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-- Our Organisations --



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=Google Documents:=

Our Proposal

The Assessment Table

Communication between Teen-Aid

Email and Phone Scripts/Drafts

Evidence from our blogs

=Teen-Aid's Videos&Pictures: (In order by date)=


 * Interview (#1) - 20/09/11 (Click onto any part below)**
 * Part 1
 * Part 2
 * Part 3


 * Interview (#2) - 11/10/11 (Click onto any part below)**
 * Part 1
 * Part 2

Interview (#3) - 18/10/11

Royal Freemasons Ltd - Phone Conversation

Springtime Sydenham - Phone Conversation

Food Bank 2011!

More Outreach Photos! (Food Bank)

Blog
This is where you write you weekly or daily achievements and logging of events.

**30/8 DO -** We have been changing our charity and who/what we want to help so much lately. We can't make a decision. We have got a lot of charities and a few good ideas that could go well into action. We have mainly been searching on about charities that are focused on people in all ages who have illnesses.

**6/9 DO -** Just now, we had a guest speaker from the <span style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; 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; 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 named Chris, he talked about what they did in helping the multicultural community, they did that by playing sport or having them participate in sport. Just before the guest speaker, we were able to hear about other groups, their group names and their outreach actions, which gave me a few ideas on what our group should do... After that talk, I had a thought of probably volunteering at the church. After recess, we had four master classes: Phone manners & Meet and greet, Teamwork, Respectful Support and Tips on how to write a successful email. In Phone manners, I learned that a lot of elements come together to make a professional yet quite simple phone call such as, leaving your name, where you're from, your group name and etc. In Meet and greet, I learned that how you present yourself the first time can have a big impact on how the other person thinks of you, just like the saying goes //"First impression is always your last impression..."// In teamwork, we had to build a house of cards, it was really hard but, our group kept on persisting! We might have been always upset when we messed up but, at the end we were able to produce something, we than received an orange sheet which was a questionnaire to show what type of person you are in a team, I am the "Process Oriented Person" in the group, I'm the one who helps the group remained focused and moving along. In Respectful Support with Mr. Jilbert, we had to say what is our outreach action which he than assigned us a pages doc. Which talked about manners/etiquette basically, we got the Talking to disability pages doc. and I didn't know that handicapped was actually not a very good term to use when addressing disabled people and there is quite a lot of words or anything you can say without thinking can really hurt the disabled person or the people around them. Lastly, I learned quite a lot about on how to write a successful email, there were a lot of key stuff to take in because, as much as meeting a person or talking to them, your first impression will always be your last impression so, emailing somebody and the email itself can be just as important as you actually talking to the person. The main points that really got through to me was, K.I.S.S which stands for Keep It Simple Stupid and don't use too much excessive compliments! After lunch, I set up a google document of our outreach proposal. Teen-Aid's Outreach Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRlS-krgFACek6YdQJZG0BlaniX_lOh7RhkxtT4H5YQ/edit?hl=en_US# which everybody is able to use and edit and add whatever they like.

**6/9 DA -** So far we have research countless charities such as Camp Quality and Challenge. As a group we came up with some good ideas but we are a bit confused and unsure about what we are actually doing.This morning we are about to have a guest speaker (I don't know who) and also a newspaper journalist is also coming to interview a few students, write about the event and they are also going to take a few photos :) Camp quality:  Below is the websites of a couple of charities we had in mind  http://www.campquality.org.au/public/home.aspx  Challenge:  http://www.challenge.org.au/generic.asp?pageid=2

**6/9 DA -** Today period 3-4 we had 4 Master Class's rotations which were conducted by Mrs Saunders, Miss Pham, Miss Jusup, Mr Jilbert and you can't forget Miss Williams. The 1st master class that my group and I had was phone manners, and face to face manners. We talked and listed what you should include when calling an organisation or charity, what to say when your are in a face to face meeting and Miss Pham and Miss Jusup presented examples of what you should and shouldn't do when calling and talking to an organisation. The 2nd master class was called Teamwork was led by Mrs Saunders and our task was to build a house out of playing cards. Towards the end mrs told us what we learnt about each other and then we had to fill in a Teamwork quiz, which helped us realise what kind of person we are. The 3rd master class which was about Respectful support and it was lead by Mr Jilbert. We got assigned to download certain documents via Edmodo.From there we had to read, discuss and respond.And finally the 4th master class was conducted by Miss Williams and the lesson was on emails and letters. She told us about helpful tips and advice on how to write a good email or letters to a future organisation, teacher or even employer. I found this really handy and interesting because a common communication tool is emailing and small things such as font colour can change how serious and formal you are. Also the general manager of the western bulldogs came in and told us about what the bulldogs do and how they help refugees and support them. He also advised us to start contacting the organisations :)

**6/9 J.N -** So far we have been deciding what charities we are going to be choosing. We looked at a range of different websites that matches our values, and compared them.

**6/9 A.K -** We have been looking at charities and trying to choose one.

**6/9 S.C -** Today we've been guided to what we must know for the particular activity we are doing. First we were taught how to handle a phone call, with Ms. Pham and Ms. Jusup they told us what language we should and shouldn't use. They also taught us what you should and shouldn't do at a face to face interview. Then after that we rotated we went to Mrs. Saunders and we had ten minutes to make a house of cards and then we talked about what we learnt about each other as a team. Then the third activity was with Mr. Jilbert and he guided us with the important things we need to know for our particular activity, we learnt what no to say around disabled people. Then the last activity was with Ms. Williams and she taught us how to write a good email/letter. She taught us the very important things we need to include and not to include in an email/letter.

