Term 1 2025 Calendar
New term excitement, new stationery, new classroom, it’s soooo bloody hot and everyone has to remember how to do everything again.
Term 1 kits are dispatched the week beginning February 10th 2025. 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 1 Kits: Registrations open
Self Esteem: Year 4-8.
Understand personal resilience is different for everyone. Construct our charging station. Implement the daily check in. Evidence based self-management of personal resilience.
Good Food Map: Year 4-8.
Co-create a community food map. Identify food waste solutions, locally, nationally and globally. Delve into the world of pickling. Celebrate local food hero’s and share community food memories.
Story Vets: Year 4-8.
IStudents 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.
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 Schools Only.
Solar Cars: Year 9-10.
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 Schools only.
Dear 13 year old me: Year 9-10.
Understand the power of compound interest, as both credit and debt. Use decision making prototypes and informed choices to change the path of past money mistakes. Understand and critique pay equity and fairness. This kit comes in English or Te Reo Māori.
Part of something bigger: Year 9-10.
Understand tax at a national level. Create an employee profile, build their tax story. Break down a payslip. Calculate marginal tax rate. Compare your tax model with the National Tax Spend. Understand how our tax system is designed. This kit comes in English or Te Reo Māori.
How might Term 1 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 1 Kits by Year Level:
Year 4-8
Dove Self Esteem
Water Savers
Story Vets
Power it Up (Counties Schools only)
Solar Cars (Counties Schools only)
Year 1-8 (Scaffolded)
SVA Schools Volunteering
Secondary.
Part of something bigger
Dear 13 year old me
Solar Cars (Counties Schools only)
The SVA Service Award is a year round programme.
Term 1 Kits by sample learning themes
Real world.
Story Vets
Part of something bigger
Dear 13 year old me
Measurement.
Water Savers
Solar Cars
Sustainability.
SVA Schools Volunteering
Sea Cleaners
Identity & Connection.
Self Esteem
SVA Schools Volunteering
