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How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them How can we help stop litter going in our oceans? Reduce our own plastic rāpihi. Recycle plastics. Pick up rāpihi around our kura and community. Tell other people not to litter (poster, mural).I will make it a better place by cleaning up rāpihi. The ocean looks bad. Something happened and people put their rāpihi in the water. Rāpihi got mixed up in the water. The sea animals will die. It’s bad for the all creatures in the water. Turtles are clumsy and plastic bags look like jellyfish and food. Seagulls get caught in bottles. I wonder who tipped the rāpihi in the ocean. I wonder if people just threw rāpihi on to the beach. I wonder if there was a sign. I wonder how it all got in the water. Collecting rāpihi. Picking up rāpihi and things that don’t belong at the beach. They are at Browns Bay. It is a good thing. They are helping animals not die because the rāpihi won’t get eaten by the animals. They are wearing gloves to keep their hands clean and not hurt by glass.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters - visual, shocking, able to use as an activity and to share as an awareness and celebration, Gloves - we used them so often.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10+ we reused the bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We decided to design and paint murals around our drains to stop litter entering our waterways.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will be able to keep the gloves but also will always be kaitiaki for our waterways and beaches.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) We are in Year 1-2 so didnt get to this part. We just took photos of the beach/ playground/ drains before and after etc

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, Park, School, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Dog poo bags! There were so many of them left and hidden around. Not interesting as such - just disgusting.

“We really enjoyed the Sea Cleaners Kit. The gloves were such good quality and so helpful for our cleanup and subsequent rubbish sorting. The posters were thought provoking and interactive. Such great ideas for activities and lesson plans on the site which inspired a very in depth inquiry last term.”

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Posted 10 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I didn't realise how much junk goes on our beach" & "now that I know more about rubbish polluting our beaches, I will be more aware of what me and my family do when we are here"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The whole kit gave us the motivation to discuss and then act in a proactive way to be more mindful of the beaches in our national park area

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 big one

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class always had a good attitude towards this however being involved in a very delberate action makes a longer lasting difference

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We hope that the awareness of and love for the natural gifts we have around us will stay with them

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 40.9906° S, 173.0257° E

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? hmmm .. not really sure!

“We used these to support an envionmental action in our 'piece of the national park' - super handy and helped the students hold things with more care to themselves really - no fear of anything prickly or sharp getting them. The are really strong and durable - once we used them at the beach we also realised that they would be great back at school with the gardens too! So they live on with many amazing uses!”

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Posted 10 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I feel sad about how much people throw away in our dunes- especially the gross nappy! I thought some of our beaches were pretty clean which was cool!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters and equipment

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? All of the bags were filled, we even went along the stream and collected rubbish over a few sessions to fill them.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are a Green Gold school and the children are passionate about keeping the environment healthy.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will remember that their rubbish can end up in places where we want to be safe and rubbish free. they know that they must dispose of rubbish well.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) ?

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, School, River, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Food Wrappers

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Dirty rubbish - very gross

“We enjoyed visiting the beach to collect rubbish. The children did this as part of their community service for the William Pike Challenge. they enjoyed exploring the beach. The bags and gloves were helpful and we learnt a lot about what forms of rubbish are on our beaches.”

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Posted 10 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The gloves helped me keep my hands safe from picking up rubbish. I learnt a lot what plastic can do to sea life.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves as the students loved to use part of the kit.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? understanding the damage that plastic can do to sea creatures and birds. Made them think twice about throwing rubbish out.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They explained to others why to reduce waste .

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) NA

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, School

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? bags of dog poo on the school grounds.

“The students loved the posters inculded. We picked up rubbish with the gloves and bags then had a good look at what the most common school rubbish was and what we could do to reduce it. Mostly it was plastics.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 'I can't believe how many pieces of rubbish we collected - we throught we would not get anything!' "I love that we get reusable gloves to use. It keeps our hands cleaner and we can use them again'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster and amazing cretures, the data collection and rfelection poster and the physical bags and gloves instantly engaged our learners in something because it was tangible - even providing disucssion on why they were paper rubbish bags

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It reminded us how careful we need to be and bought us back to reflecting on our own practices around lunch rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A fun memorable learning experience outside the classroom

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 37°42'24.0"S 176°19'02.2"E

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? an entire duvet because it was gross and also full of insects

“This resource was great, user friendly, extended our learning from the sea to our local waterways and provided us with resources for a great beach, dunes and local area clean up. It links to Te Ao Māori and whanaungatanga of our environment. The. data collection poster provided context for reviewing our rubbish and focused our attention on details like the number of food-related packages and our relation to local shops/takeaway places etc.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Parents commented on their child's desire to continue to pick up rubbish while out walking with their whanau.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and bags were a real hit with the children.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Our class collected 1 full bag + a whole heap of wet clothing. The whole syndicate collected about 5 bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The tamariki embraced to responsibility of being kaitiaki for our school and local environment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They have learnt that everyone can make a dufference - big or small.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Sorry this was a bit beyond my 5yr olds - they were exhausted.

What was your cleanup location type? River

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Household Waste, Tin Cans

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? There was a lot of polystyrene. We decided it had blown from a building site. This lead to more discussions about whose responsibility this waste was.

