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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 "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

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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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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I liked wearing the gloves to pick up rubbish. We picked up a lot of rubbish on the beach, lucky it didn't go in the water.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster was great but the kids liked the physicality of wearing gloves and doing the work - hands on.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has strengthened their understanding of how we need to care for Papatuanuku and what we can do to help.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I am already hearing them say things like "pick up your rubbish before it gets in the drains'

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

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? An old plastic fishing net floaty thing - it was interesting because of the oral language generated from the students about what they thought it was.

“My class loved the kit, it was particularly timely as we were learning about plastic pollution in the ocean, beach cleanups and how to care for sea life.We ended our study with a Junior Team trip to the beach where we did a rubbish scavenger hunt and collection along with other activities. A well thought out kit which my 5 and 6 year olds enjoyed interacting with.”

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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 need to pick up rubbish so it doesn’t go to the sea and hurt the fish”“Our school looks much more beautiful “

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves were great for getting aakonga excited about picking up rubbish

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Growing our sense of kaitiakitanga for papatuanuku

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they can make a change

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

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? ? None

“A great kit for getting kids engaged with caring for the sea.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I liked looking at the types of rubbish in the playground and how we could decrease it." -AW. "It was good that we could do something to show our school what was happening with our rubbish and then make a change." - LF

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Chart to see the types and amounts of rubbish - plus we added a school map and coded things on there to make it relevant to us

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 full bags, a lot of which was organic material (leaves, sticks etc from recent weather events)

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Positively and we have been able to impact the school and create a school wide response.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? School wide response via our Enviro team to give each class responsibility for an area of the school to manage rubbish in

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Mellons Bay School grounds - to impact Mellons Bay Beach

What was your cleanup location type? School

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? Socks! Why were they there and how did the owner not know they had lost a sock?

“this was very engaging for my class. We broke into groups and each collected rubbish around various areas of the school. We classified the rubbish and loved at the amount of each type of rubbish. Using a school map, we made a key for the type of rubbish, the amount of rubbish and colour coded the areas of the school. We were then able to pass our findings onto the school at an assembly and challenge another class to re-do our collection survey a week later to see if, as a school, we had made improvements. The chart is hanging in the library and our Enviro Team have used this investigation to arrange areas of the school for each class to clean up every week and look for trends of rubbish being left in our school. As we are close to the beach and were looking into marine animals for our trip to Kelly Tarltons, we were also able to look at the consequences of rubbish being left in our school grounds and how it would affect our local environment. Great integration of many curriculum areas. Thank you”

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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 how we worked as a team to collect rubbish." "I felt good cleaning up rubbish to help save the environment." "I liked collecting rubbish so it wouldn't blow into the sea."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves were a bit hit with the children and it was great that they were able to collect rubbish without handling it directly. The posters were a great visual reminder about what can happen to rubbish if left to blow into the sea.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children are now thinking more carefully about their plastic use and are quick to notice and react if they see rubbish in the school grounds. rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? An awareness of the harm rubbish can do. A desire to re-use, re-purpose, re-cycle and to avoid plastic when possible.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? Half an hour initially but it is on-going.

What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -41.304050/174.823251

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? No one piece.

“A great kit. The children in my class were very excited about the idea of doing their bit to help keep their environment tidy. It has made them much more aware rubbish and of plastic usage in general.”

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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 really liked going down to my beach and helping pick up all the rubbish." "It was really cool putting on the gloves and picking up plastic with my mum at the beach. I'm going to go back down to the beach and do this again on the weekend with my dad."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tamariki really liked having their own gloves. Many of them said they would be using them again to go and pick up more rubbish from our local beach.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The tamariki have learnt about the Māori view of their beach and the creatures that live there. They know that keeping the beach clean of rubbish will help the environment and sustain the diversity of sea lie that we have in out local area.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That looking after their beach is important.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup?

What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Lat. -41°23'47.07" Long. 174°2'35.51

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 shoe - as this was an easily recognisable human produced item.

“A great resource that supported our teaching regarding diversity with our NE/Yr1/Yr2 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 don't have exact quotes but one child talked about how they like to come and play at this beach and how he was excited to tell his dad that he helped to keep it clean. Another child was really excited to compare how much plastic and glass we found.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and the bags, they were great tools to motivate children to get involved and also something (the gloves) that they could take home.

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 were all very proud that we managed to get every bit of rubbish off a beach.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They were surprised how much rubbish there was on a local beach

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

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A discarded road sign holder. We weren't sure what it was and everyone wanted to find out what it was.

“This was a great way to link sea week with a visit to a local beach. The most useful items were the gloves and the rubbish bags. Thank you for providing these resources :)”

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