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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 "I want to do more then a beach clean up, we need to get rid of plastic bottles" "We need to pick up our rubbish so it doesn't go into our local stream"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The big recycling bags and gloves. The students did not think we would be able to fill the 4 bags full of rubbish as they were so large. It was a huge eye opener for them when we came back to school with every bag full!

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 bags were full!

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have since had a school kaitiakitanga day and did a big clean up of the school. Students are also aware of recycling and we have created a special bin for soft plastics collection

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To make them more aware of the impact that rubbish has world wide. They were shocked by the amount of rubbish they collected and to imagine this was just from one beach!

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) Te Arai beach

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The amount of plastic bags we found

“This kit was fantastic! It was a great set-up for our school-wide inquiry about guardianship. We have completed a beach cleanup and this has also led into a school cleanup. The students were very enthusiastic and loved the hands-on nature of this inquiry learning. They are currently learning more about ocean pollution and ways we can help stop rubbish leading to our water ways!”

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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 Students sharing their their ideas and understanding around Kaitiakitanga and looking after our environment beyond the sea. Our class advocating for rubbish tidy up, to our Junior Team by addressing at morning assembly our findings.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters were a great way to display everything and also raised questions from guests who visited our room.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 bags full

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Huge engagement and questioning around kaitiakitanga and how we can be the people who make change in our school and community.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Being action makers, empowered and making positive change.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Information lost (around 20mx area)

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, 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? Large planks of wood that people had used for mountain bike tricks.

“The Sea Cleaner kit was such a fun hands-on kit for my akonga! They loved using the bright and colourful posters to display their findings and as a busy teacher I was given a school trip idea. Our tamariki were so motivated from this experience that they went on to ask about being kaitiaki at our school. We gathered, grouped and displayed rubbish we found around our kura and shared the findings with our junior school team. Thank you for the Sea Cleaner Kit! It has empowered our class to be self-motivated action takers.”

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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: I like making sure our water does not get polluted so that we can look after all the sea animals 2: I think looking after the environment is really important as we need to make sure the earth is safe for the future generations

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters with the sea animals really put things into perspective. Lot's of animal lovers in our class and it made them even more inspired to keep the sea clean.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Student's brainstormed ideas as to how we can reduce the amount of rubbish at school (plastic free lunches, more bins on the field) and even ask to do litter collection as they want to keep the school (and the sea) clean!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I think student's will take this learning and apply it to their daily life. Student's will be more conscious of the decisions they make around waste and how we can protect the earth.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) n/a - we did a clean up around the school rather than at the beach. We installed litter traps in our drains and that's how we made the connection to rubbish going into the ocean.

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? disposable face masks - not many people still wear these so they must have been lying on the ground for a long time!

“This was an awesome kit that worked well with our school's sustainability unit. Student's were very engaged while we were sorting through rubbish. The video about what happens to plastic was very eye-opening.”

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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 "Can I take these home to use on the weekend?" "Can we do this again"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the teacher notes gave me a great starting point for how to best use the resource.

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 are more aware of the rubbish around the school and it has started to come into their general conversations.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully, they will continue to pick up rubbish and be more aware of issues around waste.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) From one end of the beach to the other (Petone Beach, Wellington)

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? We found a wrapper that had writing in a different language so we hypothesised how it got there.

“There was great information in here and the kids loved the gloves. It made them realise that people are serious about cleaning up our oceans and waterways.”

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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 What would happen if the tide washes this out to see. The people that left this are lazy.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The bags and gloves were great, thanks

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 bags were used but were not full.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We talked about how things have changed and supermarkets no longer use plastic bags and what things would be like if we still had plastic bags and where they end up if they wash out to sea/ landfills etc

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The experience enabled the children to see the effect of how rubbish from the drains can end up in the sea. It linked in with our unit of inquiry about marine life, children could see first-hand the effect that litter can have on marine life and the beaches.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Latitude: -36.7892 Longitude: 174.7723

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A fishing knife. it led to discussions about the possible consequences if someone had stood on it.

“It was great to receive the Sea Cleaners kit, it was more difficult to administer than I had endeavored it would be. Students opted to be part of the activity with their families. Those that volunteered loved the experience. Fewer turned up than had initially indicated due to the bad weather. We loved having the gloves and bags to collect the rubbish. The gloves ended up getting really soggy due to the weather, the kids didn't mind. We managed to collect rubbish along the whole of Takapuna Beach. It was interesting what we found. This led to discussions about where it had come from, we found shoes, a towel, beach toys, a fishing knife, lots of plastic, litter, bottles, and doggie doos.”

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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 like picking up the rubbish at our local beach / It was helpful on our beautiful beach

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The practical side of things - the students being able to put things into action and realise the negative and positive impacts of peoples rubbish and then cleaning it up again

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We managed to fill 3 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They have realised the importance of putting their rubbish in the bin and also the impact that it has on local animals at our beach and they have encouraged others to do the same and pick up their rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Our motto is growing good people growing good learners. This kit has put this into contect out side of a Kura and into our wider community.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 36.8190° S, 175.7008° E

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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? Money someone found $5

“Amazing unit that ties in with our Local Curriculum as well as our Reduce Reuse Recycle unit. Students were able to put their ideas into action of how they could help out community.”

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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 Wow, I cannot believe how much we collected. It’s crazy what people dump and leave

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves and bags as they were able to see the impact of all the rubbish they collected

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It allowed us to work together towards a common goal.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are inspired to ensure they pick up all rubbish

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Whitianga 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, Household Waste, Tin Cans

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

“We were able to use this kit whilst on camp in Whitianga to clean up the beach. The kids loved being apart of cleaning the beach so others can continue to enjoy the beauty of the beaches”

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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 "It's so much easy to clean when you have gloves! And we can use them again." "Man, people are so bad at taking their rubbish home!" "Who leaves this here?!" while holding up broken deck chair.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Discussion, planning, guestimating and measuring how much rubbish there actually was.

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 are more aware of what people leave behind and how bad it can be for the animals (especially when combined with stories like Celia the Seagull or Octanauts on rainy days - double impact!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Stash your rubbish somewhere it won't blow away and take your rubbish home with you.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Latitude - S 37° 41.8307' / Longitude - E 176° 17.083'

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? broken deck chairs and ride on kids trike

“After many rained out attempts, we took our sea cleaners kit along with us when we did our dune planting in Term 2 - a great opportunity for the tamariki to see that we not only need to support regeneration of the dunes, but that many people use the dunes as a rubbish bin! They had a real surprise at just how much rubbish is dumped or blows into the dunes and is trapped there until someone takes it out. Great learning experience for the tamariki :)”

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