Our Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE)
Our Grade 6 students had the opportunity to learn about investigative photography with Ms Audrey Gauci, an Ekoskola teacher and a representative of YRE Malta. During another day, they also practised their photography skills around the streets of Sliema. Some of the girls embarked on this project of identifying areas in our environment, capturing them in photos and commenting about them in short captions. Here are this year’s (2025- 2026) entries:
Jade Abela – Grade 6
PLANET EARTH ISN’T YOUR GARBAGE CAN!
Amy Azzopardi – Grade 6
Too many cigarettes! There are bins
Lilia Battut – Grade 6
This photo shows a milk carton thrown on the ground. This is pollution and it makes our streets dirty. Rubbish like this can harm the environment. People should throw their rubbish in the bin to keep our country clean.
Niah Briffa Caddoo – Grade 6
Coastlines changed as high buildings replaced trees and parks where people enjoy their quality time with their family. As you can see, in the background there are also cranes which are damaging our environment too. Natural buffers were removed, increasing erosion, flooding and habitat loss. Construction damages eco systems, blocks views ,alters drainage, raises pollution, heat, and long-term risks from bad weather and sea -level rises globally today.
Jade Brincat – Grade 6
This picture is representing flowing algae, polluted water that could potentially start making unsafe waters for us and some other sea animals which could make them extinct like sea turtles.
Giulia Caruana – Grade 6
People are now throwing their cigarettes away and leaving them in holes in the road.
A collection of cigarettes placed in holes in the road by irresponsible smokers.
Amy Ciantar – Grade 6
Dispose of your rubbish in a bin
or you would be making a big sin,
Lets save the environment for the next of kin!
Emma Conti Zammit – Grade 6
Sea pollution harms the beautiful blue sea around Sliema. We must stop throwing rubbish to protect marine life. The sea around Sliema is full of life, but pollution puts sea creatures and plants in danger. Plastic and waste in the sea around Sliema look awful and is an eyesore to both citizens and tourists who visit Malta during their holiday.
Carla Carabott – Grade 6
Picture No 1: The Ruin of Man
Picture No 2: Wasted Soil
Picture No 3: Teach them Young and Early
Ella cuschieri – Grade 6
A wonderful place, spoilt with construction and waste.
Alyssa Farrugia – Grade 6
Where are the trees?
Giulia Galdes – Grade 6
If we don’t stop throwing rubbish everywhere we can damage the environment, wildlife and our own health.
Help save the environment with me.
Norah Germani – Grade 6
A quiet corner telling a loud story. Nature struggling beneath our discarded habits
Eve Nina Inder – Grade 6
We all know that a lot of people love painting and doing graffiti, but why do we have to paint on someone else is property if you know that they would not like it.
Dawn Mallia Esposito – Grade 6
Don’t Flick It — Fix It. Protect the Planet!
Martina Micallef – Grade 6
Dea Muscat – Grade 6
Trash doesn’t belong where life grows’
Aurora Psaila Mamo – Grade 6
In this picture you can see that we are on the shore close to the sea. There is waste on some of the rocks but this one in my opinion stands out. Written on the bottle cap is the word ‘Extra’. These caps feel in fact very extra because it is not the place where they belong. Apart from making the place feel shabby and dirty, they also pose a health and safety hazard for people that might step on them while walking barefoot to go for a swim. Getting hurt with something rusty is not only painful but also extremely dangerous.
Dazalaya Schembri – Grade 6
Why damage our plants? why put plastic and cigarettes in a plant?
Paula Testa – Grade 6
This playground is for children, not trash. What we leave behind doesn’t disappear-it damages the environment.
Emma Vassallo – Grade 6
Cigarette butts polluting our environment
Sarah Vassallo – Grade 6
Not all marks are beautiful
Justine Xuereb – Grade 6
Cigarette on bench in Tas Sliema
This photo shows that people sometimes spoil the environment with their litter, ruining things they would enjoy, such as benches
Sophia Pace Mizzi – Grade 6
I fell from your hands,
Lost upon the concrete path,
But never picked up.