**13/9 J.N -** Today most of my group members have been away due to half of the Yr 9’s (9BA & 9KO) have been on an excursion for reflection day. We have been guided to watch an outreach video in the morning showing a song that reflects why we do programs, being sang all over the world proposed by people from different back rounds/culture. During periods 3-4, we have been allocated to watch a film(originated from a book) called: “Pay it forward.” It was about a young boy making a change to the world by helping people in need, in no return. The film taught us that we can make a difference to the world, by starting small from a plan to a successful international charity.

**13/9 DA -** Today we have listened and watch to a few inspiring songs and videos chosen by Miss Jusup and the class. (somebody, All the performers sung the song at the same time in different places and I think its a really lovely message to consider why we do programs such as outreach. I thought it was inspiring how even though those people came from all different parts of the world they shared their passion for music to convey a message. Afterwards we when back in our groups to work on our project/ blog. Jasmine and myself decided to work on our blog because majority of a group weren’t here and we thought that is was quite difficult to work on our outreach program without a direction. Whilst writing this, there was a range of music playing non-stop in the background that had inspirational messages embedded within their lyrics, and we were told by Miss Elmer to really listen and to try find that message. The songs/artists ranged from Kings of Leon to Justice Crew.The music was played from the period 1 to recess. After recess we watched a movie that was called “PAY IT FORWARD” which was based on a book.It was about a 12 year old boy named Trevor who began an action for his social studies project. This action was called //pay it forward.// It all began with one good deed and from that many followed and passed it on. Towards the end of the movie Trevor witnesses his friend being bullied and decides to stick up from him and this results in him accidentally being stabbed and therefore passing away due from blood loss.This film taught us that we can make an impact by starting and reaching out small ,and from that it would grow into something extraordinary and unexplainable. Although this isn’t based on a true story it is still possible and achievable from any age group.Towards the end of the day we were sent off to work on our blogs and to list down “outreach-able” music so that the teachers can purchase them and use it for the beginning of homeroom so that we can feel inspired as soon as we go through the doors. We were also singing motivating and outreaching songs nominated by classmates and Mrs Saunders came around filming us (the class) so that we can make our own inspirational video, similar to what we seen in the morning. This was properly the most enjoyable and funnest DEAL lesson ever !!! Although there was not much communication between me and my group member Jasmine we still managed to get our work done :)

**20/9 TM -** Today we have been a bit confused because we had to pick between helping elderly people in a nursing home or volunteering to help in one of the local churches. We had an opportunity to hear which community services other groups are going to be involved in and what are they going to do. At period 3, we had three year 12 students from CRC Sydenham who spoke about their experience in helping their community. It was interesting how three young girls can make such a change with just giving few hours of their free time to help the community. Also, our group made a final decision on what are we going to do and we decided to help elderly people in the local nursing home. We decided on this because many elderly people don't get to see their families often and they're usually left out. Also most of the other groups are going to help and work with children but we think that elderly people are the ones who also need some kind of attention so they don't feel left out. We also made a list of what are we going to do and how are we going to entertain them.

**20/9 J.N -** During periods 1-2, we did our first soapbox in front of the year 9 group gathered around in a circle. A speaker in each group discussed their progresses, and what volunteer work they’ll choose for their outreach program. Our group Teen Aid, had n’t been sure what charity, or where to volunteer first. Straight after recess, 3 speakers (Social Justice Group) from CRC Sydenham, spoke about their outreach programs and their activities out of school helping the community. They mainly talked about their past experiences, and what they did to achieve their goals. So far we are thinking of volunteering in the Church, or in a Nursing home. The next period we continued refining our ideas to finalize where we are going to volunteer for our outreach program. Towards the last 2 periods, we’ve been writing our blogs for today, before organizing what we are going to say to our mentor in the interview, to see if our plans are flowing correctly. During the interview with Mr.Jilbert, He questioned how we were progressing. Oftenly, he told us what we can do to improve our wiki page, and how we can communicate together on wiki spaces and on other websites.

**20/9 DO -** Today was our last DEAL class of term 3. We were first given instructions by Mrs. Revelman on doing a survey for her work, it was survey about learning spaces and our opinions on it. We than got back into our outreach groups and discussed on what we’re going to say on our ‘Soap Box’ we had to say what our group is doing, how well our group is working and what is our group going to do next... Comparing to the other groups, I think that we’re quite behind from everybody else and that we are still confused on what we’re going to do and what not. At period 3, we had a talk from 3 girls who are part of the Social Justice group of CRC Sydenham. They talked about what they have done to give back to their community, the work that they have done also was part of their school work. They talked about Blood donations, Project Compassion, Carlton Floods and helping with the elderly. They all gave such motivational stories and all the hard work they have done that made them feel SO satisfied, which was quite inspiring for the rest of the year level. At period 4, we continued on our Outreach program, we have decided on helping with the elderly so probably volunteering in a Nursing home. Sarah and Tonja said that they know people who work in Nursing homes or knows one that could accept us, they’re not sure on what it is called but, they’ll get back to us on that. We than thought of ways on what we should do when being with the elderly and decided that we’ll probably go to the nursing home once a week (For now) Period 5, we’re waiting for our interview which is going to start at 2pm with our mentor, Mr. Jilbert, we’re kind of worried since that we haven’t done so much, we’re not so sure on what he’s going to say. Other than that, I’m reading the Elderly page doc. From Respectful Support since we’re now helping with the elderly and also while we’re waiting, we’re just updating our blogs so far of today. We are now currently searching for any Nursing homes around Keilor Downs and St. Albans for the time being. At our interview with our mentor, we talked about presentation on our wikispaces such as, colour coding the dates on our blog and the length of our blogs, spelling errors on our aim and purpose, desired outcomes and questions, we were told that if we needed to contact Mr. Jilbert or like-wise we could just use the discussion page on our wiki to reply to each other, we also talked about what we’re doing (OUR FINAL DECISION) and he set us tasks on our outreach program such as, contact details, what we’re planning to do and etc. And, we have to make another Google doc on communication between our group such as, when we send information between each other we can just copy and paste that into the Google doc.

