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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 "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.

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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 11 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 11 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 11 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 the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) ?

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 11 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 11 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I loved the gloves and am excited to take them home", "I want to start cleaning up under the underpass too because there is so much rubbish there!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves - something to give the students to keep

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Positive - students are often finding rubbish around the school at break times to help clean up our area.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Tidy kiwis!

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

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, Park, 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? Old toys - who would leave toys around? Why can't they be donated or looked after

“It was a great little kit with everything needed! The bags were a great size to collect the rubbish around and the gloves were so adorable. The posters included were egaging and the students loved sticking the rubbish onto the sea animals.”

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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 gloves were great to keep us safe. It was amazing to see the waterfall by walking through the bush and to collect rubbish on the way.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves - to keep the children clean and safe.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Two

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has reminded us that while we're a Green Gold Enviroschool, we can also take care of our community.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we can work together to clean the community.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 174.70900 - Longitude. -36.773700 - Latitude

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, Native Bush

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The tyre because the children had to dig it out of the ground.

“It is a great kit to teach and learn about the importance of being kaitiaki of your local community.The”

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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 is scary to think that my rubbish can end up in a sea creature, It made me think more carefully about what I do with my rubbish.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster art provided a great visual of the impact their rubbish can have

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We collected 1 bag of rubbish around our village but will be doing another collection at our local beach in Term 4.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has made them realise their actions can have a profound impact on their environment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Kaitiakitanga and responsibility

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 40.5427S, 176.1910E

What was your cleanup location type? Other

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The students found items that we could not identify which got their imaginations going

“The Sea Cleaners kit was very useful and is going to be used throughout the year. It provides a brilliant understanding of how they treat their local environment can have an impact on our oceans.”

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Posted 1 year ago