Group+16

= = == = = Dale, George, Corey, Joshua Borg

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__ Organisation and Shared Values __
Values include passion, trust, humour, pride and family

To show our dear grandparents, what we are making of ourselves at school. To help them understand what it is e do at school these days, and the amount of work we put into each task.
__ **Desired Outcomes**: __

To see our grandparents proud of us, to see them look at our amazing, scintillating school and think "wow, this is my grandchild's school".

__** Questions you need to ask and answer: **__
Do you have a backup plan? When are you going to get there? How are you going to get there?

What is expected on that day?What is expected from the children? Blog

6/9 CV - We have chosen to give ourselves to the Starlight Foundation so that we can put a smile on the children's faces. We think that spending a day with these children would mean a lot to them. We have come up with some ideas with what our Outreach action may be but we are still discussing and brainstorming with what we exactly want to do.

6/9 DM - So far we have chosen to give some of ourselves to the Starlight Foundation. We have brainstormed some ideas of what our outreach action might be, but we are still contemplating what we should do exactly.

6/9 GP - As was said, we have taken this opportunity to see if we are able to help the children of the starlight foundation. Some of our ideas have included are, having a fun day with the children such as taking them out to the beach or the movies, and having a day were we go to the hospital and teach them fun new things, such as games and other things

6/9 JB - The Star Reach Team will work hard and are working hard to help and bring laughter back to the children at the Royal Children's Hospital who is helped by the Starlight Foundation. The staff there rarely get a break during the week and year so we ( Star Reach ) would go to the Royal Children's Hospital and help out in anyway possible. All we want is to get a smile back on their faces.

6/9 JB - Today's guest speaker was a guy called Chris who works at the Western Bulldogs Football Club. He does work around the Western Region of Victoria to help multicultural people with their lives through football. He gets refugees who have just recently come and allow them to play football on the Whiten Oval. He just doesn't help refugees but he also helps the community by organising fund raisers and events.

6/9 JB - Today's DEAL lesson was all about getting all our ideas and what we are going to do and show it to the class. Long story short we basically just put all out ideas and what we are going to do with our outreach and put it on paper and get it organised so we are ready for action.

7/9 DM - Yesterday in DEAL, a man from the Western Bulldogs who looked like (their community outreach program) came out to speak to us about how the Western Bulldogs helped the community with their programs and how we can help. We also set up our wiki page for our group, mine is group 16, and we found out who our mentor teacher is, ours is Ms. Williams (Hell Yeah!). Plus, we did some master classes ranging from how we act around people with disabilities to how to organise our group and work in teams.

7/9 CV - During DEAL yesterday, we were lucky enough to have another guest speaker. This guy was from the Western Bulldogs football club. He explained to all of us how the footy club helped out the community with these special types of programs and how we could help. Star reach is also progressing well and is almost ready for action to do what we want to do. We also found out who our mentor teacher is, Ms. Williams (As Dale said, Hell yeah!)

13/9 CV - Today during DEAL we were lucky enough again to watch the movie "Pay it forward". This movie taught us what "Paying it forward" meant. It also taught me how I could pay it forward even if it was the little things and that it would make a difference in the world and in people lives. Next year on April 29th will be the next "Pay it forward" world wide day, on this day people are encouraged to do something to people with expecting any return. For example, someone may pay for someone else's petrol.

20/9 GP- Today in DEAL, our group had some very big revelations, firstly we realized that going to the hospital would take too long, because we had to take the train at 7am in the morning then take two buses or something. So during our group discussion, the teacher gave us the idea to instead of going to the hospital, we go to a Pre-school and work with the kids there. So now all the group has to do is make contact with our chosen pre-school and we set everything up.

20/9 DM - Today we worked on our Outreach projects, mostly finalising the planning, Then we shared our ideas to the year level. We also had some guest speakers from the Acting Justly group for CRC Sydenham. They spoke to us about their experiences in helping the community. Later, we continued to work on our Community Outreach projects and had a chat with our mentor teacher, we had an epiphany and changed our plans from teaching kids musical instruments at the Royal Children’s Hospital, to teaching kindergarten kids how to make homemade instruments using everyday materials.

20/9 CV - Today during DEAL we worked on our outreach projects for most of the time. Our group has now changed our Aim/Purpose from working with the children within the Starlight Foundation at the Royal Children’s Hospital to visiting the Hillside Pre-school and having a good time with the kids there. We plan to go in and make some instruments from day to day objects so in the end we can all play a song and just have a good time. Also some people came in today as guest speakers from CRC Sydenham. They shared with the whole level their experiences with Outreach programs and why they enjoyed it. We learn’t that there can be many varieties to choose from for our Outreach programs.

