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Volunteers from E.ON have created an outdoor classroom with a difference at St Bartholomew's Church of England primary school by transforming an outdoor area into a 'forest school'.

The team created pathways, a bird hide, bird houses and a log store at the school in Bredon Avenue, refreshing a reading area and vegetable patch, and planting strawberries.

An inspector visited the secondary school in Abbey Road, Whitley, at the end of April to assess how the school is managed. They declared leadership to be outstanding and were impressed with the curriculum.

They also said head Lorraine Allen's high expectations extend to the whole school.

Mrs Allen said: "The HMI Promoting Leadership Inspection was the first of its kind as a pilot so all the staff are extremely pleased with the excellent outcome."

KING Henry VIII are celebrating being crowned Coventry Schools under-12s champions after they inflicted a 24-0 defeat on Coundon Court in the final at Old Coventrians.

In a competitive clash, Coundon pressed for most of the opening half without being able to breach a disciplined opposing defence and all that divided the teams at the interval was an early try by Jake McLannaghan.

Harriet Batten, Emma Kettley, Sophie Kirk, Philippa Rawbone and Joanna Read represented King Henry VIII school in Warwick Road, city centre, in the girls' section of the championships held near the Spanish capital of Madrid. Opposition came from as far as New Zealand and China.

School spokesperson Sarah Moulds said it was an excellent performance over steep and complicated terrain. Harriet and Sophie finished in the top ten as individuals.

CHILDREN at Binley Woods Primary School are among just a fraction of Warwickshire pupils who get a chance at school to learn to cycle safely.

As part of Bike to School week, the primary is backing a drive to get more of the county's children on cycle training courses.

GENOCIDE in Rwanda was the grim starting point for an art and drama project at Bishop Ullathorne Catholic School.

A class of pupils aged 13 and 14 in year nine at the school in Leasowes Avenue, Green Lane, Coventry, created a piece of art and performed a play inspired by terrible events in the central African country.

They worked with sculptor David Dewis on the artwork, shaped like an African mask.

JUNIOR athletes show off their trophies after sweeping the board in a cross-country race in memory of a Coventry policeman who died while on duty.

St Bartholomew's Primary, in Bredon Avenue, Ernesford Grange, won the boys and girls titles and the team shield in the PC Joe O'Brien Memorial Run.

The event has been held every year since the popular bobby was knocked over and killed while on traffic duty in Binley Road in November 1982, aged 38.

Julie Beckett, aged 57, was stopped by parents and children at Willenhall Primary School, in St James Lane, Willenhall, Coventry, who cheered her on during her last day at work.

The grandmother-of-four, who lives across the road from the school, began working as a school crossing warden in 1983.

ERNESFORD Grange Primary School is top of the Coventry primary school performance tables this year.

The tables are out today giving a snap shot of how 11-year-old pupils performed in key stage two English, maths and science tests last summer when they were in the final year of primary school.

A HEAD groundsman is to quit his job after his school refused to install security cameras on its sports fields.

Derek Shearer, aged 54, who lives and works at King Henry VIII School's Playing Fields, on the A45 Stonebridge Highway, says he has been fighting a seven-year battle with the school to provide better security for him and his son, Luke, aged 21.

The final straw for him was a break-in last Thursday night in which three of his son's motorbikes, worth £2,000, were stolen along with school equipment including a lawnmower.

PUPILS celebrating the 40th anniversary of their Coventry school were joined by the Archbishop of Birmingham for a special mass.

More than 170 pupils of St Anne's Catholic Primary School, in Chace Avenue, Willenhall, sang hymns to mark the occasion.

Maureen Frawley, who has been head teacher for more than four years at the school, said: "We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of the school and the Feast of the Ascension. It went very well."

Chloe Alsop, 11, a pupil at St Bartholomew's Church of England School in Binley, won the contest to design a kit for a children's team in the town of Lalibela in the Gondar region of Ethiopia.

The seven volunteers from the company swapped their office in Siskin Drive, Toll Bar End, for the grounds of the primary school in St James Lane, Willenhall.