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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 One of the students asked me how we were going to decide who the winner was (we were collecting rubbish in separate groups) and I replied with, well the environment wins right? As we keep rubbish from going to the ocean. The student walked away saying, of

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves and bags, to be able to collect rubbish.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students felt like they were making a difference by keeping the rubbish out of the ocean.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Sustainability for the future of whitebait and river quality.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 37.0982° S, 174.9505° E

What was your cleanup location type? School

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? Milk bottles. We found about 15 of them around the school and couldn't figure out why there were so many!

“We were working with the whitebait connection program and as part of our action plan to keep our waters clean, we organized a rubbish pick up around the school. We used the gloves and bags to collect rubbish and then sorted the rubbish into groups to see what we got the most of. The students were really excited about the different types of rubbish they managed to collect and it was a great opportunity to use that excitement to make them feel like this activity was purposeful and had positive consequences for our environment.”

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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 liked finding lots of rubbish

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Learned to care for the environment

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Protect the waterways and oceans

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 2-5

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, Beach

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? Glass

“The children enjoyed using the sea, cleaners kit to clean up the local beach when they went on camp and a local stream”

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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 cleaned up all the rubbish so it didn’t go into the sea and hurt animals”. “I love going to the beach and it’s sad when there is rubbish here.”

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? My 5 year olds loved the gloves! The posters helped them realise the effect of rubbish on sea creatures.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We extended this to looking at the drains in our local village and the impact of leaving rubbish in our school environment- how it could blow into the drains and out to the sea.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? This was all shared with our whanau on seesaw and parents are supporting this at home. We are still thinking and talking about it. It wasn’t just a one off- these it is an ongoing legacy we regularly refer to.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -40.917563,174.978034

What was your cleanup location type? School, Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Piece of tyre!

“The kit was amazing! I teach year 1 and the students especially loved the gloves. We are really lucky to have the beach across the road from our school. It was really relevant to our team Wharemauku which is named after the local steam which runs into the beach where we collected the rubbish.”

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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 Realizational of what happens to plastic

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves... each child having their own.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Seversl part bags at the beach, 2 big rubbish bags from the bare land

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? More awareness about what actually happens to the rubbish that they just drop.When it ends up and what actually happens to it.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Recycling and putting litter in the correct place.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 40.4632° S, 175.2276° Foxton Beach 40.344055,175.628169 bare land

What was your cleanup location type? Bare Land, Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? On the bare land a sofa had been left along with various other pieces of household rubbish.

“Was a great activity to incorporate into our day at the beach.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Student A - ' Why do dog walkers put poo in plastic bags and leave them at the beach? That irresponsible!' Student B - I love going to the beach with my whānau and I always pick up rubbish. I don't want to swim where rubbish is and neither do animals and

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Adding rubbish to the posters really made the students think about what it means for marine life living amongst plastic pollution.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Engaging in the sea cleans created a sense of responsibility among the students toward the environment. They realise that their actions can have a direct impact on the health of both land and sea. This has helped to encourage the students to adopt sustain

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The students understand the importance of being Kaitiaki of our oceans and take the responsibility on with pride!

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 34.9924° S, 173.5094° E

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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? There were so many plastic bags with dog poo in them!

“The Sea Cleaners resource engaged the students and helped raise their awareness about the importance of protecting the environment. By participating in the sea clean the students saw firsthand the different sorts of pollution that affect our beaches. When the students actively participated in the clean up they had a sense of being kaitiaki who had ownership and responsibility towards the tāiao. The students were excited to share their experiences with friends and whānau raising awareness and encouraging others to get involved in similar activities.”

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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 .

Which kit components were the most impactful and why?

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Some of the children still clean up the school each lunch

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

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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? A pig head (We didn't actually take it back though)

“Year 5 and 6 loved the Sea Cleaners Day out. We went to Clarkes Beach and spent time cleaning up there. We were able to fill multiple rubbish bags. The children came back happy and proud of their environment. They still spend time cleaning up the fields weeks later.”

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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 realised how much of our own school rubbish gets blown into our stream" "There is so much rubbish in our local stream!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters were really attention-grabbing for students after they had stuck on rubbish.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Unfortunately, as stated above, we weren't able to do a proper clean-up due to the flooding around our school making the area unsafe to venture into. We focused on our school field instead and managed to get half a bag full.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students got an idea of the amount of rubbish from our own community that finds its way into our stream and then the impact it has on our environment. They were shocked and are now more knowledgeable and empowered to remind others to pick up their rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Students got an idea of the amount of rubbish from our own community that finds its way into our stream and then the impact it has on our environment. They were shocked and are now more knowledgeable and empowered to remind others to pick up their rubbish

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) Unfortunately, as stated above, we weren't able to do a proper clean-up due to the flooding around our school making the area unsafe to venture into.

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, School

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? Some household rubbish washed onto our field during the flood.

“Unfortunately, we weren't able to do a proper clean-up due to the flooding around our school making the area unsafe to venture into. We focused on our school field instead and managed to get half a bag full. We had to improvise a lot, but the students were still engaged in the message.”

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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 showed me that we need to look after all water not just one area. 2. There was so much rubbish left from others and it was damaging to the animals

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All of it.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 7 in total

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? A lot. They were shocked at how much rubbish there was.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To look after the land and wildlife

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

What was your cleanup location type? Other

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Nothing stood out.

“Was a good kit. We used it near the lake as we are too far from the sea but the principles were the same. Children couldn’t believe how much rubbish there was and what effect it had on the wildlife.”

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