STUDENTS at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Primary School, Rosebud, have been using their textile lessons to create an undersea wonderland.
The completion of the colourful masterpiece, created with a lot of love and pricked fingers, is to celebrate World Ocean Day on 8 June. The school’s Dolphin Research Centre ambassadors are using the display to highlight the danger of foil plastic, which is commonly used as lolly or biscuit wrappers.
Students learned that the inside of foil plastic packages is shiny silver and glitters like a fish and, when ingested by marine animals, causes illness and death. The students also produced a motto to help sell their message: Foil plastic kills animals in the sea. So, when at the beach, pick up 3.
Visual art teacher Amanda Heggen said the students were hoping that more people would pick up foil plastic rubbish when they see it and not buy items with that particular packaging.
First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 5th June 2024
