On a scorching hot Thursday mid-morning,  the Grade 7’s and 6’s took a brisk walk to Rondebosch
Common. Why? They were going to give it a good spring clean. We started out that morning at about
11:00am. It was a hot day and some people wore long pants because they were afraid that they would get ‘tick-bite-fever’ but it was not long before they regretted it. Loaded with plastic bags and rubber gloves we prepared ourselves for battle.

There were 44 children altogether, and Mrs. Masterson and Mrs. Dugmore were the supervising teachers. Together they helped us collect all the dirt that was scattered around the common.

There were things lying on the ground such as broken glass, pieces of newspaper, small sweet wrappers, plastic, cartons, tins and other things which did not belong there. We found many pieces of glass which are very dangerous because it is a great cause of fire. A large variety of things were found.

There is a team of friends, ‘Friends of the Common’, who get together and clean up the common twice a
week and even though they clean up, we found over 40 full bags of rubbish! A photograph was taken of us surrounding our 40 black bags. On our way back we were rewarded with Cokes that we each shared with a friend, it was very refreshing!