FITTER, healthier children are what staff at a Carterton primary school are hoping they will get if they win an Olympic revamp.

Edith Moorhouse School is one of five schools which is in with a chance of winning up to £7,500 of improvements in our School Olympic Save Our School competition.

It is the second time the Oxford Mail has teamed up with Abingdon construction company Leadbitter to offer one primary school improvements.

There are a range of different schemes our finalists are hoping to win the cash for.

Edith Moorhouse is looking for the cash to upgrade its activity centre and adventure playground.

Deputy headteacher Sam Bartholomew 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 in the future.”

He said youngsters at the school were “incredibly excited” at the prospect of getting the money for improvements and would be disappointed if they did not win the cash.Mr Bartholomew added: “It’s something that could be an incredible resource for us – we would not normally have that money to spend in that way.

“This is a fantastic opportunity we would like to make the most of.”

The other four finalists in the running for the money are Kingfisher School, in Abingdon, New Marston, in Oxford, Launton, and Wheatley.

Leadbitter regional director Richard Nixon said: “If they seem to be inspired by it now, if we can then deliver it from them it will inspire them even further.

“I would like to give a final word of encouragement to the schools to collect as many coupons as possible.”

Over the past three weeks, we have profiled each of the schools’ proposals, printing a special token alongside each day’s story.

Schools have been collecting as many tokens as they can to be in with a chance of winning the cash.

The last token will be published in tomorrow’s Oxford Mail and schools then have until Tuesday to get them back to us.

The vouchers will be mathematically weighted according to the size of the school, to ensure schools with large numbers of pupils do not have an unfair advantage over smaller establishments.