Join the SVA School Service Award programme and get recognition for the service and volunteer work you do at school and in the community. Build up your portfolio of participation, experience and contribution to our school and our community.

On the 4th of September, 2010 a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Canterbury, ravaging the city of Ōtautahi, Christchurch. In the wake of the disaster, 11,000 students mobilised to help with the clean up. This was the beginning of SVA, the Student Volunteer Army.

SVA (Student Volunteer Army) is a network of tens of thousands of volunteers driven by a desire to help their communities. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals give our volunteers a useful framework to make sure that their mahi is connected to a global movement. By shifting between local need and global outlook, SVA volunteers are empowered to make tangible differences in the world every day – whether it’s simply mowing a neighbour’s lawn or taking action to reverse the effects of climate change.

The SVA mission is to empower a global volunteer movement ready to mobilise when our community needs them. All their programmes, SVA Skills, the SVA Service Award, and SVA Clubs, are about teaching, celebrating, and empowering volunteers to improve the world they live in.

You can join now by following this link to the SVA Service Award and click the sign up button to register.

Once you have registered you will be able to log the hours you are doing or have done recently. Register and log five hours of volunteer work and you’ll be awarded your member badge. 

Why volunteer?
Volunteering is a great way to gain experience while helping others. If you’re doing something to help other people, without expecting anything in return, that’s volunteering. Whether you’re putting out cones at a sports event, organising the school ball, caring for a sick family member, washing dogs at the SPCA, planting trees, or picking up plastic rubbish at the beach - you’re making a contribution to your community and that counts. It can be hard to get a job without experience, but it can be hard to get experience without a job. By volunteering and logging your hours through the SVA Service Award app, you can add essential skills to your CV while building your confidence and making friends.

Congratulations to the below students who have signed up so far, we look forward to more students getting involved:

• Alice Powell
• Georgia Ritchie
• Devon Lawrence
• Anika Russell
• Lucas Masters
• Jessie Smith
• Samuel Green