75536-36WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI: CHILDREN of Swindon schools have been busy collecting items to send to survivors of the tsunami disaster.

Beechcroft Primary School head teacher Lynne Harper said: "We have got a massive amount of stuff.

"Our parents have been fantastic, they always are. They've been bringing it in in droves.

"Anything we ask them to do they always come up trumps."

The school, in Beechcroft Road, started collecting clothes, bedding, tinned food and water a week ago .

It held a special assembly to talk to the children about the disaster and come up with ways to help.

Mrs Harper said: "We were going to take it up in a van to the Wroughton Airfield but there's so much that it wouldn't fit.

"Luckily one of the parents drives a lorry and he's offered to help."

At Drove Primary School pupils to were asked to bring in blankets, tinned food and money and teachers were delighted with the response.

Nick Capstick, headteacher at the school, said a lot of the children's families originate from Asia and so everyone wanted to help.

"It was an absolutely fantastic response. We had more than 120 blankets and some of the children even went out and bought blankets to bring in.

"The school will use the money collected to buy blankets from Oxfam and then give them to the appeal."