Last Friday our classes went to Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē to do a beach clean as part of our Seaweek learning. We split into 2 groups and walked approx 2km either side of the ramp, picking up any rubbish that we could see. We picked up a variety of plastic rubbish including clothing, lighters, cigarette butts, lots of pieces of foam along with some alkathene pipe and a car part.
We were pleasantly surprised to only gather 1 bag of rubbish over that 4km distance however when this is put into perspective, NZ has 15,000 kms of coastline. If we were to pick up a bag of rubbish every 4kms, that would be 3,750 bags of rubbish. Something to think about!
A huge thank you to our whanau who supported us on the day with supervision and transportation and to the students who were fabulous 'Sea Cleaners'. The students certainly enjoyed their time outside the classroom and as an added bonus, they saw Miss Kolland too!
Oh dear that is alot of rubbish! Well done Te Manga
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