Sunday, June 3, 2012

My Persuasion

                                              

Dear Parkvale School.
Each and everyday classes around the school put a heap of food scraps in the bin and the Food Scraps group from room 20 is here to help.

First of all the school is wasting too much food scraps a day. For example, when room 20 emptied out their rubbish bin most of the rubbish was plastic and the second one that had the most was food scraps. So we decided to make a food scraps group to help the school. In our group we decided that Natasha can bring a worm farm. We thought that if we had a fundraiser to get some money to help buy separate bins. It would be a great idea to put separate bins in each classroom so then we can collect the food scraps and put them  in our class worm farm to recycle.

Secondly the worms eat through the food scraps, so that is recycling with the worms. Having worms is also a way to make a garden grow with the wee that they produce by eating the food scraps that we provide for them. Also the food that they eat can be made into compost to be added to your garden. Also having a worm farm can save money for the school because we do not have to pay to take the rubbish to the dump.

Each and everyday, everyone around the world wastes a whopping amount of rubbish. It is very disappointing to see the amount of food scraps that go to waste a day. Here are some reasons why we should control the amount of rubbish we waste a day.

  1. It is a little unfair on the caretaker to pick up all of our rubbish, when we could take it home with us.

  1. Also parents pay for some really nice food and then the child chucks half of it out.
  2. We can save money by putting our food scraps in separate bins which will be transported into the class worm farm.     

I hope that you will agree with me and say yes.

Yours sincerely 

Felicity Johnstone
Room 20
The girls' Food Scraps Group

10 comments:

  1. Great Floss
    I like that you put lots of information about rubbish!
    Do you like persuasive writing?
    If you don't what is your favourite writing?

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    1. I do love to write persuasions, they are really fun and awesome to do.
      What is you favourite kind of writing?

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  2. Wow Flossy

    Your statement is pretty cool, I thought that having a worm farm is awesome.

    Courtney :)

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  3. What an informative piece of writing Felicity. We have a food waste bin at our house and we feed the scraps to the pigs. Please let Room 7 know how we can support your recycling ideas.

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    1. I will keep you informed.
      Room 20 have been put into different topic groups

      E.G.
      Litter Patrol
      Food Scraps (1)
      Food Scraps (2)
      The Plastics.

      It is good that you guys are already helping out with the environment with feeding the pigs and putting the food scraps in separate bins.

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  4. Wow, Emily great piece of persuasive writing. Room 13 are right behind you with this. We also have worm farms behind Room 12 and we want every class to have a worm farm so that alot of our food scraps need not go to the landfill.

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    1. Thank you for already starting a worm farm for team 3&4.
      Room 20 have been put into different topic groups
      E.G.
      Litter Patrol
      Food Scraps (1)
      Food Scraps (2)
      The Plastics.

      I understand that you have got muddled up and that I am Felicity not Emily.
      I do not mind that you got a bit mixed up.

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  5. Felicity
    First of all, FANTASTIC writing, your letter was extremely informative and clearly outlined your view point and arguments. My question is - How can I help? I think this is a wonderful idea, I know Mrs Sexton an Mrs Roil have pigs that can eat any surplus food scraps we collect. Give me a costing on the buckets you need, What sort of buckets will you use? How will you market it and educate the students in the classrooms?

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    1. Thank you and now to answer your questions.

      . You can help by supporting the school and even having a bucket in the staff room for food scraps that you might waste each day.
      . All we need is a normal bucket that would cost is about $2.00.
      . We will do posters to put around the school and then that will hopefully spread the word.
      I will get back to you soon.

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  6. Flossie
    you did an amazing job That looks like you was quit hard I hope that being in the food scarps group will help and we all work really well together :)

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