**20/9 DA -** Today is the last day of DEAL this term. In the morning (periods 1-2) we were told that we had to do a survey set up by Mrs Revelman which was about open learning spaces. After that we went in our out reach groups to discuss the following questions “What Have you done ?,” “how well are you working together?” and “what will you do next?” This activity was called Soap Box. After hearing what every group has done so far, we seemed to by fairly behind and unsure on our direction. But I enjoyed listening to what other groups had to say on there outreach action.After recess (period 3) three students from CRC can to talk about what they did in their Social Justice Group and they gave us advise to be persistent. They also told us their experiences and stories when they reached out and they told us about what Sydenham has to offer as a year 12. The three girls informed us as a year level about the different organisation’s they reached out to like Project Compassion.They worked with the victims of the flood and raised an amazing $14000 and that goes towards people in East Timor. I found it really inspiring who they really made a difference to many lives local and global. After lunch we continued to work on our out reach program and we finally made up our minds so now we are going to volunteer in the local nursing home. Then towards the end of the day we booked a interview with Mr Jilbert. After having the interview with Mr Jilbert. He told us a few handy tips and tricks which are very useful for showing the evidence we need to complete for our end year assessment. He also informed us on what we should have completed by next lesson and he also gave us a couple of appropriate ideas on what activities we should do. I believe that I have a better understanding on what the first part of our assessment is about.

**11/10 DO -** Today is the first Tuesday back from the Holidays. Nobody in our group didn’t do anything related to our Outreach program in the holidays so we are trying to catch up and organising everything we have done from last term. Sadly, Tonja is away today and we currently don’t have a Nursing home to outreach too but, we have been searching on Nursing homes around our area such as, Rosary Home for the Aged and Springtime Sydenham. We currently have planned an interview with Mr. Jilbert at 11:30 am since, around period 5 and 6, 9MK and 9BU are going to be packing for camp in the hall while the other 2 classes are going to be still working on the outreach program. During this time, we have already made our email that we’re hopefully going to send to the Nursing homes we had in mind but, we’re waiting for approval from our mentor teacher. Also we’re writing up our blogs on the day so far. Nearing to the end of period 3 & 4 we were able to have our interview with our mentor. He recorded our conversation again except this time he actually had a microphone! We all discussed on what we have done and what we are going to do as in, we’ve made our email, our plans on what we think we might do with the elderly, etc. We also talked about different nursing homes, we are more in favour of hoping to assist in Springtime Sydenham because, it’s quite close to where we are and some people in the group sort of know the place. Our mentor talked about our blogs and having them more colour coded but overall, what we need to work on is more of the ‘paper work’ of the outreach program which includes, the proposal, communication between the group and others also we would like to fill in the assessment table as soon as possible.

**11/10 SC:** Today is Tuesday the 11th of October our first D.E.A.L day/lesson of term 4. Today we started off by discussing what we should include in our email to the nursing homes we wish to volunteer for. We decided that we should all write an email and then combine all the good things from each others individual emails and have them combined into one email. After recess we had a meeting with Mr. Jilbert and he told asked us what we are up to and the next step we should do. He told us things we need to do and things we've done badly and good. After the meeting we put our emails into one email and sent it to the nursing homes that provided a email address.

**11/10 DA -** Today is the first DEAL class back from the the holidays, and we just realised that nobody did anything associated with our Outreach Program over the 2 weak period. So we quickly decided to create a email draft to be more well prepared and organised for our Outreach action. Unfortunately, Tonja is away, in other words we don’t have a Nursing home to give of ourselves. SO we used our initiative, and decided to research a few nursing homes in the area.We also listed all possible contact details so that when it comes to contacting we will be prepared. Some of the nursing homes Spring time, Freemasons and the Rosary Home for the Aged. We also just recently booked a 11:30am interview with mr Jilbert, so that we will get approval of our email draft and we will talk about our progress since the last time seeing him. Finally, towards the end of period 3 & 4 our interview with our mentor Mr Jilbert was about to commence. He interestingly recoded our meeting on a microphone instead of the ICT tool “garage band. ” This was helpful because we can always come back to it when ever we need help on "what to do next. It is also a grate tool to update members on our progress.We discussed about improvements and future plans. Our mentor (Mr Jilbert) mentioned our blogs,and he gave advice on colour-coded, he also brought up that we need to work on the ‘paper work’ of the outreach program which focusses, the proposal, communication between the group and others (<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;">Google Docs ) and he also suggested that we get a move on the assessment table, so that it would be easier in the long run :D

**11/10 J.N -** Today at our first Deal lesson back in Term 4, we have been looking at some of the nearest local Nursing homes/Aged care facilities. We have been deciding to try Springtime Sydenham nursing home, because it is within the local area and not far to travel. Our Mentor Mr Jilbert, had been discussing about what we need to improve in our group and our discussion page on the wiki. So far, we have been updating our blogs. We also need to write our blogs on the weekends, not just on Deal days, so we can be a bit more ahead. We are starting to build a good plan on Google Docs by writing a timeplan on contacting the Aged Facility very soon, so we can apply and volunteer. Our group’s Teen aid’s Outreach Proposal has been updating and progressing very well. We are currently making a time plan, organising date, time, transport, etc.

