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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| 05 Jun 2018 | Port Melbourne Primary | Grade 3 | 150 | Three classes were spoken to today on World Environment Day about plastic in the school yard ending up in the Bay. |
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| 22 May 2018 | Albert Park Primary | Year 5 | 70 | 9 BeachPatrol members split up with 70 students to conduct a plastics survey along the Albert Park foreshore. Items were counted and tallied to see which group found the most plastic. |
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| 08 Mar 2018 | Port Melbourne Primary | Grade 4 | 200 | Today we presented to three Year 4 classes for 30 mins each. Discussing plastic on the ocean, and its affect on various wild life such as Blue Whales, turtles and birds. |
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| 08 Nov 2017 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 | 2 | As part of their community involvement projects these students had elected to survey rubbish on a beach. |
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| 20 Oct 2017 | Mentone Grammer | Year 6 | 80 | Today we spoke for about 30 minutes on volunteering and on ocean plastic to the students. Two classes of about 40 in each class. |
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| 08 Sep 2017 | Melbourne City Mission | Vocational training | 10 | These students has asked their instructor about how to deal with cigarette butts around their grounds and outside the local businesses adjacent to their grounds. The instructor invited BeachPatrol in to talk about our butt surveys and what we had seen. |
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| 31 May 2017 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 | 7 | These students were doing part of a community program and elected to clean up a beach in Port Melbourne. |
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| 08 May 2017 | Broadmeadows Primary | Year 2 | 60 | With these little children, they were broken up into 4 groups then rotated through 4 different activities. BeachPatrol took them for one of the activities. We used a bucket of plastic beach litter that had been collected the day before, and went through its contents asking the kids what they thought about that type of rubbish item. We discussed things like if they thought many of that item were being littered, if so why? Were the items dangerous to marine life? How to stop using so much plastic in their lunch bags and at home. The spent a few minutes on the beach chasing waves and picking up some bits of plastic. |
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| 28 Apr 2017 | Albert Park Primary | Year 5 | 40 | This class joined also 10 BeachPatrol members on the S. Melbourne beach. There they were to collect beach plastic litter for their 'Creatures of the Bay ' art class. We broke in to groups of 4-5 and cleaned different sections of the beach for 30 mins. Each group had one student note down on a survey sheet what the other students were finding. At the end we added up all the tallies to see which group had collected the most. |
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| 22 Apr 2017 | St Kilda Primary | Year 5 | 30 | Today the students and parents went out to join the Elwood Beach clean. They picked up litter off a section of an Elwood beach and Rock groyne for an hour. Bottles and cans were sorted out, counted and recycled. |
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