BeachPatrol schools program
Educating our students today will lead to a better tomorrow
Educating our students today will lead to a better tomorrow
BeachPatrol regularly visits primary and secondary schools. We host educational sessions focussing on plastic litter and its impact on the environment and marine life
We can also take students out on a beach or street litter survey experience. During these exercises the students work in small groups along the beach or street to record the litter count and type using BeachPatrol survey sheets.
At the end of the survey the sheets are collated and the students spend time categorising and documenting the litter picked up in that session. This provides a great opportunity for raising awareness and helps inform how to cut back on common problem waste items.
| Activity Date | School Name | School Grade | No Students | Event Desc | Image |
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| 03 Mar 2023 | Port Melbourne Primary | 5,6,7 | 53 | A total of 53 students from 4th, 5th & 6th grades for 30 minute clean at New Beach. When asked the question Why would we want to pick up rubbish – their reply 'to keep the animals safe'!! |
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| 22 Feb 2023 | Newman College | 1st year University | 22 | A partial audit was conducted on what was collected: 36 glass bottles, 53 plastic bottles, 45 cans, 12 PPE/ masks, 42 straws, 86 bottle lids, 29 coffee cups/lids, 28 other cups/lids and over 1000 cigarette butts! |
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| 23 Nov 2022 | Camberwell High School | Year 9 | 20 | Approx 20 students performed a litter pick up along Gardiners creek. They collected 17 bags of rubbish plus 120 plastic bottles |
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| 16 Nov 2022 | Camberwell High School | Year 9 | 20 | 20 students from Camberwell High School were involved in a clean along Gardiners creek with 3145 Love Our Street group. They collected 26 kgs of rubbish |
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| 17 Aug 2022 | Glen Iris Sacre Coeur High School | Year 9 | 16 | 16 Students were on this clean on Gardiners Creek. They removed 988 pieces of mostly plastic litter, including 49 bottles and cans and 15 PPE items. |
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| 10 Aug 2022 | Glen Iris Sacre Coeur High School | Year 9 | 17 | 17 students went again on Gardiners creek to clean up rubbish. They removed 23 kilos, 918 itrems inc 27 glass bottles, 32 plastic bottles and 18 cans. |
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| 03 Aug 2022 | Glen Iris Sacre Coeur High School | Year 9 | 23 | 23 students were invovled in this clean on Gardiners creek trail. They removed 13 kg of rubbish over 45 mins. |
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| 27 Jul 2022 | Glen Iris Sacre Coeur High School | Year 9 | 23 | 23 pupils from Sacre Coeur were taken by 3145 Love Our Street on to the Dorothy Laver Reserve. |
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| 03 Mar 2022 | Albert Park College | Year 9 | 250 | BeachPatrol was contacted to meet with the whole year 9 class to teach them about plastic litter and its data collection. Followed by a 20 min beach clean. This was conducted over 6 classes over 3 weeks. |
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| 14 Jun 2021 | Mentone Primary | Year 1 and 2 | 50 | Mentone Beach Patrol was kindly asked by Mentone Primary School to give a talk about Beach Patrol, what we do and the problems with litter. They were a great bunch of kids who were pretty switched on and very eager to ask so many questions. The school promotes the Nude Food program where parents are encouraged not to use plastic packaging so I'm sure this rubs off onto the kids which is great. |
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