Group8



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Organisation and Shared Values:
Trust, Happiness and Family

**Teacher Mentor: **
Mr Jilbert - ljilbert@crccs.catholic.edu.au

Proposal Doc [|Communications Doc] Assessment Doc

Aim and Purpose:
To empower children who are sick, disadvantaged or who have special needs to live, laugh and learn. Our aim is to help children who are not as fortunate as ourselves. We aim to make their lives full of happiness and joy. We chose this outreach action because we feel it is important for all children to have equal opportunities at education and life in general. We also value family, our community is part of our extended family and it is our responsibility to ensure that they are loved and cared for.

Desired Outcomes:
We want to make the children happy and put a smile on their faces. We want the children to be able to remember us and feel happy when we have helped them. We want to ensure that the children know that the community is thinking of them and has there best wishes at heart. We want to be able to give something back to the community.

Questions you need to ask and answer:

 * How are we going to get there?
 * How far do we want to be able to push this project?
 * Do we have a backup plan?
 * <span style="color: #fc5cab; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">How long are we going to spend there?
 * <span style="color: #fc5cab; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">What sort of things are we going to be doing?
 * <span style="color: #fc5cab; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Where will we be going and how will we get there?
 * <span style="color: #fc5cab; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">What would we like to discuss with our organisation now that we have someone to contact?
 * <span style="color: #fc5cab; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Which Primary School would we like to volunteer for?
 * <span style="color: #fc5cab; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">When we be able to actually start volunteering?

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">This is where you write you weekly or daily achievements and logging of events.

<span style="color: #20b64d; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**30/8 EC -** Last week we officially chose our charity, which is “Variety”. We know that we will be working with sick, disadvantaged and kids in need. We wrote out proposal to Variety and showed the teachers, and also wrote a propose to the Yr9 Team, explaining what we wanted to do and how we are going to do it.

<span style="color: #20b64d; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**30/8 SA -** Last week we finally had chosen our charity which is Variety. Variety helps out sick and disadvantaged children. We have started to write the email and finding out what we can do as group to volunteer/help then. We were thinking to participate in their programs such as Variety @ work or Variety freedom but we don't know if we are going to do that.

<span style="color: #20b64d; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**30/8 MW -** Last we decided on the charity we were going to help. We chose Variety Children's charity. We discovered that the charity has several different programs which it runs and we chose the two we would prefer to help out in. Another interesting thing we learned was how the charity was started. I learnt that it begun when a child was left on the steps of a local theater with a note saying that the mother was no longer able to look after her child. From this a group of the performers decide to help disadvantaged children. We wrote a proposal to the year nine team and an email to send to Variety. When writing the proposal we also came up with our back up plan should our first action not work. The back up plan was that we would help out in a local primary school.

<span style="color: #20b64d; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**30/8 JF -** Last week, we decided on the charity we were going to help for our outreach. The charity we chose was Variety: the children's charity. We wrote a proposal to the year 9 team, explaining what we were going to do for our outreach. We also contacted Variety by sending them an email, saying that we are interested in helping and participating in any of their programs to help children that are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs. For our backup plan, just in case this doesn't work out, we were thinking to help out in a local primary school.

<span style="color: #20b64d; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**30/8 KO -** Over the last few weeks in DEAL we have been discussing our values and had to narrow down to our top 5 values. Once we had decided on our values we had a chance to get into groups with people that have the same or similar values to us. After this as a group we had to decide on a charity that we were going to volunteer for with our community outreach. Our three common values were family, happiness and trust, these values lead us to the charity Variety. They share similar values to us and we thought that we would get the most out of this project if we volunteered for them. So we wrote up a proposal and sent an email to Variety in Victoria.


 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">6/9 EC - **<span style="color: #fd1cf3; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> Today we've chosen our group name 'Hugs 4 Hope' and we have gotten a reply from our charity 'Variety'. We found out that we can only send out two of us out at a time and that at the end of the year we can help out with the children christmas party. So we have decided to send out pairs each week and while the other three (four when sarah comes back) will help out at a local primary school.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> Also today we had a guest speaker come today from the <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs. His name was Chris and he told us about what the footy club does to help the community and why. We then asked him some question and he gave us good advice that would help us when we are doing our out reach. After that we had Master Classes when the teacher taught us; Phone Manners, Meet and Greet, Working with Disadvantaged People, Teamwork and How to write an Email. We needed to know these skills because during our project we will be needed all these skills and without them we won’t get to our end goal. Now we are writing down our plan on a piece of paper, so we know exactly what we’re doing and all our information is in one plac e.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We also done in DEAL, we had did four rotations which are called Respectful Support, Emails & Letters, Phone Manners & Meet and Greet and Teamwork. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">This group was about respecting people and how we can respect the elderly people when visiting them or the disadvantaged children. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">This group is where we had to work as in groups the groups that we are in for the project, and basically what we had to do is make a house out of cards. This point of this game was that as a group are we capable of working together and wanting what we want to achieve out of this project?. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">This group involved us learning how to meet and greet someone for the first time and when you are talking to someone over the phone. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We had learnt about how to write a formal email or letter and what we should include in it and what we shouldn't
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">6/9 SA - **<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today in DEAL, we had decided on a group name for our charity called Hugs 4 Hope. We had got an email from Variety saying that we can only have two people go and help them out, but we have decided as a group to have two people helping at Variety while the others are helping out a local primary school. We had a guest speaker from the <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs who is a general manager named Chris, he had spoke about how the team contributes to the community.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Respectful Support: **
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Teamwork: **
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Phone Manners & Meet and Greet: **
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Emails & Letters: **

