PUPILS at a Central Fife school have made a donation after a primary’s garden was vandalised recently.

Kids at Aberdour Primary were left devastated after vandals struck, destroying their gardening project.

A polytunnel at the school suffered damage last month when intruders gained access to it and left damage – and a mess – behind.

The primary 3 class were motivated to get the project back up and running, however, and thanks to the Department of Additional Support at Lochgelly High School, the garden is once again blossoming.

A teacher at the department asked her pupils if they would like to help the Aberdour kids, which they agreed they would, and so a donation of what they had leftover from their own allotment was made – and gratefully received.

Diane Stockdale, a DAS teacher at the school, said: “I teach the senior pupils in the Department of Additional Support at Lochgelly High School.

“We have been managing our school allotment garden and had been lucky enough to get donations from a range of local people to help make the garden as successful and disability friendly as possible.

“We had grown a range of plants from seed and had excess of some. When I read about Aberdour PS having their garden vandalised I asked my pupils of they would be happy to donate some plants to the primary school.

“We gave a range of tomato, chilli peppers and capsicum seedlings to Aberdour Primary School.”

Aileen Kellas, a teacher at Aberdour PS, said they were overwhelmed by the offers they received.

She said: “"There was quite a lot of damage – not a huge amount but everything had been taken out and thrown about. There had been a bag of concrete which had been emptied into the middle and water put on it. Luckily, they didn't put enough water on and our janitor managed to get it away.

"The children were amazing. They had a vote – we were supposed to be going to the woods for free learning and they decided no, they were going to stay and clean up the polytunnel.

"It was a thing of beauty to see 27 seven- and eight-year-olds doing it. When they had finished, it was probably cleaner than it was beforehand."

She continued: "We had offers of runner beans, courgettes, I have just had a delivery of a big box of tomato plants from Lochgelly High School's DAS unit as they had been growing them and had extra.

"The amount of learning we are getting out of this is amazing. They are learning about the life cycle of a plant and sustainability and keeping it local.”