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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 Wow look at all the plastic we collected. That could do so much damage to wild life.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish bags for each child, and gloves (the kids loved the hands on practical)

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We worked with another class who had the same kit, and we went down our bag galley. We would have probably filled 10 big bags if it had been all put together.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class is a lot more aware how rubbish does not just harm the direct environment where it is dropped but can have such bad consequences right out to sea.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How much plastic we still use in relation to how much plastic we found.

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

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, Reserve

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Most interesting was the amount of pe equipment.

“Room 13 at Te Awamutu Primary, loved the sea cleaners kit. It was like unwrapping a present and going through the goodies that immediately got discussions happening. Although we are not proximity of the sea there was enough discussion about how rubbish ends up out at sea to keep us thinking.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We can re-use the gloves as gardening gloves or re-use them for more clean ups. They seen the value of an entire set of gloves and the knowledge to reusing resources. The rubbish from the reserve could end up in our gully stream. The students took the knowledge of the restoration of the local gully into a context where they were making a difference.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Clean up impact poster, this allowed the students to think big idea in regard to their clean up actions.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I think they are empowered to take action on rubbish around our school and local reserve.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The fact that they have made a difference as kaitiakiand planned the project themselves.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -37.82822529. 175.35609570

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space, Reserve, Park, School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Sadly x2 vapes.

“This easy-to-use kit empowers students to feel like they are truly taking action to make a difference as kaitiakitanga. The student had agency over planning the clean up and enjoyed running with their ideas.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I loved wearing the gloves and picking up all the rubbish" A and "It is good to keep our water clean because that's where lots of animal life live" D

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Poster - great visual to teach the little kids; bags and gloves - gloves can be reused when we do other clean ups

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3 - this was our whole syndicate (a total of 5 classes)

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? My students have always been very mindful regarding sustainability but this engaged them quite a bit as what we are cleaning up is our community. The kids learnt that 50 years ago, the river was blue and clean and swimmable and now it is not the case.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Sustainability!

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Eeek - didn't do that but (a bit too much for 5-6 year olds) but we are in Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space, River

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A used nappy! We found it interesting in a disgusting sense because as the kids all said "why wouldn't they just put something that gross in the rubbish instead of throwing it in the bush?" Wise words from our future generation.

“My Year 1's syndicate had an Inquiry focus this term on "How can we keep our awa clean?" The Waipareira River runs close to our school. We used the kit to clean up rubbish in a green space by our awa that conservationists have been working on - planting native trees etc. The kit was fantastic! The kids loved cleaning up their community. We used the poster to teach the children about the different types of recycling. While we didn't use the rubbish we collected (some of it quite disgusting) we then had a Discovery session on creating art, structures, anything out of recycled materials that were donated by our community of parents.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Child1 said 'If we don't get the rubbish out of the ocean and our beaches we won't have much sea life when were older and have our own children." Child 2 said " I don't want to go to the beach and it have yucky rubbish all around it".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves so we could get stuck in using them for picking up rubbish everyday and while we were on our beach trips. The posters were very useful to have up around the classroom.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We collected a whole sack full of rubbish from our beach trip. We collected about half to a bag on other days around our school grounds.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes we have been writing about human impacts on waterways including rivers/lakes/ocean/ streams and they are now thinking about what is left around and how the environment is effected..

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they will think more about how they are affecting the enviroment, encouraging reusing, recycling and not leaving rubbish around anywhere they go.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -36.603295, 174.708136

What was your cleanup location type? School, 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? A coat hanger. We wondered why would that end up at the beach.

“Room 11 from Red beach School used the sea cleaners kit to go down to Red beach and pick up rubbish with the gloves. We found a bag full of plastic, old toys etc. We used the posters to show that animals are eating the rubbish and a lot of rubbish is ending up in the sea and hurting our sea life. We have used some online planning resources for our Social Science plan. This includes links to movies like 'The lifecycle of a plastic bottle' these resources had a big impact with the class.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I loved the gloves, it is important to clean our world

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? gloves - everyone got something

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? it comes up more often now

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? further facts we found out about litter and water ways

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 50 meters

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? a coin

“We cleaned a park/lake near our school”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I loved the gloves and I will go to the beach in the holidays and use my gloves to do more beach cleanup.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves - to stay safe from germs and dangers of the rubbish we were collecting.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We used all the bags but didn't fill them up. We collected 750 items of rubbish.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children want to make a difference for the future and they are persuading their parents to eliminate plastic in their lunch box.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They now understand how much plastic is destroying our environment.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Didn't measure it.

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Plastic netting from the retaining wall. Because the council has used plastic to retain the wall and it is breaking apart and going into the ocean and surrounding area which is not great thinking by the council!

“We used the kits in conjunction with other things we had planned such as statistics and persuasive writing. The things in the kit were perfect. We used the gloves and bags and did a beach cleanup. We used the posters to inspire persuasive writing. Everything in the box was totally on target for our topic.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 1. We need to look after our waterways so they are clean for people to use 2. It is really sad how much rubbish is in our river and then our oceans too.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The practical ones - bags and gloves.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? All were filled and we had to use some of our own biodegradable ones for wet things.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We talk about kaitiakitanga all the time so it was implemented into that learning. Overall, they have gained a sound understanding and the kit contributed to that.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we need to protect our environment for future generations

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) I did not use this.

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, River

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A Lime Scooter!

“This kit was perfect for our unit about protecting our waterways. We used it to clean up an area along the Waikato River. The only issue we found was that the gloves weren't really appropriate for what we did. The bag also got wet so biodegradable ones might be more effective.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I learnt what sea cleaners is about and why we need to look after the beach." "The people were nice and their boat was great. I always pick rubbish up now."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gathering all of the rubbish at the end to see how much there was on such a short stretch of beach.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes it has. we have been focusing on Kaitiakitanga this year and this really fitted in with what we were doing.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To continue to be guardians of our. precious resources.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 43°29'40.9"S 172°43'36.2"E

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A huge piece of carpet buried under the sand

“This was a great experience for our students. Being the closest school to the beach, we always find it important to tell the importance of the beach environment. They are still talking about it. Tah\hank-you.”

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