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**6/9 MW -** Today during DEAL we received a reply from Variety. The email notified us that they can only take on two students at a time. We solved this problem by suggesting that we split our group into pairs and help in those partners. Whilst the pair is off helping the remaining four students would help at a local primary school. Over the weeks we would rotate who does what. On one day at least we would also be able to help all together. Today we also had a guest speaker from the <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs come in to talk to us about what the footy club does to help the community. He spoke about how sport is a gateway for people to overcome cultural barriers and that they were using that as a way to reach out to different Ethnic communities in the west. At the conclusion of the day we begun writing our plan. In our plan we narrowed down our aim, purpose and end result we would like. Our next step is to contact Pauline, who replied to our first email.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">During today's DEAL classes we also rotated through different master classes. We learnt how to write a good email, phone manners and how to present ourselves in a meet and greet situation. We built a house of cards in a team building session where we discovered our individual roles in our group. I learnt that although there is no 'i' in team there needs to be a leader, an encourager and people who actually do things to make the group successful. The rotation where i learned the most was in the Respectful support class with Mr Jilbert. We read a document about working with people with a disability and I was surprised to find that an IQ level helps determine whether a person has a disability. I also realised that we naturally tend to speak louder and slower to people who can not speak English, I was also made wary of the fact that this does not help the person learn the language.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**6/9 JF -** Today in DEAL, the year 9s were introduced to their own group Wiki Spaces blog. This was given to us so teachers and other groups will be able to see what we are doing to help the community through the charitable foundation our group have chosen, which is Variety: the children's charity. We came up with our group name; Hugs 4 Hope and also received a reply from our charity. The email told us that they could only take two students at a time. To resolve this problem, we decided to split our group into pairs. While 1 pair is off helping at Variety, the remaining four members of the group will help out at a local primary school. Over the weeks, we would rotate our positions, so that everyone in our group will have a turn helping out at Variety and at a primary school.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We also had a guest speaker today named Chris from the <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs. He talked to us about the footy club's contribution to the community. I learnt that he does work around the Western Region of Victoria to help multicultural people with their lives through football and other programs and activities. After that, we had Master Classes with the teachers. There were 4 rotations, which were: Phone Manners & Meet and Greet, Working with Disadvantaged People, Teamwork and Email & Letter writing. First, we spent some time learning about how to speak to someone on the phone and how to sit an interview (e.g. speak clearly and formally, state what you are doing). Then, we went to Mr Jilbert, who taught us about treating people who are different to us. From this, I learnt that yelling and speaking slowly to someone who doesn't speak English doesn't help at all. We went to Mrs Saunders afterwards to learn about group qualities and teamwork. We were tested on our teamwork by constructing a house of cards. Our group worked worked well as a team because we communicated well and we didn't give up. Lastly, we went to Miss Williams, who taught us how to write a good email (e.g. write a short concise email that leads straight to the point, make your message clear, avoid excessive compliments).

