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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Please note I teach new entrants :-) "The gloves are good" , "I like our posters we made, then people can see the rubbish goes into animals stomachs".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters you make with rubbish pieces as we still had bags left over after making them, showing how much we can help by cleaning up, reducing rubbish etc.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Increased mindfulness, I have also overheard children reminding others why we need to pick up our own rubbish.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We will continue to do clean ups and work progressively toward making our school more green.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) I dont think we did this part of the kit.

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space, Reserve, Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? We found a squashed lightbulb, it was flattened so it was thick, it took us much debate and reasoning to figure out what it was

“Everything you need for a successful and thought-provoking beach cleanup. We have kept our class set of gloves, and still use them for school / local cleanups.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We need to look after our river and not leave rubbish there". "If we all pick up rubbish it helps the fish that live there to survive".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and posters about "Keep the sea /rivers rubbish free, for me".

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? They collected 2 bags of rubbish but also the whole Junior School went down and removed branches and other things that could block the river flow.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It ties in beautifully with our school WAKA Values about how we look after we where live and the importance of doing this to protect all in our environment to sustain it future.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? What a special place we live in and how as young people we can make a positive impact and teach adults as well within our place.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Twizel River area - The Twizel River is a river of the Mackenzie Basin, in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. Latitude: -44° 19' 49.26" S Longitude: 170° 11' .

What was your cleanup location type? River

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Plastic bottles - why would people leave them there was a question raised.

“This was a fantastic opportunity for students to learn about our environment and how we look after it (Kaitiakitaka), looking after our space. We used the local river as we are too far from the sea but we learned about looking after our local rivers and the impact rubbish and other things have on the sustainability of the things that live in the rivers and around them.”

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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 want to ensure rubbish doesn't get into the sea." It's important that we are kaitiaki"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the gloves

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10 + (spread across after there were many more!)

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes - caring for our environment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How to look after our place

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Different ones for different groups - one was 36.90471S 174.85099E

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve

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? Sushi plastic -because so many of our learners have it for lunch!

“The learners loved getting involved in the activities - they even kept asking to use the gloves again to keep our school tidy!”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The said they did not to get their hands dirty in the garden.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves, that's all we received.0

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Planting our own Kai at school

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Planting and eating own Kai at school

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

“We used the gloves in our school garden. We were given these by a teacher at our school who ordered on behalf of many of us. I did not know we had to give a review.”

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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 got to use the gloves at lunch times to tidy up as garden club.", "I liked the posters and the gloves"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves and posters - Great talking points and promotes engagement

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did multiple rubbish hunts using the gloves during the term.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kids are more aware of the impact they can have and are more thoughtful on how little actions can have big results.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are responsible kaitiaki.

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

What was your cleanup location type? School, Other

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Food packets because we don't eat anywhere near where they were found and that got the kids thinking about how rubbish doesn't just "disappear"

“This school kit has been an amazing centre resource for our pollution focus for term 4. The gloves act as a great engagement tool for the kids. This resource was used along SPCA books that focused on pollution of our waterways and the protection of our wildlife. We talked about being kaitiaki of our environment and doing what we can do to minimise rubbish. We dont have many waterways that are close by so we looked at the street drains that are often filled with rubbish and affect our water systems as a result.”

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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 Completing this from home, sorry. Haven't been able to collect student voice.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The eco-friendly gloves and strong paper bags were great - meant we were practicing what we were preaching, by not using plastic for the clean up. Plus the gloves protected the children's hands and they took them home to wash and re-use for gardening and more litter picking.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We filled multiple bags of rubbish. In total, our syndicate of 99 students collected 750 pieces of rubbish from our local beach.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? This kit has raised awareness of the need to dispose of rubbish responsibly, and even more than that, to reduce consumption of goods that contain rubbish. The children have since come to tell me that they've been picking up litter at lunchtimes to keep our playgrounds clean and to stop rubbish from flying into our beautiful, natural environment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It's brought about awareness on the impact we have on planet Earth.

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

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? We found a number of halloween sweet wrappers, as we conducted the beach clean up a few days after 31 October.

“We used the Sea Cleaners 23 kit as part of our inquiry, 'Guardians of Zealandia'. The topic explored the big themes of our living world - life processes, ecology, evolution and biodiversity. We looked at the impact that humans can have, both positive and negative, on our natural world and each other. The Sea Cleaners kit fitted perfectly into this inquiry. We went as a syndicate down to our local beach and used the equipment to clean the surrounding area. 750 pieces of rubbish were collected in total. We were very grateful to have the gloves and bags to safely pick up and dispose of the rubbish. The online resources have also been marvellous too.”

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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 children took their knowledge home to talk to their families about how they can clean up their local area at home. They also made connections to other areas such as the local reserve that they wanted to clean up, looking at. how it could lead into the sea from there.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Additional information that was provided. This helped kaiako to facilitate deeper discussions.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They all want to be kaitiaki for our whenua!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Little nature warriors!

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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, School, Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Lots of glass and plastice - but also an animal skull ( not sure if that is rubbish but it did spark a whole new curiousity!

“This fitted in perfectly with our Inquiry around Kaitiakitanga. The children felt very empowered to clean up our local area. It also led into other discussions around waste, plastic production and over consumption. Was great for our year 3 + 4 tamariki.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We even found a boat window" "The chip bags covered the whole Dolphin poster, thats bad"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the bags and gloves, how much they picked up and seeing it

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? they pick up the rubbish when they see it

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The reduction of waste is care for our planet

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) unsure Algies Bay whole beach and Warkworth School

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, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? the maps off the boat

“We loved it, the pack arrived right at the time of our beach trip and this was right after the storm which in the bay we were visiting had 4 boats sink and wash up all over the beach. We cleaned the beach up and although a lot of it we wouldn't stick on the posters we managed to fill all our bags and 7 black bags in just 2 hours. The gloves are amazing the kids felt their hands were safe and comfortable at all times. We decided to clean and reuse the gloves and posts to look at what could go down our drains if the school didn't pick up the mess. This meant we completed the posters using school rubbish in the playground and looked at what the impact could be.”

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