Rubbish Revolution #3

This idea for reducing waste may sound a little controversial. What if the school removed all the bins? This would mean that any rubbish from lunch boxes would need to be taken home to be disposed. Film created by Aaliya, Nuha, Sativa, Risa and Sherlyn.

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Rubbish Revolution #2

Here is another original idea from Room 5 on how to reduce waste at school. 

Film produced by Ansh, Hemish, Dev, Kishan and Arav.

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Rubbish Revolution #1

In response to reading an article about anti littering and our school's waste audit the children of Room 5 have come up with some original ideas to reduce waste in school. 

First up is a video by Sebastian, Espen, Eli, Israel and Jolui. 

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Waste Audit

The girls from Room 5 who are in the Enviro Force team carried out a waste audit with Ron from Auckland Council. A waste audit is when all the waste from one day at school is weighed and sorted to see what could be recycled instead of going to landfill. The girls found out that only 12% of the schools waste actually needed to go to the landfill.

Delivering A Speech

Room 5 had a very special guest today. Radio announcer and voice over artist Jennifer Bainbridge came in to give us some advice on how to deliver our speeches. She gave us many tips and tricks to help us deliver a prize winning speech, we will share her presentation but are keeping the extra tips top secret!!

How Many Seconds Are There In A Year?

Ansh our brilliant mathematician has worked out how many seconds there are in a year. Watch his video to find out. 

What A Load Of Rubbish!

Room 5 read a very interesting article on Kiwi Kids News about how anti-littering campaigns don't work. Click below to read the article

Kiwi Kids News Article

In response to the article we came up with our own suggestions of how to reduce the litter at school.

What a load of rubbish at Halsey Drive School.

Halsey Drive has been trying to stop people littering in our school. At the moment we have an enviro team that teaches other children to not litter and to protect the school environment, we have recycling bins in each classroom, we reward people for bringing smart lunch boxes and we also have signs and posters encouraging people not to litter.

But this is still not working! We still have litter in the playgrounds, sports fields, turf, gardens, classrooms and cloak bays. We have some new suggestions of ways to change people’s littering habits.

Sebastian - Punish those people who are caught littering with detentions.

Nuha - Use technology to make videos about not littering rather than making posters that may eventually get thrown away.

Israel - Enviro team use an I pad to take a photo of the people with smart lunch boxes rather than wasting paper writing names out.

Skye - Instead of printing lots of sheets teachers could have students read the work on devices.

Chantelle - Use more whiteboards in class rather than paper.

Kalani - Have more rubbish bins on the field and by the turf

Ansh - Weigh classroom rubbish every week and the class with the least gets a prize.

Espen - More rewards/better prizes for picking up rubbish, bringing smart lunch boxes

Sherlyn - Remove all the bins from the school. If people bring or create rubbish that can’t be recycled they have to take it home.

Arav - Replace bins with worm farms.

Samarah - Children should use more devices so they are using less paper, that often just gets thrown away.

Overall our school tries very hard to stop littering, however some people still continue to litter. We have come up with these suggestions as ways we could lessen our negative impact on our school environment. 

What do you think we could do to make our school litter free?