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**6/9 KO-** In todays DEAL lesson we started off by getting into our groups and were introduced to our pages on the year 9 wikispace. For our wikispace we had to come up with a group name which proved a bit difficult for our group but we finally settled on Hugs 4 Hope. This was a name that we felt expressed what we stand for and is something we are happy to be representing us. We also got a response from Variety. The response informed us that there are free positions for us to volunteer but they only take 2 volunteers at a time. So our back up plan is that we will rotate each week so that everyone gets a chance to go to variety and the other 4 of us will go to a local primary school to help out in anyway that they need. During DEAL we also had a guest speaker from the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #0066cc; border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs. His name was Chris and he spoke to us about the charity work that the <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs does for the community. He informed us that they do this work because when the AFL threatened the merge of the <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Western Bulldogs and Fitzroy it was the community that saved the club from merging. So they now do what they can to give back to the community.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We also did some rotations that would help us during this unit. We had four groups which included... <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Phone Manners and Meet and Greet: This involved us learning how to to have good phone manners and the do's and don't when speaking to people on the phone. We were also taught what to do when we first meet the people at the organisation to leave a good impression. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Teamwork: In teamwork we got to build a house of cards as a team. This helped show us how we work as a team and what the different dynamics are. We also learnt what our strengths and weaknesses are. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Respect and Support: In this rotation we learnt how that during this project we may face things that make us uncomfortable or are confronting. So we need to know how to deal with these sort of things to make the person feel as comfortable as possible. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Writing e-mails and letters: This involved us learning how to send an email and what sort of things we need to include to ensure that we sound polite and the person will consider us to volunteer at their organisation.

<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**13/9 SA** - At the start of the lesson we were listening to some songs by playing the change it was inspiring because you can do anything in the world, you can sing or dance and even if you are homeless or suffering from poverty.

<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We haven't figured out a primary school because the other people in our group had went on an excursion so it is just Michelle and me today and we are figuring out what to say to a local primary school in the area. Also we are figuring out what we are going to say to Pauline from Variety about the decision that we had just made.

<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We watched a movie called pay it forward it was a very inspiring, sad movie how you can imaging something big and put into action. Well there's this little boy named Trevor and he wanted to change the world and he thought if one action could change the world, it did work but it kinda really didn't go well in action when he passed away he was such an innocent, kind boy.

<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I could do something daily at home or somewhere if I am out in the streets and I see somewhere that needs help I could give them money or something. At home I could help my family by helping my brother read his reader so he can learn more, and I also could help my mum and dad around the house.

<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**13/9 MW** (4 man wolf pack, HOOHAA!!) - We begun today’s DEAL lesson by listening to several songs by a group made up of people from different countries around the world. The group is called Playing For Change. Their music is created when from their homes around the world they play the same song at the same time. It was amazing to see these people connecting from across seas. The group demonstrated how music can bridge both language and culture barriers. Playing For Change is dedicated to connecting to the world through music by providing resources to musicians and their communities around the world....

//<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in our minds, we set out to share it with the world." //

<span style="color: #008dff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">After recess we begun watching a movie called Pay it Forward. The movie was about a young boy of just twelve years old sets out to change the world based on a social studies assignment he is given. The boy named Trevor comes up with the idea that if one person does a good deed for three people and they in turn did good deeds for another three the world would be a better place as the chain continued. Pay it Forward has now become a world wide movement with the key concept still being to do good deeds for others without expecting anything in return. Overall today's DEAL lesson was heaps of fun with half the year level gone! We ended the day by creating a list of songs which inspire us on our outreach journey. We even had a karaoke session which we finished with <span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #0066cc; border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Michael Jackson 's song "We are the World"!


 * <span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">20/9 EC - **<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today we had our first mentor meeting with Mr. Jilbert. We as a group decided to ditch the helping out at schools idea. Instead we’re going to find out more information about the christmas party the Variety are holding and see if the four people left at school are able to help. We updated our website by putting information about us contacting Variety. Also today we had a ‘Soap Box’ where our groups shared what we have done, what we are doing and what we are going to do. It was really interesting to here what other groups are doing. Then after that we had students from CRC Sydenham come to speak to us about community service that they do with the school and it was really amazing to hear what the students that were only a few years older than us had done. Later Mr. Jilbert talked to us about the assessment sheet and what its all about.

<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**20/9 SA -** Today in DEAL, we had talked to our mentor Mr.Jilbert about want we are up to, what we are doing and what we are going to next. We also discussed with Mr. Jilbert that helping out the primary school wasn’t such a good idea because to like reach our goal we would have to more work with Variety. But Mr Jilbert had suggested us a few ideas that we are going to put to plan which is we are going to research this Christmas party that Variety does, he also told us to come up with game ideas of what we can do at Variety. We are also working on our email of what we are going to say to Pauline from Variety.

<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">As well as we did this soap box thing where every group in Year 9 had talked about their charity organisation and what they are up to, what they are planning, what they are doing next and is their group working well all kinds of questions were asked.

<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Also there was a social justice group from CRC Sydenham, they had talked about helping with the community and what it means to them. They had seemed very satisfied of what they have achieved during their community service time, but you have to put a lot of effort and time in it.


