GULLANE Primary School celebrated Earth Day with a colourful mural made from pen lids.

Pupils across the school were invited to submit ideas for the artwork, which they hoped would raise awareness of the amount of plastic that ends up in the sea.

Winning designs were selected and brought together to create a design for the mural, which the children then took part in painting.

Over the next four weeks, the pupils then collected plastic bottle tops from the school canteen and from home.

Each pupil from nursery to primary seven then added the plastic bottle tops to the painted display to create the finished mural, with the message ‘Save Our Seas’.

As part of Earth Day 2024, principal teacher Maxine Cowie and pupils from Gullane Primary School held a launch assembly to highlight the world target to reduce the production of plastic by 60 per cent by 2040.

Mrs Cowie said: “We have the colourful mural now mounted on an external wall in our playground, sharing the message with our wider community.

“It has been an inclusive project which has been admired and we hope to perhaps create another one in the future.”