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Malia Tomarata School finalist

Wow look at those big waves!

I can’t wait to go surfing but first I need to wriggle into my wetsuit and put on the leg rope.

I grab my enormous board, it is Soooo big – it is hard to carry!

Remember to look out for rips. Rips can drag you all the way out to sea if you don’t watch out for them.

Slowly I walk into the freezing water then I jump onto my board and start paddling slowly through the rough waves.

I get out past the breaking waves, then I turn and wait for a good wave.

Here comes a good big one and I wait for the big wave to catch me. Just a few seconds later the big wave is right behind me.

Quick, start paddling as fast as I can so that I can catch that wave.

My board slides through the water as I stand up. Carefully, woo put your arms out to stop that wooble. It may look easy to stand up but it is very hard.

I go zooming into the beach like a racing car.

Then crash!

 I tumble into the rolling waves and grab onto my board.

Wow that was great!

 I turn my board around and start paddling out through the rolling waves again to catch another great wave.

I love surfing. Standing on your board as the wave catches you and you go gliding through across the water like you are flying is awesome.

Malia

Nadia Tomarata School speech finalist

On windy days at Tomarata School there is litter blowing around everywhere! – paper, gladwrap, muesli bar wrappers and small chippie packets.

It looks horrible.

How can we make our school litter free?

We can make less litter if we use containers instead of gladwrap.

You can use lunch wrap instead of gladwrap.

Did you know that gladwrap never breaks down in the landfill? So don’t use glapwrap or there will be plastic rubbish everywhere.

You could make your food instead of buying it in a packet. That will be cheaper for you and we will have less rubbish at our school.

I think everyone should not litter at our school and if you have a litterless lunch with no gladwrap or wrappers or plastic bags then we would have no litter at our school and we would have less rubbish in the landfill.

Can you make a litterless lunch?

Yes you can!

Nadia

Lisa wins the interschool speech finals!

Why Do People Litter?

Look at all that litter on the ground! Empty packets of chips flying around in the wind. Squished fruit on the steps – Yuck that looks disgusting! Someone’s crusts that they don’t want to eat. Gladwrap flying across the deck. Why do they litter? Because they are too lazy to put their rubbish in the right bin. That empty packet of chips should stay in your lunch box. Don’t drop your fruit on the ground so that someone slips on that banana! Put it in the compost bin so the worms can have a tasty treat. Eat your crusts you big baby! Or you could feed them to the worms in the compost bin. Don’t even bring gladwrap to school, use wax paper around your sandwiches or you could put food in to containers. But don’t leave your containers at school. I think everyone should just put there rubbish in the right bin and not litter. If people keep on littering our school is going to be a rubbish dump. Would you like to go to school in a rubbish dump? No way! So don’t litter, think about having a litterless lunch. By Lisa.

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