20/9 JB - Today in Deal all we did was getting ready for our action to our Outreach project. Originally we were going to go to the Royal Children's Hospital and play instruments for the sick kids that are there. We thought about really hard and thought that we might get rejected form them because we are just teens, so we chose another idea and that idea was going to a kindergarten in Hillside that Corey and Dale used to go to. We will go there every second Tuesday to the kindergarten and play games with them and play songs for them. We have used the Royal Children's Hospital plan for our “Plan B” so that if we get rejected by the kindergarten we’ve got another one ready.

11/10 GP- Today in Deal half of the group on the music field trip, so today its only Joshua and me. so, we started off today writing the letter we re going to send to the kindergarten, in my opinion I think the letter came out really well. We also took a look at the actual kindergarten we were going to go and it looks really good.

11/10 JB- Today in DEAL we didn't have much of our group members here today due to the music excursion so me and George had to do as much as we could without Dale and Corey. We need these guys because they know where the kindergarten is and was there kindergarten when they were older. So far we have written our call script to the kindergarten and email to them. So we are waiting for them to reply to us. I hope they get the email soon so we can start going there.

18/10 JB- Today in Deal we have finally made a call to the kindergarten in Hillside and have considered our proposal to there boss of the place which use to be Dale's old kindergarten teacher. Hopefully she remembers him so we could get straight in and help out next week. They seem that they need help so we can go right away. It's very hectic at a kindergarten with all children running around screaming and yelling a helping hand would be very helpful for the teachers there.

18/10 CV - Today in DEAL we made our first phone call/contact with the Hillside Pre-school who we wish to work with. We considered our proposal to the leader of the pre school, it seems that she used to be Dale and I's old Kindergarten teacher which is kind of a bonus because she may give us more of an opportunity to participate in the activities we want to do with the children. They seem like the need help so that is also good because we can get straight to it and make a move right away.

8/11 GP- For the last couple of weeks in deal we have had setbacks left, right and center. Firstly every single pre-school we called, they have either said 'no' or they have never called back again. So we had a discussion with Miss. Williams and she asked us what else we could do, she then told us of last year, when the year nines did a Grandparents day, in which they brought their grandparents to the school and basically showed them off. Our group thought that was a great idea, so that is what e are now doing.

8/11 DM- In DEAL, we have had a few quite major setbacks. We have been rejected on numerous occasions, and this really hurt us. We feel like we aren't good enough, and that we are doing something wrong. But this didn't stop us. We got back on our feet and we are now organising a Grandparents Morning Tea! We have made a flyer and have made a survey to get an estimate of how many grandparents will be attending. We will have Wii consoles, fun activities, and best of all, FOOD!

8/11 CV - Within the last couple of weeks during DEAL there has been many different changes and a lot of frustration going on through our group. Since the kindergartens/Pre-schools won't accept us, we have decided to move towards a different path, once again. The path we have chosen now, which we have 99.9% belief in that will work, is that us as a group will organise a grandparents morning tea within the school. The morning tea will take place within the first 2 periods of our official last DEAL day. We believe that this will be good for the grandparents.

8/11 JB- During DEAL these couple of weeks we have been busily been working hard to get out and start helping kindergartens out, butt just suddenly we have been rejected by a kindergarten so we have know backup plan because that was our backup plan. Thanks to our great Mentor teacher Ms.Williams who has put us back on our feet. She gave us the idea of.......GRANDPARENTS DAY!! We took this idea and using it to a great tool. This will know become our Outreach project and it will be on the 5th of December or 6th of December ( last DEAL day ) seeing what our teachers think of this idea. We will have games like Wii, board games and a lot of food so hopefully fair amount of Grandparents turn up because it will be a great day. SPREAD THE WORD ITS GRANDPARENTS DAY!!!!

15/11 GP- This week, for the first time I actually have belief that we can actually do the Grandparents day. This time i believe that we have the time and the resources to finish and complete the task. We started off today finishing off our competency sheet, we found that it was a great tool in which to gather our ideas and finish tasks we have not already finished. Then we talked to Mrs Elmer about the actual finalizing the grandparents day, which was a huge help, because it helped us understand what we were actually doing.

15/11 JB- Today in Deal we had to get Grandparents Day organised so that its capable of happening on the 5th of December. We started making our letter so that we can send to Year 9 students so their parents can see it and make the parents ask their parents and see if they are able to come. Some students have gone on our survey and said 'no they are not able to come' and type that that they they will bring two when they said that they can't. We try tried to do a formal survey by going around to the students and asking them but got little numbers. This wont affect us in any way and Grandparents will still go ahead.

22/11 CV - Today in DEAL our group constructed a video which was based around our progress throughout this Outreach project. It was basically like a reflection video with our own made up questions and there was no script involved. I constructed the video with an editing program which took about the whole day to do. In the end it was worth the wait because our mentor enjoyed it and it answered many of the questions which she needed to know.