Stories

We're excited to be able to resume student volunteering activities from June 4th 2020. Here are some guidelines for everyone to follow.

SIC students have been contributing to Dunedin City of Literature's Possibilities Project during Level 4 lockdown. Early on in the project Olive Pujol volunteered to record a poem, and made an audio of a poem by David Howard of Dunedin. Then Emily Heath and Siena...

Dear Friends of Te Kākano,We hope everyone is staying home safe and healthy.Just to advise that our nursery will remain closed under alert level 3, so unfortunately we cannot invite you to any volunteer sessions... yet.Our native plants are all doing fine as is Kris,...

Here are Siena and Rata hanging out at One Day School - they were both participants when they were primary-schoolers so it is great that they get to go back and interact with the current group of students. Love your work!

Every week, Sammy and Ines go and run a craft club at Wanaka Primary school, which is especially fun for teacher Jennie Croxford, who used to teach Sammy when she was a pupil at Wanaka Primary! This week they made pom poms and you can see the smiles and the results!

LINK Upper Clutha has been running a 'have a cup of tea with your neighbour' scheme for years, and for years our SIC students have been helping to prepare the leaflet/teabag packets that go out to the community. Coordinator Bronwyn Coers said, "The students were...

At the school tent it's been hot work, and that's not just the conversations about the new uniform! And shout out also to the volunteers fundraising for the rugby club. It takes a great amount of work to keep team sports going in a small town and everyone is grateful...

The Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD) is a student lead committee designed to promote safer driving to students in our community. The committee is lead by Kate Goodsell and consists of about 15 year 13 students. Kate says "This terms focus is traffic...

Girls Club has been going strong at HQ for three or more years - this term Yasmin and Aria have been hanging out with Emma on a Monday lunchtime, playing UNO, charades and funny faces.

thank you all for contributing your time to your community