STUDENTS from the King Alfred School are helping to produce a neighbourhood plan for Highbridge and Burnham – and now have a giant map of their own for their school.

The map shows the Burnham and Highbridge Town Council area and the majority of the Burnham-withoutparish to the west of the M5.

The project follows a project which saw some year 7, 8 and sixth form students forming a group to discuss how they would like to see their home town change in the future.

They then worked to produce a display which was used in the Neighbourhood Planning meeting in December.

Head of geography Catherine Owen said: “It is the start of a fantastic project and resulted in a huge map of area being given to the school, which we can use in our lessons.

“The map is a really high quality and fascinating resource that has already received a great deal of attention from our students.

“Phil Harvey from the neighbourhood planning team recently visited the school and has set challenges for our year 7 and 10 geography students related to the plan.

“I am looking forward to seeing the responses produced and sending the best ones to Mr Harvey.”