Pupils Take Part in Southsea Beach Clean

Churcher's College Junior School pupil Felix Berry, many others from Year 5 and their siblings have taken part in a Marine Conservation Society Beach Clean in Southsea on Saturday 3 November.

The clean started at 10am and finished at 12 mid-day with bacon sandwiches. They were blessed with glorious sunshine and each and every child collected a substantial amount of plastic (collectively, approximately 7 kilos).

Felix and his brother Frank were both moved and motivated by the recent BBC documentary, Drowning in Plastic, and felt the need to act so that everyone can enjoy the world's amazing marine wildlife for many years to come.

Felix said, 

Thank you to all my friends from Churcher’s College Junior School for coming and thank you for your support. It's really important to do frequent beach cleans otherwise it is predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, which would be really sad.

The Marine Conservation Society hold monthly, local beach cleans which the pupils are determined to attend in the future.