakness: -We clash -Get distracted easily

= ORGANISATION - =

OUR QUESTIONS:
1. How will age limits, especially being under the age of eighteen affect us?

2. What can our mode of transport be?

3. How much commitment should we put into this program?

4. Will this program benefit us in any way?

5. How many volunteers can come at a time?

6. How long will we be there for, will it go after school hours?

7. Is there any special requirements, do we need to bring anything?

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15th of May 2012

TD: Today in deal, we went in our outreach groups. To start off, we had to complete a few games to see how our team works together and if we can trust each other. I think our group did well and we trust each other a little bit better after those games. After recess, we went back in our groups and had to do an agenda. In this agenda, I was the chair and Michaela was the minutes. We had to answer a few questions about our group goals and values. After that we had to get ready for the voice teachers. The voice teachers is like the movie the voice were we had to explain about what we wanted to do as a group for the year, our strengths and weaknesses, our values and what colours are in our group. Before it was lunch, we wrote a script that we all had to say a part. After lunch we had the voice. Out of the 6 teachers, we had four to chose from. At the end, we chose Mr Jilbert to be our mentor. Our values of our group is trust, courage, equality and determination. We have all the colours that are in our group so we will clash but it would be a fun journey. Our goal is to go to the major hospitals, and help the kids. For the little kids to help them have a smile on their face and for the older kids to feel like they have a place in the world.

MG: This was the first lesson we had where we got to test our skills as a team. To do this, we played games that encouraged us to work together, to co-operate and to listen to each others ideas. One of these activities was where one team member was blindfolded, and they had to follow the rest of the teams directions to gather the beanbags without touching the cones. It was a little difficult, but it aught us our strengths (listening, contributing) and our weaknesses (co-operating, trusting each other). After we completed these activities, we got the opportunity to hold our first meeting. This meant that we would have to chose the chair (Toni) and the minutes (me). The meeting ran, so that we could create some ides for our project and so that we could find things to improve on throughout the term, which were the things we learnt from the previous activities. I didn’t find this activity difficult at all, it was a great opportunity to note down our ideas and goals. Lastly, we had to chose our teacher mentor, basically we told all of the teachers our ideas, Goals, temperaments and our team values. We chose Mr. Jillbert, which we were extremely happy about. Our name; Hands of hope for Kids,was chosen because we want to be the hope for children who are disadvantaged It was a productive lesson, and look forward to the next.

EM: Today even though we had naplan for most of the day we got together as a group and worked together as a team using some team building activities and we worked together to get a task done. We can work very well as a team if we want to and that was proven today when we worked together, we communicate and we help each other out, we are good as a team. We also got assigned our mentors, the teachers set up a sort of voice kind of show and we had to tell them about ourselves / group and then we would wait to see which teacher wanted us, many of the teachers wanted us but our final decision was Mr Jilbert, he will be a good mentor. When we told him that we wanted to aim smaller and closer to our community he told us to start bigger and see how far that gets us, and to try and aim for the sunshine or western hospital. If we aim higher there may be a chance that we can do what we want. There are many foundations we can help out even if we don't get into the hospitals we can help out an organisation that works with the hospital. The bigger we aim the bigger the outcome but we will always have a fall back plan.

ML: During this lesson in DEAL we had been required to choose a mentor for our group so that we could try and reach the greatest outcome that we could possibly reach. We had 4 teachers that had turned around to volunteer for our mentor teacher due to the presentation we had presented for them. Out of the opportunities that had been presented to us for one of our mentor teachers, we had chosen Mr. Jilbert for our final verdict. After this event had occurred, we decided to continue to advance in the research and commercial advertisement and decided to make a banner and logo. I had created this through photoshop and made a professional and original logo for our group. This had been completed successfully and then moved on to try and improve our opportunities that would be out for us when trying to choose the right foundation to support. We researched hospitals such as “Sunshine Hospital”, “Royal Children’s Hospital” and “Western Health Hospital” we came to the conclusion that the foundations that supported these hospitals weren’t very ample, and we had opportunities to fill in for those foundations.

MS: So today in DEAL we went into our outreach groups and did various activities on getting to know each of our group members and about our different temperaments, strengths and weaknesses. Then we had an agenda and as a group talked about our different goals and values and to ultimately find what all of us wanted to achieve. We then had some audition activity which would determine which teacher would become our mentor for the rest of the year. This activity was setup like the tv show “the voice” and soon we presented to them about what our goals, values, strengths, weaknesses and temperaments, in the end we chose Mr Jilbert as our mentor because as group we thought he would be the best mentor for us. We then set off on what organisations and stuff like that we wanted support in and to find a good start to this project.

LP: Today we started considering ideas of what we can do to benefit the society. We also had a discussion about each others temperament and how we can cooperate to benefit the group as a whole. As a group we thought of basing our actions around disadvantaged children and how we can make there life like any other child. Then after we brainstormed our ideas it was time to choose a team name and our mentor, our team name is called “hands of hope for kids” and our mentor is Mr. Jilbert and we chose him so he can manage our group which consists of multiple colours and help us cooperate with each other. We then created a logo that utilizes and represents our team name so that we can be more memorable. After that we looked at some local hospitals to see what they lack in and see how we can help them. I think todays outreach program was very productive and that we got a lot done but the only thing we were lacking is cooperation and teamwork but besides that everything went fluently.

29th of May 2012

TD: Today in deal, we spent the whole day on outreach. We first stared with writing our blogs and seeing what we can do that can improve our wikispace. We had to make a poster of our group to show people what we are doing and who we are. After we completed everything with our wikispace, we researched the organisations to see how we can contact them. Once we found our we have to do it by email, letter or by calling them, we all had to write up a draft. During this lesson, our group got a lot done. At the end, we had a meeting discussing what we are going to do next lesson and how we went today. I think our group worked cooperatively together and hoping by next lesson we can start calling up and sending emails to the organisations we would like to help.

MG: This lesson of DEAL was purely dedicated to outreach, which allowed us to have a full productive day in our outreach groups. Firstly, we added all of our group information on our wikki spaces page, so that we could be easily identified from our teachers and peers. We chose the quote : ‘if you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path’, because we believe that we are not only putting a smile on the children's faces, we are also feeling better about ourselves. This lesson was also dedicated to setting up our google docs page, which we learnt from a meeting with Mr. Jilbert. Separately, we researched a hospital or organisation each, and began to write up letters and phone call drafts, which we hope to complete before next lesson, to get it checked by our teacher mentor; Mr. Jilbert. I found today very productive, and I've finally realised how much work we need to do before we even send out our first email. I aim to work just as well as last lesson to get as much work done as possible. I aim to send out an email or to get an email approved during our next lesson.

