PUPILS at Chapmanslade Primary School near Westbury have been busy raising money and donating gifts in aid of good causes.

They were sponsored to collect 100 items including a nail, lego, a polo, cotton wool, a stamp and a hoola hoop, to help pay for a new audio visual system for the school hall.

Yesterday they held a special assembly where they were presented with special gifts from the Friends of Chapmanslade School as a reward for all their efforts.

The whole school also raises money to sponsor Christenel, a little boy who lives in Romania.

The money enables him to go to school and have a hot meal each day.

To provide Christenel with extra help over the Christmas period, the children have also sent him some leather boots and additional money for his family.

Once again pupils and staff at Chapmanslade joined many other schools across north and west Wiltshire in putting together shoe boxes packed with festive treats for children in eastern Europe, as part of the Operation Christmas Child campaign. This year they donated 75 boxes.

Headteacher Jocelyn Jewell said: "Each year the number of boxes donated by pupils for this good cause rises, which is wonderful news."