Harriet

media type="custom" key="9824887"media type="custom" key="9388596"media type="custom" key="8458366" align="left"Mud caked horses roll in the grass,birds sing cicadas chirrup in the hedges the fiery sun beats down on the paddocks. From the far end of a paddock come splashes and screams. A musty chestnut pony stands in the shade of a gumtree. It's mid summer the wilted flowers and brown dry grass are still there is not a breath of wind. Two horses walk slowly round and round the ring their riders sweltering in the heat. Flies are buzzing around everything. People splash in the pool it's the only way to keep cool,the riders in the ring are now lazily trotting up down up down..... as the splashes from the pool grow louder. O-zone destruction!!! The o-zone layer is a layer of air that surrounds the Earth. Theo-zone hole is a place over Antarctica where there is no o-zone, if this holegets too BIG it could mean disaster for the Earth. The o-zone layer is very important it protects us from the sun’sharmful raise. If it wasn’t for the o-zone layer the Earth would be burnt up bythe sun. In the 1930’s scientists didn’t know very much about the o-zone layerand knew nothing about an o-zone hole. When Thomas Midgley invented chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) peoplethought he was genius because before that fridges and spray cans kept explodingand were very dangerous. The problem with the chemicals in CFC’s is that they had a reaction tothe o-zone layer and were creating a hole in it. Scientists learnt in the mid1970’s that CFC’s were damaging the o-zone they banned them. Scientists were looking for o-zone damage but they were looking in thewrong places. They thought damage would be found above places that used CFC’s alot, but they were wrong the o-zone hole was actually forming over Antarctica.Because of it’s extreme chemistry and extreme weather Antarctica is the perfectplace for an o-zone hole to form, at minus 85 degrees the Antarctic stratosphereis about the coldest place on Earth. I don’t know what will happen in the future but I hope that one daythe o-zone hole will no longer exist because it is a terrible thing that ishappening to Earth’s atmosphere and could harm the Earth. The main idea is that CFC’s were bad things that damaged the o-zonelayer but we can do something about it!!!

By Hatty.H The Batch A poem inspired by James k Baxter

The batch was usual enough; it had

A sleep out, a set of bunk beds,

A deck, a window with a view out to the sea,

And even a string of coloured lights in the trees,


 * I love to look at in the dark. **

My friends, my family and I

Did what friends do-

Swam, made sand castles, went boogie boarding,

Had fish and chips, made huts out of driftwood

Like Indians or have barbeques on the deck

Doing nothing important.

By Hatty H