EM: Today in DEAL outreach we got together in our groups again and set up our wikispaces page. We had to make a logo and put it up onto the site. We wrote our blogs for last week in and started to include things we needed for our page. We needed to have some goals set and other information about out group. We also started up a Google Doc for the group to write in our meetings and what happens. We also met up with Mr Jilbert to discuss what was happening. We started researching again on the hospitals that we want to help. We are thinking about what hospital we are wishing to help. We are have many possibilites and also started to draft letters, emails and phone calls that could become a possibility in the future. Today we also made a poster to advertise our group and what we want to happen.

ML: This was the second week of DEAL, we had been working on our Outreach project once again and once again improved immensely in our work. Our work that was handed to us for us to complete was to create a way to advertise our progress on our outreach to the community as well as maintain our blog and create our first meeting. Our first task that was set ahead of us was to complete our blogs up to date so that we may keep organised on which tasks could be set aside. The tasks that followed completing the blogs or reflections was to complete a poster to advertise our progress in the subject of outreach. We decided that I would complete the task set ahead of us and made a clean design for our outreach, and it was done efficiently and effectively because al the members of our group were co operative and helpful. We had printed it off and it turned out much more successful than we had seen it on the computer screen, this was so efficiently done tat we decided to complete more work on our project such as research on the hospitals that were stated in the first reflection.

MS: In DEAL today we worked on our blog reflections and started to add and improve our wiki page. We soon got our wiki page up and running with all our relevant information which was organised by every member of the group. Soon we had a task to create a group logo, Mark was in charge with the logo and we soon had that pasted onto our wiki page. Next we had to make a poster, again Mark was in charge of designing but every member of our group contributed with different ideas. We finally got our poster done and as a group we were quite happy with what we had produced. Afterwards we researched different organisations that we were willing to help and volunteer for, we chose a few just so we had a few different options to choose from and so if we got denied we would still have other options. We also started to draft some emails that we are going to send to these organisations and those should be completed next lesson. Next we held a meeting discussing and summarising what we have accomplished today and what we would need to do for our next DEAL lesson. Our group worked well together today and we have started to really organise and prepare for our next steps.

LP: today we have used our time efficiently and made progress to what our general idea is and what our first step as a group is going to do. We researched different hospitals that is in our reach and observed what they were lacking.Then we designed our banner with a quote from buddha representing our determination and our goals. We then researched more about the other hospital and i was put in charge for making a draft email to send the hospitals. We just need to get the draft check by our mentor mr Jilbert. We also did our first meeting and it was successful. I think we were very productive today because we got a lot of work done and we accomplished the task that was set for us.

5th of June, 2012

TD: In todays outreach class, we were involved in many activities that we had to do to our wikispaces and our organisation. At the start we had to run a meeting. Lucius was the chair and I was the minute. During our meeting, our group went though a lot of stuff and planed our day. First our group started off with finishing writing our drafts and sending them to Mr Jilbert to approve. While we waited for Mr Jilbert to approve, we tried to approve our wikkispace and added more information to our agenda. During this lesson, our group started to get a better understanding of what we are going to do and what is our first step. During this lesson, our group came across an obstacle. The obstacle was that there is another group doing Starlight Foundation. To fix this obstacle,we looked up more organisations we can do for a back up. We all had to look up an organisation each so we had at least 6 others to choose from. In this lesson we completed our first step which is to email an organisation ( Starlight Foundation). We are now waiting for a reply. In this lesson, our group worked to the best of our abilities. Giving each other different ideas and opinions to what we were doing. We have came up with lots of good ideas and contributing more. It was a very hard day and we did a lot of work and we are anxious to find out what they say.

MG: Our outreach lesson today, involved a number of different tasks. One of these tasks included our meeting and agenda. We discussed different ideas that we could work on during this class, and different ways that we could achieve our outreach goal. Some of the ideas included researching less popular organisations that other groups would not have. This would give us more of an advantage in reaching our final goal. Although we have found some organisations like: CanTeen, Very Special Kids and Childhood Cancer Support, we have decided to stick to our first organisation, because we find that we share the most values with them.This gave us a clearer understanding of how we could potentially reach our final goal. A challenge we had today, was whether or not we should stick to the starlight organisation, because another outreach group had the same organisation. We believe our final decision was the right decision, because we have come so far and we have discussed many ideas relating to this organisation, it would be a waste to let it all go. Today we also completed our draft email to starlight, we have made changes to it (guided by our mentor) and it is now ready to be sent off. I found this lesson just as productive as the last, and look forward to receiving a response from the Starlight Foundation.

EM: Today in DEAL we got together again and had another meeting and looked at a draft for an email that we would send to the Starlight foundation asking if we could help out in any way. Lucius was the chair and Toni was the minute. Toni recorded everything from the conversation we had on skype and the draft from the email we sent. We did, run into a few obstacles today though because another group was going to send in an email to the same organisation but we beat them to it and backup plans if it doesn’t work. We have now sent an email to the foundation and hopefully they reply with good news. We are still looking at what we can do to achieve our main goal and wrote an agenda for next weeks meeting. We are well in our way to achieving what we want and now we need to take steps to get there. Next week again we will keep achieving our goals and already have an idea of what we can do next wether it be that we can help the starlight foundation or we have to find another foundation to help out.

ML: During today’s lesson in DEAL we had been successful in following the path to our success in our outreach project. We decided to follow up our blogs so that we could get it out of the way. With the blogs aside from our path, we finalised our work on our email. The email that was constructed consisted of a basic resume type letter which could be compatible with other organisations that would be willing to nurture our support. Our email was constructed by Lucius and was later configured and improved to greater standards by the help of the people in our group including myself. We had been set to advertise it but was stuck on trying to get approval from Mr. Jilbert, so we further improved it until we met the standards of Mr. Jilbert. We, as a group had decided to change the organisations as the groups that we were looking for were very famous organisations and hospitals, so we looked for more options, still planning to send our emails to the initial options. We decided to choose options which did not consist of much popularity, getting unpopular foundations or organisations would mean that we could have more opportunities to get a chance to serve them, so we went searching again. We ended the day finalising all the things that we had occupied for the day, the Google Docs, the Blog and the emails, we had made quite a lot of progress to get us to our goals.

MS: In DEAL today we held a meeting with the group and we discussed about what we need to achieve and what we have already achieve, the minute man recorded everything on google docs and we were able to improve our google docs with adding our drafted email so everyone could edit and improve it and so the teacher could review it and tell us if it was ready to be sent. We then worked on our wiki page by updating our blogs and by just making a few changes to it. We also discussed about what and how we could help or volunteer to an organisation and what we would need to look out for in terms of a patients condition on whether they could physically move around, etc. We also had a chat with Mr Jilbert about what organisation we were gonna support and what our group was up to. We have now already finalised our email and we are ready to send it to our chosen organisations which is “Starlight Children’s Foundation Australia”.

