Beach Cleanup - Kwenda
On Tuesday, March 10th, the Kwenda Advisory from Barna Malark Middle School took part in a beach cleanup at the Rockingham foreshore as part of their Work and Study program on the topic of Water. The students spent the morning cleaning the beach, bush, and the sidewalk along it, picking up items such as fast-food trash, large plastic, microplastic, old toys, and more.
One of the exercises involved each student picking up three tiny pieces of plastic and lining them up in a row to see who found the smallest. This activity was inspired by the popular phrase, ‘take three by the sea’, which encourages picking up three pieces of trash every time you’re at the beach to help protect the environment. A group of students also went swimming to collect some of the trash from the sea floor.
Later that week, the students sorted the collected waste into five categories: recycled, rubbish, compost, containers for change, and secondhand shop.
They then completed a reflective worksheet, noting which rubbish went in which category and explaining why some items could be harmful to land and sea animals. At the end of the page, students had the chance to write a jingle, poem, or catchphrase.
“The Earth is crying as you smoke by the shore, I hope that her dying was all it was worth for.”
