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I have had over 100 students from year 1-6 working with the sea cleaners kit. These are pullout enrichment groups, so we took turns with the gloves etc. First we learnt about our local sea - the Hauraki Gulf. I loved the idea to do our Pepeha - some of the younger kids had not done theirs before and it gave us all an understanding of each other as well as the importance of our connection with the land and bodies of water. We used a great video from young ocean explorers about pepeha, where tiki talks about his. The kids loved the pepeha creator website too. We thought about where rubbish might come from and what impact it might have. One of my groups (25 children) were lucky enough to have an experience with the virtual reality goggles of the Blake nz trust - wow - such an impact to see healthy sea versus unhealthy. The kids were horrified to see rubbish and lack of sea life in the ocean around the city. Each group decided to be responsible for cleaning a different area - around our school, the open stormwater drain that runs around our school field, and the park across the road where the stormwater drain continues on its way towards the beach. We were surprised at how much we found. At first glance it looked pretty clean, but when we looked closely we found a lot of rubbish. There were so many Little plastic corners of food packaging. Kids then decided on actions to take - making posters, videos, powerpoints, writing stories. We put information and a story in our school newsletter so that the rest of our community will hopefully think to help - by creating less rubbish and by picking up rubbish they see. I have a lovely caring bunch of kids- thank you school kit and sea cleaners for empowering them to make a difference!

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We completed our Sea Cleaners kit on the shores of Lake Taupo as we finished our Y6 camp yesterday. It was a lovely way to finish our camp, by doing a service to our community. Interestingly, we found very little which is a testament to the clean up from Ironman70.3 which was held last weekend.

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As part of our recent camp at MiCamp Lake Taupo, we spent some time on our beautiful lake with some games and activities. We have had a strong environmental element throughout all of our topics this year and so the children were very happy to do a service to the community and pick up rubbish. We chose an area that we based ourselves at for the day. Incidentally, an Ironman event was held the weekend before and so we were curious to see what rubbish we could find. In actual fact, the students were really impressed as we found very little plastic, but mainly bottle lids and cigarette butts. Having the gloves to use was fantastic as we obviously don't want to touch objects that have been in peoples mouths. The adults on camp with us were impressed at the thoroughness of the clean up and also the attitudes the students displayed at looking after our beautiful lake. Thanks School Kit from St Patrick's Taupo. We enjoy the thought provoking discussions your kits provide our community

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This resource was amazing. The students really understood the message behind the kit and cleaning up around our local stream was a real eye opener for them. Thank you so much for being given the opportunity to use the kit. The resources will be treasured and shared with our next years students too. Have a great Christmas. You guys do an amazing job!!

East Tamaki School

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We had the sea cleaners kits. Our school of 515 students have been going to our local estuary to learn about our local environment and to look at the animals that live their as part of our schools science focus. We were able to combine this with a sea / estuary clean up thanks to the school kit sea cleaners kit. This added another dimension to our estuary visit and enabled us to focus on teaching the students about being Kaitiaki. We are very appreciative for the efforts school kit make on our behalf. We didn't find as much rubbish as we thought we would - which was pleasing - however we did find some, and we realised the impact this would have on the creatures living in the ocean. We took the learning back to the classroom and did some follow up work which involved looking at some very sad videos of oceans affected by rubbish, and marine life also impacted by rubish. Our students were very proud of the cleanup. The best find was an old rusty anchor.

Maungatapu School

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Room 2 & 3 Tapawera School decided to clean up their small waterway on school property including the school grounds. We sorted our collection into different kinds of rubbish and were amazed by what people threw away at school. Our school is looking at becoming an Enviro-school so this was a great way set the seen for next year. We plan to wash the gloves provided and keep our space rubbish free. Thank you this resource!

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The Sea Cleaners kit was such an engaging and topical project. The students decided to focus on the rubbish created after a big event at our school such as the Year 7 & 8 gala. We gave ourselves the task of the clean up afterwards and how eye opening was that. They made strong connections with the Sea Cleaners youtube clips especially about the turtles. As we were cleaning up the catchphrase as we saw a piece of plastic rubbish was "Save a Turtle" as they rushed to pick it up. The main outcome of this task - even though it was on school grounds - was to send a proposal to the Leadership team to ban Water balloons in any future event. Powerful student voice

St Columba’s Catholic School

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What an awesome learning opportunity. Room 22 decided to clean up the nearby park and our school grounds. We only managed to collect one bag full, so we were pleased that our community was starting to think about their rubbish.

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Thank you Healthy Active Kids for our Sea Cleaners kit. We chose to clean up our school and the surrounding roads in our rural community.

My class were hooked last week after learning about ocean confetti and the affect it has on sea life. Last Friday we made our mock river systems and today we did our clean up. We thought that cleaning around our nearby creeks and lakes would be a good start.

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My new entrants class had a very successful neighbourhood cleanup last week. They are now a lot more proud of their neighbourhood and understand how important it is to place rubbish in the correct place! We collected 4 clean sacks, which rather stunned us all!

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This kit fitted perfectly with our Inquiry and it was great to have resources that were made for kids (they loved the gloves) We will use these again. We did a clean up at our local beach and the students were astounded at the rubbish that was lying in the dunes. They have been conditioned to not go into the dunes because of it being a delicate environment. It was affirming for the students to have the responsibility of carefully picking their way through the dunes to remove litter and therefore support that ecosystem. An excellent kit. Thank you

Oamanu School

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We went to the rec field beside our school with our buddy class to collect rubbish for our social action inquiry using the sea cleaners kit. Wow - we collected a lot of rubbish! Kids loved sorting it out, counting how much rubbish we had collected and turning it into art. It was a great way to learn about how rubbish damages the environment and wildlife.

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We were pleasantly surprised by the lack of rubbish we found in the green space area across the road from our school. This has a mown walkway that students walk through to get to school. This proves in Ranfurly we really are trying hard to be tidy Kiwis!

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Today we combined cleaning up Waiake with SUP BRO tours for an epic day out! Kids loved looking after our local backyard and are interested to see what we collected as a team. Roll on tomorrow to dissect our haul!

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Loved the Sea Cleaners Kit and how we can make a difference. Enjoyed our day at the beach for EOTC paddle boarding with Sup Bro and doing our but for the environment as well. We did learn that we are lucky at our local beach as there wasn’t too much rubbish! Will be interesting to sort it all tomorrow and see what we found and compare the different areas of the beach. So much fun and great conversations. Thanks for another amazing kit. You guys are awesome. We had some of our well being inquiry groups lead the learning with this one and they are super passionate.

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Hobsonville Point children enjoyed getting out into the community with parents and even grandparents to help clean up.

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We have loved Healthier Kids, Sea Cleaners Kit - huge learning and a bit of a shock at what was found. Great classification, collaboration and fantastic hands on learning. Our rubbish tables are underway and our stats data bank started. 

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