A TEACHER has been showing just how creative she can be — using pieces of rubbish and litter found at Widemouth!

Charlie Coates McCarroll, a regular surfer and dog walker to Widemouth Bay, created a model of a whale made from the rubbish she had collected during a walk at Widemouth. She had noticed how much plastic was lying around on the beach and, beforehand, had bagged up any rubbish she had found and binned it. However, this time she wanted to be a little more creative.

Charlie is the reception class teacher at St Giles-on-the-Heath Primary School and has made the children at the school aware of the issue involving plastic in the sea and on the beaches through assemblies.

When she found her most recent load of rubbish at Widemouth, Charlie decided to make a whale from chicken wire and covered it in the beach plastic to draw attention to the worldwide issue in a visual way. The children at St Giles-on-the-Heath also began to bring in bags of rubbish they had collected during visits to the beach and Charlie was able to complete the whale at home.

Charlie said: “Now it is complete, I am considering making a much bigger ‘mother whale’, as it’s a good way to get the kids interested in beach cleans. With the summer approaching, I will definitely be doing more at our school to involve the children, teachers and parents in this really important issue. I’m hoping to work with Surfers Against Sewage to promote this cause at school, too.”