What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Due to our school move it has helped our school's need. The students identified what was needed in our community and school. The students were involved and got the parents to involve our inquiry and helped out with moving, planting and also the sandpit cr

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)?

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What type of project did your class undertake? Other

“I really enjoyed SVA kit, I wish there was more time for the students to finish. However for the scaffolding the sequence of what kind of inquiry will benefit our community the students were heavily involved.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Project the kids decided on was to look after our community by cleaning rubbish and looking after/planting gardens.

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

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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“Students were engaged and wanted to help others.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We made very crafty Christmas cards and wrote long stories for our local retirement village. We had heard that there are many lonely elderly people there and we wanted to bring some joy. Each card is a piece of Art and the stories are full of experiences

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

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What type of project did your class undertake? Staying in Touch from Afar

“This kit is great. The planning resource is very valuable. Unfortunately, I had to do a watered down version during term 4 as we had too many other things on. I will keep using this resource and do it again next year properly. This is such an important topic.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We managed to raise money for charity

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

“Loved how easy the kit was to use. Beautifully presented. Gave the tamariki real guidance to take the opportunity to explore what the needs were in our local community and build on those.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We head to our local reserve where the volunteers organise jobs for the group. All senior classes go, do there are almost 200 volunteers! We mulch, weed, repair and make connections.

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

“This is always a fantastic kit, the students love to have specific roles and duties for our trip to the local reserve. We are currently in the planning stage but I love how, through conversation, students find their strengths and those that others see in them.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We were able to help support our 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)?

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

“SVA Kit 2022”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We have not completed our reflections yet. Still going till the end of year.

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? Project for Those in Need

“Love this! Such a cool NZ story that shows our kids how their actions can really make a difference in the world!”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? There is a community organisation that helps people in need during difficult times. Our students helping them has made them feel part of something much bigger.

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? Project for Those in Need

“Unfortunately for reasons outside of our control we were not able to complete the kit as initially intended but what we were able to do was fantastic. Because we loop our classes for 2 years 50% of my students will be able to complete the project that we have started next year. There has been a fantastic buzz of very enthusiastic students in our class.”

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Posted 2 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 22 Reviews