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.
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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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| 18 May 2021 | Port Melbourne Primary | Grade 3 | 80 | We conducted a 30 min presentation/dicussion with four Grade 3 classes this morning. It is amazing how much these little kids know. Gives hope for the future as they get older. |
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| 23 Apr 2021 | Melbourne Grammer | Prep | 80 | 80 Prep Students were brough out for education on plastic litter on beaches as well as education on 3 other beach environmental activites. |
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| 31 Mar 2020 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 | 33 | 33 Students from 2 Year 9 classes were given an intro to data collection by collecting plastic rubbish off a Port Melburne beach. Between them they removed over 1300 pieces off a 300 m long beach over 30 minutes. |
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