Sophia Pace Mizzi – Grade 6
Stump of fallen wood,
Paper cost of human greed,
Wealth on broken roots.
Sophia Pace Mizzi – Grade 6
Ashes to concrete,
Poison flows in murky rain,
City’s bitter breath.
Sophia Pace Mizzi – Grade 6
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What nature has built,
Majestic and beautiful,
Cold hands pick apart.
Elenia Axiaq – Grade 6
This photo shows cigarette butts thrown on the ground near the sea. Cigarette butts are very harmful because they contain toxic chemicals that can wash into the sea and hurt marine life. This pollution could easily be avoided if people disposed of their waste properly.
Adele Brudevold – Grade 6
Nina Camilleri – Grade 6
A never-ending trail of trash heading to sea
Kate May Davies – Grade 6
A vandalized wall
Ella Demicoli Friggieri – Grade 6
Too much rubbish
Gabriella Falzon Cascun – Grade 6
STOP LITTERING!
SAVE THE WORLD!
Lisa Galea – Grade 6
Cigarettes might be bad for your lungs, but they are even worse for the environment, so even if you do smoke, please use ashtrays!
Yazmin Gatt – Grade 6
“Mind the Gap.”
The half-covered pit and the debris that has been there for years.
Ena Giordano Enriquez – Grade 6
Wires not in place
Martha Kelly – Grade 6
Bad disposal of wiring and trash in what seems to be an uncovered gutter.
Emma Micallef – Grade 6
Construction Chaos in Sliema
Kate Portelli – Grade 6
Beauty hiding where no one thinks to look
Matilda Pullicino – Grade 6
Just a wrapper? Even a small amount of plastic causes pollution
Louisa Sammut – Grade 6
Don’t spoil our seashore
Mia Pia Scerri – Grade 6
My picture represents the disadvantages of littering and making the place you are in looking like a trash bin on the floor.
Ella Schembri – Grade 6
Waste in the sea after storm {Harry} hit the shore
Julia Sciberras – Grade 6
People aren’t realising how much damage they are doing to the environment as they are always building for Business and money, THIS MUST STOP!!!!
Emilia Sciriha – Grade 6
Small trash, big problem: cigarette butts are one of the most common types of litter. They contain toxic chemicals that can pollute soil and water and harm plants, animals and the environment
Mariah Vella – Grade 6
We are throwing many cigarettes on the floor and acting like the trash is the world and the world is the trash
Elenia Vella – Grade 6
Every drop of clean water is a gift, do not litter it away !!
Amy Xerri – Grade 6
A cigarette lying on the pavement left littered between the cracks.
Nicole Young – Grade 6
A city expanding beneath a changing sky
Aaliyah Zammit – Grade 6
Trash found next to the beach
Carla Zammit – Grade 6
Overdeveloped area in Sliema with multiple cranes showing even more construction.
Martina Micallef – Grade 6
Many new buildings… more buildings than trees
Martina Micallef – Grade 6
People are not respecting nature and are throwing away rubbish. Climate change is
affecting all of us.
Giulia Cordina – Grade 5
Rusty trash in the countryside –
Rubbish and litter take over a rural road in the Mosta Valley area. This makes the space look messy , creates a dangerous environment for animals as well as people going for a walk. More heavy fines for people who are caught depositing trash should be imposed as well as more awareness through cleanups organised by the local community.
Giulia Cordina – Grade 5
Sign from the 21st century –
A sign which should be helpful is now creating pollution as well as hazard due to the rusting metal covered by the foliage. Despite this nature takes over, as it tries to camouflage this eye sore
YRE Article Writing 2026
Read the article written by one of our Grade 6 students, Paula Testa.
Read the article written by one of our Grade 6 students, Niah Briffa Caddoo.
Read the article written by our Grade 5 students, Kay Elizabeth Psaila, Lucia Caruana and Eva Borg Busuttil
Read the article written by our Grade 5 students Kate Gatt Taliana, Philippa Cascun and Carla Camilleri
Read the article written by our Grade 6 students Nicole Young and Matilda Pullicinoi