“This was a really memorable part of our year. The kids voted on providing a meal for those in need and tapped into a really great initiative that was already set up in our community at the Linden Social Centre, their Kai Kitchen. Students made a meal, set tables, made placemats and table decorations, put together a music performance for background ambiance while people ate, and served about 40 members of their community lunch for that day. The kit provided a structure which enabled the day to run smoothly and provided students with important roles which utilised their strengths. The kids enjoyed their day and took away some really important messages.”
“This was a great kit. As we are not near a sea, we went and completed their service at the hawarden domain. They picked up rubbish and sorted it for recycling. Also filled in the holes in the ground after a horse event. Sorry we had a photographer appointed and they accidentally lost all the photos. Next time we will be aware. Thank you so much for supplying the kit.”
“Our Year 7 students enjoyed planning and putting into action their plans to help enhance our school and local community. They collaboratively picked up litter, weeded and the mulched the grounds and gardens in and around our school with the help of the local council and parents. Thanks Schoolkit for another awesome project!”
“AWESOME School Kit - you have done it again! What an incredible journey. Students walked to the local shops, completed a scavenger hunt, had fish and chips on the beach, a beach clean up and lastly met with D.O.C. to discuss ways that we could help the community. After brainstorming and creating a collaborative google map they decided that a weta hotel could help - so this is what we did! Students researched types of hotels/ contacted the local kindergarten/ D.O.C..... so much learning took place during this process. It was great to see students working on a collaborative task that could make a difference to their environment. Students created a brochure for The Department of Conservation, gifted weta hotels to the Kindergarten, Deep Creek Reserve, Awakau Wetland and our school. Students also put tracking tunnels down at school, to see what was coming into our area and possum monitors. This week students will be presenting their information to the school. Thanks heaps!”
“This was an awesome way of making the students aware of the little blue fish around our city and why they are needed and to then personalise their neighbourhoods by putting one on their own street,”
“The community guardians kit was so cool! There were lots of fabulous resources that helped me to monitor a class volunteer project. As part of this unit, my class teamed up with Te Arawa (local iwi) and undertook a volunteer monitoring programme to help to reduce the number of Catfish in our local waterways. It was great to bebi soored by school kit to get out and into the community- and even greater to help raise awareness within my class of an important environmental issue that was highly relevant to them. We even got on 7sharp! I'm looking forward to reusing some of the resources in the kit again next year. Thanks schoolkit!”
“The kit was good. It has the appropriate equipment and tools to engage the students in our gardening project. It was really good that it had a variety of roles that kids could choose from. Overall I would recommend this kit to anyone who is doing some sort of project in their own school or community.”
“I have a couple of Äkonga in my class who are really community-minded, and they entered this project with vigour and enthusiasm that was catching! We decided to tackle the issue of rubbish getting into our school drains, and into our community drains. It lead to some amazing discussion about the perils of pollution in our waterways. We looked at ways to prevent litter entering the drains, but it became apparent pretty quickly that we needed to educate our kura and community. A really worthwhile learning programme.”
