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Junior Directors Take Helm - At Brighton Sea Life Centre
A new Board of Directors convenes for the first time at Brighton Sea Life centre on Saturday 16 January with the oldest member being just 12!
The Brighton Sea Life Centre is very keen to make sure that the attraction caters as effectively as it can for young visitors and the Centre’s management team have therefore decided to recruit appropriately aged consultants.
From hundreds of applicants who were asked to send their suggestions on how to improve the Sea Life Centre, eleven have been selected to form the new Junior Board.
“Rather than have our own senior directors decide what will appeal to children I thought we should ask the youngsters themselves,” said Sea Life Centre Manager Max Leviston.
“We received dozens of very interesting suggestions, ranging from why don’t you have dolphins any more to what is the Sea Life doing to help conservation in the local area,” Max Leviston went on to say, “I can’t wait to see what the youngsters come up with when we get them all together at our first board meeting.”
The eleven appointees of which two out of 11 places from the whole of West Sussex, came from Horsham’s, Tanbridge House School are: Tahnee Staplehurst (11) and Louise Peckham (11), of Plumpton Primary School; Tom Jellicoe (11) and Francesca Smith (10) of Maidenbower Junior School, Crawley; Dylan Briddick (10), of Wallands School, Lewes; Daniel Cheng (12) and Natassia King (12), of Tanbridge House School, Horsham; Ella Constable (9), of Saint Paul’s C E School and Nursery, Brighton; Amina Ullah (7) and Annabelle Mitchell (10), of Buckingham Park Primary School, Shoreham, and Amber Mitchell-Hanna (11) of Warden Park, Cuckfield.
At their first meeting at 2pm on Saturday 16 January, the new board members will get a behind-the-scenes tour before sitting down to thrash out a number of important issues.
Jules White Headteacher at Tanbridge House School, Horsham said: “This is a very exciting initiative and one which complements the Ambassador programme we have been running for nearly three years now. The concept of broadening our students’ minds by providing them with opportunities to give them unique insights into the world of work helps them when making vital subject and career choices.”