What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We were able to help support our school.

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)?

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

“SVA Kit 2022”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? We have not completed our reflections yet. Still going till the end of year.

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? Project for Those in Need

“Love this! Such a cool NZ story that shows our kids how their actions can really make a difference in the world!”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? There is a community organisation that helps people in need during difficult times. Our students helping them has made them feel part of something much bigger.

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

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? Project for Those in Need

“Unfortunately for reasons outside of our control we were not able to complete the kit as initially intended but what we were able to do was fantastic. Because we loop our classes for 2 years 50% of my students will be able to complete the project that we have started next year. There has been a fantastic buzz of very enthusiastic students in our class.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Building community ties with rest homes, pre-schools and first year students.

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)? 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? Other

“The students have all taken on different responsibilities. They have completed their own Risk Assessment Forms, Board of Trustee requests, made phones calls and sent emails. They have negotiated times and activities independently and shown great resourcefulness. They love their badges and have even requested to be allowed to wear their wristbands formally and have exception cards until the end of the year to be able to wear them.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Might not be as noticeable at the moment, especially with younger learners not knowing about erosion and how it impacts our environment and furute of our landforms.

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

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

“This term our science focus was on landforms and how erosion has played a part in our community. I linked the SVA kit with our topic by getting learners to look where erosion took place in and around our school and working towards safeguarding the area or restoring if necessary to prevent hazards to our fellow learners and community.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Still to be implemented

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

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? Other

“My students will be using this kit next year, we can't wait”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? This potentially will have a significent impact as it will involve clearing of weeds and planting of natives.

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)? 0-5

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

“adapted it a bit as to fit into an environment project that we had lined up with the council, so not all the jobs were used however the children were still able to have some ownership of the project which is now set up into the new year wth the idea of this being a sustainable project.”

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Posted 2 years ago

What was the community impact of your volunteering project? Very well received.

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)?

Not Successful At All

Neutral

Very Successful

What type of project did your class undertake? Food Bank Project

“This has been a wonderful activity for the older students at school. To begin with we perused the contents, looking carefully at ideas we could try and which were not suitable for us. Together we decided to bake for the community and got in touch with the local GBB team. They were keen as mustard to welcome us on board, and we even managed to get one of them to come in each week and lead the baking. The children are still thoroughly enjoying this, they like to take control of the recipes and at the end of the term we will be making recipe books for each SVA.”

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Posted 2 years ago

SVA Schools: Volunteer Kit 22 Reviews