What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Our class came up with and investigated a list of charities they would like to support. This worked well as some families had favoured charities that they were happy to help. They then made up packages with money/items to donate depending on charity. This

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

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What type of project did your class undertake? Food Bank Project, Project for Those in Need

“Loved having all the tools I needed to help me focus on how to set up SVA activities.”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Giving pet food / blankets to local animal shelters. Cleaner beaches for local beaches. Community grateful for food parcels they received.

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? Food Bank Project, Other , Project for Those in Need, Staying in Touch from Afar

“Great box to get students thinking of the wider community. Each of my students chose their own project and created presentations to show all of their findings.”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Our volunteering project has helped in practical ways (30 kids spending 90 minutes working) but also helped raise the awareness of the local nursery that is working to maintain and improve water quality along our local river/farm land.

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)? 10-15

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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“We love this kit! Every year we have used this to support our student volunteer work. We find the students look forward to it and having a chance to give back to the community.”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Helping with growing and gardening projects at homes and for families

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? Staying in Touch from Afar

“Very interactive. Lot's of ideas generated”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Our Retirement Village is part of our community and we loved being able to keep in touch, show them we care and being able to make a difference in their mental well-being.

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)? 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? Staying in Touch from Afar

“We at Reremoana love the SVA school kit. It was our second time participating and in many ways it helps with the process of checking in with student agency. It was great to be able to make a difference in the lives of others :)”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Community can help themselves to fruits when they are ripe in the future! Our community are very excited!

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)? 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

“It’s was great to benefit our school community. We planted fruit trees that will provide our children with fruit in the future. We are now looking at planting veggies.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? It was hard to reach out to the community during this time as Covid - 19 had interrupted a lot of what we had planned to do.

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

“This is a great project to run. I wish it could have been a better year and that children would have gotten more out of it. They loved creating and being able to work in teams to a common goal.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Amazing our students all particpated and learnt the value of many hands and open hearts.

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? Food Bank Project, Fundraising, Project for Those in Need

“This was an amazing kit- our theme for term 3 was ";connected"; the students chose four events all with a 'green' theme' AND GIVING BACK TO OUR WIDER COMMUNITY,OUR PARISH,OUR WHANAU AND OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY. We cleaned up Sumner beach( here in Christchurch) the Year 8 students have made reusable bags at Fabrics Technology- which are being gifted to our elderly parishoners, they held a mufti day, bring a coin and a can, and 3 fridays of non perishable food items which we then distributed the food to 38 families at our school, the last one is Enchantment Under the Sea, a themed disco for the whole school. Because of Covid levels this has had to be postponed until Term 4. The money raised on the mufti day pays for the sausage sizzle,sweets and glow sticks. We have photographs of all of our events which we will post after the disco on SchoolKit facebook page.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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