Introduction

We are 5 year nine students from Sandringham college, we were all lucky enough to have been selected to go to the Alpine school term 3 2003. Our names are: (From left to right) Fergus Simms, Jasmine John, Chris Petzke, Jodi Ormsby and Tyler Johnston.

To be accepted to the Alpine school our group needed to come up with a community-learning project (CLP). Our CLP was hard to come up with at first, but eventually we all decided on a project that we all felt passionately about.

Project overview

We live in the Bayside area, near the beach it its became a concern of how much rubbish was getting into the water ways and effecting our waters and sea animals. We decided to investigate and discovered it was mostly coming from storm water traps.

We plan to make a program for primary school student’s grades 5-6, which will hopefully educate them about their area and how rubbish is affecting them. We also plan to try and redesign storm water traps in the future.

Project Detail

Goals and objectives –

To educate the Bayside community on the effects of litter and other substances on the environment.
Redesign the current storm water drain litter traps.
To protect and conserve Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary

Plan/timeline –

End of September - have Primary School presentation ready
October-December – do presentations at Primary Schools
October/November – contact recycled paper company for pamphlet
End of 2003 – have pamphlet ready for distribution
2004 – get support for redesigning trap
Our project has no specific finishing date

Benefits –

The Bayside and surrounding community as a whole
The plants and animals that live in the marine sanctuary
Our futures, and the futures of our children

Goals and Objectives

For our CLP (Community Learning Project), we propose to educate the entire Bayside community on the effects of litter, green waste and toxic chemicals that get constantly poured down our storm water drains and are destroying the environment, specifically the Marine Sanctuary at Ricketts Point. As part of the education stage, we will be making presentations and running workshops at local Primary Schools to try and show the students what not to do with their rubbish.

Upon completion of the education stage, we propose to redesign the current storm water drain litter traps, so that they are more effective and so keep the bay clean and safe for everyone to enjoy.

Plan/timeline

We plan to have completed the Primary School presentations and workshops by the end of 2003, as well as the pamphlet ready for distribution. Sometime during 2004 we plan to gain support for the redesigning stage of our project.

Benefits

Upon the completion of our project, we feel that it will benefit not only the animals and plants in the marine sanctuary, but also the people of the Bayside and surrounding communities, in that they will feel safe in swimming and enjoying the beach environment.

Sandringham College Alpine School Team 2003 CLP: educating the community on the effects of Storm Water Drain Pollution

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