Lakeside School has a brand new pupil in the shape of Polly the Penguin.
The 3ft fibreglass figure was designed by the pupils at Lakeside School as part of ‘Go Penguins’, a public art project to mark Liverpool’s Year of the Environment.
The project saw 140 individually designed penguinsdisplayed throughout Merseyside between November and January this year. Lakeside was one of 93 schools to get involved in the project.
Vicky Size, Head Teacher at Lakeside School, said: “The pupils are absolutely thrilled with Polly the Penguin and enjoyed designing her for the exhibition.
“Polly’s clothes are based on our school uniform. Each pupil designed and painted their own purple square depicting their favourite aspect of Lakeside, so we had a wide range of pictures ranging from football matches to frogs in the lake.
“The finished result was fantastic and Polly was a real credit to the school when she went on display at Liverpool’s Met Quarter shopping centre. We are now really looking forward to getting Polly back to the school so she can take pride of place in our entrance hall.”