LP: Today in outreach we first had a meeting and discussed about the agenda. Our agenda was to research further into the organisation, editing the draft email and sending it by today, securing our goals and figuring out our next step. We then finished drafting that email and decided that we are going to send that email to the starlight organisation. After we edited the email we then asked for Mr Jilbert’s approval. He told us to just fix our grammar and place the introduction to the group first. After we fixed that we then sent the email to the starlight organisation. We then updated our blogs and google docs. Today we had an obstacle that another team was already working with starlight, we overcame this obstacle by providing some back up plans so that if we fail we can straight away work on the next.

12th of June, 2012

TD: In deal today, we re-emailed starlight foundation and sent out an email to scope. After we sent out the emails, we rang up starlight. Michaela and I, went to ring them up. it took us 2 times to get through to them. After we got through we had to think of a few back up plans. Todays deal lesson was mainly thinking up of back up plans and calling/emailing the organisations that we would of liked to help. During this deal lessons we all had to find organisations each to help us get more backup plans for the future. When we contacted starlight, they liked our idea but had to contact the main person. Even though we didn’t do much this lesson our group worked as a team finding organisations that we would like to help in the future.

MG: Although this lesson was extremely quick and brief, we still managed to get in contact with Scope. We sent them an email, and hope to get a reply. We discussed future goals and backup plans and organisations because so far, everything has not been going exactly to plan. We thought of hospitals to get in contact with, and not just organisations. Since we didnt yet get a reply from starlight, we wanted to call them and make sure they have seen our email or to chat to one of their members about what we could do to help and how we can get involved. It turned out that the manager of starlight in Victoria was away on holiday, and he will get back to us within the week. Next lesson, if we have not gotten a reply from either of the organisations, we will have to change our plans, and foccus on getting in contact with a hospital rather then an organisation. We are becoming very determined to reach our goal, and we will not give up in any situation.

EM:

This week in deal we had a really slow and lousy week because we had to exams and in all we really couldn’t be bothered doing much so we talked to Mr Jilbert about what we wanted to do. We once, again contacted the starlight foundation again because they hadn’t gotten back to us yet. We called and they said that they would forward the email to there branch in Melbourne. We also contacted scope to see if we could help out there as well and see what we could do with and for them. We set our agenda for next week’s meeting and looked at what out possible backup plan will be. We also looked at what our goals will be and what we will do in the future.

ML: Our task this lesson was to conclude on the contacting of organisations for our outreach achievement. We had sent numerous emails across to more organisations hoping that out of those emails we could find one option that we could use to complete our goals. We had continued to send emails to organisations such as scope, yet they have declined. Feedback from organisations arose when contacting them through telephone, three members of the group, Elizabeth, Toni and Michaela decided to be the ones to call the organisation: Twilight Foundation. During the call, we had been notified that our email had been accepted, yet it had been accepted into a less narrow path, being accepted into the state level of the Twilight Foundation. Our message that we had been trying to send had been transferred to the Victorian section of the Twilight Foundation, getting our hopes up, yet gave us a nudge into thinking what we had to do next. The next goal we had to overcome was the goal of realising what we could actually do in order to help those within the Twilight Foundation. Though our goal was to help people, it wasn’t specific enough to use when approaching the people we were helping. This gave us an extra period of time at the end of the lesson to think about this, considering sport activities and such to try and keep the people we were reaching out to a way of keeping healthy, and keeping themselves happy. Still incompletely sure about what our next step of action was to do for the people we were reaching out to, we proceeded to try and contact other organisations to give us a backup plan if the Twilight Foundation didn’t comply with our needs, or if we didn’t comply with their needs. Although this lesson seemed to be a neutral amount of progress, it still seemed we had done well.

MS: In DEAL today we held a meeting and discussed about securing our goals and actually discussing about what we would actually like to do once one of the organisations have replied back to us. So far the Starlight Foundation has not replied, so we sent an email again and another email to Scope. Later on Michaela, Toni and Elizabeth called Starlight and checked wether they have received the email, our group made the mistake of sending it to the international organisation and not to the Australian one. So far as a group we are planning what we actually want to do once we get the reply that they would accept us, there aren’t so many ideas we have yet but I think as a group we should brainstorm our ideas and find what we would all agree on doing as a team. So there really isn’t an awful lot happening which is good because we are able to work at a medium pace which would benefit us by being prepared and such. So now we are just waiting for a reply and once we have we should start to really progress right through.

LP: Today in deal we conversed about which organisation we can offer our servitude to and effort to. We did some researching about different organisations and found that starlight and scope was two options that we could possibly approach and help. We then thought of how to contact them and rounded it of to sending an email and calling them through the telephone so that we can get an immediate response. We contacted scope through emailing and starlight through emailing and calling them. After that we thought of ways to help them if we got accepted and back up plans if we got rejected. During the week we got informed that we were rejected by both starlight and scope. So next lesson we are going to think of other organisations and how we can help them. I think we worked very efficiently and co operated well.

21st June, 2012

TD:

MG: During the week, we have received an email from Scope and Starlight regarding whether or not we were able to participate in helping the children. Both emails mentioned that we were not able to volunteer because we were not old enough. We have found that a lot of organisations don’t accept people under the age of 16, which is difficult for us, because we need to reach out to the wider community. After replying to their emails, we researched a couple of other organisations and hospitals that we could contact. After realising that emails take to long for a reply, we decided to contact them by phone instead. We were rejected by the sunshine hospital and the ronald mcDonald house. We did however get an option to help in some charity days for Variety, but realised afterwards that another group has already contacted them, which was really disappointing for our group. We have contacted at least four organisations, and not one has accepted us as of yet. Later on in the lesson, we did a little more research and decided to contact TLC for kids. They kindly accepted our request of helping in charity events, which made us feel so much more relieved. We have aledy filled in our proposal, and just need to wait for a phone call from Olivia in TLC for kids.

EM: This week in Deal we contacted over the phone many organisations and hospitals. We called variety first and they said that at the end of the year we may be able to help out with the Christmas party. We contacted both the sunshine and the royal children’s hospital to which we only heard from the royal children’s hospital who said no. We had a reply from the starlight foundation and scope during the week and they said no so that is why we called a number of organisations today. We also rang up the Ronald MacDonald house but it was another no from them. Later on in the class we spoke to a representative from TLC for kids. It is an organisation that supports sick kids and there families who need help when their child is in hospital and they need a little support. We called them and told them the details of what we wanted to do they said that they were going to talk to their managers and see what we could do and get back to us as soon as possible.

