Grade Two Step Ahead: Coastal Clean up day.

After a lovely 2 week break it was back to work for the final term! A hectic week getting the kids back into the swing of things in what I hope will be a more restful and less stressful term ( high hopes with reports, concert and Eco file looming!) As it is Coastal clean up week we ended the week off with a clean up of the lagoon area. We took a walk up to the lovely walkway overlooking Thesen Island and boy did we pick up a lot of litter and junk. Each piece had to be recorded by the group leader so that we could tally up the types of litter found for the Nature Conservation Group. The children did feel so important with their clipboards, gloves, bags and were very earnest in their duty. When we were 'all done!" We dropped off the litter at the waste depot and were treated to a demonstration of the conveyer dumping the rubbish into the compactor. The rubbish in our town is road railed to Mosselbay to be burned as we no longer have a landfill area. In order for it to be cost effective the rubbish is compacted before it is loaded onto the trucks.