This week we had our final trip to our adopted park - William Green Domain.
The weather was not looking the best but we were determined to get a final visit in for the year.
Focus: HOW DO WE KNOW WE'RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
We want to start measuring the positive impact we are making on this space.
We can do this by counting the amount of trees we have planted and the amount of rubbish we collect.
We looked at the native trees we planted earlier in the year and saw they were quite smothered by weeds. We tried to squash down the weeds then put some dried grass as mulch round the base in a doughnut shape. We counted about 7 cabbage trees and 8 flax in the first section (up to the big tree).
After we had done that we did a quick "10 minute rubbish challenge" to see how much rubbish we could pick up.
Back at school (after we had dried off and had Milo to warm up!) we sorted, weighed and counted all the rubbish.
We collected: 177 pieces of rubbish weighing 4.23kg.
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| we sorted the rubbish out into piles to see what we had found... |
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| Lots of plastic bottles / hard plastic ... |
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| 122 pieces of soft plastic |
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| bottle lids |
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| and lots of other takeaway cups |
Going forward we will think about how we can reduce the amount of these items in our environment.
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