**16/10 DO -** Today I have JUST sent some emails with other Nursing homes which are, Springtime Sydenham and Royal Freemasons. Sadly, the other nursing homes haven't given their out their email so the only way to contact them is through calling them. So, at least we can add more conversations to our communications google document! Hopefully they might read our email and reply asap...

**18/10 DO -** Today we only have these first 2 periods with our WHOLE GROUP to work on our outreach program because, at period 3 and 4, 9KO and 9BA will be packing their stuff for camp while at period 5 and 6 the whole school will be watching “Motivational Media” at the hall. I just got the recording of our interview with Mr. Jilbert last week so than we can refer back to it and such. Right now it is 9:39 am, we are mainly focusing on the paper work of our Outreach program, Sarah is writing out the interview recording from last week so than we can use it in our Communication between Teen-Aid google document, Daphne is asking some questions to Mr. Jilbert and we can even use those questions for our Communications document and the rest of the group are finishing of their blogs from last week or working on their blog today. We were thinking for the rest of today we’ll mainly work on a script when making a phone call, talk to our mentor and see what he has to say for us, fill in any of our google documents (Paper work) while we are still waiting for any replies from any of the emails that we’ve sent. At 10:00 am we had a short interview with our mentor, he didn’t say as much unlike last week, I think that we have improved and progressed more than last week as in, we’ve filled in our google documents more, we have an idea on what we want to do, we are filling in our blogs and we are communicating with each other more. During this interview, he answered our questions on the Wikispaces Discussion board, he gave us permission to use our mobile phones when calling the nursing homes because, there are a lot of people that want to use the school phones as well, he suggested that we start making a script when calling other nursing homes (Which is what we thought of doing in the first place) also, he wanted us to use skype as another communication device for when he calls us for interviews instead of him yelling across the room and for even quicker instant messaging so we all added him as well we all added each other on skype. Just got back from morning tea and we’re beginning to write a script or some dot points on what we are going to say when calling the nursing homes. I just called Springtime Sydenham and Royal Freemasons and we also recorded the conversation (Mainly you can hear me because the phone doesn’t have speaker) they picked up the phone quite quickly than I thought they would and they were both really nice people to talk too. I was nervous at first but, than I managed... For Springtime Sydenham, she told me to call Annette Papax who is more involved in the sort of thing we’re doing, luckily we left our contact details except for my email address. For Royal Freemasons, she told me to talk to someone named Good-Giles who is more into this sort of thing as well she basically said to me, call back next week when they have their re-creational co-ordinator because, I think she’s more familiar on what we’re doing, so we’re going to try and call back next Tuesday.

**18/10 DA -** Today is the second week of our DEAL Outreach program in the making. We were just told after briefing our schedule for the day. For he first double periods each Outreach group were instructed to just continue where they left off with their preparation for their Outreach action. After recess the remaining of the camp students, which was 9KO and 9BA were told that they had to head to the hall to begin packing for their upcoming camp. And lastly (during periods 5&6) the teachers informed us that we will be watching “Motivational media” with is also held at that hall. In the morning our group came together to discuss “what’s our next step?” and to also share helpful evidence with everyone. Sarah kindly gave the rest of the group members including myself all three of the interview recordings with our mentor, which will be use as evidence for our Assessment table and also for our Communications Google Doc. Currently we are taking the advise from our mentor, which is our groups main concern the PAPERWORK. So our group choose to begin with the “Communication’s Google Doc.” I came up with the idea of uploading our audio recording of our groups page, but I quickly realised, after the reply from Mr Jilbert that it was quite impossible. So as a resolution, Sarah offered to type the interview so that you can visually see what was said during the interview. Soon after we found out that it took up a lot of time that we desperately needed. At our 10:00am interview with our mentor, Mr Jilbert said that it was alright because he had the evidence, so that was good.... He also answered the questions that I posted on the Wikispaces Discussion bar (which are also found on the Communication ‘s Google Doc that Dana set up.) He also gave us permission to use our mobile phones when calling the Nursing Homes, because apparently there was a long line of people waiting to use the school phone.Our Mentor suggested that we create a script before calling the nursing home (which is what we thought of doing before the interview) and he also had the idea of using Skype as as another communication tool, so all group members sent him their Skype names and vis verser But when we came up with the decision of calling both Springtime and Free Manson’s Nursing home there wasn’t really a que of people waiting outside the office door, like Mr Jilbert described. Dana offered to call to organisations and I decided that I should record the conversation for evidence and that also the rest of the group can realise be apart of what happened and how things have worked out.Firstly we decided to call the Nursing homes that didn’t give us their email address. So Dana and myself suggested to call Spring time because it’s the organisation that our group really wanted to get into (becaues it was the closest) The lady on the phone told Dana to call Annette Papax who was the volunteer coordinator. Luckily we left our contact details apart for Dana’s email address. The second call was directed to the Royal Freemasons, The lady on the other line told mentioned someone named Good-Giles who is also involved with volunteer work. Whilst Dana and myself we busy communicating with the organisations, I decide to delegate tasks to the remaining group members (Jasmine and Ashley) and that was to either to continue working on their blogs or to complete some of the tasks on the Assessment Table. With the end of the day quickly approaching we informed Tonja and Sarah on how successful we were and we finished off the rest of the day by completing our blogs.

