On The Tiles

Every pupil was involved in creating 60 beautiful mosiac stepping stones with more than a little help from Shoreham-based artist Ben Playle and some willing parents and teachers.

Headteacher Merril Lucraft was delighted with the end result: "It's been absolutely brilliant It has involved the whole school community.

"The children and parents have both discovered skills they didn't know they had and it has been a wonderful way of involving everyone."

Pupils started by mapping out their designs on paper.

Once they were happy with their creations, they then started the painstaking task of reproducing the design by arranging hundreds of tiny tiles on the paper.

Meanwhile, 60 stones were set using cement poured into the cut-off tops of buckets, ready for the mosaic patterns to be laid on top.

This just left the mammoth task of digging 60 holes in the school grounds to accommodate the stones.

Once the stones were in, the children were able to sit back, relax and enjoy the fruits of their hard work.