“It was great for our students to get out in the wider community as well as around the school to pick up rubbish, analyze and then think about where the rubbish could wind up.”
“Such a great kit for the children at our school who live right next to the beach. It has made them much more aware of what we need to do to take care of our waters and the changes we can make. We have made beeswax wraps and children are picking up rubbish voluntarily in our playground. It's a topic that worked perfectly with our 'Sustainable Coastlines' unit. It's an area that all classes will focus on each year to make sure that message is getting home.”
“This kit fitted perfectly with our Inquiry and it was great to have resources that were made for kids (they loved the gloves) We will use these again. We did a clean up at our local beach and the students were astounded at the rubbish that was lying in the dunes. They have been conditioned to not go into the dunes because of it being a delicate environment. It was affirming for the students to have the responsibility of carefully picking their way through the dunes to remove litter and therefore support that ecosystem. An excellent kit. Thank you.”
“This was such an engaging and topical project. The students decided to focus on the rubbish created after a big event at our school such as the Year 7 &; 8 gala. We gave ourselves the task of the clean up afterwards and how eye opening was that. They made strong connections with the Sea Cleaners youtube clips especially about the turtles. As we were cleaning up the catchphrase as we saw a piece of plastic rubbish was ";Save a Turtle"; as they rushed to pick it up. The main outcome of this task - even though it was on school grounds - was to send a proposal to the Leadership team to ban Water balloons in any future event. Powerful student voice.”
“What a great resource! We talked a lot about the sea and how rubbish gets there and what we could do for the animals that live at the beach or in water ways. We couldn't get there to clean it up, but we did do our best effort for our school and Parish community.
Thank you!!!”
“Great kit, children thoroughly enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. It linked well to our Sharing the Planet unit , - 'Sharing our environment with other living things provides challenges and opportunities'. We shared our findings with our parent community in the hope that they also become aware and take positive action.”
“Our students loved this kit! Made them a lot more aware of what actually are in the bodies of water around us! We found lots of rubbish packets floated away in the bushes nearby also!”
