YOUNGSTERS found that science could be fun when a school celebrated the workings of life and the environment.

Pupils at Hartburn Primary School, in Stockton, are marking National Science Week this week with a range of activities and experiments which have all been designed by Year Six students.

They have set up ten activities in the school hall, which every pupil is taking part.

Youngsters from the nursery classes up have been having fun with smells in jars, microscopic objects, a bag of bones, cheeky chopsticks and a food chain frenzy.

Organised with the help of teacher Mavis Hardwick, the ten and 11-year-olds have spent weeks creating the activities to encourage learning and make science fun.

Teaching assistant Sandra Stabler said: "Every child in the school is taking part, regardless of age, which is what makes this science week so good. Some of the ideas the Year Six students have come up with are superb and the children are really enjoying taking part.

"It's a great way for them to learn their science and some of them don't even realise they are learning - they are having so much fun."

Parents have also been invited to attend the school this week to see what their children have been learning.