YOUNGSTERS made scarecrows as part of their school’s science week.

Each year group at James Dixon Primary School, William Booth Road, Anerley, was challenged to think about what materials would be needed to make a scarecrow.

All of the 340 children aged from three to 11 took home a scarecrow statue and had their work displayed in the school garden, which the school was a finalist for in the News Shopper Green Guardian Awards’ green primary school category in 2008.

Deputy headteacher Andrew Beavon said: “The week was about raising standards in science across the school and making the children aware science is something which is part of our everyday lives.”