**18/10 J.N -** So far we have been looking and reviewing our Teen Aid’s group email that we are planning to send to our chosen Nursing home. On our discussion page on wikispaces, we have been thinking of emailing or phone calling the Nursing home. Afterwards we had a meeting with our Mentor, Mr Jilbert to see our group progress. We had been advised to communicate not only through our discussion on wikispaces, but on Skype. We then added our group contacts on Skype, then carried on writing our blogs. A phone call might be a suggestion to contact them. We are a bit nervous on contacting the Nursing home, as it is our first time. The leaders of the group had been revising what they are going to say, then make the final phone call to contact the facility. Next week we can try another Nursing home, because unfortunately another group had already volunteered for this Nursing Home. Spring time Sydenham, was a second suggestion, but we will try get hold of Royal FreeMasons, as a group member’s family member works there.

**18/10 SC:** 18th of October 2nd lesson of D.E.A.L term 4 Today we started off writing up a script to the nursing hoes that only provided a phone number and no email. We came up with the idea that we could record the conversation over the phone with the nursing home, we are going to have them on loud speaker so the recording can hear what the person on the other side of the line has to say.

it’s 9:34 we haven’t started the script we’re trying to figure out how to get the recording of our last interview with our mentor on our communications page.

9:53 i’m listening to the recording and working on this blog and Dana and Daphne are working on our communication page and Ashley and Tonja are working on their blog. I suggested that if there isn’t a way to get the recording onto our communication page, i’ll type the conversation/interview and put it onto the our communication page. We’re having trouble with the communication document it says view only so we can;t edit the document. We’ve been trying to send something to Mr. Jilbert on our discussion page asking for his help, we’re still waiting for his reply.

10:22 we had a interview with Mr. Jilbert and he decided that we should give him our skype names so when Mr. Jilbert wants a meets he can just contact us through skype. We all put our skype names in the discussion and we added each other on skype and Jasmine created a skype account.

10: 25 we decided that Dana is going to call the nursing and I am going to record the conversation.

10:35 we’re sending each other the interviews we have so far.

**21/10 DO -** This morning I decided to check my emails and guess what! WE GOT A REPLY BACK. It was from Springtime Sydenham and from someone called Annette Papax who's name I am familiar of because when I called Springtime Sydenham last Tuesday (18/10) she told me that someone named Annette Papax is responsible in the type of thing that we do... So yeah, I'll put the email in the communications document if anybody wants to check it out.

**25/10 J.N -** Today we had typed a response email to our Nursing Home, Springtime Sydenham. Gladly they replied and accepted our previous letter, regarding us to volunteer at the aged care facility. Shortly after, we had decided to decorate our wiki page, making sure it’s looking bright and colorful. Teen Aid’s proposal has been progressing well, and we are waiting for a reply so we can start the journey soon. A meeting was scheduled with our Mentor. Mr Jilbert asked questions about how we were progressing so far. We were doing great. We just had to wait for a response from Springtime. Later on the day we then edited our proposals in our google documents, as well as filling in our group’s assessment table.

**25/10 DO -** Today is our 3rd DEAL lesson, between the 2nd and 3rd DEAL lesson we were able to get a email response from one of the nursing homes, Springtime Sydenham. They said that we are able to assist them in the nursing home BUT, we need to answer a few questions such as, how many of us in our group, what date and time we’ll be going and if we have teacher supervision. This email conversation can be seen on Teen-Aid’s google document. After lunch we will start to discuss on transport basically everything that is on the excursion form that we have to fill out BEFORE we leave. Currently we’re trying to fix our page and make it look... Better. Sadly we can’t actually add images or different styles of text at school but, we are able to do that at home! I just edited our Aim and Purpose and the Desired Outcomes on our wikispaces since, they haven’t really been updated to what we are really doing now. We just recently had our interview with our mentor it wasn’t as much in depth as I thought since it was more of US telling him what we have done rather than him asking us questions as we give him the answers. Daphne and I are checking off things for the assessment table, we have DONE 57% of the objectives from the table but, we still haven’t done 43% of the assessment table but, mainly the ones left over have to be ticked off AFTER or DURING our outreach action. Edit: GUESS WHAT! They reply really fast! Annette Papax replied already so yeah... I’ll put the email in the communications page.

**25/10 DA -** Today is our 3rd DEAL class of Term 4, and between our last class together Dana received and email response from Springtime which is located in Sydenham. They kindly replied and acknowledged our pervious letter. Written in the email was a few important questions we needed to answer before getting the opportunity to volunteer at their Nursing home. Some of the questions were: -How many students are in the group? -If we will have any teach/adult supervision? -How many students are coming to volunteer? After answering the questions above, we constructed a reply email quite quickly. And quickly got approval from our mentor teacher by using Skype. Soon after we decided to decorate our Wikispaces page with bright colours to make it more cheerful and welcoming. We added more conversations to our Communications Google Doc, Dana and myself filled in more than half of our Assessment table (which is great considering it was practically empty) and the rest of the group continue to work of their blogs. I also decided to brainstorm ideas “On what to do with the Elderly” using the ICT Bubblus.

