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sw media type="custom" key="11216948" Philly, Chelsea, Violeta, Rebecca F, Michela V Moto- "Helping to give mans best friend a second chance"

Teacher: Mrs Saunders and Ms. Costantino

Communication records-

Tuesday, 30 August- Emailed RSCPA Burwood Got reply same day- Unable to go because we all need to be 15 years of age

' code >Dear Philomena,

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at the RSPCA in Burwood.

To become a volunteer, the first step is to attend a Volunteer Information Session. At this session you will gain information about the RSPCA Victoria and the different opportunities available at Burwood. This session will help you make an informed decision about whether volunteering with us is the right step for you. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 15 YEARS OLD TO GET INVOLVED.

After you have attended the Information Session, if you would like to go ahead with volunteering there is a one on one interview process and an Orientation Session.

Dates for our remaining 2011 session are listed on the volunteering section of our website @http://www.rspcavic.org/volunteering/. Please take note of the date bookings open as sessions book out quickly. To avoid disappointment we would encourage you to book via our website from 9.00am on the day bookings open. Please also see our website for more information about our volunteering program and other ways to support the RSPCA. code Called Egars Farm- We are able to go and help but getting there is a big problem!

Tuesday 18 October- Called Christ the Priest, and was told by principle she will get back to us.

Tuesday 18 October- Got reply VIA email. It was a yes!

Plan/ideas for when we go to the Primary Schools code >Hi Philomena, Our year 1 students are studying farms and animals this term. I felt it would be relevant to talk to these students instead of the Yr 2 students. One of the grades has agreed to your talk so I can confirm that the talk can go ahead.
 * Make a presentation
 * we decided to make the presentation with pictures to inform the kids, but also get them to read some of it.
 * Make the stuffed cats with the kids
 * We decided not to do this as it would be too dangerous with sewing needles and it would take too long.
 * Make animal masks to colour and wear
 * We decided not to do this again as it would take too long and also because we couldn’t find any templates on the internet.
 * Have a dance that we could teach the children
 * We made up a dance to teach the children so they could remember the steps to approach a dog and they could teach it to their friends.
 * Have a quiz at the end of the presentation and give them the cats and dogs if they get the answer right.
 * We didn’t do this because we didn’t have time and also they probably would’ve gotten board by that stage.
 * Do role plays on how to approach a dog.
 * We decided to do the steps with max the dog and the children for each step so they won’t be as scared if it actually happens to them.
 * Have a dress up dog costume for one of us to wear.
 * We have Max the dog which Violeta will dress up in and dance with the kids.

Are you able to present your talk at 12noon on the 8th of Nov?' code

Tuesday 8th November - Called Emmaus the VET and Southern Cross Grammar. A yes from Southern Cross Grammar for November 15th from 11:45-12:45. Need to call back Emmaus and the VET.

Tue, November 8

Dear Cathy, code Sorry our plans didn't work out today. We received a call from Caroline asking us where we were at 9 o'clock, although we believe we had planned our presentation for 12 o'clock.

We believe there was a miscommunication between our schools and hope to reschedule our presentation.

Many Thanks,

Philomena Nandu

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Google Docs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tgSzoG0ikwoulwO9znQ5E6y9OKlw6LY_1IFByufkXGM/edit?hl=en_US

Proposal document - https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Y9RuEwCWB9ZLEGEQzuRyUnMc3tS5b_3USRvaYtWTqM/edit?hl=en_GB

=**Organisation and Shared Values** =

__**info@edgarsmission.org.au**__ Edgar''s mission 365 McHarg Road Ph:0408397301 wwww.edgarsmission.org.au

=Aim and Purpose: = Our aim is to educate the younger generation on the welfare of animals, because we believe if they are educated early enough they can tell family members and friends about how they could help the animals. As well as making a difference and actually going into facilities that take care of animals and volunteering within.

=**Desired Outcomes:** = Our desired outcome is to help and spread awareness of lost, abused and under appreciated pets and animals. Also to help out certain organisations and go to primary schools and teach the children of pet awareness and what the organisation is doing and how they can help.

