Today I went to Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, a decile 1 school which is located in Ōtara, Auckland where it has over 1100 students ranging from Years 1 to 13. I was lucky enough to meet with the senior school Principal, Peter Uys who I had been corresponding with beforehand about this donation. I also was able to meet with the dean of Year 13 as well as other teachers who were very grateful of the donation. They were keen for me to speak to their Year 13 prefects about my project and to hopefully inspire and encourage them to pursue their own values projects. I donated NCEA Level 1 science, maths and English textbooks as well as lots of stationery, recipe folders and binders. Prior to visiting the school, I did some research to find out how many students and the type of subjects where I came across some surprising information. On the Education Central website, I read an article written last year (www.educationcentral.co.nz/hand-to-mouth-grammar-school-needs-donations/), where it became apparent to me the true struggles that many of the students coming to Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate face. I found out that many parents struggle even to put food on the table and that through KidsCan they are able to provide breakfast at school as well as rain jackets and shoes; Middle school principal Kallie Ngakuru-Syder says in the article "parents will often keep their children at home if they don’t have food because they are embarrassed, so the school assures them that it will fill the gap". Also in the article, Peter Uys states that “In a decile-1 school you can’t take things for granted like you can in a decile-10 school. We don’t take for granted that students will necessarily have stationery or uniforms. You have to provide it" as the school helps parents who can't pay. Emily.
I received a kind donation in the mail from a lovely lady who was cleaning up her home and found she had accumulated a lot of pens and was looking for somewhere to donate them. This donation from her is greatly appreciated and I encourage you to donate to Paper Pens Pencils if you find you have a surplus of stationery that you don't need. Therefore instead of putting your stationery into landfill please get in contact so that the stationery can instead be put to a good use, where a child can receive the necessary equipment to learn. Emily.
Today I visited Manurewa East School, a low decile primary school, which is St Cuthbert's College's sister school. I was able to meet with the Principal, Mary Takatainga who was very appreciative of the stationery donation and showed me around the school. I had the privilege of meeting the teachers who were very grateful of the extra stationery and they told me it would be very useful for this school year. Mary presented me with an 'ei katu, a flower head wreath to show the schools appreciation of the donation. I had donated pencils, colouring pencils, pens, glue sticks, binders, whiteboard markers, refill, rulers, exercise book covers, Blu Tak, pencil cases and more to Manurewa East School. I would like to say a massive thank you to all the corporate businesses and individuals who have donated stationery which contributed to this donation! Emily.
A massive thank you to Staedtler who donated 2016 pencils! I can not express how grateful I am to have this large donation, in particular of pencils which are such an important item for kids to have in primary school. Emily.
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