-+Stephanie+Ralph

Myname is Stephanie Ralph. Im in year 11 at Rochester Secondary College. My class include VCAL Maths English Studio Arts and VET Community Services.

For my VCAL Workplacement Im working at the Rochester Childcare. Its really fun and everyone is nice there. I go to the childcare every Friday from 9:15 to 3:15. I've been there for 5 weeks now. I have been working in the older area 3 to 5 year olds. All the little children really like me coming in. After I've done half my hours there i will be going over to the younger area 0 to 3 year olds. Im looking forward to that cause they are all pretty well behaved. I help with the cleaning after morning tea and lunch. I do those unsupervised.I also help keep them entertained. Thats fun. I also help get them to sleep. Im pretty good with that, they go to sleep pretty quick.

For my VCAL project Im raising money for the Royal Childrens Hospital. So ive raised a profit of $69.65. We cooked four slices of Banana slice and some chocolate fudge cookies. We sold the banana slice for $1 each and $2 a cookie. Everyone love the cookies the most (cause it had CHOCOLATE in them). For my next project I'm hoping to bake some more stuff. Stuff that is a little cheaper.

Friday 8th May: I made scones at home for the teachers. They like it when i make it for them cause they don't have to get anything. i made about 30 or so small scones. They are a really cheap recipe. I made $15 from them.

Friday 15 May: We went down to see the Crusty Demons, which was Jake and Harry's project. So i didn't cook.

Friday 22nd May: I made some scones banana slice and anzacs for 3 teacher for the staff morning tea. i made them at home on thursday might. I think they liked it. $27

Friday 29th June

Friday 15th june:

Friday 12th June: No school

Friday 19th June: I made pinwheels and a banana slice a the teacher which i made $20 from.

So far I've raised $176.65 for the Royal Children's Hospital

New project idea: Im planning to take the VCAL Class to the rochester child care and remove some prickly trees and make a pile of dirt a garden.Talking with fay at the rochester child care about what she would like done. __**Propsal**__

Our VCAL Class is going to go help out the Rochester Childcare Centre, to get rid of some prickly places, and maybe help fix the stairs cause they are very slippery when wet. We might move a tree and put it in the other garden to make shade in the room if we can but if not we will just tie it back. We will try to get a new arch for the garden; Fay said she would also like a fold out washing line. In the other garden near the window we might plant some drought resistant plants. We went and had a look at the child care and came up with a list of things that we would need and they include: · Tubbing to protect the tree · Wire to hold the tree · Shovels *2 · Crow Bar · Sledge Hammer · Newspaper/ weed mat · Mulch · Star Pickets *2 tall · Rammer · Drought Resistant plants

For our first day we went down to the child care at around 9:30 in the morning and the boys got started straight away. I forgot to tell Mr Frawly to bring a crow bar so he had to go back to school to get one.

Wenesday 2nd September: Kat and Me had to go help out with the priamary school sports. We had a pretty good day it got a bit boring towards the end of the day tho. First we had to go help out with the long jump area first than after a 15min brake we go to help out at the shot put area than lunch. After lunch we had nothing to do but watch the relay races which we didn't have anything to do.

New Project: For my next project Kat and me are working together and are going to have a shoe parade. We have different sections like "who can walk the best in high heels?, Match the shoes to their faces?, and Craziest shoes?" might come up with a couple more. Whose going to judge: Sam Driscoll, Miss Weeks and Mr Altman.

Some of the people in the parade: Alex Mills, Steph Hann, Maddie Gray, Ricky (yr 12), and some maybes Tess (yr 11), Erin, and Raychell. We even got some yr 7s Danica, Victoria, Taryn, Kie and some others. We only have one guy thats going into it. Come on boys get involed.

We will be doing it in the CVCC the 29th. Its going to cost $1 to get in and there will be a main prize for the winners of each catergory and something small for the other contestants. All money raised will go to Sacred Hearts Mission.

Our VCAL class did our RSA, Food handiling and First Aid, but i didn't need to do my first aid as i had already done it for my vet course. It was pretty good fun.

This is so gay having to always write in this. :P

This is Kat and me in the south side bank to give them the money i had raised. We went down there as a VCAL class trip we had to go to Sacred Hearts Mission and to Retro Star. All and all the day was pretty good only two thing that wernt as good was the rain and waiting around. The rain made it wet and cold, and waiting around was boring.

Evaluation: My project was success because i used my skills and the people around me to get my project up and going. My project might have been better if i did other foods and made them more often. Things i did really well is i could talk to other people around me to get help when i needed it most. Things i could of done better is i could of asked me teachers if they wanted to buy stuff. At times i felt like things were going badly whem i first started because i was unorganised. Things i learnt include: how to get organised, how to control money. If i was doing this project again i would work harder to try to make more money for the royal children's hospital. When working with other people I've learnt that its really important to get your facts straight before you try to do something, like i forgot to tell Mr Frawley that we needed a crop bar and he had to go back to school. Five pieces of advice i would give to someone doing a project like mine includes ask people for advice on 1 how to cook(if you cant cook really well), 2 Ask Mrs White and Mrs Watson if you need a helping hand, 3