 * <span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">20/9 MW - **<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today during DEAL we had our first teacher mentor meeting. We met with Mr Jilbert to discuss how we were going and what we needed to do next. He introduced us to two new documents which we needed to work from and also a new way to use the discussions page. We now have a communications doc where we include all phone scripts, emails and any other contact we have with Variety. We went on to discuss where we were up to. He thought that we needed to go back to Variety and focus on other ways we could assist them without having them tell us what to do. We don’t think we’ll go ahead with working in a Primary School because it is not necessary for all group members to be doing something at the same time. Instead while two members are out with Variety the rest of the group can work on the different documents and wiki that also need to be completed. I feel confident now that our program will work and I realise that it is up to us to take the first initiative and not wait for others to come up with the plans. We also discussed how we can help Variety from here at school. We are now going to create an email in response to Pauline’s from two weeks ago. We want to come up with different activities or games that can enhance the Christmas party which is already underway. Next time we have an interview we are going to record what is said so that we have evidence of our ideas. After speaking with Mr Jilbert we had a soap box with the rest of the year level where each group spoke about what they are working on. A point that came up often was the difficulty of having people away. However I don’t believe our group has this issue as we use our blog to keep up to date and we check in with every member before making decisions.

<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">After recess the Social Justice group from CRC Sydenham came in to talk to us about the work they do at Sydenham with the community. We listened to three students each with their own experiences with community outreach. The social justice captain spoke to us about the different programs which are run at Sydenham each year, whilst another student spoke of her experiences in the community service program. They told us of the work they did in flood relief, where instead of just raising funds they went out to physically give of themselves to restore the communities affected. Another student spoke to us about her involvement in the Nursing Home and she demonstrated how participating in community outreach helped her establish values and actually enhanced her learning in VCE. Overall it was great listening to the things that are going on at Sydenham with a hope that one day we could also be apart of them. Additionally we also sent an email to Variety informing them of our plans and we hope to hear from them soon. After school today I checked my emails and found a reply from Pauline, she was pleased with our plans and asked for me to contact her to discuss further!!!


 * <span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">20/9 JF - **<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today in DEAL, we had our first interview with our teacher mentor. We were interviewed by Mr Jilbert to talk about how we were going and what we had to do next. He also introduced to us two new documents (Communication Doc and Assessment Doc), which we had to work on. He showed us a new way to use the discussions page. We also changed our plan about the primary school thing. As a group, we decided not to go ahead with working in local primary school; because it isn't necessary and it doesn’t really relate to our goal. We were thinking to have two people in our group go help out at Variety while the rest of us can stay at school and work on our wiki page, blog, documents and anything that needs to be completed. During our talk with Mr Jilbert, we discussed ways on how we could help Variety from here at school. As a group, we wanted to come up with different games and activities that can be included at the Variety Christmas party.

<span style="color: #ff4500; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">After that interview, the whole year 9 level had to gather for the soap box section. The purpose of this was to tell each other what each group has done and what they are planning to do. We also had guest speakers, the Social Justice group from CRC Sydenham. They talked about the work they do at Sydenham and how they help the community. It was really inspiring to hear how passionate they were with helping others and making a difference in their community. They put so much work and effort to do make a change for a good cause. We listened to three students, each with their own experiences with community outreach. Instead of just raising funds, they went out to physically give of themselves to restore the communities.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">** 11/10 SA - ** Today in DEAL, Julianne & I started out on the proposal doc writing out the timeline of what we planned next and after. This morning, we had an interview with Mr. Jilbert talking about what we already done and what we have to do next, he had told us to start figuring out what games to play because of the email we had already sent saying that we are going to play games the games that we have had decided is Pin the nose on a reindeer, Treasure hunt and pass the parcel. Michelle wasn’t here today because she had went on the music excursion. She had forgotten to call them up over the holidays and then she would call them before next week.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We have really well as a group, but most of the time people have been on excursions and have went overseas we have really communicated well by the other members in the group reading the blogs of what they had missed out on that day.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">** 11/10 JF - ** Today in DEAL, Shae and I worked on our timeline on the proposal doc, so we have a rough idea of what we need to do and where we are heading. Emily has been filling in to Sarah on what we have done and what we are planning so that she knows what we are doing because she has been away. We also had another interview with Mr Jilbert, who told us to contact Pauline, again, by giving her a call instead of emailing her. But the problem was that Michelle was in charge of that and she wasn’t here today (because she had an excursion to go to). So as a group, we decided that Sarah was going to tell Michelle to contact Pauline; to discuss more about our plans for the Children’s Christmas Party and for the two people who are going to help out at Variety before our next DEAL session. Mr Jilbert also told us to get some ideas of what games or activities we could contribute to the Children’s Christmas party. Here are some of our ideas:

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Indoor games:** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Pin the nose on a reindeer <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Treasure hunt (indoor or outdoor) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Pass the parcel <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Santa says (which is the same as Simon says) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Musical chairs <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Catch the balloon

