Throughout the last 2 weeks, we have been working on our PBL project and attempting to make a positive impact in our community. Our original plan was to go and visit the pediatric ward at Christchurch public hospital so we could read them Christmas stories and talk to them about their lives in and around the hospital. So on Tuesday the 21 of November, we bussed over to the hospital arriving at 10:10am. we then asked for directions to the pediatric ward (Wards 21 and 22) so we could read our stories. However, once we arrived in the ward and had been sitting down for hours the playroom manager told us that the nurse we talked to forgot to tell us about some of the steps we would need to take in order to see the children. This nurse then gave us a phone number we had to ring and the person on the other side would walk us through the missing steps.
Last week we attempted to call the number only to be sent straight to answerphone. We then called later in the week with Me being ignored, Amy getting hung up on and Mercedes being the lucky one and getting the information. The woman on the other side of the phone gave us her email address so she could walk us through what we had to do. She only told us that we needed to do police checks, CYPP training and fill out privacy policies papers.
We then talked to our teachers and other classmates to attempt to fix what problems we had come across. We ended up combining with another group who came across the same issues. We have come up with raising money for the Ronald Mcdonald house and make the kids dreamcatchers, Christmas card and gifting them soft toys.
This weekend on Saturday the 2nd of December 2017 Me and 6 others are running a car wash for the community to raise the money. There will also be 2 bins to donate stuff. One for any soft toys like Teddy Bears, and the other for canned food and other non-perishable items.
