FORMER pupils are going back to school for a class reunion.

Ex-students from Park View School in Chester-le-Street are being invited to go back to class for the reunion due to take place next month.

The get-together for people who attended the school between 1980 and 1989 will take place on Saturday, June 25 starting at 7pm.

Former schoolfriends have organised the event over Facebook.

The reunion will be held at the school in Church Chare, with the school hall turned into a red carpet venue with a licenced bar, catering and 80s music.

Teachers past, and some still present will be attending and there will be tours of the school building throughout the evening also.

Organiser, Barry Clarke, said: “We all hail from different backgrounds and surrounding villages of Chester-le-Street but we all share memories from our schools days at Park View School.

“We have lost friends along the way and we know there will be some sadness when we remember those too, however, we would like to celebrate the good years of our lives and regale in the many anecdotes we all created all those years ago.”

Tickets, priced £10, are available by contacting parkview86reunion@gmail.com