Last week, our entire school took the bus (or van) down to Waitārere Beach.
Olivia and Nate from Sustainable Coastlines came in first thing in the morning, and spoke to our whole school about what we were doing and why we were doing it.
We were then broken up into 2 groups – years 5-8 and years 1-4. The year 5’s went first and waited for everyone else down at the beach
When everyone got to the beach, most of us were able to put hi-vis vests (there wasn’t enough for everyone to have one) as well as a pair of gloves because we were going to be picking up rubbish!
The year 5-8’s then hammered pegs into the ground about 50 metres apart and then walked along as a huge group picking up any rubbish that we saw.
The year 1-4’s were on a different part of the beach, we were in smaller groups walking amongst our boundary looking for rubbish.
The year 1-4’s also got to build sandcastles, while some of the year 5-8’s did a running race along the beach.
The coolest thing that was found was a MASSIVE pumice rock, that was way bigger than all of our heads!
When we got back to school, we put all the rubbish we had found on a tarpaulin – there was over 300
pieces of rubbish!
What we learnt about this is that we should always take our rubbish home with us when we leave somewhere as the environment is just as important as us!