We got a reply from Springtime Sydenham, they accepted our email for us to come and visit the elderly. They asked how many students from our group will be coming to the nursing home we replied saying that we have six members in our group. They also asked is we will have teacher supervision, we informed that we will not. We felt that we need no teacher supervision because we want to become independent and we can’t do that with the teachers with us. I decided to make a poster for us and to screen capture it and put it on our wikispaces page just to make it more decorative.
 * 25th of October: **



**8/11 J.N -** After last week’s cancellation, due to Melbourne cup day on Tuesday, Today we are deciding to reply to the email that we have received few weeks back. A few questions to be answered before we can go to our destination soon. Wednesday and Thursday Afternoon, next week was a suggestion at the time we are going to Springtime Sydenham. At the meeting, Mr.Jilbert suggested that we should continue updating our blogs regularly, and making sure we complete some of our Outreach proposal and our Assessment table. So far we are organizing our Outreach Organization form, so we can organize how many people are coming to the excursion, date, time, day, contact details, etc...   **S.C - 8th of November:**Today Daphne is away on an excursion it’s just me, Ashley, Dana, Tonja and Jasmine. We are discussing what days we should visit Springtime and how many people should go and who should go. We are going to start planning what we are going to for our time spent at Springtime, we came up with an idea for board games and making some cookies and we need to decide who will bring what. We had a meeting with Mr. Jilbert and he told us what we should be doing today. He told us to check our Assessment Sheet which we are doing now. 10:27 Dana has made a value sheet kind of thing and it’s really good. 11:21 we have a email to reply to Springtime we have asked them a few questions in the email and attached our brainstorm of idea of what we can do at the nursing home so Annett (the lifestyle directer) can get an idea of what kind of stuff we can and can’t do.12:08- we sent a copy of the email to Mr. Jilbert and he confirmed it for us to send it to Springtime so we did. **08/11 DO -** Today is going to be one of the most important DEAL lessons since we have missed out one last week due to long weekend. Sadly, Daphne isn’t here today due to publishing since she is reporting the Year 8 excursion. Anyway, group 7 are currently discussing on when to go to Springtime Sydenham. I am currently making the email to reply back to Springtime Sydenham since it has been a week since our last reply to them! While I’m working on the email and making more title banners of our values and group members as the rest of the group are working on either filling out the assessment table, their blogs from the past few weeks or updating their blog now. We had a mini interview with our mentor because, before we decided on going to Springtime Sydenham on Wednesday and Thursday during school hours, but now we have settled new dates. We are now planning that half of us are going during school hours on the Tuesday while the rest of us are going after school on the Thursday, I am now waiting for Annette Papax to reply back. I have just checked on our assessment table and we have improved from 57% to 65%! But, the ones left over are some that we probably don’t get or it can only be completed AFTER or during our outreach to our organisation, at the very last 15 minutes of period 4, we had a talk about College Captains for next year and for people that would like to apply or not. Just got back from lunch and even though that they haven’t replied back to us we’re going to discuss about transport, we are thinking of using the bus or actually getting dropped off by our parents, I am most likely going to get dropped off by my parents. A.K - Today in DEAL we are going to decide when were going to Spring Time Sydenham and how many of us are going. We are also going to reply to the email they sent us, and get our details together and get what they asked for; ID, time, school contact and what were doing there. We have decided that we will spilt into two groups of 3, one group going on Wednesday the 16th of November and the other on Thursday the 17th of November. We haven’t decided the time as of yet because we are waiting for Spring Time to reply again, so in the meantime we are going to plan what we are going to do when we are at spring time. We aren’t allowed to go any other day than Tuesday so we will have to come up with a new plan.

