YOUNGSTERS dressed up as brightly-coloured animals for their school’s annual carnival.

Grinling Gibbons Primary School, Clyde Street, Deptford, themed its end-of-year parade around Charles Darwin and endangered species.

The whole school paraded down Deptford High Street playing music from stereos and wearing different coloured costumes.

Pupils dressed as purple macaws, orange sea shells and green turtles.

Other youngsters wore red angel fish costumes, dressed as yellow tree frogs and joined together to form a giant blue whale.

After the carnival, the school held its summer fair.

Art teacher Rebecca Carnihan, who made the costumes, said: “We went down the street on market day so we had a ready made audience really.

“They were all very appreciative and it was especially nice for the older generation.”