Merl+Day+Reflection

MERL DAY On the 21st of May Year Six participated in the MERL //(Meet, Explore, Research, and Learn)// day with 3 other schools from our area. They included St Therese, Sadleir, All Saints, Liverpool and St Joseph, Moorebank. Throughout the day we listened to three guest speakers. They were Peter Carroll who is the head of SCRAP (School Communities Recycling All Paper) he talked to us about recycling food scraps and also not to waste our paper.

We also listened to Melissa Harding; she was from the Liverpool Council. She spoke to us about getting more involved in the community, through activities such as planting more trees and fixing up parks and water ways.

Then we listened to Gary Burrows, who works for the Catholic Education Office (CEO). He spoke to us about reusing items and showing us how to minimise our use of resources and minerals.

We also met lots of different kids from different schools. We also participated in a number of activities. These included a getting to know each other activity, we read Uno’s Garden, played a game on the iPads called Wilderquest, planted our own plants inside a bottle (this is called propagation), and played a game in the hall where we had to sort out rubbish and put it in the correct bin. The last activity was looking at a worm farm. We talked about what worms could eat and what some of their features are. It was a very good day. We all left with a lot of information.

Written by Jhiselle Guatato & Joshua Dower