PUPILS with an important environmental message wheeled out a bright idea to get across their views.
Five girls from Dr South’s Primary School in Islip won the top prize in the Wheel to Oxford Castle contest, which asked pupils to create a garden in a wheelbarrow.
Maya Radford, nine, and Charlotte Venables, eight, helped to create the rainforest-themed design.
Maya said she was inspired after learning about the plight of the rainforest in school.
She said: “We learned that every year an area the size of Scotland is cut down from the forest.
“We wanted to make our wheelbarrow so we could ask grown-ups to help us protect the rainforest.”
The team were named as the winners by Oxford Castle general manager Jean-Pierre Morilleau. Their prize is a trip to the Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford for up to 20 children.
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