Group17

= //**Kids 4 Kids **// =

Tayla Wardle, Amy Brewer, Stephanie Kljajic, Jake Bertollo and Andreja Stepic

Organisation and Shared Values
Royal Children's Hospital.

- Equality - Family - Trust - Youth

Aim and Purpose:
To give children with a restricted life their youth back, as much as we possibly can and to also brighten up their day, give them a good time and put a smile on their face.

Desired Outcomes:
- To organise weekly trips to the royal children's hospital, bringing along various activities with us which the children can participate. - To overall interact and have fun with the disadvantaged children in various wards. - To give these children a brighter day.

Questions you need to ask and answer:
- Where are we going to get our money from? - How are we going to get there? - Will our group be motivated enough and up to the challenge? - Will the hospital allow us to do this? - What will happen if we cannot use this hopsital? - What hospitals are other options?

Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sZCpqiGskAvHdb6FgC-QseNc1J6qZu0EGd2jbF-coNE/edit?hl=en_US

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16h7TCONC5aSA519tqEydwTRaBptouDiDOxiHJmPW_N0/edit?hl=en_GB

Blog
**J.B 6/9-** Today I was chosen to get my photo taken with four other students for the star newspaper, we also had Chris from the Western Bulldogs General Manager come in as todays guest speaker, I really liked how he cared so much on what our projects are about and what we are doing. I also have to have a interview with a journalist over the phone for some question and answers about DEAL.


 * A.S 6/9 -** Today we are trying to contact companies. We also had a guest speaker come in from the Western Bulldogs and talk to us about helping out in the community.

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After the guest speaker, my group began discussing who we would like to contact and how we would go about funding and making out action plan happen. We decided that we would contact the Royal Children's Hospital, spotlight and maybe even speak to our school about donating art supplies to our project. We then rotated into four teacher groups discussing four topics; **Team work:** - Work with each team members strengths in certain situations. - Compromise. - Discuss and communicate with what each person is thinking about something. - Understand your team members point of view, don't judge them. - Getting everyone on the same page. When people understand what the goal is, they can get on with the tasks that need to be done and not waste time in unnecessary work. **Respectful support:** - Refer to a persons disability only when it is related to what you are talking about. - Don't refer to people in general terms such as ' the girl in the wheel chair.' - When referring to places with accommodation fro people with disabilities, use the term 'accessible' not 'disabled.' - Just because someone has a disability, this does not mean they are 'special' or 'brave.' They are the same as anyone else. - Don't refer to people without disabilities as 'normal' or 'healthy' people. - Call a person with a disability by his or her name. **Emails and letters:** - Introduce yourself. - Get straight to the point. - No slang - keep it formal. - Be courteous. - Explain what you are writing for. - Keep the letter or email short. **Interview and phone call etiquette:** - Dress appropriately. - Speak clearly. - Know what you want to say. - Keep a script. - Introduce yourself - hand shake in an interview. - Keep a proposal ready for what you want to speak about. - In voice mail messages, keep it within 30 seconds long. - Leave a number in voice mail messages.

T.W 6/9 Today in class we were talked to by one of the members of the Western Bulldogs. He gave us a lot of great ideas and he really inspired me. After that, we went into our groups and started discussing our ideas. As a team, we really liked the idea of the Royal Children's Hospital, and decided to pursue that idea alongside with the Starlight foundation. Afterwards, we were put into groups to discuss in detail proper etiquette of interviews, phone calls and emails for future reference.

**A.B 6/9** Today we had a guest speaker who was from the western bulldogs and he spoke about there outreach program and gave us advice on how to start our own outreach program and what we should do to. after the guest speaker my group and i discussed further in to what we were doing and how to go about it. i spoke to my mum about the transport to the royal children's hospital on tuesday of next term and she had agreed to take us.

**A.S 13/9** Today because 2 of our group members are missing, we're going to wait of them to come back to make the calls to the companies.

A.B 13/9 Today we watched pay it forward. the movie really makes you feel that you should help someone else, so they can help someone elese and make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race :) the movie is sad and really makes you think about everything. 1.Outline the Concept for your OUTREACH action – Our group out reach program is to go to the royal children hospital, dress up and play games with the kids. We will visit every tuesday for 8 weeks and we will visit a different ward each week. We decided to do this over 8 weeks so we good build a relationship with the kids and get a fulfilling experience.

2.The Values you will use to guide your action. - The values we are using to guide our action is Youth, Family and friends. By youth we mean making the kids feel like kids and not worry about the reason they in the hospital even if it is just for a few hours.

3.The Group that will be part of the action. - So far it is our group Kids 4 Kids (Andreja. Stepic, Jake. Bertollo, Amy. Brewer and Stephanie. Kljajic)

4.The Research: why are you doing what you are doing? We are doing this because we had a childhood and we feel like these kids deserve a childhood too.

5. The Idea of your Outreach action. We all wanted to do something with kids and we felt that the royal children’s hospital would be a perfect place to reach out and help kids that are really suffering.

