YOUNGSTERS are keeping their fingers crossed for a £7,500 revamp of their activity centre and adventure playground area.

Edith Moorhouse School, in Carterton, is the last of our five finalists in the School Olympic Save Our School competition.

We have teamed up with Abingdon construction company Leadbitter to offer one lucky primary school the chance of an Olympic-themed makeover.

Edith Moorhouse’s deputy headteacher Sam Bartholomew said: “This would be very significant for the school.

“If we won the money, we would be able to offer far more activities than we do at the moment at break- time and lunchtime.

“The children would be able to become fitter and have more exercise, and there would just be more facilities for them.”

Children at the school were quizzed about additional facilities they would like and drew pictures and designs of how they imagined their adventure playground could look.

Mr Bartholomew said a makeover would also give children a chance to practise sports in their own time, as well as in scheduled lessons.

He said: “We offer quite a range of after-school clubs already but we want to enable children to practise on an adventure playground where they can develop their skills of strength, balance and agility.

“Hopefully, this will help them all become better athletes of the future.”

The other four schools selected are Kingfisher School in Abingdon, Wheatley Primary, New Marston Primary in Oxford and Launton Primary School.

Information about each of the school’s proposed projects will be published in the Oxford Mail for another two weeks, with special tokens printed alongside each story.

To make sure the competition is fair, the tokens will be weighted according to the number of pupils in each school.

Leadbitter regional director Richard Nixon said: “I would like to give a final word of encouragement to the schools to collect as many coupons as possible.”

Individual schools are collecting the tokens, then sending them on to the Mail. Readers who want to support the schemes should send their tokens direct to the schools.