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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'm glad we had gloves" "I didn't think I could fill the whole bag but I did in one afternoon. Gross!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the inforgraphic was great to see just how much we had collected.

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 aware of how much of the rubbish was in the drains.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are more aware of their local environment.

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

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, Green Space, Reserve, Park, School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? a knife

“Great to have the gloves, bags and infographics. The resources sparked some great conversations.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The wind and the rain make the rubbish go out to the sea. This can be bad for the sea creatures as they think the rubbish is food or can caught in it.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves- they loved having their own special pair that added into our daily routine. They spoke a lot about the learning with their whanau.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The students understand being a kaitiakitanga and have been thinking about how to reduce lunchbox rubbish in our school.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A key understnading of how the rubbish can travel and the impact that rubbish has on our sea creatures.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 174.79E, 41.30S

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, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Lots of rubber- where did it come from?

“Our Year 1 and 2 students loved using the gloves to collect rubbish daily. They enjoyed the activities that showed how the rubbish can travel from our school into the ocean.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them One child said we saved the sea creatures. Another said if we didn't clean up the rubbish seagulls could have choked and died.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and bags were amazing due to the ability to actually get out there and do the job.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Lots of language around being kaiakitanga in our HB

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Caring for our environment

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 43°30'11.7"S 172°43'49.7"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, Straws, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A pair of shoes! They looked like quite nice ones.

“We loved using our Sea Cleaners kit out at New Brighton Beach in Term 1 of this year. We managed to find a huge amount of rubbish hiding in the sand dunes! We felt we saved lots of animals from danger and death.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "My family were so interested in what we were doing at school, we decided to go to our local beach and pick up rubbish so it didn't harm sea creatures. We are going to do it every weekend"- Zayne. "I loved how we got to go out and do things that will make our environment safer for us and all the other things that live in our world"- Jason

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having all the gear for the actual clean up day was really beneficial - gloves, bags etc

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We actually ended up going to our local wetland area with out entire team over the course of a day to do a big clean up. Some of what we collected was garden waste so was spread back or composted. But in total, we ended up with 9 bags of rubbish across the group.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Hugely! As mentioned above, some have even grown it into their families as well

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How important the health and wellbeing of our planet is for their future

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -35.759,174.365

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, Native Bush, Green Space, Reserve, Bare Land

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? Nothing super interesting but lots of chip and processed food wrappers

“My class absolutley loved doing this kit. As a group, they are real eco-warriors and enjoyed the challenges and activities posed within the kit. Being outside, invovled in solving real-world problems allowed the children to see possible opportunities to further their thinking moving forward - some have even got their whole family on board and are doing weekly clean ups along the shore near them. Highly recommend this kit and will definitely do again.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We take care of the ocean and the animals. We need to take care of the gifts God has given us.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and bags as they were high interest to the kids

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? My class is still little but they are beginning to grasp the idea of taking care of the land we live in and how creatures can be hurt if we do not do our job.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I hope they will grow and develop the ideas we established here - as they move through the school

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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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? It was general beach rubbish! Our beach is relatively clean due to the area we live in and the effort people make to take care of the beach.

“I used the kit with a year1/2 class. The kit was amazing and very high quality. It was easy to use and there were so many ideas that came out of the teaching and learning we were able to do with this. I would highly reccomend this kit.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I never knew how dirty the beach actually was." "We have saved the rubbish from making it into the ocean, we have helped protect the sea creatures."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? gloves, sea cleaners poster

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? More likely to pick up litter they see lying around the school.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Great memories of trip to beach and what we found.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 37S 176E

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? plastic bead from the Rena disaster.

“This kit is awesome. So great having the gloves and rubbish bags provided. The posters that you can collate the types of rubbish you found are great so that you can reflect on the days clean up.”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "plastic bottles can go to the sea and make sea animals dead, I don't like that." "I want to make the sea better and not put trash in it."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The videos that showed the impacts

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We didn't manage to get to this part

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? My class is much better at recycling properly, and washing their recycling before putting it in the bin.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A sustainability focus and awareness

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

What was your cleanup location type? Other

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? N/A

“We used a lot of the compiled resources with our classes for our term inquiry. We got all the way to plotting our local waterways and making a mock river in our sand pit. Unfortunately we ran out of time to do the big clean up (and we did mini ones along the way of our school anyway).”

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Posted 8 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "Could I please have some gloves" and do this at home as well" From Maila "I can help, look at what we found around the school" From Noah

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having the gloves for the kids to wear.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? They only filled it about a quarter so there wasn't much around for the school

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are excited to be able to do their part

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To be able to do their part regardless how little they did.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Just around the school do it wasn't too far.

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Nothing to interesting other than someone's wet sock

“This kit was good for the kids they enjoy picking up and doing their part to pick up rubbish. Unfortunately, we were unable to do this at a beach, so the students did this around the school.”

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Posted 8 months ago