Young pupils have been working with care  home residents to help make birdhouses and homes for insets.

Pupils at Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford have been at Otterbourne Hill care home in Otterbourne to improve their garden area.

For six weeks, students have been visiting the care home once a week to make birdhouses, insect homes and other projects to improve the experience for those who stay at the home.

Headteacher Caroline Lowing said: “Students have found the experience so beneficial in terms of making connections across the generations and in terms of empathising with people with very different lives and points of view.

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“One elderly gentleman tends to be quite quiet at Brendoncare but he would join in with project every single week, particularly to catch up with one of the Year 9 students and ask how he was doing.

“We are so proud of our students, and we want to share them with our local community.

“It is really important to us that school is about more than examination results; it is about making sure that each of us can be the best person possible.

“These boys have certainly done this during Inside Out Project with Brendoncare."