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CERES reports from 3/4S

Excursion to CERES recount

By Aeon  3/ 4S

I rushed to school feeling excited and energised to go to my first excursion of the year: CERES! When I got there, everybody was talking about it as we got into the classroom. I collected my stretchy blue wristband and we hopped on the red school bus. I sat next to Declan on the bus.

We were going to learn about waste, dirty rubbish , sustainability and caring about the environment. CERES was in the city (Brunswick) an it took about one hour to get there so we had to wait a long time. Somehow it actually felt quite short!

When we got to CERES we had our brainfood under the rotunda while Kim gave us an introduction on what CERES is about.

Our first rotation was with Sukhada and she taught us about food waste. If you throw away food, it will go to a landfill and create a greenhouse gas called methane. Methane is flammable so it will heat up and create global warming. Did you know that $8 billion worth of food is wasted per year in Australia alone? Don’t waste food because ⅓ of the world's population is starving and you can’t give your food to them so the best way to help is to EAT YOUR FOOD!

Our second activity was walking next to the Merri creek with Dan. There was a lot of rubbish and polluted water but lots of trees and plants. The water was dirty because of the rubbish and the mud. Some of the walls were covered with graffiti. So respect the environment and do not spoil the lovely creeks and rivers with litter and paint!

CERES  recount  By  Quinn  3/ 4  S

We hopped on the bus, on the way to CERES I sat next to Chloe it was a very long ride. We sang some funny songs such as pink fluffy unicorns. We finally made it to CERES. We walked through the front gate to a little shelter for a fun introduction!

After the intro we went into our groups by the way I was in group 5 and we did a tour around CERES and talked about food waste. Then we went  to have snack. 

The next activity was the Merri creek walk. We went to look at the beautiful creek and talk about ideas to stop rubbish going in the gutter. We also saw trees that were replanted. We went to our next activity which was learning how long things take to break down, I didn’t know that glass takes 10,000 years to break down it was very interesting.

Then we had a big break for lunch I had a delicious salad wrap.

We moved to our next activity it was worms and minibeasts I found  3 millipedes, 5 butchie boys and 2 worms.

You also got to hold wiggly worms.

It was time to go to the bus so we could get back to school.

I think my favourite activity was learning about how long things take to break down.