WHILE schoolchildren are enjoying their half-term break, a group of hard working volunteers will set about transforming a garden area.

There will be a Ground Force-style transformation of the play area at Gorse Hill Community Primary School with Rotary Club of Worcester playing the roles of Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh.

More than 20 volunteers, including members of East Worcester Explorer Scouts, will carry out the £4,000 makeover to the garden used by children at the school aged from four to six years old.

The old shed will be replaced with a newer model, a pebble maze with a pebble pool at the centre will be installed and a living willow structure will be created.

Anne Pooley, club secretary, said: “It is going to take a lot of work from heavy lifting to creative work “Once it is completed, the children will have somewhere fun to play which is also stimulating and secure.”

The Rotary Club has been running a literacy project at the school for about five years and decided it wanted to run a project to help the school. Following suggestions of possible projects from teachers, the club settled on the Rotary Money has been raised by the national Rotary charity, the Bransford Trust, private donations and the Worcester branch’s fund-raising events including a quiz night, murder mystery event and face-painting.