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Outdoor games:** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Cat and Mouse <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Duck duck goose <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-What’s the time Mr Wolf <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Egg and spoon race

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I think the games that we should do are the ‘pin the nose on the reindeer’ and ‘pass the parcel’. I also thought that we should add a quote for our wiki page. So I searched the internet and I found this quote from <span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #0066cc; border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Dr. Seuss : 'A person's a person no matter how small'. I showed this to the group and they agreed that this should go on our wiki page. I personally think that this quote relates to our outreach because it would relate to the children.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">** 11/10 EC - ** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">11th of October 2011. Today Michelle and Kayla were absent and we were a little stuck on what to do because Michelle was supposed to contact Pauline (the woman who has been replying to our emails) and asked about what more we can do for the christmas party. So we have been looking up games for the kids that we can do for them. Also we need to find out if every Tuesday is okay with her and we need to find out the exact date for the Christmas party. Sarah came back, this is her first time back since she was only here of one lesson when you created our group. I updated her on everything that we have done and everything that we are planning to do and showed her our contact and our replies. We had a meeting with Mr. Jilbert and we recorded our interview and he’ll be sending the recording to Sarah so we can look back on it. We also added more to our timeline and are hoping to add more when we know dates and have organised more things. We also added a quote from <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Dr. Seuss ‘A person’s a person no matter how small’, I really like this quote because I think it relates to the kids.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">** 11/10 SB - ** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">11 October 2011: Today I had my first DEAL lesson since I’ve been away on holiday. My groups name is Hugs 4 Hope. Our main focus is working with children and putting smiles on their faces. I love that this is our main point, I think we will be able to have lots of fun with it whilst doing such a great thing for the disadvantaged and underprivileged children in Melbourne. The charity that we are working with is Variety. Variety is a childrens charity in Australia.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Our plan of action with variety is to go to Variety and help them out with the children and any extra work that they need done. Another part of our plan is to help out with the Variety Children’s Christmas Party which is at the end of October. I feel that this would be a great assistance to Variety and I think it’s really great way to give of ourselves.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The people in my group are Michelle, Kayla, Emily, Shae and Julianne. I think that we work really well together. We’re all very willing to work and get results. This group is also the first group that I’ve been in that every person pulls their weight and contributes to the group with effort.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">This week Michelle is going call a representative from Variety named Pauline. Hopefully through this phone call, Michelle will be able to organise with Pauline the opportunities that are available to us at Variety.

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**18/10 SA -** First of all in DEAL today, Michelle had called Variety up so we can organise further details, Pauline had said that we can bring 4 people on that day so we decided to go next Tuesday on the 25th of October. The people that will be going to visit Variety is that Sarah, Kayla, Michelle and Emily, where as Julianne and I will be staying at school adding to the blogs and the assessment tasks. We also had a briefly meeting with Mr. Jilbert explaining of what we had done and what had Pauline said to us. After recess, Michelle had called Pauline again, regarding of what times we will go there which is 9.00 am - 3:30 pm and also discussed of how we are going to get there, but Michelle had said that her dad will most likely be able to take us. As well, we are currently working on the activity submission form. We also used a random generator, so that we can choose of who is going to Variety next Tuesday, because we couldn't decide of who is going and all of us didn't really mind going. We are also working on our assessment doc.

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I am proud of my group, of the way that we are communicating and that people are contributing quite a bit to the group which is really good to see. We are going to achieve our goals are slowly achieving which is always a positive thing to see, by that we are going to Variety and helping out with the Christmas Party, it is not that big of our achievement but helping someone out instead of someone else doing it , probably means a lot to the Variety team.

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Julianne and I were working on questions they could ask Variety.

__**<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Interview Questions: **__
 * <span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">How long have you been working with Variety?
 * <span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Why did you decide to work at Variety?
 * <span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">What is your job?/ What do you do?
 * <span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">What do you like most about your job?
 * <span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">What does your job contribute to the community?

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**18/10- JF -** Today in DEAL, my group called Pauline from Variety. She said that she could take 4 of us; so as a group we decided to go next week on Tuesday 25th of October. We decided that the four people who were going on the day were Michelle, Kayla, Emily and Sarah (we used a random generator to see who should go because we couldn't decide). Shae and I would stay at school and work on our wiki page, blogs and anything else that had to be done. We also had a brief interview with Mr. Jilbert, telling him what Pauline said to Michelle when we called her, what we have decided and what we are going to do next. Mr Jilbert suggested to the people going to take pictures, videos and maybe even interview some of the people working there.

