Year 7 Students Celebrate Where We Live!
On Monday 15th June, selected year 7 students took part in a beach clean and art workshop, facilitated by Saltwater Creations.
Saltwater Creations is a local CIC who aim to connect people with themselves and nature – particularly the beautiful coastlines we have around our local area.
Students visited Bognor beach, combing an area for items not supposed to be there! They then returned to school and had an art workshop, looking at how beach finds can be turned into art, creating unique canvases to display around FCC. The students who were chosen to attend this event are either FCC Student Eco Committee members, or students who took the time last term to complete ‘The Big Plastic Count’ – a national initiative which ran back in March – the UKs biggest people-powered investigation into plastic waste. We are running the event again in July for the same group of students from years 8,9 and 10.
Tali Swain, Head Student in charge of Student Voice, commented:
“It was a great opportunity to remind us how lucky we are to live by the beach and that we shouldn’t take it for granted. It is the perfect landscape to improve health and mental well-being, and we need to educate others to help look after it. When we did the beach clean, we found items that would wash into the sea for years – like plastic wrappers, bottle tops and larger items including a pair of socks and a toy motorbike! The art part of the day was good fun, we had to use items found on the beach and be creative with it. The boards we made are to be displayed to educate other students at Felpham that we should be looking after our amazing local coastline.”
More information on Saltwater Creations is available here.
