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SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 20 Reviews

4.5 Rating 377 Reviews
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Huge impact- well received from community.
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? Yes
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)?
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Fundraising, Greenspace Project
All our children loved this kit and were really involved. They loved the fact that they had to do the organising and running of the events.
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Increased the importance of green spaces in our community and children seeing where their food has come from.
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? No
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)? 5-10
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project
Fantastic Resource with many different opportunities. The scope for different schools and classes is huge.
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Due to two lockdowns our project had to be moved to late in the year. Our final event day is the 30th October and we won't know fully until then the final impact. I do know at this stage the fundraising is going really well and therefore the charity the s
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? Yes
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)?
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Fundraising
I can't fault the resources provided except I would have liked easier directions of links to videos to show students what other primary school aged students are doing individually or as groups to help others. Over lockdown there were great TV news items that showed what New Zealand kids were doing and it would have been great to have easy access to them rather than spend a lot of time searching the internet for them.
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The response from our community was incredible once we sent out newsletters about what was being done. The elderly really appreciated having letters (handwritten letters) which they said provided positive support to them coming out of COVID where things s
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? No
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)?
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project, Other
Another great resource provided by School Kit that opened up great opportunites for community learning and also conversations about giving back. The tamariki had many suggestions of how they could help their community. Our Kura is well supported by our community and so it was awesome to be able to open conversations about giving back. We decided that we would do two things - spend time with elderly, taking them letters and some kai and also making a rongoā garden for our school and community to use. Both projects were big and we divided our class into two for that reason and had two project teams. The rongoā garden will be an ongoing project but it has started really well. We can't wait to have it available for our community. The resources provided were on target and really helped to make the project teams feel like official project teams. The little touches provided to help them identify their roles within the project were also helpful in engaging students and provided a platform for taking ownership of them. Great work!
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Students fundraised for SPCA by making a lunch time dodgeball tournament where it cost a gold coin or animal food or a blanket for the animals to enter. Students also cleaned the whole school grounds with picking up rubbish as did not want it to end
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? No
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)? 10-15
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Fundraising, Other
Students collaboratively worked together to fundraise food, blankets and money for the SPCA. They also did a school clean up, picking up all the rubbish around the school. Initially, they were to do a beach clean up but due to poor weather, they did a school one instead. As I had Year 5 &; 6 students, I feel the job descriptions and ideas were a little difficult for them to get the concept of. I feel if these jobs were simplified slightly (for this year group), there would have been more ownership from the whole platoon. Overall, the students got there in the end, but there needed to be some teacher direction to give them some ideas. This was their first time so I would be interested to see how they would do it again if given another opportunity. There was lots and lots of learning with collaboration, compromise and problem-solving. They did feel very proud of their efforts and I am sure they are keen to volunteer again.
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Unfortunately due to Covid and lockdown levels we have not yet been able to complete our project. We have done all the planning for it and we are looking at completing our waterway project before the end of the year.
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? No
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? No
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)? 5-10
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Water Based Project
This was a really cool kit that focused on collaboration. We were really excited to come up with our idea as a class and allocate roles within the class.
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We tidied, rebuilt and planted an old vegetable patch in the school to promote a garden to table strategy in our community. Learners identified they wanted to help supply and teach others how to grow vegetables to become more sustainable in their lives. T
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? Yes
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)?
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project
This kit enabled our learners to complete a project right from conception to seeing it have success in our school and wider community. Some of the concepts and officer roles were tricky for the younger kids in my class but with lots of teacher support and the role descriptions provided we were able to start building knowledge around this. I know that in future years as the kids grow up they will continue to build on their knowledge with a volunteer focus. Having this kit in our classroom and having the chance to come up with an idea, implement it, work through any issues and responsibilities then see the impact on our families and school has been fantastic for our learners to be a part of!
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Posted 4 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The Tamariki had many suggestions of how they could help their community. Our Kura however had already started a collection of cans for our local Salvation Army. So we decided that we could clean up our local park as some of our Tamariki said they had see
Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? No
Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes
How many hours did your class spend on their project (including the Find, Build, Act and Share stages)? 10-15
How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?
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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project
The Tamariki enjoyed getting out of school to help our local community by cleaning up our local playground.
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Posted 4 years ago