A funeral company helped a school create a feature for its garden that will last for generations.

East Morton Primary pupils now have a granite ‘peace bench’, where they can sit and quietly reflect on the world.

The bench is engraved with a poem written by current year six children.

It was donated by Co-operative Memorials, based at Nab Wood Cemetery in Shipley.

Gill Harney, who works for the group, said they were happy to turn their expertise to creating striking memorials to helping provide something for the community.

She said: “It is doing something for the community, and it shows we can do something fun as well as memorials. “It will be there forever and a day. It is unique to this primary school – nobody else has got something like this.”

The poem is one of many pieces produced by pupils during the project, which saw them visit Bradford’s Peace Museum and choose a number of students as ‘peace makers’.

Headteacher, Louise Dale, said: “The garden is designed to be a peaceful place – the quiet place pupils can go to.

“When these pupils bring their children to the school, they can say ‘we helped make that bench’.”

Masons at Efford in Plymouth and Shieldhall in Glasgow also worked on the bench.