Okoia Enviro-School's Tearita Goodwin used some of her birthday money to buy sausages for the school's "yellow day for St John" sausage sizzle fundraiser last week.
When she told the Mad Butcher she was buying the sausages for a fundraiser, she was pleased to receive a $2 discount.
Tearita 11, Cody Mooij 12, and Terence Ngatai 10, dished up 38 sausages to the students and raised $126.60 for St John.
Cody told the Chronicle he called St John for ideas on how the school could help the organisation.
"They are a big part of Wanganui and a lot of people need the ambulance services," Cody said.
Principal Deanna McKay said the students looked at two big ideas; how effectively the community supported its people, and how the people supported its community.
"The kids talked a lot about how people supported them," Mrs McKay said.
"It's about giving rather than taking.
"They realise they can't keep taking because eventually there is nothing left.
"All of our students are involved in some sort of community action between now and the end of term."
The new entrants are writing story books for the children's ward at the hospital, and the Year-2-Year 4 class will visit the Lady Joy Rest Home on Wednesday to share songs and plays with the residents.
The senior class is making a submission to council about the future of the Wanganui East Pool following a community survey, sourcing donations of kitty litter for the SPCA, and tomorrow they'll be holding a stall and a sausage sizzle at the River Traders Market for the Cancer Society and Wanganui Hospice.
On Tuesday the whole school is taking part in a community clean-up where groups of children will pick up litter at Virginia Lake, Kowhai Park and along the road from Wanganui East to the Okoia Community Hall.
Three years ago the school picked up 260kg of rubbish in an afternoon.