=** Questions you need to ask and answer: **=


 * How will we get there?
 * Which animals will we be helping?
 * what jobs will we do?
 * What if they say we're too young?
 * What is our back up plan?
 * What fundraising could we do?
 * What if we don’t have enough money?
 * What if the organisation won’t reply to our calls/emails?
 * How long do we stay there for?
 * When can we go out and actually do our OUTREACH?
 * What if the schools say no?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 24px;">What if our parents say we can’t go?

Blog
6/9 MV - On Tuesday 31st of August our group fell a bit behind as people left the group, the organisation and action was changed and new people came to the group. Last week we started looking at the RSPCA and i found something on the website which was happy tails day. That includes getting merchandise from the RSPCA and selling it to the community where all proceeds would go to the RSPCA. Philly and I had an idea to go to primary schools and educate them about animal shelters and puppy factories and what they can do to help. I also had an idea on bringing our own pets to the schools. We still need to confirm on a particular organisation as we need to address certain questions and also have a back up plan. We need to have a clear understanding on what we are going to do and how we are going to do it.

6/9 RF - Last week in DEAL, we began to come up with ideas of ways that we could help our unchosen organisation. We did decide that we would help an organisation that involved caring and helping animals. We came up with the idea that we would try going to primary schools and educate them about the RSPCA. We also came up with the idea that we would try and make cats and dogs with fabrics and sell them for a reasonable price. We liked the idea of working with the RSPCA, however they require us to be at least 15 years old and unfortunately, some members of the group are not 15 yet.

6/9 VP - Last week we had a deep look for organisations as we are helping animals for for our project in DEAL. We thought working for the rspca was a good idea but we found out that we had to be 15 years and older and only two of us were able to do that. So we were thinking of ideas that we could do to give up our time to show we care for animals in need. Next week we are going to find other organisation who are willing to take us!

6/9 PN - The first week we finally started our outreach the first place was the RSPCA but when I contacted them later that week they had said all our group members must be 15+ but only 2 of us were. As well as if we were to do volunteering we had to do a 6month program. So we moved on to other option which was 'Edgar's mission'. When we called them they had said they are happy for us to come in and help but the probably we have to figure out is how are we going to get there? Guess we will have to talk about it next week. (:

6/9 Chelsea - Last week we discovered out values in who we are. Then we were placed into groups with people who also have values just like me. We looked through organisations that had the same values as us and we decided which one we wanted to help and volunteer for. In the end we all agreed on working with animals and we became the fur real friends! We had a bit of trouble looking for a charity for animals that were close and that accepted students our age.

6/9 Whole Group - In response to the talking about disability document our group thinks that it won't help much with what we want to do. We might not be working with people with disabilities but there may be animals with disabilities. Although it may help when talking about an animal with a disability to the primary school students or the people working at the organisation in referral to the animals. We just have to be mindful of how we talk about the animals to people and how we inform people. Just because the animals don't understand the people around them do.

6/9 Chelsea - Today in class we all reached more into the organization we wanted to help. We also had a guest speaker from the western bull dogs who told us all about the different types of outreach they do as a club. It was very interesting. After that we all came together into groups and looked at different workshops to help our phone skills, emailing structure and teamwork skills.

6/9 MV - Today in class we participated in Master Classes to help our groups in our OUTREACH program in communicating and working in teams. I found the email master class very interesting because i wouldn't consider or take into account anything that we discussed if I were to email an organisation. For our particular group I found the respectful support class wasn't as useful as the other ones as stated above mainly because we are working with animals. Overall I found all of the classes each had useful information to take into account and without them we probably wouldn't be able to help our organisation due to poor techniques in communication and teamwork. Also today Chris a guest speaker from the Western Bulldogs came out to talk about what the club is doing for our community. His speech and advise was very useful as it made our team realise that we don't have to do something big to make a change. By the end of DEAL today our group came up with a couple of main ideas as to what we want to do as we can't volunteer for the RSPCA and Edgar's mission is too far away and we wouldn't know how to get there. We were thinking of looking at places more local like the lost dogs home or Horseshoe Bend. We still like the idea of educating primary school students about animals, so what we need to do is contact the primary schools in our area and see if we are allowed to go there and also do a little bit more research on what we can talk to the students about. At this stage we are still trying to clarify our ideas into one main action and hopefully we will be successful.

