Reporters interviewing the Mayor of Abingdon aren’t usually treated to juice and biscuits, but then the six young people who visited Duncan Brown weren’t usual reporters. They were pupils from Carswell Community Primary School, there to launch Abingdon’s new Heritage Lottery funded project Trinity Learning News.

The children took notes as the mayor fielded questions that ranged from his educational background to the work of his charities and his future hopes for Abingdon. The children’s reports will appear in their very own newsletter to be distributed free to care homes and day-centres in Abingdon.

From content to format and distribution, the group will make all the decisions and do all the work – in just six two-hour sessions. Besides putting classroom skills into practice, they’ll be learning about team-work, responsibility and working to deadlines.

When their time with the project finishes, a new group of youngsters from another Abingdon primary school will take their place. (Thanks to Rosemary from the Trinity Church Learning project for this report).