CHILDREN at a Worcestershire school are busy filling their pencil cases to send out to an African school.

Pupils at Inkberrow First School, with the help of their families, have been stuffing the colourful cases with pens and pencils for the children at the Goodnews School in Ndola, Zambia.

The two schools have been partners for a decade.

To celebrate the anniversary Joan Humphrys, who first visited the school in 2004, will deliver the pencil cases along with pieces of work and personal messages.

Year one teacher Mrs Humphrys will make the trip in March as part of an exchange group of teachers and sixth form students from Pershore High School.

The student exchange began in 2008 and since then students from Pershore High School have travelled out to Ndola and brought their Zambian friends back to towns and villages in the Pershore area.