ML: This week seemed to be one of the most productive lessons so far in the entire outreach progression. We had successfully completed what needed to be done in our paths, and within our plans, we had one thing missing within this section of the lesson. The girls decided to take their chance to call up the organisation known as TLC for kids, acronym for Tender Loving Care for kids. This organisation funds kids with disabilities as well as giving them opportunities to belong and have enjoyment. They give opportunities such as sport to kids with disabilities. We decided to make arrangements with them, and the girls decided to take action, calling the organisation to find a favored outcome. This outcome progressed well, giving us a chance to adhere to their needs. They allowed us to make this agreement between the organisations and us, we agreed to be available every Tuesday, this was a major advancement in our progression of outreach and we are one step ahead to the goal.

MS: In DEAL today we received emails from Starlight and Scope, both organisations replied saying that we could not participate or volunteer as we are under the age of 16. We then researched for more organisations and found that most organisations would not accept people under 16. We then found some we could try contacting, instead of emailing Toni, Michaela and Elizabeth decided to call as they knew we would get an instant reply. Most organisations turned us down, but soon afterwards one organisation called TLC for kids was happy for us to volunteer. We are now just waiting for a reply since they are going to have a chat with the managers to see what we can do to help out. As much as for plans, we can’t really plan what we are going to do as the people at TLC are deciding, but I think we should just incase. Overall we seem ready and prepared and we are excited for what is to come.

LP: Today we started by reinstating the agenda and things we need to do. Firstly we called up the organizations that we were planning to offer our service to which was royal children’s hospital, scope, variety, starlight, TLC and sunshine hospital. everyone of those organizations rejected us besides variety and TLC. Variety offered us a chance to help them in a christmas party and TLC is contemplating about helping them in there organizations. Today we have accomplished a lot and found something we can work on. Our group worked efficiently throughout the lesson because we achieved in finding a organization and offering our help to them.

26th of June, 2012

TD: In todays deal class, we had to do a lot of things. First we had to make a 2 minute video describing what we are doing and our goals. It took us at least 6 times before we got it right. After we finished the movie, Mark, Lucius and Matt worked on getting the clip on the wikki. Michaela, Elizabeth and myself tried calling TLC for a reply. We had to call three times before the could give us an answer. While we were waiting for a reply, we called St Albans primary school to talk to my mum to see if they could help. After we called for the third time, TLC finally got back to us but they had to decline because of our age. After waiting for more than an hour to get that reply, our group lost hope and determination due to being rejected by 6 organisations in 3 weeks. This lesson was not a very good one because we had to wait for a week to get a reply and get told we couldn’t do it. Our goals for next lesson is to find more organisations that can help us.

MG: This DEAL lesson wasn’t as productive as the last ones. We started off the lesson by calling TLC. I called and asked for Olivia, who was the person we talked to last week. We got told that she will call back in 20 minutes or so. It was basically like a waiting game. We waited for hours with no reply or call, so we called again and got told that she will call in 10 minutes. We waited around, and wrote our agenda for next lesson and also completed all of our blogs. When we finally got through to her, she told us that our age is too young, and the activities that they run with the children are very full on, and we might have trouble handling the children. Although we are disappointed and extremely frustrated that we have been declined from every organisation we called or emailed, we are still busily researching other places to get in contact with. I find that our group is losing concentration and determination because of being rejected by all 6 organisations and hospitals. We have to remain hopeful and open to different opportunities if this doesn't go to plan. Our goal now is to research different places we can go and activities we can run, before the first week of holidays. We have decided to try different places, such as the Leisure center, or a school, because we might have more luck calling these sorts of places rather then organisations similar to the ones we have called already.

EM: This week in deal outreach we have called TLC again but are awaiting an answer, we then got our answer and it was that we are to young to be able to help out in the activities that they were going to run. Age for us is a real bummer because a lot of places won’t take us because of it. We also called st. albans primary school and all they wanted from us was a time plan and for us to wait for them to answer us back because we are still un sure if we can come. We have had a pretty unlucky day but I’m sure that our options will remain open.

ML: Our task that was set was to achieve major certification between the agreement of TLC and our group. Hands of Hope seemed to be extremely successful with the progression of TLC and what to do within TLC, sadly this progression had a corruption as we hadn’t have suspected. TLC made it clear to us that we were too young to proceed with any help in the foundation, all we could apply ourselves to was the new opportunity that we had found known as St. Albans Primary School. Toni had received information from her mother which contained information such as the work that is done there, and what could be done there. The school is a school for disadvantaged children such as refugees who have low amounts of money and disadvantaged in general. The children could be a hope for us to reach out, so we decided that this was the only viable option for the time being, as we hadn’t made any plans with any backup organisations. Luckily we have a path that we can follow for the time being but we are still unsure if its secure or not. But hope is one of our main traits stated in our name, so we will hope and cease the moment.

MS: In DEAL today we created a video explain our group’s values and goals and what our group’s progress is. We waited for a reply from TLC, but sadly they could not accept us as were are too young to volunteer or help out. We luckily have a backup plan which is for a primary school in St Albans, we hope they can accept us, otherwise we would need to research again for an organisation. Overall today most of the time we were waiting for a response, a pretty unlucky day as we got rejected again, but hopefully something good will happen in the future. We are open to many options and opportunities, although we are keeping our head high and hoping for the best.

LP: Today in deal outreach our assignment that was given to us was to access a certification of agreement of TLC and our group. Our group seems to be progressing successfully with the the contacts and the agreements of TLC and what to do to aid TLC, sadly we had a problem as we hadn’t have suspected but had to overcome. TLC informed us that we were under the age restrictions to proceed in aiding or helping the foundation, the only thing that we could come up with to solve this problem was to seek a new opportunity to reach out to the community. luckily we found a new opportunity very quickly. there was a school that is known as St. Albans Primary School. Toni had received intel from her mother which contained information such as the work that is done there, and what we could assist them with. The school is a specific school for disadvantaged children such as refugees who have low amounts of money and disadvantaged in any aspect. The children could be a hope for us to reach out, so we decided that this was the only viable option for the time being, as we hadn’t fully elaborated on any plans with backup organisations. Luckily we have a way that we can go through for the time being but we are still unsure if the decision is secure or not But hope is one of our main values stated in our group title, so we will hope and think positively

31st of july: TD: In todays deal lesson, we found out that we can no longer do our outreach program due to the new laws. What the teachers came up with is that we come up with a fundraiser and raise awareness and funds for them at the school fait. Our group came up with the cancer council. Michaela, Elizabeth and i rang them up to see if they can donate any merchandise to us. When we finished we found out that another group already logged in the cancer council before we need. When we found that out, our group was disappointed and really upset. After lunch we came back and looked up more organisations that we can do. The group we ended up choosing was St Albans primary school. We choose it because they have kids with nothing. Some are refugees, some are orphans and some have survivor conditions. When we choose what we did, we rang up the school to tell them that we cant go there but we will support them in our school fait. They were happy with it and cant wait to see what happens. As a bonse we were the first group to ask for the bbq. Next lesson we are going to organise what activities we are going to run.

