A Trowbridge primary school is celebrating its 40th anniversary tomorrow with a party for pupils past and present.

The Grove Primary School’s summer party will be opened at 3pm on Saturday by Trowbridge mayor Cllr Clive Blackmore and drummers from the Trowbridge Army Cadet Corps.

Organisers from the Friends of Grove School hope the day will help them reach their £8,000 target for a new library for the Hazel Grove school. FOGS chairman Andy Baker said: “We would like to invite anyone who has had any connection with the school over the past 40 years to come down and join the celebrations.”

Pupils will show off moves they have learned from dances spanning different decades, while Trowbridge-based band Legacy will perform during the fun, which will carry on until 8pm.

A CD produced by children from each year will be on sale, after pupils sang their favourite songs from each decade and some played instruments. The performances were professionally recorded this week in the school hall. Katie Alford, 10, a Year 5 pupil, said: “It was a really good experience and it all went well. We sang Eighties’ songs in my class, which was great fun.”

Luke Hopkinson, nine, said: “It has been a really cool day. The school is like a family tree and we are all like a little leaf. We were singing with the teachers but they weren’t that good really.”

Headteacher Alistair Ponsford said: “We are really going to celebrate the past 40 years in style.

“We’d like to raise as much money as we can too because in all of those years the school has never had a proper, purpose-built library.”