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">After recess, Michelle called Pauline again and asked about what time they would be able to go there, which is roughly around 9.00 am - 3:30 pm. While Michelle was on the phone, she also asked Pauline the details for how to get there by train and bus, just in case no one can drop them off by car. So far, there is a big chance that Michelle’s dad would be able to drop them off ther<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">e. I’m really happy with all the work my group has done so far because we’re actually getting somewhere and we know what we are doing. We are working really well as a group; we communicate with each other, listen and share ideas with one another and we don't argue. We all agree with the same thing. Right now, we are currently working on the activity submission form, to get permission for the four people going out on that day. Once we get this done and sorted we are all set to go.

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**18/10 MW -** Today during DEAL we called Variety to confirm details of our volunteering with them. We have decided upon next Tuesday 25th October. Pauline informed us that we should wear smart casual clothing and that we would be creating the packs for the Christmas Party. We rang her again later to ask about how we would get their and what time. She told us that if we needed to catch public transport we should get the train to <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Southern Cross and then get either the 235 or 237 from the bus stop on Collins Street outside the Age to the office. Their office is located on H71 63-85 turner St Port Melbourne. After calling Pauline and arranging our volunteer effects we had a quick interview with Mr Jilbert. He advised us to take a camera and recording device so that we could collect evidence for our project. Mr Jilbert also told us that <span style="border-bottom-color: #0066cc; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; color: inherit; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Smart Casual means we should wear jeans and a nice top and jacket. We plan on carrying lunch, snacks and drinks with us on the day,Julianne and Shae created some questions which we could ask Variety workers if we are able to. As Pauline could only cater for 4 students we decided using the random generator that Shae and Julianne would stay behind at school. On the Tuesday though we plan on calling them to update them on how our day has going. We also completed an Activity Submission Form and once it is accepted we will fill out permission slips and be good to go next Tuesday.

<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**18/10 EC -**Today we called Pauline from Variety and we confirmed details. She allowed four of us to go so we did the random number generator and Sarah, Michelle, Kayla and I got chosen so we are the ones that will be going. Next Tuesday will be the day that we go and we aren’t sure weather we will be catching public transport or if one of the parents would be able to drop us off. Pauline told us that while we were there that we’d be helping make the wrist bands for the christmas party. We’re going to ask her if there is any way that we could help out more so that we could get Shae and Julianne over to Variety to experience it and to get involved. Later on we called Michelle’s mum to try and organise transport because Pauline had said that it would be easier for us if we could get dropped off there instead of taking trains and buses. Michelle’s mum said that her dad might be able to take us there, but in case he wasn’t able to we called up Pauline again and asked for directions and times for the public transport. We also filled out the ‘Activity Submission Form’. I’m really excited because we actually going to do this, we’re going to Variety next Tuesday and helping out. I really<span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> hope this goes well for us and that we made a difference, even if it is a small one. I feel that me and my team are working perfectly. We all know what we are doing and everyone's happy with what we’re doing and we always agrees with each other. We all what the same thing and we work perfectly together.


 * <span style="color: #0010ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">18/10 KO - **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today in DEAL we spent most of the day planning our trip to Variety. First thing in the morning we called them to organise all the details for the day. Michelle spoke on the phone and spoke to Pauline, the person that we have been contacting via email in regards to volunteering. We were given all the information for next Tuesday (25/10) about.....

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">clothing: neat casual (jeans and a nice top)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">time: 9-3:30

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">type of work: cutting up wristbands

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">transport arrangements: she informed us about what public transport we could take if that was our option but we ended up deciding that we are going to get out parents to take us.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">After this we went and spoke to Mr Jilbert to organise permission slips for the excursion. The rest of our day was dedicated to finishing off any incomplete blogs and getting prepared for variety.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**21/10 MW -** Yesterday I handed in the Activity Submission Form regarding our Outreach excursion. Mr Jilbert said he would get the application accepted and then he would arrange permission slips. Today I received the permission slips and also a form that needed to be filled out by Variety so that the school could allow us to be off campus for this activity. I scanned and emailed the document to Pauline and she replied saying she'd faxed it back to the school. Once all our permission slips have been handed in we are ready to go on Tuesday. I am really excited about volunteering with Variety and I am proud that we were the first groups to make contact and finalise volunteer work with an organisation. I think the main reason our outreach program is being put into effect is because we have such a great group. Everyone on in the group takes part and no one slacks off, we all agree on ideas before making the final decisions and we communicate really well with each other!