MG: Today our group found out that because of changes in the law, we are not able to visit other organisations in the community to pursue our outreach goal. Our group was in strife, because we had to make cancelations such as going to the saint albans primary school and helping out the teachers and students. We then found out that all the year nines would participate in a fair, to help raise awareness and funds for our chosen organisation. We didn't lose hope, even though we were set back so many times during our plans for outreach. We decided to make our stall based on the cancer council, generally because we can help children overcome their illnesses to live a normal life, which we are extremely passionate about. But again, after calling the company asking if they could send us merchandise, we discovered that another group had already picked this organisation. Were weren't set back too much, because we knew that we could support Saint Albans Primary, in collecting funds to cater for their programs based at children who are disadvantaged. We have worked out that by having a sausage sizzle, most people would be interested in buying our products, and while waiting in line, they can be informed with who and why we are raising funds with posters and flyers. We believe this is a good choice and option for our group because not many students will know of Saint Albans Primary, and what children from that school are experiencing, so by selling sausages, they can be informed while in line. Today’s lesson was based on planning and brainstorming ideas that our stall could have, and we worked well as a team during this lesson.

EM: MS: In DEAL today we got news of a government law change which would affect our outreach program which would not allow us to go outside of school during school hours without supervision, this affected every group as the whole point of outreach was to get out and help the community around us which was the main goal for everyone. Sadly with this law change we are now unable to continue on with our outreach and all the hardwork we have put into preparing dates, etc has now gone to waste, so now the teachers came up with a plan to setup and carnival at the school, every group will have a stall which we can use to get donations, etc whilst providing good fun. With this carnival we hope to receive donations and such to help the organisation we planned on doing our outreach with. We are going to support St. Albans primary school as they have refugees, we just want to help support them in anyway we can possible. So now we are just planning what we can do for this carnival.

LP:

ML: Today during DEAL, we were notified that we were restricted from acting with any of our outreach goals. The teachers notified us that the policies of the government had been changed and that we were no longer allowed to venture out of school grounds without the fully realised consent of the teachers or if they came with us, which is not the point of DEAL. DEAL as an open learning space for people to reach out and act as if they are independently run is the aim of the program and this majorly stopped us in the tracks that we had set ahead. Our goal now is to reclaim what we had and still produce the goals of the people that we were helping, being St. Albans primary, a school for disadvantaged children. The teachers notified that we are able to go ahead with the outreach plan as long as we do it in another fashion, being the outreach festival. The outreach festival is the idea that our outreach groups set up a fete for the school to serve the children and also create awareness for people in our school. We had gone through a major change of attitude and disappointment was evident, this was a problem that we got through together knowing that there was hope ahead.

7th of August: TD: Today in deal, Michaela and Elizabeth were away and we had a lot to organise. The first thing we needed to do was to contact the teachers and ask if they can help us run or cook the barbecue. With only the four of us we needed to work like more of a team and figure out what we needed to do. We worked on the design for the area and made the banner. We also made a small work plan on what needed to be done and put that on our agenda. In this lesson Skype and our wikispaces came important because with only 4 of us we needed to do a lot of work and those were very helpful to us. Next lesson we need to see if the teachers ( Mr Mac, Mr Mac and Mr Taylor) have emailed us back so that we can call up rainbow meats and the bakeries so we can get our bbq ready and organised.

MG: Away at the School production EM: Away at the school production MS: In DEAL today we organised a barbecue, so we needed to contact a few teachers who would be willing to help us on the day so that we can also do the other few jobs we have planned for the day. Today was pretty busy as there were only 4 of us in the group as Elizabeth and Michaela were at production rehearsals, we used our tools communication tools very effectively as we were at different places. We got a small workplan done as well so we know what each member of the group has to do since we are going to be very busy preparing for the next few weeks.

LP:

Today in outreach we were informed that we cannot help the school the way we planned to because we are restricted to venturing anywhere out of school due to the new changes of the law. We were in a bit of a dilemma since we based our outreach on going out of school and helping the children in the school that we were suppose to help. When we received this distressing news the teacher introduced a new plan of reaching out to the community which is having an outreach festival with all the groups organizing a stall to raise awareness. So we started searching for organisations that we would support and decided to base our support and aid around cancer so we thought of the cancer council but once again we were set back because we were informed that another group picked the cancer council but luckily we thought of helping the school that we were intentionally going, the St Albans Primary. We plan to inform the public of what kind of experience they are going through and also plan to hold a sausage sizzle

ML:

During this week we had proceeded on the progression of the outreach festival. Our outreach festival concluded with the completion of the plan that was set ahead of us and all the components that were to create this outreach festival. We had proceeded with the plan and made our plans to pass our message through using greatly thought out strategies. We were due to complete this task by filling out a form which required us to fill in what resources we would need to complete our vision of the outreach festival. Our group had decided to choose the barbecue in order to get our message across, using the money we could make from a sausage sizzle to get a profit and donate to the foundation that we are serving, the schools, St. Albans primary school. The path ahead seemed clear yet we were still facing the conclusion of how this could be the most successful fete we could have. We decided to take it upon ourselves to think through this struggle, and together we had added the components together to do such a task. The girls in the group organised with Mr. Jilbert to find out how to get sausages for free making this a very productive lesson from the previous conclusion that we were faced with last week.

14th of August: TD: Today the year 9 team participated in a summit. It was organised by the twentieth man fund. Les Twentyman came to talk to us as well as many other guest speakers. As i was only there for about thirty minutes, an ex police man talked to us about what he used to do and how important education was to us. He told us that education is what we have to support us in the future. We might not like the idea but our school is whats always going to be there for us. With the support from teachers and friends. When i got back there was about 15 minutes left and someone from the western bulldogs was half way through talking to us about what the football club does. All this taught me that there are people out there that have little and that education is all they have and we need to do something to help them.

MG: This deal lesson was dedicated to a summit with the 20th man fund. Les Twentyman and other guest speakers came to inform and aware us of he problems our youth faces, and how they can be resolved. Although I was only there for about 30 minutes, I have enough information to know that they are funding and working towards the disadvantaged youth who find it hard to create a future. There are some teenagers who have disabilities, broken homes or no where to come home to, so the twentieth man fund works with other organisations and programs and talk to different people such as police men. An ex-policeman began to talk to us about issues he has faced with young adults, I didn't take much from this guest speaker, because I had to leave half way through his presentation. When I came back for the last 15 or so minutes, I got to listen to a football player talking about the program that he runs for teenagers interested in sport which can help them overcome difficulties they are facing, and teaches them was to act and respond in life situations. Although the speeches dragged on a little, it was interesting to know and learn what teenagers of our community are facing today, and that we can help and make a difference by spreading the word.

