At Duke’s some Y7 and Y8 students took part in a creative workshop. It is one of many workshops created to work with different community partners to explore people’s connections to the coast. It was a puppetry workshop to get hands on   The puppets designed and created in the workshop could then be taken home or go forward to form part of a professional theatrical production that will tour seaside locations in May.

This is linked to a project called ‘Strong Shores’. This initiative is a Defra-funded, nature-based coastal resilience project that aims to strengthen British coastlines and communities against flooding, erosion, and climate change by harnessing the power of natural marine habitats.

The students who took part learnt a lot about how our coasts help protect the environment and then created their own puppets and were shown how to use them properly.