On Friday 29th May, students from Prep - Year 7 at Bloomfield River State School headed to the local beach, Weary Bay, for a Beach Clean-Up. The event is undertaken each term to fulfil the school’s commitment as a Reef Guardian School.

Students were well equipped with garbage bags, gloves (kindly donated by Tangaroa Blue Ocean Care Society) and data collection sheets. They began at Windy Loo and headed North 2.5km towards Plantation Creek. 

A grand total of 1592 separate items were collected and loaded into the school trailer. Plastic bottles, glass bottles, aluminium cans, plastic bags fishing line, foam pieces, plastic chairs and food wrappers were the main items collected and counted.

On Thursday 20th November, our whole school participated in our first beach clean-up.

Our bus driver dropped us off at Windy-Loo at Weary Bay Beach. With our gloves and bags from Tangaroa Blue, we walked south towards the Bloomfield River mouth. The Prep – Year 4’s walked along the beach and the 5/6/7 class walked along a dirt track that runs parallel to the beach.

We were amazed and shocked at how much rubbish there was lying around – especially on the dirt track. Some of the cans looked so old, we wondered how long it had been since anyone had cleaned up before us.

Bloomfield River School has joined the fight agains tht marine debris by organising a clean up event to be held on November 20th at their local beach of Weary Bay to the mouth of the Bloomfield River.

Students from Bloomfield River attended the Future Leaders Conference at Reef HQ in Townsville in September where they participated in a marine debris presentation. With their new found knowledge the students decided to coordinate their own marine debris clean up in their local area when they returned home.

We look forward to receiving a report and photos on what they found!