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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| 06 Mar 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9F | 23 | Today we took another 23 students from class 9F down to the beach near their class room. They were introduced to the concept of recording plastic litter types to be able to tell a story in their semester report of what types of litter are on the beaches. This was followed by them conducting beach clean up in teams with each team recording the types of litter the collected. At the end this was collated into one master sheet. |
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| 01 Mar 2019 | St Louis de Montford | Year 6 | 100 | 30 min presentations were made to each of two year 6 students talking about plastic in the oceans and it's impact on wildlife. They were quite aware of this topic which was great to see. |
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| 01 Mar 2019 | St Louis de Montford, Aspendale | Year 5 | 100 | 30 min presentations were made to each of two year 5 students talking about plastic in the oceans and it's impact on wildlife. |
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| 27 Feb 2019 | Firbank Grammer School | Year 9 | 22 | An 8 week program was started off with Firbank to introduce them to keeping the environment clean. The first session was in a auditorium introducing them to BeachPatrol and Love our Street. They watched a showing of the BayKeeper movie about Port Phillip Bay and plastic pollution. They conducted a short clean of the school yard and collected 541 items of litter, mainly ship bags and the likes. |
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| 27 Feb 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 C | 14 | 9C were presented with a discussion on Data keeping of litter on beaches. A beach clean followed with the collecting data for them to enter into the Litter Stopper App. |
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| 27 Feb 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 E | 18 | 9E were presented with a discussion on Data keeping of litter on beaches. A beach clean followed with the collecting data for them to enter into the Litter Stopper App. |
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| 25 Feb 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 G | 13 | 9G were presented with a discussion on Data keeping of litter on beaches. A beach clean followed in Port Melbourne with the collecting data for them to enter into the Litter Stopper App. |
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| 23 Aug 2018 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 | 40 | Two Yr 9 Classes came out as part of their environmental program. Half were taken on a beach clean and the other half were taken on a street clean. Items collected were sorted in to 15 different categories so the students could see which were the more common littered items. |
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| 09 Aug 2018 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 | 35 | Another dual class litter collection. One class was taken down to a Port Melbourne beach and the other went around streets around Bay St. They collected and audited the litter types as the went. The students were given an appreciation of the amount and type of litter around. |
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| 05 Aug 2018 | Duke of Edinburgh Student | Year 9 | 1 | We offer students a community volunteering opportunity for their Duke of Edinburgh leadership requirements. They do 12 weeks of 1 hour per week on a beach survey and litter collection. This is Rads cleaning plastic out of a rock groyne in Port Melbourne |
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