School leavers dressed up as space explorers and androids to teach their peers about accepting people’s differences at an end-of-year play.

Wycliffe Primary School’s production, called ‘The First Kids in Space’, told the story of a group of space cadets who landed on another planet and try to spread peace and happiness. During their adventure they stumbled across a lonesome android named Specs who decided whether to stay or return to the cadets to Earth.

Dot Martin, learning mentor at the school in Shipley, said: “We wanted the play to tell our pupils to always except people for who they are. The children have worked really hard to put it together. It’s been a real team effort throughout.”