What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We were targeting children of a nearly community, items were donated to support those children for gifts to be given for Christmas. We believe the recipients will be very happy. If possible we would have been in closer contact with the organiser to assist

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? Project for Those in Need

“Due to being in two lockdown's this year we were unable to fulfil the actual project requirements, however we did spend time creating the idea for our volunteer army and managed to carry out some of the tasks we designed. We discussed people in need and then once lockdown hit and we were exposed to the loss of income for some areas of our community we decided we would devise a way in which to support those families and in particular children of. This lined up with a local teacher creating Christmas packs for underprivileged children who would now face an uncertain Christmas. The students in my class were extremely concerned for these children and spoke to their families about how best we could support them. Our future focus would be to carry out this initiative to the end result and deliver created packs ourselves to the distribution organiser.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The impact is only partly underway as we created bookmarks to spread kindness and placed them inside favourite library books in the school library. Children will receive a surprise gift of a bookmark when they loan the book. Children quite liked the idea

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? Other

“Due to students needs I adjusted this kit a bit. As the end of year timetable started to change and teachers were released for testing students anxiety began to rise and therefore their ability to collaborate as effectively as they would normally would was somewhat diminished. Although this made collaborating a little bit challenging it also reinforced the purpose of our sharing kindness to make a person feel good (wellbeing / hauoura). For some children it was challenging to grasp the concept of creating a bookmark with a kind message to make someone feel good and who that someone was or when they would receive it was not under their control. A really good way to do something for altruistic reasons - just to be kind and make others feel good. We hope you do another SVA kit next year as we love sharing kindness - filling others buckets also fills our own buckets!”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We didn't get to spend as much time on this kit as we wanted. We would like to schedule a community project each year for our students to be involved in.

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

“This was a great kit to get the students thinking about others and how they could be helpful in the community.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? An awareness of the need to keep our estuaries and areas litter and waste free.

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? Water Based Project

“It linked with our Inquiry into the local environment, in particular Estuaries. We were learning about how important estuaries have been in the past and now, providing food and shelter and how they are damaged by rubbish and pollution”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We went out into the community and learnt how to politely talk to strangers and inform them of who we were collecting for. The children gained confidence and were seen as ambassadors for our school and the Blind Foundation. They were very popular with the

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)?

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What type of project did your class undertake? Fundraising

“This was a great kit with lots of resources. It took us 3 terms to finish due to covid but the students interest was maintained throughout. Teaching Y2 the topic choice was teacher led and we chose to support the Guide Dogs as the class love animals. There was opportunity to learn about a variety of assist dogs during lockdown and then we managed to have a Saturday morning collecting for the Blind and Low Vision Foundation. Our April project of making Guide Dog cookies didn't happen until November but the skills learnt from making, decorating, marketing, selling, working out finances and learning about team roles was so hands on and relevant to our class learning.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? I'm hoping it will be ongoing. Weather hampered us in our efforts to get to our waterways, but the desire to maintain healthy waterways for the enjoyment of others and create events to get community involved was real. The nature of this year has made it h

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? Water Based Project

“This kit could be an entire terms inquiry or a smaller scale project depending on how you want to use it. It promotes student agency and leadership, as well as collaboration. My students felt empowered to take action. We will definitely use this again and again. It can be linked in with other kits. We did the Healthy Waterways Kit also which, in the future, I would combine with this.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Making connections and building relationships.

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, Other

“The student volunteer army school kit was a perfect kit to grow leadership in our students in my class. When I registered for this kit I was all excited as I could see the skills and experience it would provide for my class. However, as we went into lock down I had put it to one side. Nevertheless, I was quite determined to continue with it as I believed it was a wonderful kit. As a class we wanted to reach out to the elderly in our community but with COVID, this idea was not possible to pursue so we decided to do something for our junior team at school. With the year coming to a close we looked at how we could encourage a smoother transition for students from the juniors into the middle school. We decided to work across the team and group our ideas. We had some groups focusing on different activities such as board games, gardening, reading, sharing games, digital learning, science experiments. The biggest and most rewarding part was seeing how students took on the different roles and worked in collaboration. This developed leadership and gave students ownership and an opportunity of giving service to others. With the hands on approach and involvement, and working with our juniors teaching them a skill and getting to know them was rewarding for everyone. Alongside my class sharing their activities with the juniors, I also had a smaller group who focused on a school wide project ";Cans for Christmas"; and raised 336 cans throughout the school to donate these to St Vincent de Paul. This would be a kit that I wouldn't mind doing again as I could see how involved the students were. Thank you school kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? The juniors had an opportunity to work with a different class. They were challenged by the middle class with lots of predictions and questions. The juniors had a chance to work in a different space and learn how to make friends.

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? Other

“First of all,I would like to apologise for the delayed process of completing the SVA project. We planned to visit the old age home for part of our voluntarily project but it did not work. We called the old age home and did not allow us to visit them because of the Pandemic. Due to the short time, we decided to work with the junior team Year 0-2 and worked on collaborating and teaching them how to play some games, science experiments, buddy reading, making cards, learning shortcuts on chrome books, drawing etc. The juniors came in and spent the last block with us. Our students has been preparing all the items to teach the juniors. They made their own instructions, games and have practiced delivering it among their friends. Itv was a great opportunity to show leadership and making new friends. Some students got really confident when they had to speak up and show and explain on what to do. Great skills and thank you for giving us the opportunity.”

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Posted 4 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 20 Reviews