6/9 PN - On tuesday we had a guest speaker from the 'Western bulldogs' come in and talk to us about what they team did for the community. It was really interesting because half of the things the western bulldogs team do we weren't aware of it. He made us realise that we shouldn't just think of our own idea because there might be an other organisations out there already doing what we would like and we jump on there projects and help them. We worked really good in the team building workshop, we worked really well together with communication and letting everyones idea go in to building the house of cards- Personally I think ours looked the best.With the skills we've learnt from the masterclasses we will probably become more organised and probably get a place quicker. We looked up other places because traveling time was too far. We are currently looking and Horse Shoe Bend and the city council. But when I had gone to the library after school they had said they didn't know if they had volunteering for the animal shelter. So we will really have to see about that. (: Good luck team!

6/9 VP - We had a speaker from the Western Bulldogs, Chris, come in and talk to us about what he does and how they help the community. He also tried helping other groups on how to start and gave them ideas. We discovered some new things about the team that we didn't know. We then got showed how to call, meet, work as a team and send an effective email. we got told tips about the email, a demonstration and did an activity when working as a team. For the working as a team activity we built a house out of cards and our grouped work so well we even had a pool and a path way going towards the house! We also read about working with disabilities. We read how to refer to them and how not to get on their bad side, although we are working with animals it still helped for the future if we ever are around people with disabilities. When we got back into our groups to discuss about our out reach program, we found it it was really far from us. We trying to think of ways to get there and didn't come up with very good plans. We got told about some animal shelters that we could help out for too, I honestly can't wait to get started and into this! :)

13/9 CE - Today we watched pay it forward. It was about a little 12 year old boy who had a social studies to try and change the world. His idea was to help three people by doing a kinda deed and then they would have to pay it forward and those three people would then help another 3 people and its like a chain connection. This movie was very inspiring. It showed that one small little idea can make a change,anyone can make a difference.

20/9 RF - Today in deal we began to go further with our research on where we should go and what we should do. We also had three students from CRC Sydenham come and speak to us about the community work that they are doing. They told us stories of things that they had done that made them feel proud of what they were doing to help out the people in need. We also had a discussion as a year level and told each other about what we had been doing and what we were planning on doing. Our group is a little confused about what we will be able to do, considering that we are too young to participate and volunteer for many things. We spoke with our mentor (Mrs. Saunders) and she is going to help us by giving us the number of someone whom she knows that might let us volunteer at a vet in Werribe. W e have become very unsure about what to do about helping out "Edgars Mission" since it is far away. We all really like the idea of visiting the schools and educating them about the wellbeing on animals and how to look after dogs. We were also thinking of baking treats (cakes shaped as bones, cupcakes with paw prints on them, ect.)

20/9 MV - Today in DEAL we started off by working on our soap box "presentation" that we were to give to the rest of the year level later on that lesson. Philly was away today and she has most of our information and contacts so we started from scratch and thought of what we had done so far, how we are working as a team and what or plan is to do next. Whilst listening to everyones soap boxes i felt confident that what our group has done was enough and that we were up to everyone else after the group rearranging a couple of weeks ago. During period three, the year 12 social justice team from CRC Sydenham came to talk to us about their community service and what they have done this year to help the flood victims, the nursing home and how much they enjoy it. One of the things that i got out of that talk was that if we get knocked back by anyone during our OUTREACH time to keep persisting and to not give up as it will all work out in the long run. During the last period of the day, we met up with our mentor Mrs Saunders to talk about in more detail our action plan. We haev realised that to get to Edgar's mission will probably be too hard so Mrs Saunders said that she has a contact at the Werribee Veterinary Hospital that we could get into contact with and discuss volunteering there with her. We are still keen on going to the primary schools so now we are working on contacting them and gathering information to talk about to the students.

