St Catherine’s students, aged 9-18 years old, designed our lighthouse. Ideas came from a whole school “design a lighthouse” competition, adn we have used elements from the competition favourites. Inspiration came from our environment, the town Ventnor, a wonderful place by the sea. Our design includes sea related items such as beach huts, lifeboat, shells and crabs. Also included is Hygeia, the lady on the Ventnor welcome sign, who is the goddess of health and wellbeing, and our rare Ventnor wall lizards. Lots of our students have been treated in Southampton Children’s Hospital; some are residential here at St Catherines and actually live in Southampton and the neighbouring areas. We discussed their time in hospital, and used some quotes for our lighthouse.