Rubbish+Ranger+Launch

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RUBBISH RANGER LAUNCH On Monday at our 3-6 Assembly Mia Vincart and Kerim Dautovic (our Year Four Student Representatives) will be introducing our RUBBISH RANGER PROGRAM.

Good Afternoon,

My name is Mia Vincart and this is Kerim Dautovic. We are here to introduce the Year Four Rubbish Ranger Program. Our theme for this term focuses on litter, and the name we have given our theme is ** "What a load of Rubbish @ OurSpace". **

The Year Four classes have selected an area in our school grounds to observe police and keep clean. The general consensus is that our school ground with regard to the amount of litter is an absolute disgrace. The litter in our school is dropped by THE STUDENTS who attend our school.

A number of year four students and teachers have observed students quite openly dropping lolly wrappers, chip packets, fruit, and yoghurt and so on.

There are also a number of students who attempt to "hide" this unacceptable behaviour by dropping their litter, standing on it with their shoes, then quickly running off, hoping their litter will somehow magically disappear!

The Environmental Education Officer who works for Brimbank Council visited all the year four grades a few weeks ago and told us that when food such as yoghurt, bananas and other fruit that rots is dropped in the school ground, it begins to break down and when it does, it releases a gas, then when we breathe in air around this rotting food and it can make us very sick.

Our school grounds are not only unattractive and dirty looking, but extremely unhygienic, not to mention the embarrassment some teachers, the principals and office staff must experience when they welcome visitors to our school. These visitors usually include parents who are deciding where to send their children to school when they begin prep, or families who have arrived from another school or from another country altogether. How must they feel when they are taking a tour of our school and trampling on smelly rotting rubbish and seeing litter flying around in our school grounds?

The sad reality is ** OUR STUDENTS ARE DROPPING THE LITTER ** ; it doesn't just appear out of nowhere!!

The situation has become so serious that the Year Four Team has nominated ** RUBBISH RANGERS ** to police the littering habits of our students who choose to make our grounds look like a rubbish tip.

Mrs Harris has even asked for students to eat their food ** INSIDE THE CLASSROOM ** and ** NOT OUTSIDE ** because students drop food that rots and smells. Some students even flush sandwiches and other large food items in the toilets. Our toilets become blocked and the school has to pay lots of money for a plumber to unblock the toilet drains!!

Students will still purchase items from the canteen which will create rubbish and this is why our ** RUBBISH RANGERS ** will be out in force making sure all students place their litter in one of the ** MANY BINS ** we have in our school ground.

The litter our students drop is often picked up by the wind and the crows begin feeding off the waste and re-distributing the litter in other areas. The wind blows it over the school fences and into neighbour's yards. The rain also washes the litter into the drains, and the litter ends up in our water systems and out into the beautiful ocean.

Our marine life have been known to swallow medicine containers, and bottles because they think it is food for them to eat, many die, and many get very sick. Plastic bags floating around in the water strangle many animals. Human misbehaviour is to blame for this!

There needs to be a change in our rubbish disposal habits at Sydenham-Hillside PS and it is going to begin ** NOW! **

Please be kind to and help our environment. ** MAKE A DIFFERENCE ** !

On behalf of management, the year four students and teachers, I'd like to thank you for your time.

And remember, If you choose to continue littering our school grounds...the RUBBISH RANGERS WILL BE ON TO YOU!!

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