What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We raised funds to develop our school community Garden using the plants from the Secret kit and have purchased 4 planters and a community pantry so what we grow can be shared with those in need. We also raised money for 2 Lilliput libraries so we can shar

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? Food Bank Project, Greenspace Project, Project for Those in Need

“S.V.A”

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What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Huge impact- well received from community.

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? Fundraising, Greenspace Project

“All our children loved this kit and were really involved. They loved the fact that they had to do the organising and running of the events.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Increased the importance of green spaces in our community and children seeing where their food has come from.

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

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

“Fantastic Resource with many different opportunities. The scope for different schools and classes is huge.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Due to two lockdowns our project had to be moved to late in the year. Our final event day is the 30th October and we won't know fully until then the final impact. I do know at this stage the fundraising is going really well and therefore the charity the s

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? Fundraising

“I can't fault the resources provided except I would have liked easier directions of links to videos to show students what other primary school aged students are doing individually or as groups to help others. Over lockdown there were great TV news items that showed what New Zealand kids were doing and it would have been great to have easy access to them rather than spend a lot of time searching the internet for them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We tidied, rebuilt and planted an old vegetable patch in the school to promote a garden to table strategy in our community. Learners identified they wanted to help supply and teach others how to grow vegetables to become more sustainable in their lives. T

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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Neutral

Very Successful

What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“This kit enabled our learners to complete a project right from conception to seeing it have success in our school and wider community. Some of the concepts and officer roles were tricky for the younger kids in my class but with lots of teacher support and the role descriptions provided we were able to start building knowledge around this. I know that in future years as the kids grow up they will continue to build on their knowledge with a volunteer focus. Having this kit in our classroom and having the chance to come up with an idea, implement it, work through any issues and responsibilities then see the impact on our families and school has been fantastic for our learners to be a part of!”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Unfortunately due to Covid and lockdown levels we have not yet been able to complete our project. We have done all the planning for it and we are looking at completing our waterway project before the end of the year.

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

Has the SVA kit inspired future volunteering within your class? No

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? Water Based Project

“This was a really cool kit that focused on collaboration. We were really excited to come up with our idea as a class and allocate roles within the class.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The Tamariki had many suggestions of how they could help their community. Our Kura however had already started a collection of cans for our local Salvation Army. So we decided that we could clean up our local park as some of our Tamariki said they had see

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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Neutral

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What type of project did your class undertake? Greenspace Project

“The Tamariki enjoyed getting out of school to help our local community by cleaning up our local playground.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Students fundraised for SPCA by making a lunch time dodgeball tournament where it cost a gold coin or animal food or a blanket for the animals to enter. Students also cleaned the whole school grounds with picking up rubbish as did not want it to end

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, Other

“Students collaboratively worked together to fundraise food, blankets and money for the SPCA. They also did a school clean up, picking up all the rubbish around the school. Initially, they were to do a beach clean up but due to poor weather, they did a school one instead. As I had Year 5 &; 6 students, I feel the job descriptions and ideas were a little difficult for them to get the concept of. I feel if these jobs were simplified slightly (for this year group), there would have been more ownership from the whole platoon. Overall, the students got there in the end, but there needed to be some teacher direction to give them some ideas. This was their first time so I would be interested to see how they would do it again if given another opportunity. There was lots and lots of learning with collaboration, compromise and problem-solving. They did feel very proud of their efforts and I am sure they are keen to volunteer again.”

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Posted 4 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 20 Reviews