Throughout the school, the children took part in a number of activities to celebrate Earth Day, 2012. In our Friday assembly, Year 5 introduced Earth Day with a presentation, Year 1 told everyone some facts about how they could help to ‘Save our Earth’ and Year 2 talked about how sea turtles are becoming extinct and the dangers they face, such as rubbish in the ocean.
On Earth Day for the past 3 years, The Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association has organised a ‘TCI Shines Earth Day Clean- up Campaign’. Donning gloves and raring to play their part, the children in years 3 – 6 collected rubbish outside the school perimeter fencing, around the TCIFA soccer field and up to the Graceway Sports Centre. The children in Years 1 and 2 collected litter from around the school playground.
The children filled approximately 30 large trash bags in total – almost all with rubbish collected from outside the school grounds. The photo on the left shows the children with just a few of these bags. The children were upset to have found so much rubbish that people had littered in our area, but felt happy that they had helped clean up their surroundings.
