CHILDREN at one of the county's largest primary schools have been helping improve classrooms and create playground games.

Youngsters in year six at Norton County Primary School, near Malton, helped out as part of pupil participation week, which was designed to teach teamwork.

They decided on a design for the interior of a temporary classroom and transformed it into a year six common room.

The pupils painted the nursery fence in a series of bright colours, gave the friendship benches a new look and marked out games in the playground.