PRINCETOWN Primary School held its harvest festival at the Princetown United Church last Thursday.

In a full hall Methodist minister Pam Stranks and headteacher Ali Hirst ran the event, which was a mixture of prayer, thanks, song and performance.

Two charities were supported – the Plymouth Food Bank, which collects food items to pass on to families in need and to which a table full of donations had been contributed by the pupils — and ShelterBox, for which the children had collected cash in paper 'tent' money boxes made in school.

An auction of fresh produce produced more generous contributions. The school aims to collect enough to purchase a box which they can then track to its final destination.