YOUNGSTERS at a primary school have been making their own animations.

Pupils at Reid Street Primary School, in Darlington, have created stop frame animations, based on Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach book, which they have been reading.

The year four class worked with Darlington's e-Learning Centre on the project.

Teacher Fiona Rankin said: "From reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl they chose a section involving James and his two mean aunts.

"Pairs of pupils created exaggerated voice-overs, and used this to write their own scripts.

"The result has been 16 short animations, using voice-overs and the filming of the pupil's own models and backdrops using stop-frame technology."

The pupils presented the work and showed some of their films to the school.