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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 like how we worked as a team to collect rubbish." "I felt good cleaning up rubbish to help save the environment." "I liked collecting rubbish so it wouldn't blow into the sea."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves were a bit hit with the children and it was great that they were able to collect rubbish without handling it directly. The posters were a great visual reminder about what can happen to rubbish if left to blow into the sea.

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 children are now thinking more carefully about their plastic use and are quick to notice and react if they see rubbish in the school grounds. rubbish

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? An awareness of the harm rubbish can do. A desire to re-use, re-purpose, re-cycle and to avoid plastic when possible.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? Half an hour initially but it is on-going.

What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -41.304050/174.823251

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? No one piece.

“A great kit. The children in my class were very excited about the idea of doing their bit to help keep their environment tidy. It has made them much more aware rubbish and of plastic usage in general.”

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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 "I really liked going down to my beach and helping pick up all the rubbish." "It was really cool putting on the gloves and picking up plastic with my mum at the beach. I'm going to go back down to the beach and do this again on the weekend with my dad."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tamariki really liked having their own gloves. Many of them said they would be using them again to go and pick up more rubbish from our local beach.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The tamariki have learnt about the Māori view of their beach and the creatures that live there. They know that keeping the beach clean of rubbish will help the environment and sustain the diversity of sea lie that we have in out local area.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That looking after their beach is important.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Lat. -41°23'47.07" Long. 174°2'35.51

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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? A shoe - as this was an easily recognisable human produced item.

“A great resource that supported our teaching regarding diversity with our NE/Yr1/Yr2 class.”

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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 I don't have exact quotes but one child talked about how they like to come and play at this beach and how he was excited to tell his dad that he helped to keep it clean. Another child was really excited to compare how much plastic and glass we found.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and the bags, they were great tools to motivate children to get involved and also something (the gloves) that they could take home.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? they were all very proud that we managed to get every bit of rubbish off a beach.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They were surprised how much rubbish there was on a local beach

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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, Tin Cans

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A discarded road sign holder. We weren't sure what it was and everyone wanted to find out what it was.

“This was a great way to link sea week with a visit to a local beach. The most useful items were the gloves and the rubbish bags. Thank you for providing these resources :)”

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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 The students loved the hands on aspect, especially having their own glove. The posters were helpful to show a visual of the waterways.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves because it gave the students an authentic experience.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Our class of 100 collected around 5 bags of rubbish from the park and local reserve near the river.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students are far more aware of how they can impact positively or negatively the environment and how our actions have an impact on wildlife and animals that do not even live close to school.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Students are far more aware of being a Kaitiaki kid - caring for our environment for years to come.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? 2 hours.

What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) N/A - our students did not get to this part of the learning.

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

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? Students found pizza boxes that had been left 1 metre from a rubbish bin

“We used the sea cleaners kit to learn about our local waterways. We took the gloves to the reserve close to school and picked up rubbish around the edge of the waterways preventing this rubbish from blocking and polluting our local river.”

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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 1) I liked finding all the rubbish! 2) Lots of things I found people had put there. It could go into the stream.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The ability to sort the rubbish and record what it was. The ease of using the kit was really helpful for us.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 ish

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are understanding they are kaitiaki and keen to clean up all the rubbsih at school as they can see how it can affect others and sustainability. I think sticking the rubbish on the pictures of animals really helped them understand

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Our rubbish can go into the river and sea

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -36.806664761649245, 174.73508890839886

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

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? An old picnic table deep in the bush, it made the students wonder how it got there. A large metal pole that took 5 children to move as they wondered who would put it there.

“This kit had everything we needed to do a trip to clean a local environment. The support from school kit was amazing and the children loved it.”

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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 The students loved it. They have started making their own lunchtime club to pick up rubbish and have made posters in their own time. They are taking action.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and bags. Students loved being 'hands on'.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 5 (so far)

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students have started to make posters independently about picking up rubbish and have organised lunchtime pick ups etc.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To look after the 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? Park, School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Nothing that interesting - just interesting and sad how much there was.

“Highly engaging”

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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 I couldn't believe the things people dumped at our local rivers and sea! I have been get my parents to help me collect more rubbish when we are out on the weekends!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The hands on collecting, as they couldn't believe just how much rubbish people were dumping at our rivers and beaches, they were shocked by the massives piles at some areas!

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has opened their eyes to how big the problem is, and many students have conducted inquiries around this as a result on the impact of our river and sea creatures.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How important it is to dump responsibly (and legally!)

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -43.8983 171.7301.

What was your cleanup location type? River

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The kids were fascinated by the old bike, they were curious as to whether it had been dumped, stolen and dumped or just a result of our previous floods.

“The kids loved the hands on aspects of this and was really powerful for them to be contributors to minimising rubbish. It made them more aware of their surroundings and kaitiakitanga.”

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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 was so fun, says Ryan. It was the most amazing learning thing, says Aaron.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves and rubbish bags

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes definitely.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That if we want a change, we need to take action.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup?

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

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

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Ziplock bags

“We have been working on community and the students wanted to connect Maramatanga and do more for our school community. Going out and collecting rubbish was a great way for them to feel helpful and involved in making a change.”

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Posted 1 year ago