“We had a great time with our SVA kit focusing on cleaning up our own school community. The children led litter free days in each area of the school and then worked on getting a free mufti day for each team. Another whanau group painted all our drains with awesome pictures so we have done a focus on keeping the drains clear of litter too.The students have loved spotting these around the school and it has stimulated discussion about how else we can help our community and world. Our Catholic school focus has been to be Kaitiaki and Stewards of God's amazing world. I think we will use this kit again next year as it will fit with our whole school focus for next year too. Our timeline was a bit out due to staff leave but we got there just over the time frame, sorry about that School Kit!! Thanks for another great kit, lots of ideas to continue to use in the classroom and community.”
“Always enjoy this unit as it brings the children of the island together for a purpose. It was a wet and windy day on the island but we managed to clean up one of our local beaches with the help of community and DOC”
“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.”
“A great kit that enabled us to introduce the concept of Kaitiaki (Guardianship) to our year0-2 students. We have planned a school clean up that will expand to include our local Awa which we visit regularly. next year our Inquiry focus across the year will be Kaitiaki and will will continue to use this great resource to enhance our students’ learning.”
“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).”
“Wonderful kit and a great subject. Unfortunately, we have run out of time to complete it this year due to camps and an early finish date, but have planned to continue this next year with the same group of students. The students and community have appreciated seeing what we can do to make a difference.”
“Our class community project had an environmental focus. We started off by brainstorming what we already knew about the environment and the problems that it is facing. After that, we did some learning around pollution and climate change by looking at the causes and the consequences. Then we asked ourselves what we could do to make a difference. We used the SVA pack to guide us to come up with some ideas on how we could make a positive difference by working together. Some of the ideas we came up with and implemented were working together to clean up our school. Running a campaign to persuade others to reduce, reuse, and recycle and creating pots out of recycled material and giving plants to others. Through this process the students learnt how to work collectively for a good cause and understand the importance of caring for our environment.”
“In term 3, all classes in the Senior School at Point View School ran their own stalls at a Market Day to raise money for their chosen charity. Charities included Red Cross, DOC, Make a Wish, SPCA, and the Wetlands Trust. Students worked in small groups to plan their ideas, we had so much fun.
Three of the classes also applied our SVA roles to carry out a Wetland Restoration project at our local mountain. A day of fun tree planting where our flag and platoon leader jackets could be seen from afar.
We had so much fun and so many opportunities created from this kit. Thank you.”
