What was the community impact of your volunteering project? More bees visiting our school garden.

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

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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“Great kit to support community action. We are growing a garden to support bees.”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Stimulate the residence in the Dementia Ward.

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? Staying in Touch from Afar

“Letters from afar”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Residences from Puriri Ward at the Switzer Residential Care, are in the Dementia Ward in Kaitaia. They enjoyed the letters and stories that the students wrote to them. This is an on-going project as they have a post box that a number of residence check a

Did your class take part in volunteering before the SVA Kit? No

Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? Yes

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

“Letters from afar We had a number of project be affected by the covid-19 levels. Visiting the residence of the Kaitaia Rest Home with special morning tea and singing waiata, and volunteering at the food bank and distributing free lightbulbs with the Salvation Army. We made contact with the Rest Home to see what we could do and a nurse in the Dementia Ward wanted students to write to the residence, as they had a post box with never anything in it. The student wrote personalized letters to the residence and included one of their favorite stories each week. Our class wrote about their camp and how they learnt to surf, they enjoyed writing to them and understood that they would not get a reply to their letters- Dementia researched. The residence looked forward to the letters being read to them and the students stories were well received. Unfortunately, no photos or videos were permitted of the residence listening to the students letters. We will continue to write letters for their post box.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Our target project was to increase our usage of green bins and recyclable waste in our class and throughout our school. We have definitely seen and increase of this in our class and a lot more ownership and awareness around this!

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

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What type of project did your class undertake? Other

“While this was an awesome resource, due to the age and stage of my class we weren’t able to really benefit fully from the learning around volunteering that came with it! However, it was an awesome way to encourage collaboration and problem solving with my own adaptation and mini project within our school and class community.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We kept our project in school due to the age of our children. We have a really messy school at times so we looked at how we could clean up our school. The children made posters and we went on EMU walks.

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

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What type of project did your class undertake? Other

“As year ones we found it hard to come up with a project that we could do. We also had a lot of other stuff going on so probably didb't give this topic everything.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Outcome of each groups inquiry: Group 1 - Provided 3 boxes of DVD's or Audio Books to Rainbow Place (Hospice for Children) in Hamilton Group 2 - Provided 10 Shoeboxes of presents to the Ngāruawahia Shoebox Appeal Group 3 - Provided 264 'Thinking of You

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)?

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

“This resource aligned perfectly with our term's 3 &; 4 inquiries (Mission &; Service). The resource inspired our class of 30 to undertake 5 different projects -”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The volunteering was part of a larger project to plant sand dunes in our local (relatively) area. After reading stories about the damage that occurs to dunes, and research the students found that an organization already exists that does this. We joined th

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

“The kit provided a good outline for teachers to follow, to enable students to take ownership of a volunteer project in the community”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We raised a LOT of money for the Cancer Society. Our local office of the Cancer Society have been very impressed with the accountability and actions of my students and their ability to give of themselves to others.

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)?

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What type of project did your class undertake? Fundraising

“This has been such a great resource! My class this year has a huge capacity to give and feel empathy and compassion to others. It was a great fit!”

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Posted 4 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 20 Reviews