PRIMARY schools eager to win a makeover in our SOS contest have just over a week left to collect vouchers to be in with a chance. We are offering one lucky primary school a £7,500 facelift during the summer holidays, courtesy of the Leadbitter Group, an Abingdon-based construction

company, in our School Build Save Our Schools competition.

Lots of Oxfordshire primary schools entered and after a tough day of judging we came up with a shortlist of the 10 finalists.

The schools are now battling it out to collect as many SOS vouchers, which will be printed in the paper daily until Saturday July 4, as they can to secure the prize.

The school with the most vouchers will pocket the prize, and the work will be carried out once pupils have left for their holidays.

Teams of helpers from each of the schools have been working hard making collection boxes, putting up posters in local shops and pubs, and sending letters to the community to secure as many vouchers as they can.

From new kitchens, to swimming pool changing rooms, to outside gazebos, all the schools are desperate for help from family, friends, and ex pupils to send in as many vouchers from their copies of the Oxford Mail as possible so they can see their dream project built.

Richard Nixon, regional director of Leadbitter, which has many years of experience working on projects in schools in Oxfordshire and further afield, said: “We’re very much looking forward to carrying out the work in the winning school and would like to wish all the finalists the best of luck.”

awilliams@oxfordmail.co.uk

If you want to give your local school’s collection a boost, you can post School Build Save Our Schools vouchers printed in the Oxford Mail to them at the following addresses:

Eynsham Community Primary School, Beech Road, Eynsham, OX29 4LJ

Hanborough Manor School, Riley Close, Long Hanborough, OX29 8DJ

Horspath Primary School, Horspath, OX33 1RY

Mabel Prichard School, Cuddesdon Way, Oxford, OX4 6SB

New Hinksey Primary School, Vicarage Road, Oxford, OX1 4RQ

North Kidlington Primary School, Benmead Road, Kidlington, OX5 2DA

North Leigh Primary School, North Leigh, OX29 6SS

New Marston Primary School, Copse Lane, Oxford, OX3 0AY

Orchard Meadow School, Wesley Close, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, OX4 6BG

St James School, The Causeway, East Hanney, OX12 0JN