CHILDREN at Lothersdale Primary School have been asked to write down what makes their village so special - for members of the school's Woolcraft Club to include them in a three-dimensional model.

Comments ranged from the “wonderful nature and the amazing park; the woods at the school and the wildlife that is here” and that Lothersdale is an “artistic village” to “Lothersdale School is really small so you know everyone and it is friendly.” Another wrote that they “liked the fun things that we do in Class 4.”

Members of the 'after school' Woolcraft Club took these ideas as inspiration to create the model using yarn. They incorporated representations of the garden where they learn about growing flowers and vegetables, the stream running through the village with the bridge and the mill tower with the smoke to represent the history of Lothersdale.

Teacher Natalie Gallagher said: "Some of the children used their own initiative and creative skills to make the flowers for the garden. They thought about texture as well as the visual affect of the materials used for each part of the model.

"They were all adamant that we should have a rainbow over the school - even though it rains a lot in Lothersdale the sun always comes out and shines over our school!"