Term 2: Student Council, Sustainable Coastlines and other Year 5 and 6 Student clean up Okahu Bay:

Over 100 students, parents and teachers went down on a cold Sunday morning to clean up Okahu Bay. Initially it looked as if the beach was very tidy rhat was until the students started to dig deeper and managed to find several bags of rubbish.

The following day the students were able to audit the rubbish to look at what was exactly found. The rubbish that was found ranged from rope all the way through to appliances, however some of the bigger contributing factors were: Cigarette packaging and lighters, caps and lids, food wrappers and plastic containers, as well as medical products.

Although in the grand scheme of things our change was small but it still managed to make a difference. Our next focus will be to complete the clean up again next year during the same time and compare results.