What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We are yet to do the final part of our project but I know the students will be able to provide fundraising to their chosen charity, which is their goal. They have done a lot of planning and organisation so I know this will be successful.

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

“I have been lucky enough to receive the SVA kit as a teacher over three years. It is always motivating, engaging and a real treat for students. The kit is full of interactive tools for the students to use, and they are really enthusiastic because of this. The planning sheets, badges and bracelets are all fantastic. These help students to develop their own ideas and keep going with the project.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Great impact - class organised a local planting exercise.

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)? 0-5

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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“Great kit - children loved the badges”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We raised money and collected pet food donations with a mufti day for the SPCA - they were very appreciative

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? Fundraising

“Penny Cutler”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Covid meant we stayed at school

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? Other

“The children wrote and delivered encouraging notes And art to all classes and staff to encourage them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Our target community was both the school community and the local community. We combined 'Keep NZ Beautiful week' with our SVA as one aspect of our 'Green Space' project was to clean up our local park and make our School green space beautiful. The students

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

“My class at RBS thoroughly enjoyed this experience. The background research of the CHCH earthquakes was very interesting for the students. Their parents and older siblings had experienced them, but my students were not even born. This gave the class an understanding of an SVA and how it could relate to their own little army. They couldn't wait to share their involvement with their parents at our Student learning Conferences. It was rewarding to hear them talk about the activity and how proud they were of them selves.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We recreated a school garden with the hope of giving some food back to our school community (once it is more established). We have also been volunteering in our local community with gardening projects such as planting fruit trees in our local shopping are

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

“This was a great pack that my class enjoyed using. The instructions were very easy to follow and the class enjoyed doing each step. We couldn't fully do our greenspace program as in-depth as we would have liked due to covid-19 restrictions but we did our best.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The children built plant boxes then decorated and planted them out with vegetables and flowers. They also created some art for their rooms and wrote letters to the residents. The resident's of The Wood were delighted with their goodies and the smiles 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)?

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, Staying in Touch from Afar

“Room 15 at Clifton Terrace School, Nelson had an awesome time working on their Student Volunteer Army project. Pre-Covid19 the classes have had visits to The Wood Retirement Village in Nelson city. But of course that all came to an end with the onset of Covid.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Due to COVID, we have had to rethink our plans and we are now collecting items for families for Christmas, we will collect food, small gifts, treats etc. These will be distributed to the local community.

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? Food Bank Project, Fundraising

“We loved looking at the local community and how we could volunteer, we decided we would help the local food bank and we would hold a bake sale and collect items for the food bank.”

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Posted 4 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 20 Reviews