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**25/10 JF -** Today in DEAL, it was just Shae and I at school since the rest of our group (Michelle, Emily, Kayla and Sarah) were at the Variety office, helping out with the Christmas wristbands. We worked on a bit of the assessment doc and had a brief interview with Mr Jilbert. He told us that we could use Skype during DEAL to communicate with him. He also told us that Maria from the office said she would like Shae and I to come down to the office, because Michelle and the others called from Variety to tell us how they were doing. They told us that they were doing fine and were almost finished with the Christmas wristbands.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**25/10 SA -** Today in DEAL, Michelle, Kayla, Sarah and Emily had gone down to Variety’s head office to work on the christmas wrist bands, therefore it was just Julianne and I left at school. We had worked on the assessment doc and adding to our wikispaces. <span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Mr.Jilbert had told us that Maria from the office told Julianne and I to come down to the office and call Michelle regards of what they are up to, they had said that they are going really good and they are nearly finished making the christmas wrist bands. <span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Mr. Jilbert had said that we can use Skype to make any contact with him instead of actually going up to talk to him, which saves us time.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**25/10 SB-** Today was a very exciting day for our group. Michelle, Kayla, Emily and I went to Variety to assist them in their everyday work. We were greeted by Pauline, who was our contact from Variety. As the Variety Christmas party is fast approaching, Pauline had us creating wristbands for the children and carers who would be attending the party. Variety was a very welcoming office and we all felt very comfortable there. I strongly think that worked extremely effeciently. Pauline was really happy with the way we were working, and we even suprised ourselves with how much we got done. <span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I think we also proved how much responsibility we have, because we organised the entire day including our transport. We didn't take advantage of the fact that we were able to take the day off school, we were ready to work. <span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We also arranged with Pauline to go back to Variety in the upcoming weeks, and I really can't wait. <span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Working at Variety also gave me a bit of an insight into the real working world, and what it would be like working in an office. <span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I loved my experience at Variety and cannot wait to go back. I'm also loving all the opportunities that this Outreach project is giving our group.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**25/10 KO -** Today was the day that we went to Variety. Michelle, Sarah, Emily and Myself attended. When we got there we met Pauline and she then gave us a tour of the office. After this we sat down and got to work. Our job for the day was to cut up wristbands for different events. The first event that required wristbands was a bike ride, so as a group we allocated colours to cut up and place in bags. There was a variety of destinations so for each destination we had to cut up the required number and place it into bags. We finished this job by about 10:30. After this we began the hard work, we were asked to place perfect amounts of wristbands into packs and place them into envelopes to send out to the schools that will be attending the christmas party. This job took a little bit longer so half way through we had our lunch break.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">After our lunch break we got straight back to work and finished off all the packs! :) It was a very long process but we finished. But there was more, after this we began to make packs for one of the other charity events. It was disappointing that we didn’t get the chance to finish this but it also has it’s positives because it means that we have the opportunity to return in a few weeks. Overall it was a great day and I had heaps of fun doing the volunteer work.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**25/10 EC -** Today me, Michelle, Sarah and Kayla went to Variety to help out with the wrist band for the Christmas party, and also wrist bands for a bike event. Julianne and Shae stayed at school and they worked on the assessment doc. When we got there Pauline took us up stairs and she explained what we will be doing and how. First we did the wrist bands for the bike event then once we had finally finished that, which was faster than Pauline had guessed, we moved onto the Christmas party. The Christmas party took us forever. I think we counted over a thousand bands. It took a long time but it was really fun and we enjoyed it. I especially loved when Sarah made me a cup of tea then Kayla made me a hot chocolate, they were amazing! I really can’t wait to go again.

<span style="color: #fb41d1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**25/10 MW -** Today as part of our groups outreach action Emily, Kayla, Sarah and I went to the Variety office in Port Melbourne to volunteer our time helping the charity. My dad dropped us off at 9 in the morning and we went to work straight away. We organised and counted different coloured wristbands for the charities bike program where they have presentations all around Melbourne. We then begun counting wristbands for the Variety Christmas party and organising them into packs which would be sent to the schools involved. Half way through we stopped for a break we ate recess whilst Kayla made hot chocolate and Sarah made tea. After that we went back to work. In addition Emily did some laminating and I wrote out some addresses on envelopes that needed to be mailed out. Overall it was a really fun day, everyone in the office was really friendly and when Sarah's mum came to pick us up we were all wondering if we'd be able to come back to help again!

<span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**8/11 SB -** Today in DEAL we planned our next visit to Variety. We had to call Pauline, so we used the telephone in the library. I was pleased to find that she would be very happy to have us come again. As Shae and Julianne have not yet been to Variety, I asked Pauline if they could be priority to go next week. She then offered just to have all six of us come to the office. This is great because now as a whole group we will be able to go Variety rather than just a few of us. Hopefully this trip will assist us greatly in our final presentation for Outreach. <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">For the rest of the time, we have been working on refining our blogs and coming up with plans for our final presentation. <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I think we are a very efficient group, and will be able to go further with our plans without any troubles.

