Children at Chalet Special School took a snapshot of a day in their life to preserve for future generations.

The school is one of four in the area taking part in a project to bury time capsules in Swindon's newest development, Plaza 21.

Peatmoor Community Primary School, Drove Primary School and King William Street Primary School are the others taking part in the project, which has been organised with Beaufort Western, the company behind the new housing and retail development, planned for the centre of Swindon.

When the children at Chalet Special School were deciding what to put into their time capsule, they were spending the day celebrating the Hindu new year festival, Diwali.

Teacher Helena Jones says the 28 children at the school had a wonderful time deciding what they would choose.

"We took a lot of digital photographs of the celebrations we had for Diwali at the school," she said.

"We had some Indian people come in to tell the children all about Diwali, and they played some music, told stories and showed the children traditional Indian dances.

"The children also made some of their own art pieces which they put into the capsule. All the pupils were involved in the project and they all really enjoyed it."

Once all the other schools have filled their own time capsules with a snapshot of a day in the life of their school, they will be handed over to Beaufort and then buried in the roof gardens of the Plaza 21 development.

The new development in the centre of the town is set to transform housing developments and will be a whole new way of living in town centres.

Already 70 percent of the apartments have been sold and the scheme will be completed by the summer.

One of the main distinctions the company behind the development, Beaufort Western, is making is between the typical image of flats and apartment blocks.

Architect Nigel Honer, said: "The word flat implies small, poky accommodation associated with British social housing during the 60s and 70s but in no way reflects what Plaza 21 offers.

"Plaza 21 comes out of the French and US tradition of apartments spacious and well appointed.

"No bedroom has a dimension of less than 10 feet and many of the living rooms are 20 feet long and over."

Built on the junction of Edgeware Road and Sandford Street, the ground floor will have leisure, restaurant and retail facilities, and most of the 71 apartments will have a balcony overlooking the roof garden where the time capsules will be buried.

A preview suite is available for viewing by appointment. Ring Swindon 473442 for details.