We learned lots about sustainability during eco-week this week.

First, we learned about water pollution.  Miss McCue asked Manahil to go outside and put mud in a cup.  Then, Laiba filled the two cups up with water.  We could see that one was clean and one was contaminated.  This made it obvious for us that the clean water was better and safe to drink.

Miss McCue drank the dirty water to show us that nothing will happen because it’s only mud. #LOL #YUCKY

Next, we learned about marine pollution.  Marine pollution is when the rubbish we throw away on land goes into the water and harms marine life.  More than 5 trillion pieces of plastic are found in our oceans right now.  We created posters for this and have entered them into Miss Brook’s competition.

Finally, we collated the results from our litter pick and created a bar graph of these results.

The results were shocking.  In total, we collected 811 pieces of litter in our school grounds in an hour.

We had to make sure our bar graphs were accurate and we used the correct scale.  We also had to include labels.