CHILDREN at a Worcester primary school will now be able to have more fun outside thanks to a local law firm's charity work.

Harrison Clark Rickerbys' charitable trust is supporting Fort Royal Community primary school by donating £510 towards the purchase of play tables for outdoor learning projects.

Jonathan Brew, senior partner at Harrison Clark Rickerbys and trustee of the firm's trust, said: "We are very pleased to support a local school and to observe the positive impact our donation has had on Fort Royal and its students. The new outdoor area provides children with a safe environment in which they can enjoy participating in practical tasks outside of the classroom and it is nice to hear that it is well used. With our head offices based in Worcester, we are delighted to support worthy causes such as this in the local area."

Fort Royal is a school of 170 children aged between three and 11 years old, with special educational needs. The school's outdoor spaces are vital to the wellbeing of its students and, by ensuring they are as inclusive as possible, all of its pupils can learn and have fun together.

Margaret Jones, the school's grants administrator, said: "We recently embarked on a programme of fundraising to transform our outdoor learning spaces into more friendly, accessible ones for all of our students. We are keen for them to experience planting, growing, picking and eating their own produce, and to experiment and learn within a safe environment. Our staff identified these as activities that would help our students' learning and complement their national curriculum key stages. We created raise beds so that our wheelchair bound children could access them along with their classmates, and, thanks to the kind donation from Harrison Clark Rickerbys' charitable trust, purchased a height appropriate table, which provides seating on one side and space for wheelchair users on the other. This has enabled our students to work together and has made an incredible difference to each class. We really are very grateful to the trustees for enabling our teaching to be as inclusive as possible."