“It has been amazing when the students directed their SVA project demonstrating organized plans and strategies for keeping the school environment clean. Some children decided to pick up rubbish on the way to/from school; others pick up rubbish once a week around school; while other students created messages on posters and video to share at school assemblies.
Having the SVA class kit filled with lots of ideas and guidance was just awesome.”
“Our class felt strongly about cleaning up a stream that many of them pass on the way to and from school. This grew into a stream study and the clean up of the stream that runs through the back of our kura. This has inspired future mahi with plans for planting and rejuvenating in collaboration with community groups in 2020! Thank you School Kit for another awesome learning experience!”
“We used this kit for extending some of our year 1 and 2 students who showed empathy and compassion towards new students entering our space. Being guided through this process they decided that they would like to contribute books to our local early childhood centres and kindergartens. They produced a video asking what questions the preschoolers would like answered before coming to school. Replies were gathered and a book is almost ready to be delivered to the 5 lucky centres around us that replied in the first phase of the project. This kit was great way to include a range of children in our extension programme, highlight our school values and include our contributing community. Although we are still working to get the project completed the children are looking forward to delivering the books and have enjoyed all the components of the kit to show their special status and the importance of the job they have taken on. We will send photos soon.”
“The SVA kit was a catalyst for our work around what we could do to bring our school motto, Non Nobis Solum, Not For Ourselves Aline, to life. We made and sold sherbert and also raffled donated food items raising $505 for the Hastings Food Bank. I know this was not quite the ideal for the kit however it got the boys thinking about what they could do to help those less fortunate than ourselves in our community.”
“A great kit with ideas that we were able to tailor to our inquiry. First time using School Kit and would like to use this again. My apologies for not having photos. We didn't manage a community clean up but had a similiar focus within the school environment and made links to Global Goals. Certainly helped with banding together as a team for our environment.”
“A class of year 3 &;4's set out to create more animal habitats in our local Johnsonville park. Wellington city council was kind enough to provide some plants for us and to educate the class on the importance of our local bush. The kids loved the day and were proud to have specific jobs and of the work they had done. Many said they would return to check on their plants. The only draw back of the kit was that some of the roles were difficult to fulfill with kids of this age.”
“We have really enjoyed using the kit to be visible out in our school community helping with jobs around the school. We really enjoyed using the jackets to show how we are cleaning up the community in preparation for 2020. This kit really brought to life, paying it forward and giving back to others without any visible rewards (apart from the good vibes we got from hearing people complimenting the output of our efforts).”
