What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Many students have built a permanent connection with local kindergartens, volunteering their time. We have a few new ongoing sports offered to our juniors during lunch time.

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)?

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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project, Other , Project for Those in Need

“This school kit enabled deep conceptually based discussions. Students were able to apply a variety of skills that endorsed a community minded project. I would recommend applying for this kit anytime your unit of inquiry had a core service focus.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Students repotted 116 plants and harvested kowhai seeds at a local native plant nursery. They also learned a lot about the importance of nurturing native plants in New Zealand. The outcome was two fold as while they were giving, they also gained knowledge

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

“The student volunteer army kit is always engaging for learners and is an amazing opportunity to 'give back' to our community. To connect with our learning focus, students volunteered at a local pant nursery where they worked to harvest kowhai seeds and to repot some flax. Having the Student Army structure really engaged the students making it their impact, not just teacher driven. Having the wrist bands and badges really pulls the students into the experience.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? One of our school's focus this year was to improve the wellbeing of students. By providing opportunities for students to volunteer and help others in need, it has built confidence in the volunteers and improved the wellbeing of those who received help. Ch

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? Project for Those in Need

“Glendowie Primary School Kit Review The kit was very well organised and designed. The children in my class loved wearing the badges and they took the roles seriously. Conveniently, the school kit connected very well with our current learning topic about investigating how people give service in our community. We took ideas from your plan and combined it with our required learning programme. We designed our own charitable organization and provided service within our school. We discussed the planning side of running a charity and used this as an inquiry-based learning opportunity. We really enjoyed using your resources, thank you so much. Keep up the amazing work!”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? This kit was passed on to a colleague who leads student council. She has sent feedback about the SVA kit through her email sallyr@freemansbay.school.nz

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

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

“This kit was passed on to a colleague who leads student council. She has sent feedback about the SVA kit through her email sallyr@freemansbay.school.nz”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We were targeting children of a nearly community, items were donated to support those children for gifts to be given for Christmas. We believe the recipients will be very happy. If possible we would have been in closer contact with the organiser to assist

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

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? Project for Those in Need

“Due to being in two lockdown's this year we were unable to fulfil the actual project requirements, however we did spend time creating the idea for our volunteer army and managed to carry out some of the tasks we designed. We discussed people in need and then once lockdown hit and we were exposed to the loss of income for some areas of our community we decided we would devise a way in which to support those families and in particular children of. This lined up with a local teacher creating Christmas packs for underprivileged children who would now face an uncertain Christmas. The students in my class were extremely concerned for these children and spoke to their families about how best we could support them. Our future focus would be to carry out this initiative to the end result and deliver created packs ourselves to the distribution organiser.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Cleaning up our parks and keeping the waterways clean. It allowed us to work together as team and also to notice

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

“A great kit as it has all the resources needed for this venture to be successful. The materials engaged the class and mad ethem really keen to participate.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Students fundraised within the school to raise money to purchase presents for a local Christmas present drive. They came up withtheir own fund raising ideas, wrote letters to the principal and carried out the fundraiser. They will now buy, wrap and donate

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? Project for Those in Need

“We haven't quite finished yet as my students to buy Christmas Presents for a local Christmas Present Drive but the kit has been fantastic so far. It has really worked in with one of our school values of manaakitanga. Students have been so excited being able to take full control on what they want to do to make a difference to someone else. They were able to come up with completely unrealistic ideas and then consider if it would be possible to make it work or not. I've loved seeing the empathy, teamwork and problem solving my students have shown using this kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Children fundraised $327.50 for Cystic Fibrosis, they raised awareness and brought the whole school together for a fun activity. Feedback within our school community was very positive and full of praise for the children's organisational skills.

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

How successful was this kit in developing your students' project management skills (problem solving, collaboration etc)?

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Neutral

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What type of project did your class undertake? Fundraising

“My class really enjoyed participating in SVA kit, it brought about lots of discussions of people/groups in our community and further afield. Tamariki at our school are always supported to lead fundraisers or promote a cause that they feel passionate about so the SVA kit fitted in well. It also encompassed our school values and the children loved identifying areas of strength they had not previously identified. By the process of elimination children decided we would fundraise for Cystic Fibrosis by having a sausage sizzle lunch day and run a Ninja warrior course for the whole school. Cystic Fibrosis is a cause that two children are very passionate about in our class and it was fantastic to see their peers support this as well. Initially we were asking for a gold coin donation but children decided it was about raising awareness and having fun. The event was a huge success, all children participated and the feedback we received from other classes and teachers is to make it an annual event.”

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Posted 4 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 20 Reviews