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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 love having the gloves and I wrote my name on it." "We picked up rubbish to stop it from blowing into the sea."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The 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? They were motivated to put their gloves on to pick up rubbish.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We need to take care of our school environment.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 36.6066° S; 174.6786° E

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? Pieces of slushie cup straws etc from the fair.

“My class was very excited to each get their own set of gloves and eagerly labeled their gloves and stored it in their trays for easy access. We had a big fair at our school and our class used the gloves and bags and walked around the school picking up rubbish before and after the event; they did not want the rubbish to blow into the stream or the estuary nearby.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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 'The posters with the rubbish I liked as it made me thing of the animals to save'

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

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

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? less littering at break eating times

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Care for our planet

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

What was your cleanup location type? 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? Buckie

“It was fantiastic to get resources to support the chn to be a good citizen by looking after the whenea and moana/awa/whanga”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "It was crazy how much rubbish people leave one the beach!" "Why don't people take their rubbish with them. It's so bad for the animals."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish collecting gear made the biggest impact as we looked at the filled bags after the clean up and saw all the different types of rubbish left on the beach. The children were amazed at the different types.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We took extra bags and collected 7.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Everyone is more aware of the waste they are producing and what they are doing with their waste.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They want to protect their spaces for the animals and future generations.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -46.439954, 168.231314

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, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The micro plastics. They were amazed at how many pieces there were.

“This kit was amazing for my class to be able to see in real time the impact of peoples actions on the environment.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Wearing the gloves was fun - we felt important. The posters were colourful.

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10 bags -

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? As a Catholic School caring for the environment is one of our goals in our Religious Education Programme

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Still always important to be thinking of sustainability - we are now an Eco Friendly Satellite Nursery

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Mainly focused on school and outside school area ie, streets

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space, School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Nothing really - the students were aware of the tyoes of rubbish

“As we had used this resource before it was easy to manage - it was also used in our Junior Discovery to tidy up the school environment - the students loved wearing the gloves. It was and isd a good resource.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Loved having reusable gloves, items that supported

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Lots!

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Very positively

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Ongoing value of sustainability

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Our own creek and school area, waste audits

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, Park, 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? Lots of cartons that were non-recylable

“Loved this kit - very helpful with sustainability learning and local curriculum. Thank you!”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The children were able to shaire that their knowledge about our local ecosystem and waterways had improved and that they wanted to save all of the creatures living in the water - especially the turtles.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The children really responded to the videos linked in the school kit space. They also loved having their own gloves and special bags for the clean up. It really helped them to feel they were doing something important.

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 motivated to pick up after themselves and others when out in the playground

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They now know that all our waterways are linked to the ocean and have a drive to protect them and the creatures that live in them

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 43°29'30.0"S 172°34'56.0"E

What was your cleanup location type? Other

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A full bag of Dog poo got the best reactions and they were completely horrified by how much plastic was in the school

“Our students engaged in the clean-up at school after researching the waterways close to us. They were horrified at the amount of rubbish they found and were so proud to have rescued it from reaching the waterways. They absolutely loved being able to use some of the rubbish and their lunch box trash to create art and proudly showed them off to families during parent evening.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them It is amazing that we found all this rubbish in such a small space. Who knew all these drains led to the sea. How can we stop any more rubbish escaping?

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves, bags and support video links

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are aware of where our rubbsh goes

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They make choices about reusing and reducing their impact on their community

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 46.4057 S 168.3553 E

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

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? A mattress we weren't sure if someone was actually sleeping on it and it was too heavy for us to take.

“I was great to have the teacher resources and linking it to our local awa”

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Posted 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them When gluing some of our rubbish onto the turtle poster, students could see how much plastic could fit in such a small space and related it to the stomach of a turtle. They were upset and shocked.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters were for us as we have not yet done our water clean up. Whatever we found at school by river, could easily blow into the river and out to sea. Seeing it on the bodies of the sea life posters was shocking for the kids.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? From school, we filled a 5 litre tub.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students are more conscious of where litter goes that they see on the streets/playground/park. They have an understanding of where it may end up.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Our waterways leading to ocean, what 'rubbish' looks like (not just yoghurt pottles, and chip packets.

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) We are yet to do our creek clean up

What was your cleanup location type? Creek

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? It was all of the smaller bits of plastic that have been broken off of something larger. The kids realised that this rubbish was harder to see and how it could be easily flow down creek/stream/river to the ocean.

“This kit was great! Posters for rubbish to be glued on was great for students to contextulize where their rubbish ends up. We used this kit alongside our 21 day sea cleaners challenge which worked well as we focused on impact of litter to sea life.”

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Posted 11 months ago