PUPILS at a primary school have a new Antarctic class-mate after adopting a King Penguin.
Finchingfield Primary School pupils have adopted the love-able animal, which lives in a penguin colony at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands.
The children will receive regular updates about how their penguin is getting on, and will learn about environmental challenges such as climate change and how pollution is threatening penguins in the South Atlantic.
Headteacher, Lisa Feldman, said: "The children are very excited about their involvement in the penguin adoption scheme; it is also a brilliant way of introducing them to some important environmental issues."
The penguin adoption scheme, organised by the RSPB, raises funds for penguin conservation.
The adoption was organised for the school by Dr Charles Lee, an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society who has made a number of recent trips to the Falkland Islands to photograph penguins.
Dr Lee visited Finchingfield Primary School to show the children penguin photos and videos from his most recent visit.
The school is now running a competition for the pupils to name their adopted penguin.
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