EM: Today Les Twentymen from the twentieth man fund and a range of guest speakers came to the school to talk to us about troubled youth and trying to get them an education. They held a summit at the school and discussed the matter at hand. The twentieth man fund support troubled youth mainly in the western suburbs to help them overcome troubles in there lives. During the summit we heard many speakers talk about the troubles of these young people and what they do for them or what they have been through personally. It was very interesting to hear what many of the speakers had to say about this cause especially when they are very much related to us. As much as the summit was very interesting at the same time it was also very boring because some of the speakers were boring and what they were going on about didn't interest me as much as some of the other speakers did. All in all though the whole thing was very interesting and personally I think it is a benefit to the community.

MS: In DEAL today us year 9s participated in a summit featuring Les Twentyman who is the man who set up the 20th man fund, this fund supports kids to stay in school and to alert the community of youth issues happening in the western suburbs. There were other guest speakers who talked like a commissioner from Western Australia, a player from the AFL and many others. The main message all of them told us was to stay in school and realise how important education is for achieving your goals, they also told us about what organisations they are a part of and how they help the community.

LP: This deal lesson was based on an activity called the summit with the 20th man fund. Les Twentyman the founder of the 20th man fund and other guest speakers such as a famous football player came to inform and aware us of the troubles and tribulations our youth faces in these time, and how they can be solved by being proactive rather than reactive. The whole year 9 was given so much information that at the end of the summit their intentions were ingrained into our minds, their intentions, funding and working is towards the disadvantaged youth who find it hard to create a future. There are some teenagers who have disabilities, broken homes or just disadvantage in some aspect that might be a threat to their future, so the twentieth man fund works with other organisations and programs and talk to a variety of audiences such as the police. An ex-policeman was a guest speaker and began to talk to us about issues he has faced with young adults, I took a great deal of information from this guest speaker, because he targeted recent problems. after a few guest speakers people started paying attention and listen to a football player talking about the program that he runs for teenagers interested in sport which can help them overcome difficulties they are facing, he also says that education is vital and teaches them how to act and respond in life situations. Although the guest talks dragged on a little and dreary, it was interesting to know and learn what teenagers of our community are facing today, and that we can help and make a difference by spreading the word.

ML:

This week’s progression began with the viewing of the 20th man fund. A fund that reflects off the bad environments that children are brought up in this modern society. These children with the environmental disadvantage were those brought up in gangs, slave labour from their parents or any of these people that don’t get the same benefits as us in CRCCS or anywhere else. The 20th man fund works to reach out to the community, giving these disadvantaged children or teenagers the opportunity to live a comfortable life like the ones that we are presented with. These unlucky children are the 20th Man Fund’s vision to help which would inspire our outreach group to do the same. After the conferenced, many of us, mightily including our group were inspired to move forward with the action we were going to take with our clients. We thought harder to formulate a plan to benefit the school’s children money wise, as well as things that they could use from us to show that it isn’t just money, that we actually care for these people. Reaching out has to be as creative as possible and the 20th man fund gave us the perfect example of how to do so. Sadly we can’t go beyond the depths of our school but surely we can work more creatively in the fete that was given to us as an opportunity.

21st of August: TD: Today in deal we got our deal assignment. It showed us our rubric and the paper work we needed to fill out. After Mr Jilbert talked to us about it, we went back to our table and had a meeting seeing if we can tick off any of the evidence boxes. After our meeting I emailed back mr Taylor for our bbq. Then I made the time plan and the rest worked on the evidence sheet. Once I finished the time plan, we all started working on our jobs. In this lesson we used Skype very often and upload most of our ideas and work on it like the time plan. In this lesson, we all upload and completed most or all of our blogs. After a while Michaela and I went to talk to mr Taylor since he didn’t give us an answer. When we found him we talked to him and found out that he would help but there were no more sausages left. We also worked on our evidence and writing a letter to the shops. On this day we realised that talking to them in person, calling them up or personally handing them a letter is faster and a better way then emailing for our cause.

MG: Today was a productive lesson in our DEAL outreach groups. We were introduced to our ‘Paperwork’ which was actually just the evidence that we had to provide relating to our outreach work which will make up our mark for the term. I was overwhelmed by how much evidence we had to provide to achieve an ‘at standard’ mark, but I know that if we work well and as a team we can most definitely go through our work to find our evidence alongside preparing for our stall. This week we decided to go through our evidence and make sure we know what we have to be writing in our blogs and what we should be looking out for. We also decided to design our posters for the school to become informed about our outreach festival and our stall. We still havnt gotten a teply from mr. Taylor to see if he has any left over sausages that we could use, next week if we still havnt recieved a reply, we will have to see him in person. We have found that emailing isnt always the best option, because it takes a while for a reply, so we will try to contact teachers and organisations by phone and in person, rather then by email.

EM: Today in deal we got introduced to the paper work that we will have to do for the semester and it is a lot of work. We have to collect evidence of what we have been doing and what we have achieved in our outreach groups. We got all the paperwork explained to us and what we have to put in it. It will take a while but we will get it all done. We as an outreach group worked together and got as much work done today as we could. We each had our specific jobs and went off and did what we needed to but still worked as a group. Michaela and Toni went out to find Mr Taylor to ask about the bbq because he wasn’t responding to our emails so we went out to find him ourselves.

LP: Today was a constructive lesson in our DEAL outreach groups. We were initiated to our ‘Paperwork’ which was literally just the evidence that we had to distribute associating to our outreach work which will produce our mark for the term. I was affected by how much evidence we had to present to fulfill an ‘at standard’ mark, but I know that if we work well and co-operate we can most definitely search through our work to attain our evidence alongside preparing for our stall. This week we decided to go in search for our evidence and make sure we are informed of what we have to be writing in our blogs and what we should be looking out for. We also decided to construct our posters for the school to inform and publicise about our outreach festival and our stall. We have yet to receive a reply from mr. Taylor to see if he has any vacant sausages that we could use, next week if we still haven’t received a reply, we will have to eventually approach him in person. We have found that emailing isn’t always the most efficient and best option, because it requires time for a reply, so we will try to contact and reach the teachers and organisations by phone and/or in person if necessary, rather then by email.

MS: ML:

28th of August: TD: In todays deal lesson, we worked very hard since we only have about 3 lessons left before the fete. We all spilt into different groups so that we can try and get everything done. First Michaela and I worked on calling up the shops and finding Mr Taylor about the sausage sizzle. Mark, Matt, Elizabeth and Lucius worked on the agenda and then they worked on the evidence sheet and / or the brochure and flyers. When we called up the shops they all told us that we need to write a letter head and then they can talk and see if they can donate any sausages. Once we organised that, we had to think of ways we can make this publicity. Then Mark printed off the brochures so that we can photocopy them and stick them into every homeroom tub. We also called up the local library to see if they will donate any books for our book drive. Ms Hamill said that the school will try and help support us. Google docs was a great use of help because we could upload our draft letter and then the group could edit it when they needed to. Todays lesson went very fast and our group did a lot of work. As we may not be going by our time plan due to some complications, but we are still leveled to what we needed to do.

