What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The passion project was to make a difference in our school. The children came up with school gardens and fruit trees which then progressed to constructing a green house with recycled materials. We have written persuasive texts to businesses for donations

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? Other

“Overall a good kit as to where to start with my class and how I could connect a unit of teaching with our big idea in our syndicate. My approach was to get students to be more involved in our school and hopefully see the children volunteer in their community. The aim was to allow the students to see another view of how we can make a difference and how this could benefit our people of our town.”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Community feedback is still pending

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

“The SVA kits the we received at Waitara Central School were packed full of information. The students really liked how they had control over what we were going to do as a Student army going into the community to help in areas that were in need of some attention. It gave them a sense of pride knowing that they were doing something for other people and were making a difference”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The green garden space is now cleaned up and being used by classes in the Junior School and other groups who have empower projects base around growing and plants.

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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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“The kids enjoyed the elements of the kit and it helped us to organise the roles, though not all applied to our particular community project. The armbands and badges made them feel like a real team.”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Students worked with the local foodbank, organised a fundraiser to raise money for the foodbank.

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

“Fantastic resources, really helped our learners collaborate with others and assisted those that struggled to come up with an idea for project based learning resources to get them started.”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Has not been undertaken yet.

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)? 0-5

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? Greenspace Project

“Due to Covid we have had to delay our project and are hoping to do it in Term 1 2022.”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We are now involved in the project for the rest 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)? 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? Greenspace Project

“Was a great resource to lead our little people through the process.”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Still not complete... we are having a showcase to present our projects to whanau and community week 6 term 4

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)? 10-15

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

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Neutral

Very Successful

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

“Some really good ideas, such as different roles that students can take on when embarking projects. Also some great examples of different schools' projects.”

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Posted 3 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? It has been difficult to arrange trips to the places we wanted to impact in term 3 and 4 due to tschool policy on trips in Term 2. Instead we brought in Forest and Bird and worked in our school grounds, but with a view to improving a publiclly accessible

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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Neutral

Very Successful

What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“Forests and re-foresting/re-wilding/gardening”

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Posted 3 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 21 Reviews