14226/2PUPILS at Rushall School in the Pewsey Vale, are settling into a new £400,000 extension which has considerably increased its facilities.

These include a new hall, extra offices, a reception area and gallery area and a new ITC suite.

The school, helped by its Parent Teacher and Friends Association, has to raise seven per cent of the cost of the improvements, about £2,800.

The new extension will be officially opened on November 5 by the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev David Stancliffe.

Headteacher Marian Harvey said: "There has been a lot of support in the community for our extensions. We are about to start our 'community garden project' in which the school's front garden will be redesigned so the children can use it in the daytime but in the evenings people from the village, particularly the elderly, will be welcome to sit in it and enjoy it."