6.The Questions that will guide your outreach action - Is there other ways to help? - Can we come back during the holidays and help? - who do we need to talk to achive our out reach action?

7.The Plan for Contact of those you need to work with or speak to with regards to your action. We plan to email the hospital, a volunteer company that already work with the hospital, if we can not email we will call them and ask them what the best way to contact them is.

8.The Contact: How will you do this? We will either email or call depending on the information we find on there website.

S.K 13/9 We began our day by watching some youtube clips of a group of people from around the world forming a band and singing outreach songs for change. These songs really demonstrate how a universal medium such as music can bring people together. We were then asked to work on our blogs and projects. Whilst we would do this, a list of songs which demonstrates or reflects 'outreach' were played. One of the songs was called Plans by Birds of Tokyo. I googled the lyrics and below i have pasted the ones which stood out to me: __//"We made plans to kiss the sun at night,//__ __//Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types,//__ __//One was turning, one was standing still,//__ __//I won't forget what was promised here"//__ Today we have decided to organise proposals for the Royal Children's Hospital and other companies which we would like to ask sponsorship, support or donations from. It has been a little difficult to organise things as not all of our group members are at school today. Hopefully we can make some progress. Throughout periods 3, 4 and part of 5 we watched a movie called 'Pay it forward'. This movie was about a little boy who managed to change the world. Beginning from one simple social studies assignment, one idea and his own motivation he was able to impact many and bring others together. This has inspired me to push this assignment further than I ever expected it to go. I hope my group members feel the same. The 'Paying it forward' movement doesn't just need to be done in groups, we can demonstrate this action every single day in our own time.
 * These lyrics show us that we can plan many things in life for our future. We can plan tomorrow or whats for dinner but there is only one purpose and one plan for each individual in their lifetime.**

T.W 13/9 I didn't come to school today, since I was sick but reading the blog I have been informed on the whole idea of planning for the future, and dreaming big. It looks as if my group is definitely persuing the idea of the RCH and going forward with the idea of sponsorship and donations. Personally, I think we should also be coming up with rebound ideas seeing as there is a high chance of us getting knocked back.

**S.K 18/10** Today we contacted Anglicare and were rejected so we decided to log onto the melton shire council and enquire about any events that we may be able to participate in. We came across the kids Fit Kinder Gym and decided to give them a call as their programs run on a tuesday from 9:30 to 12:30. After a short phone call we were given the confirmation that my group could attend the session the following tuesday for a meeting or 'test run'. Now that our outreach action was planned, we needed to organise permission slips and permission to leave the school premises the following tuesday. We began speaking to teachers and sorting these issues out so that there were no complications stoping us from attending the Kids Fit Kinder Gym next Tuesday.

T.W 18/10 A organisation I was really intrigued by was Anglicare. Since we were knocked back by RCH it gave Kids 4 Kids the opportunity to further discuss the idea and potential of Anglicare. After ringing nearly every Anglicare in the western suburbs, we came to the conclusion that we probably weren't going to be able to do our outreach program there. At that point we were stuck, we really had nothing to fall back on at all. Luckily enough, Steph had logged onto the Melton Shire Council and searched up some events happening near by. We came across a 'Kids Fit Kindergym'. It sounded perfect. As a group we were certain that no matter what we were doing, somehow it'll be revolved around children, and whats better then joining them in the gym! After a short phone call to Debra, one of the members, we were given the confirmation to a trial of the classes, just to see if we enjoyed it.

A.B 20/10 Today we had our interview with our group teacher to ask for help and inform miss.williams were we are up to. we also told the deal class what we are up to and what we plan to do. after little lunch we had a group of students from crc Sydenham come and talk about there outreach and what they do to help out the community. During period 5 and 6 we wrote a transcript on what to say to the royal children’s hospital volunteer ward when we called. we called up and they told us we were to young and to try starlight and see if they could help. My group has decided to research as much as we could and then call starlight and if they nock us back we will go to our back up which is anglicare.

A.B 25/10 I was away the last 2 times we had our deal classes.but so far we have had contact with our outreach program and we went to visit them today. we have decide to volunteer at the kids gym every tuesday morning. We play with kids that were under 5, they are so cute. We played and helped them out and played games with them. We are also thinking about maybe fund-raising or helping out some other way.

A.S 25/10 Today we went over to the kids fitness gym and helped out kid classes. Volunteering was a great idea, because in the end we all had a great time. We helped out the instructor, cleaned up and just got to spend time with the kids. We talked to different kids and got to know them better, as well the mothers that came along with them. When we got back to school we called them back to thank them for having us and asking for us to come back in 2 weeks, they approved. We now are organising to have a Christmas party for the kids at the end of the year.

J.B 25/10 Today we finally got to get outside of school, we were accepted into a kids gym at the Caroline Springs leaser centre. The instructor, Amy was a gorgeous young lady who welcomed us very nicely, she told us just go with the kids and encourage them, make them feel fun and happy, which is exactly what we were trying to do in this project. Over all it was a great day playing with the kids and talking to the mums about our school and teaching them all about this project, the kids were so cute and fun and was a great new experience, I am looking forward in 2 weeks when we get to go back to the class and have some more fun with the kids, so far so good! Peace out, have a nice night.

