“So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.” John 13:14-15

Our school is part of the Student Volunteer Army (SVA) Schools Service Award

Service is an important part of being at JPIIHS, inspired by the Mercy and Marist traditions of service in the way of humility and kindness to others modelled by Jesus and Mary. By volunteering and logging your hours online through the Student Volunteer Army (SVA) Service Award website, you can add essential skills to your CV and get certificates and uniform badges. Each volunteer hour logged in the SVA portal earns one house point.

Visit this page on our school website to learn more: https://www.johnpaul.ac.nz/service/

Register online and start adding your service and volunteering hours: https://volunteer.sva.org.nz/

Congratulations - SVA Member Badge and Certificate with volunteering hours to date

Congratulations to these students have earned their first blue ‘SVA Member’ badge by logging at least 5 volunteer service hours (presented at assembly on 19th February):

These students completed a wide range of volunteer activities including:

• Daffodil Day - Collecting donations in the community

• Call to Earth Day - school trip to clean up rubbish at the Cobden river and beach

• Term 4 Junior Volunteer Days - helping at primary schools (Paroa, St. Mary’s, Lake Brunner)

• Coaching Touch Rugby

• Tree planting, track building, and landscaping

• Babysitting children and neighbour’s pets

• Lawn mowing and gardening for elderly relative

• Collecting, cutting and stacking firewood

• Kumara Races - Fundraising for a primary school