PLAYTIMES at a Darlington primary school will soon be nautical, but nice, thanks to a new piece of equipment.
Skerne Park Primary School has taken delivery of a pirate ship, which the children designed themselves.
It is all part of the healthy schools project and a drive to make break times more interesting for pupils.
Headteacher Diana Teasdale said: "The school has been wanting to make playtimes better for the children.
"We spend ages thinking about the curriculum inside, and then let the children go out into a great big, bare playground with nothing for them to do. So we are trying to make the playground more interesting and exciting.
"With this pirate ship they can do role play and things around it, and it will be used by the whole of the primary school, that is infants and juniors, and the toddler groups."
Local artist Lee Brewster has carved the wooden ship, based on the children's design.
Most of the money for the £3,000 project came from the Skerne Park Single Regeneration Budget
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