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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 loved the gloves, we can pick up rubbish any time! I love the Te Reo on the paper bags.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Teacher support material and unit plan!

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Kids are taking part in beach clean up days and ghost fishing projects etc

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we need to care for our space and little bits of rubbish matter a lot!

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 41°17'26.2"S 174°53'40.1"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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Used diapers, jandals, filled dog poo bags

“Amazing resource! It fit so well in to our inquiry about Safe in our place, looking at the living world and taking action! Such great resources and teacher support material!”

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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 using the gloves to clean up all the rubbish. Grace The field looked so clean after we had finished. Kingston

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? We found using Google maps to show the local area really useful. They had a long talk about the area and were able to make connections about where they live and where their rubbish is going when it get washed into the drain system.

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 students were much more aware of how much rubbish they were creating and where it was going to go.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We can all make a difference to the ocean, no matter how small we might be.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -36.87, 174.856

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? We found lots of old supermarket plastic shopping bags and 4 and a half bottles. We found these interesting as they had been shredded by the mower! Plus plastic shopping bags have not been available for a long time.

“My Year 1/2 were really engaged throughout the Sea Cleaners Kit. They loved the idea that the were going to stop rubbish from entering the sea and help save sea animals. Thet were super excited to use their gloves and were much more proactive in cleaning up their Junior playground after completing the School Kit.”

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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 am picking up the rubbish in the park!" - 5 year old at lunchtime noticing the rubbish in the school playground and showing it to the teacher. "It is sad to see the litter in the awa!!" - 5 year old at the stream observing the rubbish in the awa.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The kids loved having the gloves with the words on them.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 bag.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We used the kit as a part of a school wide focus on looking after our planet, which has gone on to be a part of a longer term focus for the school.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They loved being out in nature, protecting nature but also just have a bit of fun.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 36.8779° S, 174.8568° E

What was your cleanup location type? Creek

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? It surprised us that there was soo little rubbish at the creek. We had cleaned it as a school previous and found sooo much rubbish.

“My tamariki loved the sea cleaners kit. It was a joy to see them out in nature and noticing the effects of humans on our 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 "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.

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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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago

How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?

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How effective were the components of this kit?

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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 11 months ago