A dedicated fenced area at Victoria Road School in Castletown has been built for the weekly activities of the ’Forest School’.

Run by children’s charity Isle of Play, the Forest School is an outdoor learning project which works with primary and secondary children from schools across the island.

They learn skills such as working with and making their own woodland tools, structures, and artwork, as well as fire building.

More than 200 children attend the activities each week, which operate out of five different sites including that at the primary school.

Headteacher Natalie Johnstone thanked the Rotary club of Western and Rushen Mann for their help with building the fences, which she said would ’allow us to play safe and protect our beloved building projects, both now and for all our future children’.