Stories
Read all about it! We love to showcase the great things that students in the community do.
this year is going to be SIC
Hello and welcome to a year of challenging yourself to volunteer to make a positive difference in your community. As usual, SIC programme will run from the start of term one to the end of term three. With the organisational structure of the school changing, I'm aiming...
It’s always great to get visitors…
Remember, you can come and see Liz mostly all the time in her office, unless she's out visiting people in the community - so why not pop in during interval, lunchtime or a study period to chat about how your volunteering is going.
Good as Gold!
It was so great to hear the news that Bex Sargison, who runs Food for Love, has received an ASB Good as Gold award. She's certainly a 10/10 gold star A+ brilliant recipient in our eyes, and we love the opportunities and connections she has created for sharing and...
social
At a day of interagency meetings for SIC co-ordinator Liz, the themes of social connections always come up again and again and again. This morning we talked about the good times the SIC students are having with Wanaka Retirement Village residents, playing games on a...
Love from Food for Love
How good does this food for love made with love look!? Well done Bella and Jessie, for your care and kindness.
Girls Club
Who runs the world? GIRLS! This is definitely true on a Monday lunchtime at HQ, when Peta McKay, Sam Watson and Annabel Fairbairn go and hang out with the HQ girls. Pictured here are Sam, Emma, Peta and Sabina. Sometimes the girls make origami or do other things,...
Fun with the Pippins
Here's Madi Gainsford hanging out with the Pippins, making Matariki quilts "This week I helped the girls out teaching them about Matariki, we sung a Waiata and talked about the seven sisters which make a star formation in the sky to signify the Maori New Year. We then...
Thank you Maggie!
Maggie Stiven spent some of her weekend stacking firewood for a Luggate local with a broken hand, who was super super grateful for the help. It means she has dryer wood and a warmer house. It also means though that the community got a bit stronger and a bit more...
Food for Love
Baking for people is a great way of showing them you care. Baking for people you don't know, and won't meet, to give them a helping hand and a smile in their stomachs, is extra sweet. Jessie Fothergill (pictured) and Bella Thomsson bake for Food for Love in Wanaka...
Lucas at the library
Lucas Baird has been shelving books at the Wanaka Library as part of his volunteer activities for SIC. While there he got chatting to Sonia, who is from Bangladesh. Sonia is new to Wanaka. She's learning English and must take an exam, which will also improve her job...