A SCHOOL is marking 400 years of education with an iconic stained glass window designed by its students.

The anniversary project is now underway at Wolsingham School and Community College where the commemorative window will be created to coincide with a new extension to the Lower School site.

Students are aiming to design and create a stained glass window depicting regional land mark events during the last 400 years.

The school is working with Melvyn Gibbons, a local stained glass artisan from Copley, Teesdale, who introduced the project to a group of year seven students and pupils from Wolsingham Primary School.

Students are working on one window at the moment but the school is hoping to find extra funding to extend the project to create a triptych which would enable members of the community to add to the design.

Headteacher, Deborah Merrett, said: “It is wonderful to see students from both Wolsingham School and Wolsingham Primary working together with a local artist to create an artwork that will take pride of place at the centre of our new school buildings.

“The stained glass window, generously supported by the Weardale Action Partnership, will remind us, and generations to come, of our local heritage and will celebrate our school as a centre of learning."