MG: As a group we worked on so many tasks to prepare for our outreach festival and to complete our evidence. We worked really well as a team today, and we cooperated with each other fairly well. Today we printed our final poster design which can then be cut out and put into homeroom tubs by monday as of next week, and we also talked to Ms. Hamal about the book drive, which will run throughout the rest of the term. We have organised for the books to be brought into the school library, and have created posters to be put in homeroom tubs and in the library. Today we have also called up the Brimbank Library to ask if they had any spare books that are unwanted and can be donated to us for the book drive, which can then be taken to St. Albans primary. I think we used our time effectively today, as we got majority of the preparation done before the date of the outreach festival. Next week we are planning to work less on the preparation and more on finding the evidence, which we have already planned for everybody to each work on 5 parts of the evidence criteria, finding appropriate evidence to prove that we have achived each section.

EM: Todays lesson was a very busy one. We had to work well and efficiently to get everything done on time. While Michaela and Toni were off making phone calls to shops about donating bread and sausages. Lucius, Mark, Matt and I were collecting the evidence we needed and started filling in the evidence sheet. It needed to be finished soon so we had to work hard to get it done. We also were told today that each group must come up with a way to advertise there charity and what they were doing for it. We decided we were going to put a poster in every home room tub so they could be read out and stuck on every home room wall.

LP: In DEAL today our group we achieved in completing our flyers, we produced two types of flyers, the first flyer was emphasized on the promotion of the sausage sizzle and one about the promotion of the book drive, with these flyers being distributed around the school to each homeroom class tub so that we can notify everyone in the school including teachers that there will be a sausage sizzle on the day. We also achieved in completing our Coles poster and have almost completed the draft banner design which should be done by the next DEAL lesson. As a group we continued our evidence guide and tried to finish it. During this lesson Toni, Michaela and Elizabeth were able to get in contact with Mr. Taylor who will help us with the sausage sizzle, they contacted Coles and were able to get discount vouchers for the sausages and bread. I came up with an idea to strike a deal with Coles in which on the day of the carnival we will advertise for them if they can give us more of a discount on their products. So far we have been able to get quite a lot done today and all that we really need to do is prepare all the items, flyers and evidence guide and we would pretty much be done.

MS: In DEAL today our group we got our flyers done, we made 2 flyers one about the sausage sizzle and one about the book drive, with these flyers we will distribute them to each homeroom class tub so that we can notify everyone in the school that there will be a sausage sizzle on the day. We also got our Coles poster done and have pretty much done the draft banner design which should be done by the next DEAL lesson. As a group we continued our evidence guide and tried to finish it. During this lesson Toni, Michaela and Elizabeth were able to get in contact with Mr. Taylor who will help us with the sausage sizzle, they contacted Coles and were able to get discount vouchers for the sausages and bread. Lucius also came up with an idea to strike a deal with Coles in which on the day of the carnival we will advertise for them if they can give us more of a discount on their products. So far we have been able to get quite a lot done today and all that we really need to do is prepare all the items, flyers and evidence guide and we would pretty much be done.

ML:

4th of september TD: Today in deal it was our second last lesson before the fete. We still had no sausages or bread. Our groups started panicking and had to decide what to do. We called you many of the companies. When no one would get to us we went and had a talk to the teachers. Ms Elmer said that if we don’t get anything by he next week she will lend us money and we pay her back. To get the stress off our backs we started making our banner and finish off our evidence. When we called rainbow meats they said that they don’t have enough sausages to give us. Coles said that they are still thinking of what to do. Getting these answers made us very upset and angry that we might not even have a barbecue to run. To give us the good news both Caroline Springs and St. Albans library donated books to us. Both libraries where proud of what we were doing and were happy to help us. This lesson was a frustrating time and a happy time. We got bad and good news that good help us get better at what we need to do.

MG: This week in DEAL was our second last lesson before the outreach festival, which meant that we had little time to fit in a load of things we had to complete. By this stage, we still hadn’t received a reply from coles about the sausages, we still needed to get the bread and complete our evidence. During the little time we had, we were able to complete all of our evidence as a group, talking about how we have achieved each section and how we can prove that with evidence. This took about half an hour, but because we discussed each section together, we combined our thoughts and ideas to complete it. Next, we split up and worked on a few different tasks. Two group members worked on our banner, another two members edited our evidence guide while Toni and I rang coles, rainbow meats and Safeway. Rainbow meats told us that they couldn't give us their sausages and Safeway said that we had to send them a letterhead. It was too late to send them one, so we called coles next, and they agreed to help us, and said they would call back. If they don't call back soon, we will have to call them back during the week, or next lesson. Today we also called Bakers delight in Caroline springs to ask for bread, but they told us that they couldn't. We were in strife, and so confused about what we were going to do. Ms.Elmer told us that she would lend us money to buy all of our equipment, but we would still have to pay her back with our funds. But we decided to keep trying next week and let that be our second option. During this lesson, we also rang the caroline springs library, who were proud to hand us over some old children's books for the students at st albans primary.

EM: Today we only have 2 weeks left till the big day and we still don’t have bread or sausages because every one we asked said we have to bring them a letter head and then they will decide from there. We started on our group’s banner today and hopefully it will stand out and bring in a crowd. We continued to work on the evidence guide as well and have just about completed it. We still have a lot to do but if we work hard and maintain our pace we will have everything ready and done by the time the outreach festival comes around.

LP: Today in deal, we were informed that today was our second last lesson before the carnival fete. We still couldn't secure a place where they can supply us with sausages and bread, so we had no practically had no sausages or bread to a sausage sizzle. Our group started to panic and was a bit disoriented and had to decide what to achieve. We contacted many of the companies. When none of the companies would able to contact us or told us that they would get to us we had to consult with the teachers. Ms Elmer told us that if we don’t get anything confirmed by the next week she will lend us money and we pay her back. To get the tension off the group, so we started making our banner and finish off our evidence. When we called rainbow meats they said that they have insufficient sausages to give us. While Coles are still contemplating on what they have to do. Getting the results that we did not expect made us very upset and disorientated that we might not even have a barbecue to run. To give us the good news both Caroline Springs and St. Albans library donated books to us. Both libraries where proud of what we were doing and were happy to help us. This lesson was a frustrating time and a happy time. We got bad and good news that good help us get better at what we need to do.