“The Sea Cleaners Kit linked in so well with our term topic of Kaitiakitanga. The tamariki embraced to idea of becoming guardians of our local environment. We began by looking at how we care for our class, our school and then our community. The rubbish audit drew our attention to what kinds of waste we create in our class. The enthusiasm shown during our riverside clean-up was fantastic. At the end, it was difficult to get the children to leave and return to school. There was surprise at how many small pieces of plastic were along the river bank. During the term, we read many quality picture books about being kaitiaki and these stories led to quality discussions about our practices.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Something we have learnt is: - That it is important to keep rubbish out of the sea. - How to sort rubbish into categories. - This learning was about saving the sea life; saving the animals; picking up rubbish; and saving the earth! - We need to keep the sea rubbish free. - There's so much plastic in the world. - Wonderings by some of the students included: Who invented plastic? Why is plastic use increasing?How long doea it take for a piece of rubbish to dis-integrate? - What happens to an animal/fish, when it dies?

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves were fantastic, because they were child size and nice and thick. Having the printing on the back of 'We keep the sea rubbish free' was engaging, and also helpful for re-pairing the gloves after they had been washed.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? It was hard to get an overall total for "bags of rubbish" as we had several different groups and collected a number of half-full-ish bags. We did two rubbish collections - in different places (one around our school - walking the streets to one of our local parks, picking up rubbish on the way, and also at the park, exploring one of our 3 local streams, and then continuing to pick up rubbish as we walked back to school on different streets. This action collected 757 pieces of rubbish! This blew both us teachers and adult helpers, and the students away as it didn't feel like that much rubbish in the bags, weightwise etc. We then did another trip - bussed into town to an area near our main awa in Nelson - Maitai (or originally called the Mahitahi River), we explored that and did a rubbish pick up along side one side of that, before bussing to Tahunanui Beach for lunch/play and another rubbish pick up on the grassy area before the beach. This trip resulted in 677 pieces of rubbish, so combined we had 1,434 pieces of rubbish.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has heightened their awareness further, and also got some of them thinking about human nature and wondering WHY people litter, or fail to pick things up when it happens. They have also started to wonder about recycling more, and what they could do to help with this.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I feel that they are more likely to ensure that they are responsible in terms of dealing with their rubbish, and I know some were having discussions at home with their whānau about their learning and what actions they could take, individually and as a whānau - both at home and at school, to help tackle it.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Local walk - Lat -41.32247032256194, long 173.23272658721243. Second trip into town - Lat -41.266639 and long 173.280385

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, Green Space, Reserve, Park, School, River, Beach, Other

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Hard to say - depends on what you think is 'interesting'... The students were very interested in the cigarette butts - there were SO many of them from the town clean up site (on a walk up along side the river, near an entertainment venue). They were also too light to register on the scales individually so we ended up weighing them all and then taking an average weight once they were counted. Interestingly, we had very few plastic straws picked up, but certainly some cardboard ones. There were also a lot of food wrappers, and we had valuable discussions about individual wrapping, and what they could do to reduce this - buy in bulk and use re-usable containers.

“I found this kit interesting, and thorough, in terms of indroductory learning experiences and tasks. Te Ao Māori perspective and having the links to pepeha were particularly great. I also really appreciated how flexible the kit was in terms of where the clean up and rubbish collection could take place. My teaching neighbour and her class had the same kit, so we combined our classes and did this learning together. We had initially timetabled to explore this kit in early term 2, and link it to other Aotearoa NZ History learning we were going to undertake, which would have involved a trip to a different beach area, but this had to be changed due to other trips across the whole school and we had to save it until Term 4 and carry out the trips in the last few weeks. This did mean that we were unable to fully complete the kit in terms of finalising the art works, but funnily enough, we did actually find a piece of community art that was based on the same concept (see photo attached). THe students were really engaged, and their reflection sheets have shown learning that they took away from it, and also other wonderings, which we could go on to explore this year. The kit provided rich material with which to link maths (number, measurement and data exploration), science, local environment based learning, Te Ao Māori and te reo Māori learning, and the key competencies, and was highly engaging for the tamariki - Thank you! Also, apologies for being so late with getting out kit completed, and on me returning my feedback.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Before the Seacleaners School Kit, I didn't really think about what happens to our trash. Now, after cleaning up our local beach and making art about it, I know it's important to take care of the ocean" "It was so cool! We found lots of plastic on our beach, and it made me sad, but also happy that we could clean it up."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves that were included were a real hit, with children becoming attached to their pair - wanting to take them home to continue the clean-up efforts in their own time.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kit fostered a sense of responsibility and sustainability in my class, influencing daily practices and cultivating a genuine commitment to whenua ora (land wellness).

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? "It doesn't matter if it's your rubbish, pick it up - this is OUR world"

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Not sure sorry

What was your cleanup location type? Park, School, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Household Waste, Tin Cans

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The most interesting piece of rubbish we discovered was a small crab tangled in plastic fishing wire, discovered on the beach, capturing our attention due to the unfortunate impact of human waste on marine life.

“The hands-on approach to learning about our local waterways, conducting cleanups, and creating impactful artworks not only made the lessons engaging but also sparked a real sense of environmental responsibility among the kids. It's a fantastic resource that effortlessly weaves together science, art, and sustainability, leaving a lasting impression.”

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Posted 11 months ago