<span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**8/11 SA -** Today on the 8th of November in DEAL, Sarah had called Variety and had spoke to Pauline about Julianne and I going to Variety, Pauline had said she wasn’t available then she has told us that all 6 of us can go on the 22nd of November , and Sarah had said yes of course we will come down! <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">We had came back and had told Mr.Jilbert that all of us can go, so we had gotten the excursion permission slips for the excursion we are going to Variety. <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">There are 6 of us in the group so we all had decided as a group to take cars, my dad will take Julianne and I and Michelle’s dad will take Michelle, Emily, Sarah and Kayla and Sarah’s mum will pick Michelle , Sarah, Kayla and Emily from Variety, where as my dad will pick and drop off Julianne and I.


 * <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">8/11 EC - **<span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today in deal we sat down with the group and discussed when we could go and help out at Variety again. We ad planned for Julianne and Shae next week so it was fair then for the four of us (Michelle Kayla Saran and me) to go again the week after. So we lined up to get to the phone and ended up going up to the library to use the phone. We called Pauline and she had apparently sent Michelle an e-mail asking us about coming to help out again because when we went there we told her how we would love to come again but Michelle hasn’t received it yet. We asked Pauline about next week, but she isn’t able to do next week but she told us to do either Monday the 21st or Tuesday the 22nd. She then told us that we can bring all six of us. So we chose Tuesday and its just perfect for us. So Michelle’s dad is able to take us and Sarah’s mum is able to pick us up, and for Shae and Julianne Shae’s dad will be picking them up and dropping them off. I’m really excited to go again.


 * <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">8/11 MW - ** <span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today in DEAL we rang Pauline to see if we’d be able to help out in the Variety office once again. Sarah spoke to her and confirmed details that we’d be able to volunteer in a fortnights time on 22nd of November. Pauline was very welcoming and agreed to cater for the 6 of us. Shae’s dad will be dropping and picking up Shae and Julianne. Similarly to last time my dad and Sarah’s mum will pick and drop off Sarah, Kayla, Emily and I. After everything was confirmed and Sarah, Shae and I had double checked with our parents that they’d be able to drop and pick us up we filled out permission slips.

<span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**8/11 KO -** I spent most of the day finishing off my blog and making sure that it is sufficient. We also called Variety again to see if there is an opportunity for us to go to Variety again. Sarah called Pauline and she said that she would love for us to attend on the 22nd November which is 2 weeks away. It is also good because this time all 6 of us can go which means that we can work more efficiently and get more work done. We have our permission forms and are very organised for when we go in 2 weeks.

<span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**8/11 JF -** So far in DEAL we have been planning our next visit to Variety. My group has been thinking if maybe Shae and I can go help at the Variety Office next week on Tuesday because Michelle, Emily, Sarah and Kayla went 2 weeks ago (so that it would be fair). But first we would need to discuss this with Pauline to see if she’ll be ok with this plan.

<span style="color: #00ceff; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">So we decided to call Pauline to see if our plan can happen next week. She said we can’t come next week because she’s busy or not available so she told us that we can either go on Monday or Tuesday the following week. She also offered to have the whole group (the six of us) come to the office instead of having just the two of us (Shae and me). We were very happy to hear that because the whole group will be together helping out at Variety rather just a few of us. So we decided to go on Tuesday 22nd of November. Since there are 6 people in our group, Shae and I will be taking her dad’s car to get to and from the Variety office. While the other four in our group: Michelle, Emily, Sarah and Kayla will carpooling with Michelle’s dad to get their and Sarah’s mum picking them up from Variety.


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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**15/11 MW -** Today in DEAL our whole focus was to complete all the work we needed for our assessment so that we'd be able to go out to Variety next Tuesday. Sarah combined all the documents and evidence into an i web, Julianne and I went through the assessment criteria making sure we'd completed each section and had evidence proving we'd done it, Shae and Emily worked on the reflection in our proposal doc and kayla created a comic life about our day at Variety. I am pleased to have completed this project successfully with a team who worked really well together. I am also very proud of my group and I of what we've accomplished and the work we done in being able to give something back to the community volunteering our time.


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 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">15/11 JF - **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Today in DEAL, the whole group focused on the Assessment Doc for the outreach program. We went through the list and made sure we had done each section, also providing evidence on how we used it. I know that this is going to take time, but we had to finish this TODAY and hand it in to Mr. Jilbert because we wouldn’t be at school next Tuesday as we would be helping out at the Variety Office. I am so happy to see that we have done a lot of work. It is also sad to think that our outreach is almost over, but it is good to know that we have given something back to the community.