PUPILS at Beech Grove Primary School in Wellington could be enjoying an outdoor learning area by the start of the new school year next autumn.

The school needs to raise a total of £4,000 to provide a new sand play area and dry river bed, and refurbish its existing playhouse.

Now Bloor Homes, whose Longforth Farm development is less than a mile from the school, has contributed £1,000 towards the cost of the first phase of the project.

The school’s business manager, Deborah McKie, said: “The new play area will provide our early years pupils with a fun, safe and exciting outdoor environment in which to learn and explore.

“We are extremely grateful to Bloor Homes for supporting the project, and we hope the play area will be ready for the children to enjoy by September 2017.”

Rowena Adams, regional sales director for Bloor Homes, said: “We are delighted to be supporting this very exciting project to provide new outdoor play facilities at Beech Grove Primary School.

“We are sure this will be of great benefit the children, some of whom live at our Longforth Farm development, and we are looking forward to seeing the new learning area when it has been completed.”