Year 9 classes LAM, BRJ, KER, and MOS have been exploring connections, and their role and responsibility within their community.

Students worked in groups of two-four to empathetically engage with their local community. Their task was two-fold: to develop a service or gift-giving/fundraising initiative and to showcase their initiative in a documentary. These documentaries required them to film the process and interview members in the community to understand the issue they were trying to help address.

Year 9 LAM’s Community Projects:

LAM’s projects included raising money for the UN World Food Programme through organising a Free Rice Game event, helping at the local library, assisting on a farm, cleaning a local community center, celebrating teachers, creating International Student packs, fundraising for the Dogwatch Sanctuary Trust, and sewing stuffed animals to raise funds for the SPCA.

Year 9 BRJ’s Community Projects:

BRJ’s projects included assisting with the Secondary Eco-action project, donating blankets to the City Mission, tidying the Papanui Toy Library, donating personalised children’s gifts to Oranga Tamariki, raising money through car washing for NZ Conservation Trust, providing gifts for the Christmas Appeal, and providing packs for period poverty.

Year 9 KER’s Community Projects:

KER’s projects included making gift packs for children at Ronald McDonald House, babysitting, dog walking, gardening at Hornby Toy Library, providing personalised cards for rest home residents, knitting beanies for premature babies, donating swim supplies to Te Waka Una Primary School, helping at Wag Doggy daycare, working at the Fendalton library and creating Period Poverty packs.

Year 9 MOS’ Community Projects:

MOS’ projects included helping at a preschool, donating clothing to Nurse Maude Hospice, making personalised bracelets for rest home residents, working with the counselling office to create bracelets and posters raising awareness, creating a promotional CGHS water polo campaign, and biking 40KM, which raised $400 for the hospice!

For parents of students in these classes, please feel free to ask them to show you their Community Project documentary.

Ka pai LAM, BRJ, KER, and MOS!