20/9 VP - Today in deal, students from the social justice group at crc sydneham came in to talk to us about their experience in volunteering and community service. They told us what they did and how they would build new relationships with the people they help and about the feeling you get when you know you've done something so nice for someone. We had times to see our mentor for our groups and have a discussion but our group was at 1:30. The teachers got us sitting in a circle and each told told the rest of us what they have done, how are they working as a group and what are we going to do next. Everyone seem to have the same difficulties which was when other students were away from their group. After lunch we got to get in our groups again and then we got together with our mentor. Miss Saunders helped us with closer organisations and added to our ideas. We have all new thoughts and ideas for the upcoming volunteering. I'm actually wanting to do volunteer work with animals out of school too! I honestly can't wait and I think we all make a good team! :)

11/10 MV - Today in DEAL we spoke to Miss Costantino as she is one of our mentors to fill her in on our plans and how we can go about them. It was our first meeting with Miss Costantino and she gave some interesting and useful feedback. After the meeting we needed to fill out an activity submission form to send to Ms Dishon to inform her about our OUTREACH action and the what was going to happen on the day/s and where it was going to be. We mainly worked on that and finalising dates and our timeline for the term. We also (after much discussion) decided on contacting the Caroline Springs Vet to ask about volunteering there for their puppy school or kitten adoption centre as it is closer and easier to travel there than other places/organisations that we have looked at. Our main OUTREACH action at the moment is going to primary schools and educating them about animals and raising awareness about puppy factories, animal attacks and prevention etc.

11/10 PN- Today was the first day back of deal. We worked with MIss Constantino to find out where we were on our outreach program. As the lesson went we walked on our submission form to the principle. In the form we put; the activities; how we are getting there etc. The lesson had been cut because of camp preparation so we had a choice to work on our project or to watch a movie- Violeta and I worked on finalising the submission form and the others watched the movies or were working on camp. So that was that.

11/10 RF - Last week in Deal i wasn't here.

18/10 PN This week in deal was also cut short, because we had to pack our bags for camp and we had a whole school presentation in the hall. When we had the 2 hours we met up with our deal teacher and we just talked about our progress. We also got to make our phone calls to the other school and they seemed delighted for us to come and help. On the wednesday after i got an email from the teachers saying, that we are able to come and visit the years 1 on the 8th of November- Thank you Christ the Priest but we are waiting for Cana to reply.

18/10 CE This week we called up different schools around the caroline springs area- we had to leave a few message as the teachers were in class. We are waiting for a response from the schools hopefully they call! Fingercrossed- (: Although our deal lesson was cut short we still managed to do many things.

8/11 MV - This morning we went to Cana Catholic Primary School in Hillside to start our action for OUTREACH. This involved going there and talking to the grade two's about animal safety and how to approach a stray dog. When Violeta dressed up as Max the safety dog all of the grade two's were excited and couldn't wait to listen to what we had to say. Overall it was a really fun experience and i'm sure that what we said stuck with them and hopefully the will spread the information to family and friends. Even though it wasn't our initial plan to go to schools, i have the feeling that we have done something good for our community to educate children to prevent dog attacks but for them also not to be afraid of dogs in general. There were complications and miscommunications with Christ the Priest as they thought we were going there this morning when we thought we were going there in the afternoon. We got there early so when we were told we didn't know what was happening. In this situation, our group handled ourselves very professionally and were calm about it. After we got back to school we worked on our assessment rubric and called some more schools like Southern Cross Grammar and Emmaus to see if we can go there next tuesday to do the same thing we did today. SCG booked us in for 11:45-12:45 to speak to 30 students (ranging form grade prep to two). Emmaus said for us to call them back at a more convenient time when the principal is available. We also fixed up our presentation and plan for what's going to happen next time we do our talk to make it more interactive and fun but educational for the children. Hopefully all goes well next week and there are no miscommunications or problems.

