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November 2007,
Students at Koungou College expand
their Sandwatch project to a new beach and submit an article on it for the
Nov '07 Sandwatcher
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June 2007, The Mayotte
Sandwatch Team makes the Front Cover of the
June '07 Issue of The Sandwatcher!
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April 2007, Mrs, Gabriel and her students win First
Place in a contest to celebrate the Green Turtle, sponsored by the "Oulanga
na Nyamba Association" Click
here for details
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March 26th, 2007 Mrs. Gabriel and her students plant
mangroves to help protect a local beach click
for details
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March 2007, Mrs. Gabriel and her students complete
translation of the first French Edition of The
Sandwatcher
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February 2007, Special
Issue of The Sandwatcher is published
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January 2007, Mrs. Gabriel and her students agree to
translate the new February "Special Issue" of The
Sandwatcher into French!
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December 2006, Mrs. Gabriel's class contribute an
article on their Sandwatch themed entry for the Island's Science Fair to the
Dec '06 Issue of The
Sandwatcher
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December 2006, Mrs. Gabriel's
class create "Canny
Man" for their Science Fair
Project.
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November 2006, Mrs. Gabriel's class continues
Sandwatch Field Trips to Koungou Beach
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June 2006, Koungou School students submit an article for the
inaugural issue of "The
Sandwatcher" newsletter
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006, Mrs. Gabriel's class begins
Sandwatch at Koungou Beach
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Teacher Pascale Gabriel
talks on Radio France Outremer in a programme called "Maïsha"
(have a nice day in shimaoré) about The Sandwatch Project |
Wednesday, April 26th
Half past two pm, near the college of Koungou, the start of our first Sandwatch
breach trip
The weather was sunny and hot (it was during the wet season), we left school
after our lessons to start a new project with our English teacher, Mrs Gabriel.
The name of the project is Sandwatch. It took us about 10 minutes to walk to the
beach.. Some people call the beach Barakani and others say it’s Tanaraki. On
the map of Mayotte you can read Beach of Koungou. Funny, isn’t it ?
The sea was calm and there were no waves. The tide was high. There were four
teams:The first one was composed of Ounrwati and Faïra. They measured the size
of the beach.
The second was composed of Nadia, Idiramadane, Yohann, Naïmé, and Maxime. They
studied the animals that could be seen on the beach and around the beach.
The third group was Fatoumia. She looked for trees and flowers on the beach. The
fourth team was represented by Yasmine and Youssra. They saw and counted the
debris and litter that was on the beach. We’ll write all the details of these
observations in another report. After an hour and a half, we had a deserved rest
and we could relax under the shade of the trees, we felt like bathing but our
teacher said it was forbidden ! We were disappointed since the beach looked very
safe, no high waves and beautiful weather, no wind at all ! Yasmine cut a tree
on one of the baobab and we tasted it : a bit strange, spongy and not too much
sweet! Our teacher said that, in some African countries, they call it the
Monkeys’ bread.
Although we found the beach quite dirty and rather polluted, we really enjoyed
ourselves, we didn’t feel like working at all, it was exciting and
interesting, a sort of “live” lesson. We are looking forward to going back !
Mrs Gabriel said we were going to do a lot of different activities.
By 3e1 pupils, college of Koungou
Koungou Beach where the Sandwatch study is conducted
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