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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 Although parents often make school lunches, students were able to educate them about why they should not use single use packaging which resulted in more waste free lunches at school. Students learnt where their litter can end up and the posters were good to highlight how many different animals can be affected.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The links to the students' pepeha because they learn and build on it each year and suddenly the river became very important. The videos are always engaging, the practical collection of litter and sifting and sorting.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We didn't do one big collection but it was ongoing for most of the term.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The students will now voluntarily pick up litter if they see it in the street. There is a steady increase in waste free lunches. We want to put pressure on the Senior Management team at school to think about minimising waste with all their fundraising initiatives - especially bought lunches.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They know that they can make a difference, however small. They need to walk the walk alongside talking the talk.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -43.30827, 172.59603.

What was your cleanup location type? 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? We have a lot of young people that use our school grounds during the weekend so always have a lot of extra litter on a Monday morning. The students were fascinated with the range of pods from vapes - especially the different flavours.

“We started with a flourish and watched the videos and identified all the waterways around Rangiora. The students really enjoyed the mockumentary - The Majestic Plastic Bag which resulted in the class walking around Rangiora and counting all the plastic collected in the grates of the storm water drains. We looked at where the different waste water goes and discovered that our school is contributing to the problem with litter from lunch boxes. We also went on a 'Waste of Time' EOTC run by the ChCh City Council that teaches students about the Material Recovery Facility in ChCh and ways to minimise waste. We have a waste audit every year as part of being an Enviro School but the students wanted to target single use plastic in lunch boxes. They collected data from all the classes and found out that about 40% regularly have no packaging and use recycleable containers. The students analysed what type of packaging was the most common and set to work to find alternatives. They made posters to encourage students to do the 'right thing' and presented ideas and information at assemblies to promote change. We had intended to go down to Dudley Park (our local skatepark) and collect rubbish from there but every time we organised a trip the weather was prohibitive.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We made such a difference and Mt Wellington looked so much better." We loved sorting the rubbish into piles"

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 6 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has carried on into the school playground

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How we can look after our water ways

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) As I no loger have this poster I'm unable to give these details at this stage. However, when I submitted this form last year I did give these details

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve

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? large plastic bucket

“This was very helpful and helped the students to get a clear understanding of how we can prevent rubbish going into our water ways.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them How can we help stop litter going in our oceans? Reduce our own plastic rāpihi. Recycle plastics. Pick up rāpihi around our kura and community. Tell other people not to litter (poster, mural).I will make it a better place by cleaning up rāpihi. The ocean looks bad. Something happened and people put their rāpihi in the water. Rāpihi got mixed up in the water. The sea animals will die. It’s bad for the all creatures in the water. Turtles are clumsy and plastic bags look like jellyfish and food. Seagulls get caught in bottles. I wonder who tipped the rāpihi in the ocean. I wonder if people just threw rāpihi on to the beach. I wonder if there was a sign. I wonder how it all got in the water. Collecting rāpihi. Picking up rāpihi and things that don’t belong at the beach. They are at Browns Bay. It is a good thing. They are helping animals not die because the rāpihi won’t get eaten by the animals. They are wearing gloves to keep their hands clean and not hurt by glass.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters - visual, shocking, able to use as an activity and to share as an awareness and celebration, Gloves - we used them so often.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10+ we reused the bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We decided to design and paint murals around our drains to stop litter entering our waterways.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will be able to keep the gloves but also will always be kaitiaki for our waterways and beaches.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) We are in Year 1-2 so didnt get to this part. We just took photos of the beach/ playground/ drains before and after etc

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, Park, School, Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Dog poo bags! There were so many of them left and hidden around. Not interesting as such - just disgusting.

