Greenhithe Middle School children go out for a litter free picnic

As part of our focus on 'Our community',
the Middle School children learned about how other children around New Zealand have looked after their neighbourhoods.

They then came up with the idea of
walking to Wainoni Park,
collecting litter on the way,
and having a litter-free picnic.

The children wrote letters to their parents
to invite them and ask for their help.

They even created tear-off reply slips for their parents to complete if they were able to come.

It was surprising how much litter was on the side of the road on the way there!

However, we thought the park looked quite clean.

Not a food packet in sight - we aimed to make our lunchboxes packaging-free

That pile of white bags in the front contains all the rubbish the children collected on the way to the park.