Dyer Island Conservation Trust in partnership with CapeNature and the Overstrand Municipality ran a Marine Month Competition with the schools in the Overberg area, from Hawston to Gansbaai. October month was a national marine month.
This competition, organised by Pinkey Ngewu, aimed at enhancing the learners to understand the ocean systems, create awareness about our Marine Environment, the Marine Big 5 and in the process inspiring them to take care of our oceans. Dyer Island Cruises sponsored a boat trip as a huge prize for the top 30 winners.
CapeNature, Overstrand Municipality and DEA’s Marine and Coastal Management sponsored goodie bags containing caps, notebooks, stationary sets, lunchboxes and water bottles. Mike Gibbs the funder of the DEEP BLUE ambassador programme and Mr Stephen Walker, local resident of Kleinbaai sponsored the first three runner ups of the competition with shopping vouchers from Spar supermarket. The response was great especially from Primary schools and the kids had a magical marine safari.
This competition ran in three different categories with exciting prizes!
Categories: Colouring competition - Grade 1 to Grade 3; Poetry competition - Grade 4 to Grade 7; Essay competition - Grade 8 to Grade 11.
The learners wrote a poem / essay about our oceans - impact of pollution - the marine BIG 5 - Ways how we can take care of the oceans.
They used their own imagination, did research and used facts and they went crazy.
WINNERS
Colouring - 1st Ntsako Sithole (Curro), 2nd Rachel Horn (Okkie Smuts), 3rd Ronja Conrad (Okkie Smuts);
Poetry - 1st Kaylin Robertson (Gansbaai Primêr), 2nd Meaghan McLachlan (Hermanus Primary), 3rd Nevellia October (Laerskool Gansbaai);
Essay - 1st Aimelize Geerdts (Gansbaai Academia), 2nd Odwa Mntakaziwa (Gansbaai Academia);
Special Commendation Humour - Tsoanelo Haarhof (Gansbaai Primêr), Dederei Johnson (Mount Pleasant);
Outstanding effort - Lara Strydom (Laerskool Gansbaai).
