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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 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 7 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

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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 7 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.

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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 7 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "It was a burst of learning and the learning has inspired to me to look into water pollution and the health of our rivers. It was discusting to see our awa like that [littered with so much rubbish]. It was an amazing experience." - Ollie. "It was exciting to take a trip out of school, and it was scary to see how much people litter. It has taught me that we need to look after the environment more." - Emma

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having matching gloves looked awesome and brought the class together as a team.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class are more aware of the impact of pollution on the environment, and are thinking about the future and how they can make a change.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I think they will remember this forever!

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 39.5, 176.8

What was your cleanup location type? River

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? An entire car bumper (possibly brought downstream by the recent flood in the Hawkes Bay)

“Through the Sea Cleaners Kit, we were inspired to clean up our local awa. This was eye-opening for the students and a very powerful activity to encourage change!”

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Posted 7 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "Now the rubbish won't blow in the wind to the ocean" "So the dolphins can keep living"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The visual posters were impacting, also a practical component such as the rubbish bags and gloves where the students were able to actively engage.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? One and a half.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The students now feel actively involved in change.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It has front loaded our Term two of Sustainability, and was a great way to shift a study on personal 'Thrive' into animal life and the environment.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) latitude: 36.98869 Longitude: 174.84438

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? broken toys because the students realised this hadn't started out as rubbish, but eventually became so.

“It was very useful in our 'Thrive' study and is continuing to be of use in our Sustainability study this term.”

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Posted 7 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I like to pick up rubbish from the drain on my street using my really cool gloves. I'm really mad at the kids at my school cos they just drop rubbish everywhere.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves, bags, posters, physical resources that kids can independently use

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Hugely, to the point they want to start a campaign for bins to sort and recycle rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That it's up to us to do better for our environment

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -35.988436,174.4438797

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Helium bullets - great talking point about what they thought it could be.

“Great kit. Love the simplicity but impactful resources. Great kit to promote awareness of human impact on our waterways.”

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Posted 7 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Beach clean-ups are great because you can get out of the classroom for a day. HF We saw lots of yucky rubbish and lots of it was in places that were hard to get to. We found an old plastic toy. Someone must be missing it! LR

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves - keep their hands safe on sharp objects.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3 for our class, but they were totally full.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It was a good reminder of how far rubbish can travel and the impact on our whenua/creatures.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Fond memories of a trip to the beach to do an important job for our environment.

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What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, 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? Kids toys.

“Hi, There kit was great. It had plenty of gloves (for the kids) and bags to dispense rubbish into. We had to get another agency involved so we could get adult gloves so the parents/caregivers were able to pick up sharp things safely too.”

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Posted 7 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The students really enjoyed the videos about where the rubbish in our oceans end up. We knew about the great pacific garbage patch but weren't aware of the others. Other students really enjoyed the beach clean up saying they felt they were making a difference.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish analysis poster. The tamariki were interested to see what was being left in the area and looking to see if it aligned with new recycling rules in our area.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? One

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? As an enviro school, this kit fit really well with our kaupapa of sustainability.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The tamariki loved being able to go out and make a difference by doing a beach clean up. This

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 37° 48' 47.8" S 174° 49' 51.7"

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? We did the clean up after a long weekend so there was a fair bit of food rubbish left over.

“This kit was a great resource to have! My class were motivated to learn what they can do to make a difference in keeping our oceans clean.”

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Posted 7 months ago