“We really enjoyed the Sea Cleaners Kit. The gloves were such good quality and so helpful for our cleanup and subsequent rubbish sorting. The posters were thought provoking and interactive. Such great ideas for activities and lesson plans on the site which inspired a very in depth inquiry last term.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I didn't realise how much junk goes on our beach" & "now that I know more about rubbish polluting our beaches, I will be more aware of what me and my family do when we are here"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The whole kit gave us the motivation to discuss and then act in a proactive way to be more mindful of the beaches in our national park area

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 big one

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class always had a good attitude towards this however being involved in a very delberate action makes a longer lasting difference

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We hope that the awareness of and love for the natural gifts we have around us will stay with them

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 40.9906° S, 173.0257° E

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? hmmm .. not really sure!

“We used these to support an envionmental action in our 'piece of the national park' - super handy and helped the students hold things with more care to themselves really - no fear of anything prickly or sharp getting them. The are really strong and durable - once we used them at the beach we also realised that they would be great back at school with the gardens too! So they live on with many amazing uses!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I feel sad about how much people throw away in our dunes- especially the gross nappy! I thought some of our beaches were pretty clean which was cool!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters and equipment

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? All of the bags were filled, we even went along the stream and collected rubbish over a few sessions to fill them.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are a Green Gold school and the children are passionate about keeping the environment healthy.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will remember that their rubbish can end up in places where we want to be safe and rubbish free. they know that they must dispose of rubbish well.

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What was your cleanup location type? Creek, School, River, Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Dirty rubbish - very gross

“We enjoyed visiting the beach to collect rubbish. The children did this as part of their community service for the William Pike Challenge. they enjoyed exploring the beach. The bags and gloves were helpful and we learnt a lot about what forms of rubbish are on our beaches.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The gloves helped me keep my hands safe from picking up rubbish. I learnt a lot what plastic can do to sea life.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves as the students loved to use part of the kit.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? understanding the damage that plastic can do to sea creatures and birds. Made them think twice about throwing rubbish out.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They explained to others why to reduce waste .

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

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, School

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? bags of dog poo on the school grounds.

“The students loved the posters inculded. We picked up rubbish with the gloves and bags then had a good look at what the most common school rubbish was and what we could do to reduce it. Mostly it was plastics.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 'I can't believe how many pieces of rubbish we collected - we throught we would not get anything!' "I love that we get reusable gloves to use. It keeps our hands cleaner and we can use them again'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster and amazing cretures, the data collection and rfelection poster and the physical bags and gloves instantly engaged our learners in something because it was tangible - even providing disucssion on why they were paper rubbish bags

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It reminded us how careful we need to be and bought us back to reflecting on our own practices around lunch rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A fun memorable learning experience outside the classroom

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 37°42'24.0"S 176°19'02.2"E

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, 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? an entire duvet because it was gross and also full of insects

“This resource was great, user friendly, extended our learning from the sea to our local waterways and provided us with resources for a great beach, dunes and local area clean up. It links to Te Ao Māori and whanaungatanga of our environment. The. data collection poster provided context for reviewing our rubbish and focused our attention on details like the number of food-related packages and our relation to local shops/takeaway places etc.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Parents commented on their child's desire to continue to pick up rubbish while out walking with their whanau.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and bags were a real hit with the children.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Our class collected 1 full bag + a whole heap of wet clothing. The whole syndicate collected about 5 bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The tamariki embraced to responsibility of being kaitiaki for our school and local environment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They have learnt that everyone can make a dufference - big or small.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Sorry this was a bit beyond my 5yr olds - they were exhausted.

What was your cleanup location type? River

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? There was a lot of polystyrene. We decided it had blown from a building site. This lead to more discussions about whose responsibility this waste was.

“The Sea Cleaners Kit linked in so well with our term topic of Kaitiakitanga. The tamariki embraced to idea of becoming guardians of our local environment. We began by looking at how we care for our class, our school and then our community. The rubbish audit drew our attention to what kinds of waste we create in our class. The enthusiasm shown during our riverside clean-up was fantastic. At the end, it was difficult to get the children to leave and return to school. There was surprise at how many small pieces of plastic were along the river bank. During the term, we read many quality picture books about being kaitiaki and these stories led to quality discussions about our practices.”

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Posted 2 years ago