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Primary school resources

Education Resources available from VSA in 2008

CD Rom: 'Hands On' Getting active in your community".

A level 3-4 Social Sciences and Technology Education resource.

Listen to children in PNG singing; reading stories, making toys, describing their life and how they help out in their community.

Links to the new curriculum

VSA's new CD Rom 'Hands On: Getting active in your community' has a focus on the key competency of participating and contributing
in the new curriculum.

Students have the opportunity to:
Explore a new global context: The CD ROM features children from Papua New Guinea sharing ways they participate in their community and how they use resources in a sustainable way.
Think about values: Using Social Studies activities students consider roles and responsibilities children have to help out in their community and what impact they can make.
Take action: Images and creative ideas from children around the Pacific provide a great entry point into the main focus of the CD Rom - a technology based community project - Making toys: making change.

Cost $25.
Copies available from February 1, 2008.

VSA's Talking Favourites Postcard Project

(Year 2-6)

Children from NZ and abroad communicate about values and ‘what's important' to them.

A fun way to explore values.

Since 2005, VSA volunteers have delivered postcards written by Kiwi children to students in Bougainville, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Cambodia, Cook Islands, and Tanzania. In return, students in New Zealand have read reply postcards from children in these countries finding out about what's important to them, and what activities they value.

The VSA postcard exchange project includes a resource kit containing curriculum links, activity ideas, and picture cards.

Students can be involved in this project from August each year.

Visit www.friendship.org.nz to order or find out more about VSA's education resources.

Secondary schools

Read VSA's Volunteering Overseas booklet. A great resource for students interested in volunteering overseas.