TEACHERS and pupils from Whitchurch Primary School will be representing the eight West Devon schools and village communities at the first stone-carrying ceremony at the Eden Project.

The ceremony is to be held to honour the completion of the West Devon stone-carrying project, and will include a mask-making workshop together with medieval music, dancing and singing by the Daughters of Elvin.

The pupils will travel to Eden in order to celebrate the 'Bug's Hotel' — a miniature stone tower replicating Zimbabwe Ruins, made from the children's stones collected during a series of Ecological Art and Environmental workshops by Houses of Stone.

Houses of Stone is a Tavistock-based community group administered by Geri Laithwaite and co-ordinated by artist and former mayor of Tavistock Caroline Keane.

The West Devon stone carrying environmental and ecological art project was funded by Lottery, West Devon Borough Council and Tavistock and Villages Initiative. The project won the BBC's Breeze Culture Award.

The stone carrying ceremony will take place on Monday (July 19).

It is hoped another four stone carrying circles will be created to to include 32 villages, rural community centres and schools in and around Dartmoor.