PUPILS at Red House School, in Norton, are helping underprivileged children celebrate Christmas by collecting as many shoeboxes as possible.

Operation Christmas Child, a project set up by Samaritan's Purse, asks local businesses and schools to collect gift-filled shoeboxes to be given to children around the world who otherwise would not celebrate Christmas.

Children at the school chose to make a gift box for a girl or a boy. They decorated the boxes and filled them with a selection of gifts.

It is estimated that about 100 boxes will have been collected.