**S.K 25/10** This morning we came to school ready to officially begin our out reach program action. We had a forms faxed through the day before which would make it legally okay for us to attend the Kids Fit Kinder Gym the next day. We walked over to the leisure centre at 9:30am and stayed until 12:30pm. Basically what we did the entire time was ecourage the children to keep playing, help out the instructor and make new little friends. We had a really great time and an awsome experience. When we came back to school we had discovered that Mr Jilbert had recieved good feedback about our attendence today. This was encouraging and so we decided to call and thank Debra for allowing us to come and ask if we are allowed to attend the session being held in two weeks. We have also decided to hold a christmas party for the children on our last visit of the term. Our plan is to organise a detailed proposal, show it to the kids fit kinder gym, get their okay and then contact the melton shire council asking for funding for this party. This we will work on this next lesson after our visit to the Liesure centre.

T.W 25/10 I came to school very eager for the day ahead. Today we went to the Kids Fit Kindergym for the first time. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I went there with an open mind. Everyone at the Kinder Gym was so nice and the instructor, Amy was very welcoming, along with the parents. It was a really great experience for us. It was such a great way to complete our outreach, not only were we having fun, but we were giving back to the community. All of the parents had nice things to say, and there really was no negative vibes from anyone. After thanking Amy, we planned to come back in two weeks, since Melbourne Cup was the next week.

**S.K 8/11** Today we went along to our second outreach excursion. Basically we just helped out the instructor and played with the little children, assisting parents who had more than one child to look after. When we came back to school we decided that we would need to start trying to figure out ways to fundraise, although myself and another group member were unable to be apart of deal for the rest of the day due to other school commitments.

T.W 8/11 Today we went back to the Kinder Gym for our second session. It was a lot of fun. After awhile it gets boring though, since its three sessions of the same activities, but each session is completely different because all the children in each group are soo different, and they all have such strong personalities. Once we came back, Steph and I had to practise for Drama so we didn't continue any more work.

J.B 8/11 What a day! Very tiring but it was very enjoyable, I love going to the kids gym and playing with the kids, I have realised we have already built some friendly relationships with some kids, my favourite kid who really enjoys me is named Kahlem. We have many good conversations with the parents and Amy the instructor, Amy the instructor loves having us there to help her out and save her some energy running around with all these little kids. Really enjoying it at the moment! Peace out, have a nice night.

A.B 8/11 I had an amazing day today we went to the kids for kinder gym for the second time. We played with the kids and now we are thinking about getting them something from money we want to fundraise. We talked to the instructor and she said she would love that, she would also like if we get little plastic balls and give one to each child has a christmas gift or as a goodbye present from us. we were hopping to do all this by the end of next week.

**S.K 15/11** Today we attended our third outreach excursion. As our previous sessions, we basically did the same things such as helping out the instructor and parents. When we got back to school we had a meeting with our mentor teacher and discussed whether there was enough time to fundraise for the Kids Fit Kinder Gym at this point. We planned on asking each year 9 student to donate $2 towards our fundraising although unfortunately this never worked out as the announcement was not properly organised. Hopefully next week we will be able to come up with another solution.

T.W 15/11 Today, we had our third session. It was pretty much the same thing again but with differenet activities. The most annoying thing is coming back to school with those stupid songs stuck in your head. When we got back to school we were trying to come up with some kind of idea to raise money for a gift for Amy and/or the Kinder Gym. We asked the Year 9 students to donate $2 towards the gift, hopefully we see some form of funds.

A.B 15/11 Today we went to the kinder gym again it was the forth time and the second last time. We are working on the idea of getting them a present for the last week we are there just of a way of saying goodbye and thanks for having us there. We are also working on finishing our blogs and making sure we had everything sorted out for or final project assessment.

A.S 22/11 Today we went to the kinder gym again for the last time. We played different activities with the children and had a lot of fun, although it was very tiring. Our overall time at the kinder gym was very interesting, and taught us how to look after and play with children. We loved interacting with the children and helping out Amy whenever she need. We are now waiting for a interview with our teachers so they can assess us, and are finishing off our blogs.

T.W 22/11 Today we had our final session at the Kinder Gym. It was really sad to say goodbye to all the kids after building relationships with them. My favorite was a little boy called Jacob, when I said bye, he had tears in his eyes, I nearly cried as well. I will definitely miss him. This outreach program has taught me a lot, and has enabled me to build relationships with people that I would have never met without it.

**SK 22/11** Today we went on our final outreach action to the kids fit kinder gym. It was really fun as again we were able to participate in many different activities with the children, helping out the instructor, Amy, and talking to the parents about our school and why we are participating in an outreach program. It was sad to say goodbye at the end but we learn't many skills such as how to interact with children, although it was tiring at times. Now we are simply writting our last blogs and preparing for our final interview with out mentor teachers.