A FIRST World War exhibition has proved so popular a school is making it into a film to provide a lasting legacy for years to come.

Pupils from St John’s School and Sixth Form College, in Bishop Auckland, spent weeks into the run up to Remembrance Sunday learning about all different aspects of the war.

The exhibition has been on display since then and film maker Keith Alexander has spent time in the school this week capturing footage of the work.

History teacher Sarah Murphy said: “It has been such a success and so many people have enjoyed it we wanted to have a permanent way of documenting it.

“We thought it was such a shame to take it down without doing something.”

All the work from the exhibition will be displayed throughout the school and memorial sculpture is going to on permanent display in the grounds.

The exhibition is expected to be taken down n Friday (November 21).