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SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 22 Reviews

4.4 Rating 170 Reviews
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Random acts of kindness were successful. At this time of the year refocused students to think of others.
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
Student Volunteer Army
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Great - we collected resources to give both the Foodbank and SPCA
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? Project for Those in Need
We have used the SVA 2022 this term and the students have really enjoyed it. We followed the process but for our project some of the jobs didnt really come into play so some kids were a bit disappointed with that (eg finance officer and caterer). It would have been great to some how have the badges with editable jobs as the kids loved the badges. They also loved the wristbands but wanted to know why they were 2021 not 2022! They did love our project of creating sustainable Christmas bags and boxes that we gave away in exchange for donations for the Foodbank or SPCA.
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Food for the community food bank and funds to add to the school's adventure playground.
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)? 5-10
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What type of project did your class undertake? Food Bank Project, Fundraising
Love this kit. Time constraints with camp, social dance, fun days, showcase days and a short term made it tricky to use in it's entirety. We focused on working together as a team and using our strengths for assigning roles. Together we all chipped in to help organise and support volunteer programmes around the school that help our community.
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? As an IB/PYP school our students are often encouraged and subsiquently involved in community projects. For the Year 8s, this is a big part of their summative task. The kit was used to inspire action and to offer suggestions on how to organise themselves
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)? 5-10
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What type of project did your class undertake? Other
SVA Schools Volunteer Kit.
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Create awareness of where wastewater and drains are in local area and how our water eats are impacted.
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)? 5-10
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What type of project did your class undertake? Water Based Project
Sparked student curiosity and call to action.
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Due to our school move it has helped our school's need. The students identified what was needed in our community and school. The students were involved and got the parents to involve our inquiry and helped out with moving, planting and also the sandpit cr
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? Other
I really enjoyed SVA kit, I wish there was more time for the students to finish. However for the scaffolding the sequence of what kind of inquiry will benefit our community the students were heavily involved.
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Project the kids decided on was to look after our community by cleaning rubbish and looking after/planting gardens.
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
Students were engaged and wanted to help others.
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Posted 2 years ago
What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We made very crafty Christmas cards and wrote long stories for our local retirement village. We had heard that there are many lonely elderly people there and we wanted to bring some joy. Each card is a piece of Art and the stories are full of experiences
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)? 5-10
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What type of project did your class undertake? Staying in Touch from Afar
This kit is great. The planning resource is very valuable. Unfortunately, I had to do a watered down version during term 4 as we had too many other things on. I will keep using this resource and do it again next year properly. This is such an important topic.
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Posted 2 years ago