8/11 Violeta- I played as the dog in the presentation and although it was hot and stuffy, it was a great experience, I could only see a bit, but the little glimpses of the kids smiles was great, the girls were just talking with the kids and educated them on dog safety and the kids got really involved, they had a great time as well as us! We didn’t have the same idea as everyone else but I think our idea was just as helpful and fun! Later on in the day we hit a rough patch, we couldn’t go to christ the priest because there was a misunderstanding and different people were contacted, so it was kind of a disappointment to us as we weren’t able to finish the day as we wanted, but we are organising for next week and contacting more schools so we aren’t through yet!

8/11 Philomena- We just came back from Cana. I have to say I really liked it so much! To be honest i’m pretty speechless about the whole experience, I’m so happy about our group and how we did. All the smiles, question we got from the year 2s really made us smile. Although it’s a different kind of outreach from everyone we are still making a difference in our community because we have educated people. I’m really disappointed that we didn’t manage to go to Christ the Priest, after all the organising we had done! There was miscommunication. All together we are really happy with our performance. Now we are really eager to help more school so, that makes more calling school.

8/11 Rebecca - I've missed out on a few deal lessons including todays due to me being sick. I have asked people from our group what i missed out on so i will be prepared for next week when we go to visit Southern Cross Grammar.

15/11 MV - Today we went to Southern Cross Grammar and i thought it was good but i think that last week ran more smoothly and a bit differently. We had more time to spare today but last week we ended going over time. Overall again it was a good experience and fun as we know that we have done a good thing for the community. Today also we worked on our OUTREACH reflections and kept working on our criteria sheet filling out and ticking more competencies. The vet called Ms Costantino back but we don't know what is happening yet, we need to see what they were calling about first and see what they want us to do. If we don't end up going to the vet we have still finished our action part of our OUTREACH and we have nearly finished this assignment.

15/11 - today in DEAL, we came to school and we had planned to go to southern cross grammar. When we came to school we just got ticked off as normal and then when we went to our tables we just worked on our criteria sheet. When it was time we went to the bus stop to head off to Southern Cross Grammar. We did the same as last time and we educated the kids, the only difference is that we were with the preps, one's and two's, but there was like 30 kids overall. I had so much fun once again, but it was really hot! The kids were great and they loved the show. We had a dance again and it was great, they loved it as well! When we were done we headed off back to our area and had a lunch stop at maccas. We had lunch and headed back to school and when we were back we just continued on our criteria sheet, it was a good day and all but I must say I think last week went more smoothly.

15/11 Rebecca.F - This week we went to southern cross grammar to teach the students about animal safety. I was very excited since i missed out on going last week. I thought the day ran quite well. We caught the bus in the morning, arrived at the school and waited for Violeta to change into her costume and then we were guided to the room where all of the year preps, ones and two's would join us for our presentation. The kids really loved it and I really hope that they learnt a lot. I know i thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a great experience for me. The kids really loved Max the Safety Dog ;)

15/11 PN-So today, we went to southern cross grammar. I really enjoyed working with the little kids there once again. The teachers we really nice and we actually happy for us to have come in. I think last week might of been alittle bit better cause we had to try harder ... and the kids were older. This time Rebecca got to come ! And aww she was so cute with them (: I really think we did well and the principle said thank you to us! Winning (:

22/11 VP - Today in DEAL we didn't go anywhere we were working on our presentation of our completed out reach assignment! But first of all we had to get everything done and stuff like our criteria sheet and what not, so we all had our parts and worked on the finished presentation. I did a PMI chart and helped for the criteria sheet with Michela and Chelsea, and then Philly and Bec were working on the video and we are also going to talk about the things we did as well as show what actually happened on the day! Our group is just about time and with our great teamwork, we'll be done in no time! I'm so proud of my group :) well done guys!

22/11 MV - Today is our final presentation and the last day of our Outreach program. I'm a bit nervous because i don't know if we have done enough! I feel like we've done enough as we have been working very hard to do this project well and at a high standard. Everything is done and ready to go and to look back on what we have achieved and what we have done for the community is a good feeling as i know that we have made a difference. It is a bit of a shame that we didn't get to actually work with animals but at least we got to do something for the wellbeing of them. Fingers crossed and hopefully we have done enough in this project. :)