**14/11 DO -** I just got a reply back from Annette Papax and she just said that they are booked out this whole week so we have to schedule another time! Hopefully by next week! We should plan our visiting to Springtime Sydenham tomorrow and also fill out some details that they need of us and also maybe we should fill in the outreach form tomorrow with them over the phone? (Hopefully we can use the phone) or over email or fax... Either way works.EDIT: I have just added gifs (moving pictures) that have relation to our values! Hope you guys like it, yes or no? With the first gif, it is a scene from Lilo and Stitch: The Movie (I love it) and she quotes about family, and "Family means nobody gets left behind...or forgotten" then the 2nd gif of Spongebob when he's singing the F.U.N song to Plankton, and somehow it reminded me of friends, so I thought it was a good gif to use and SPONGEBOB IS AWESOME! Also, with the last gif of Spongebob, I remembered that episode about the box and how they used their "Imagination" to believe they can really do anything unless if you believe! Which I thought was a good message to get through, as we never stop believing! **S.C: 14/11/11:** Dana got a reply from Springtime and we have found out the Springtime is booked up all week so we are unable to visit Springtime on the 15th like we hoped. I suggested to Dana that she reply asked for a list of dates that they are free for us to come and visit. She wrote the email sent me a copy through skype and has sent another copy of the email to Mr. Jilbert so we can get an 'OK' for us to send it to Springtime. I copied the email onto our communications page.Me and Dana communicated through skype and i included that in my update on our communications page. **T.M: 15/11/2011:** Today we were discussing on what are we going to do to get out assessment done. Our Assessment Criteria Sheet is nearly done, more-less. We were thinking about going to the Springtime nursing home but since they're all booking in for this week, and we want to have the assessment done ASAP, we decided to go to a parish in St Albans called Holy Eucharist and participate in they Food Bank. For now we are trying to think of the dates we could go and help the parish. We are thinking of Thursday 17th or Friday 18th. When we come up with 'a timetable' we will make a call and see if they are able to accept any help of ours. **15/11 J.N-** Yesterday, Teen-Aid had received an reply email from Springtime Sydenham. Annette Papax the head co-ordinator stated that they are fully booked out this whole week. It was bad luck, but today is a good time to finish our D.E.A.L assessment, proposals, wikispaces, blogs etc... Next week was a choice to go out to our Outreach program, or this week, but there was time management problems and excursions such as the swimming carnival. In mind, we can suggest other new locations we can visit, such as volunteering at a Catholic primary school (Program: Food bank), (Address: http://www.hestalbanssth.catholic.edu.au/ Holy Eucharist Primary School) before Springtime Sydenham can organize dates for us to visit there. **S.C 15th of Nov** Today a lot has happened, we’ve changed plans. We are no longer going to Springtime nursing home. Springtime is busy and they take to long to email us back and because we are running out of time, and if they reply to us to late we might not get to plan and organize everything in time. Instead of Springtime we are most likely going to go and assist Holy Eucharist Parish in their food bank. If we go we would probably be going there on Thursday 17th of November, so that’s this Thursday coming and the time we will be there is at 3:30PM-4PM. This will happen after school. I’ve been working on our Assessment Page, filling in the empty boxes. We got a reply from Holy Eucharist Parish, they;d be happy to have us come and assist them on Thursday we are unable to attend there on Friday because the times got in way of school. We have added a copy of the email on our communications and are typing up a reply to Holy Eucharist Parish. **15/11 DO -** Today is our last Outreach lesson until next week when EVERYTHING is due! We are all here today and we haven’t been able to outreach to an organisation yet. Our nursing home has been busy for the past few weeks and we weren’t able to organise anything with them! Greatly, Daphne knows a place where we are able to volunteer which is a food bank, the food bank opens at 10 am - 1 pm on Thursdays and Fridays, hopefully we are able to go out on those days during school time, we are currently discussing dates and times to go to the food bank. We have decided on helping the food bank at Thursday after school for half and hour, we even have confirmation from our mentor in doing this action, right now Daphne is writing the email to the food bank (She knows the place better than all of us) and everyone else is either writing up their blogs or filling out the assessment table. During period 3 and 4 we were than introduced to reflection questions about this WHOLE Outreach program which kept everybody occupied for the whole double also, we were filling out the assessment table provided with evidence but, some of the evidence that we have to give out are a part of the reflection questions. I have just finished all of my reflection questions and turned it into Edmodo also, we have done 91% of the assessment table the remaining two boxes we are unable to do because, we haven’t been to our outreach yet. I can't believe on how much that we all have done together! We were all pretty occupied since today was our last DEAL lesson... It was a very busy day today but, it was worth it! By the way, I hope you guys like the new layout, I just wanted to try something new... Also, with the barcode and Sarah's banner beneath, please don't write after those two pieces of text... It looks cool that it is at the bottom of the page(: 15/11 AK - Today in we have decided we aren’t going to spring time anymore, because they are very busy and we don't know how long it will take until they can book us in. So now are going to go to Holy Eucharist Parish, which we will basically going to be helping out at a food bank. I kind of feel pressure because next week is our last week so I hope we can go and that we get this done because if not we wont have anything to record on.  **16/11 DO -** So for the past few days, I've decided to make a youtube account (Just for school!) to post up our interviews, recordings and soon to be our visit to the Food bank so then our mentor is able to view it. Don't worry nobody will see the videos, I made the videos ONLY viewable if you have the youtube link. I'll post up the links on top asap, before we get assessed. Also, I CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW! I can't believe we were given this opportunity... I'm actually quite excited but, yet again nervous. Sadly, it will only be 4 of us that will be going tomorrow... So we shall make it last and fill the other members in the next time we see each other! See you all tomorrow :D **17/11 DO -** So today was the very first time for us to go and outreach! We were very lucky to be given this opportunity to help out at this Food Bank that Daphne greatly was able to arrange in just two days! Thank you to Daphne’s mum for being able to drive us there and back, it wasn’t as faraway as I thought but, it took a long time to get there because of the amount of traffic since it was still school time. We were lucky enough to arrive at around quarter to 4pm on our way Daphne’s mum told us about a lady named Maria, who was also a volunteer in the Food Bank she has been working there for awhile and up to as late as 11pm! As much as she can, that made me think about how she is very dedicated just to help out these people in need, which got me a bit more motivated. When we got there the food bank was literally as big as two portable rooms (like the one in the school.) Charlie directed us to tasks and was there to help us out the whole time we were there. Once we entered the food bank all I can see were boxes filled with a few food items (of course a long the way we were meant to fill them with more food) but there was a lot of them (approx. 120?) there were some on tables, some underneath tables, some near the window and some near the door. Our job was basically to fill them ALL with food items at times, when we ran out a certain type of food, we had to switch food but the same kind such as, at times I ran out of Honey Dijon dressing so I had to fill the boxes without that dressing with this Asian dressing or this orange-like paste so than, at least each box gets something! We put into each crate spaghetti, pasta, chocolate, noodles, mayonnaise, tomato paste, dressings, rice, cheese, crackers and much more. Greatly Daphne’s mum was able to help each of us at a time but, sometimes you had to really make sure that this box has this because we don’t want any box missing out on any food! 1 or 2 hours have passed and we were done! So when we were done filling the crates with food we had to dispose of the cardboard boxes outside and squish as thin as we can which was really fun to do! After we have done that, we were than rewarded! With coke, icypoles and donuts. We were also able to meet Father Minh who actually organises this whole food bank, he looked quite pleased of us being able to help and that next time we should actually deliver the food which only happens on Friday between 11am - 1pm. We than started talking about the place which is called Loaves and Fishes, saw a newspaper article about how this food bank was a “Lifesaver” (That is what the title said) After that we left the place and went back to school for us to be picked up. On our way home Daphne’s mum gave us a history about the place especially about Father Minh, it was actually quite interesting to hear and at times it made me feel on how caring Father Minh is. Daphne’s mum told us that Father Minh was a refugee (So he came by boat) and on his way to ‘land’ he asked the Lord that if he was able to make it to land and be still alive! He’ll become a priest (Since the voyage of these refugees they didn’t have any food or water.) Father Minh was also very giving because, when he wasn’t able to give out anymore food that was BOUGHT WITH HIS OWN MONEY! He actually looked into his fridge and tried to find whatever he could give out to them which made me think “Wow he’s really generous, giving away his food for someone else to eat” Also, at the school (Holy Eucharist Primary School) Father Minh actually provides the kids with breakfast because, he knows that they haven’t had breakfast (They were usually refugees and couldn’t really speak English) so he would buy cereal, milk, bread (basically breakfast essentials) and put up a sign for any kids to come up and be able to have breakfast for the day. Overall, at the end of the day, we would really like to do this again! Probably every Thursday and maybe the last week of term on the Friday to actually go and give the food away and to see what it’s like. I truly will cherish this experience because, I never would have done this without the Outreach Program most especially, the group! TEEN-AID FOR THE WIN! **S.C 17th of Nov:** The food-bank Today Dana, Daphne, Tonja and myself went to the ‘Loaves and Fishes’ Holy Eucharist food-bank. We got there around 3:30 and meet Charlie the man that works at the food-bank. He explained to us the kind of people he gives the food to and some of their situations to why they come to the food bank. After that we got to work pack all the crates with food. It was fun and a good learning experience. Myself and the rest of the group are thinking about doing it again even thought outreach will be finished, we enjoyed our time there and want to do it again. We worked together in team, we all helped each other out. we were always calm and worked hard even though it was pretty warm. **T.M 17/11/2011:** Today, four members of our group (Dana, Daphne, Sarah, Tonja) went to the Holy Eucharist Parish and we helped with packing food for their food bank. I don't think there's much to say (Dana and Sarah already said it). I can only say that it was a great experience. I learnt that not all people are so lucky as myself to have food for everyday cause some of them can barely afford any. I think this experience, even though it was just helping with packing, helped us to become more aware of the other problems in the world besides our 'small' ones. Today wasn't just about this assessment nor about the prize after our excursion. It was more about learning something and helping the community. I think we should be grateful to our school and our teachers for creating this task and our mentors for helping us with it and guiding us through it. **17/11 DA -** Today was the first time Teen-aid REACHED OUT :D. It was a amazing and enjoyable experience. So my mum kindly transported us (Dana, Tonja, Sarah and myself) to the “Loaves and Fishes” food bank which was located in St Albans South. Because of the the traffic congestion we arrived there approximately 3:45pm. Once we got out of the car we meet a man named Charlie Shemberi. He is one of the coordinators there at the Food bank. There was also a lady named Maria, who volunteers at the food bank preparing the food parcels EVERY WEEK along with a few other workers who dedicate there time to help others. I was really inspired by her, because she is a middle aged women who usually finish’s around 11pm and she also walks home by herself. I was moved by this because she gives up all her to help others, and she also risks her life for the sake of others. she it a tremendous women. Any way on the day Like I said earlier we meet a man named Charlie who directed, helped and supervised us from 3:30pm-5:30pm. The job was basically to fill approximately 120 boxes with all the food given. There was chocolates, bread, crackers and lots of other dry foods. In the other room other volunteers prepared fresh fruits and vegetables for the needy people who couldn’t afford there basic groceries.So after preparing the food boxes we got rewarded with icy-poles, coke, and donuts which was really generous of them. I believe that we worked really well together as a team and we performed our best on our first day of outreaching. We acted responsible and cooperative and maintained a friendly relationship with the workers. We also got to meet Fr Minh who organises the food bank. He told us how happy he was that we volunteered at “Loaves and Fishes” and would also like for us to come again. when we were stuffing our faces we noticed a newspaper article that was titled “Lifesaver” grant will deliver. After that we drove back to CRCCS to drop of the others.