MS: ML:

11th of september

TD: Today is the last day before the fete. We thought we would call Coles Caroline Springs and bakers delight in watergardens before we tell ms Elmer. When we rang up Coles they decided to give us $60 to help us with our barbecue. We were so happy that we finally got our sausages ready for the barbecue next week. The only thing left was the bread. We rang up bakers delight in watergardens and they said yes. The manger of bakers delights son goes to this school so she said she was happy to donate as much bread as we need. This made us so happy because things started happening our way. We got a message from Caroline springs library saying that the books are ready and we can pick them up on Friday. Once we found out that we got the vouchers from Coles we went to see how much it cost. When we founded out we all knew we didn’t have enough money to buy the sausages. We all decided to put in $5 each and each of us have to bring in something. At the end my mum said that she will pick up the sausages and pay for them but we had to pay her back. This worked well because with the voucher we only owed her $100. While Michaela and I were working on the food and equipment, everyone else finished off the banner and worked on how we can set up the stall. We were all excited about next week and we knew our stall will go off with a blast.

MG: This week in Deal, was our last before the date of the outreach festival. It was a busy day, seeing as we still hadn't gotten a reply from most of the organisations we had contacted earlier. After calling rainbow meats for the last time, they made it clear that they didn't want to give us any meat. We then called baker delight in Watergardens, and because the manager, Amber, had a child who attended our school, she trusted us, and let us have as many loaves of bread as we needed. We got told to pick them up on the following monday at 7:00pm. Because we hadn't received a reply from coles yet, we called them up, and they agreed to give us a $60 voucher, for us to buy our sausages. We figured that this was not enough to buy all of our equipment, so Toni’s mum agreed to pay for everything we needed, as long as we pay her back with the funds we raised. This a big decision if we were going to agree or keep on trying with other companies. We talked it though as a group and decided that it would be a better option if we got Toni’s mum to pay for us, because we could use the rest of our time preparing for the day. We spent the rest of the lesson completing and painting our banner together. We also contacted the maintenance man so that he could leave the BBQ out for us on the morning of the festival. This took us through to the end of the day, and we felt very prepared and ready for next week.

EM: Today there is only 1 deal lesson for us to get ready for the outreach festival next week. We have a little of the evidence guide to complete but it will be finished by the end of this lesson. We also were told today that we do have bread and we will be able to cook our bbq without a problem. Today we also finished painting our banner. It is blue, white and purple and looks awesome thanks to Mark’s awesome artistic skills. We used up the whole day preparing and making sure that we had everything we need and that everything will be ready for next week. We did in the end finish up everything that we needed to do and we even finished all the paperwork that needed to be done.

LP: This week in Deal, was supposedly our last date to prepare before our festival. It was a busy day, inspecting that we have gotten all the preparation. We still haven't gotten a reply from most of the organisations that we attempted to contacted earlier. After calling rainbow meats for the final time, they made it clear that they refused to give us any meat. We then contact baker delight in Watergardens, and because the manager, Amber, had a child who attended our school, she trusted us, and let us have as many loaves of bread as we needed. We arranged to pick them up on the following monday at 7:00pm. Because we hadn't received a reply from coles yet, we called them up, and they agreed to give us a $60 voucher, for us to buy our sausages. We decided that this was not enough to buy all of our equipment, so Toni’s mum agreed to pay for everything we needed, as long as we return the favour and with the funds we raised. This a big decision if we were going to agree or keep on trying with other companies. We talked it though as a group and decided that it would be a better option if we got Toni’s mum to pay for us, because we could use the rest of our time preparing for the day. We spent the rest of the lesson completing and painting our banner together. We also contacted the maintenance man so that he could leave the BBQ out for us on the morning of the festival. This took us through to the end of the day, and we felt very prepared and ready for next week.

MS:

ML:

18th of september TD: Today is the day of our deal fete. It was a very busy day and we were all excited. We got all of our equipment and started up the BBQ before the year 7 came out. We had a few year 7, ms Bannerman and the lab tech daughter to help us out. As we were setting up, we joined with krystal’s group because they were selling the drinks. At the start we weren’t getting much people since they all just had recess. To get their attention I walked around screaming and yelling for people to come. After a while I got givin a microphone so i didn’t lose my voice. As the day went on we got more and more people. By lunchtime the year tens came and our sales began. The sausages were selling so fast they had to wait a few minutes so that they can cook. On this day we all really worked well together as a team to make this day successful. We all had different roles to play. I did the informing, the raffle and was in charge of getting people to our stall, Elizabeth and michaela were in charge of the money, lucius, Matt and mark were in charge of the BBQ. This day was very successful with the money we raised. We all had fun and came closer as a team. When it finished we still had left over sausages so we sold them on Friday to get more funds for the school.

MG: Today was the day of the outreach festival. We had decided earlier on Skype to bring packets of lollies for prizes alongside sauce, Oil, napkins, the bread and the sausages to school on this day. We felt prepared and ready for the day ahead. When we arrived a school, we were given a double period to set up our stalls and to organise our materials so that we were ready for students to visit our sausage sizzle. During this day, we really worked as a team, and it brought us closer as a group. We put up posters informing people of our stall and explaining what cause the money will go towards; St albans Primary. We also set each member of our group a different job, so that everything can be done more quickly, such as Toni informing customers about St. Albans Primary, Elizabeth along with lucius preparing and handing out the bread, Matt who was working with mark handing out the sausages, and I, who handled the money and gave the correct amount of change. We changed roles every now and then to experience something different. We worked well as a team in making sure everyone got a turn at different tasks and roles. We were very successful during the day, we raised a large amount of funds and awareness during the day, and we are extremely proud of our efforts.

EM: Today was the big day and I would certainly say that it was a great success. We were set up and ready in plenty of time before recess and didn’t need to worry so much about anything. At first when we got the BBQ running and everything going, there weren’t to many people showing up to buy our sausages. After a while though the crowds came and went. We at certain stages during the day would run out of bread and have to quickly run upstairs to get some. We never really had to rush but there were times where we probably should have been more organised. In the end we raised a lot of money and raised even more awareness for a very good cause. It was a good day and in the end everything worked out just as we had planed.

LP: Today was the day of the outreach festival. We had decided earlier on Skype to bring packets of lollies for prizes (which I proudly supplied) alongside the sauce, Oil, napkins, the bread and the sausages to school on this day. We were feeling very confident due to us being prepared and ready for the day ahead. When we arrived a school, we were given a double period to set up our stalls and to organised and prepared our materials so that we were ready for the students to visit our stall. During this day, we really worked as a team and co-operated, and it brought us closer as a group. We put up/placed posters informing people of our stall and explaining what cause the money will go towards; St albans Primary. We also set each member of our group a different job, so that everything can be done more quickly and efficiently, such as Toni informing customers about St. Albans Primary, Elizabeth along with me preparing and handing out the bread, Matt who was working with mark handing out the sausages, and Micheala, who handled the money and gave the correct amount of change. We switched roles every now and then to experience something different. We worked well as a team in making sure everyone got a turn at different tasks and roles. We were very successful during the day, we raised a large amount of funds and awareness during the day, and we are extremely proud of our efforts.

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