Term 3 2024 Calendar

Winter sports, feijoas, muddy shoes, rainy lunchtimes, wet jersey smell. You’re all whānau now - everyone knows everyone.

 

Term 3 kits will arrive in your classroom from Week 1, as long as you’ve confirmed your registration. You’ll also be granted access to a private kit page within our teacher network where you can: 

  • Download the kit teacher guide and review key teaching ideas and themes. 

  • Share learnings with other teachers teaching the same kit at the same time as you.

  • Ask questions and seek clarity on any issue or problem you might be having.

  • Resolve any practical issues you might be having with individual kit components.

  • Access prompt support from a member of our School Kit Team to ensure your teaching experience is awesome.

Term 3 Kits: Registrations now open


DIY World Records: Year 4-8. Combine statistical elements with physical education and create 32 world record challenges. Challenge your classmates and see who can break the most records.


Self Esteem: Year 4-8. Understand personal resilience is different for everyone. Challenge appearance ideals. Implement the daily check in. Evidence based self-management of personal resilience.


SVA Schools: Year 1-6. Identify your class passions. Investigate need in your community. Plan a one-day volunteer project that matches passions with needs. Carry out your volunteer project and celebrate success


Story Vets: Year 4-8. Students complete ‘vet school’ and become animal specialists. They use data elimination and make a correct diagnosis to rewrite our patient’s story. Recode the stories of our animals post diagnosis.


Water Savers Kit : Year 4-8. This kit contains an in-class statistical inquiry and supports ideas and learning around water literacy. Students will investigate claims and communicate findings.


Power it Up: Year 4-8. Understand basic circuit components. Use copper tape, coin cell batteries, buzzers, and bulbs to create a series of paper circuitry artworks that reveal local stories. Counties Region Schools only.


Solar Cars: Year 4-10. Construct and modify solar powered model cards and race them to win the furthest and farthest races. Investigate concepts of forces, energy transformation, aerodynamics and electricity. Counties Region Schools only.


The Power Kit: Year 0-3. Understand the concept of energy transformation. Make electric play dough. Make Rue Goldberg Machines. Key Word List, STEAM cards, Story, Poem, Waiata, Website and Spotify Playlist. Counties Region Schools only.

How might Term 3 kits fit?

Our kits are very flexible. They are designed to be pulled apart, reimagined and reintegrated into your existing school themes. Below is a summary of just some of our suggestions of how kits might be used.

 

Term 3 Kits by Year Level:

Year 0-3

The Power Kit - Counties Schools only

SVA Schools

 

Year 4-8

Self Esteem

DIY World Records

Power It Up - Counties Schools Only

Solar Cars - Counties Schools only

 

Year 1-8 (Scaffolded)

SVA Schools

 

Secondary

School Kit run the SVA Service Award as a year round programme. Please get in touch if this is of interest to you.

 

Term 3 Kits by sample learning themes

Community.

Sea Cleaners

SVA Schools

Prototyping & Decoding.

The Power Kit (Counties Schools only)

Power it Up (Counties Schools only)

DIY World Record

Building Resilience.

Self Esteem

Physical World.

The Power Kit (Counties Schools only)

Power it Up (Counties Schools only)

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