The school council were invited to the opening of the Baffins Pond Association’s new wildlife dipping pond. This is a new pond, the idea of Councillor Stagg, built to encourage wildlife, but with a platform to enable pond dipping to take place. You can find the pond a the east side of the car park on Tangiers Road.
The children walked round to the new pond where they met with the Lord Mayor and his consort, other members of Portsmouth City Council and members of Baffin’s Pond Association.
The children listened beautifully to the speeches from Councillor Sanders, the Lord Mayor and the CEO of the Forgotten Veterans UK who along with community payback built the pond. The pond was formerly opened by the Lord Mayor cutting the ribbon.
The pond has been filled with tap water and after 6 weeks some planting will take place. Hopefully the pond will become inhabited by lots of wildlife which we will be able to explore from the platform.