**22/11 J.N -** Today was the final presentation day of our D.e.a.l Outreach program, as the group (Sadly I wasn’t able to go) ventured to Holy Eucharist Food Bank; via St. Albans last week. We were lucky enough to find a new organization before the deadline, as our first preference, (Springtime Sydenham) has been unresponsive and fully booked out the whole of last week. So far we have been allocated to finish all our tasks on our Wiki page. Our evidence was mostly shown throughout our google docs (mostly in our Teen aid Outreach proposal), and included in our blogs posted weekly. Our presentation will shortly be presented to our Mentor before noon, or some point during the day. So far we’ve just been revising and editing our work to make sure it is surely presentable. We have been filling our Evidence from our blogs (Google docs), our Assessment table, that we will be mainly assessed on, and updating our wiki page to make it look more sophisticated.

Today is our last Deal lesson for our Outreach program so we’ve created a google’s doc for the evidence that we need from. We’ve been gathering up all evidence from our blogs and putting it into the Google’s doc. Because there are a lot of blogs we came up with a strategy so we don’t take to much time and to make it easier for us. We decided we would just read our own blogs so we don’t have to go through each and every other persons blog. Another thing we’ve done today is we got the pictures from the food-bank, and Dana made an account on //‘photo bucket’// and added the photo’s from that day. Dana did that because we are unable to add photo’s onto our wiki from school, so she did the ‘//photo bucket//’ thing and then she added the link to our wiki for our mentor to see the photo’s.
 * S.C 22nd of Nov: **