HEAD teacher Anne Glenton and many of her pupils wore jeans for an unusual harvest festival celebration at Longleaze School, Wootton Bassett, to mark Jeans for Genes Day.

A token basket of produce was presented, and charity donations were offered instead of traditional gifts of flowers, fruit and vegetables.

About £270 resulted all contributed by pupils who wore jeans, instead of uniform, to school. The money will go to a national charitable appeal to help children who are affected by genetic disorders.

Youth worker David Stephenson, clad in a brightly coloured shirt and old jeans which he had made into shorts, gave an audio visual presentation which focussed on a child's gratitude for new jeans.

Having thanked her mother, the child was prompted to visit the shop where the jeans had been bought. Then she went on to visit and thank the manufacturer, the designer, the fabric maker, transport staff, cotton pickers and growers.

Every class contributed poetry, prose, music, mime or art work to an assembly which featured many aspects of thanksgiving at harvest time.

Some of the juniors had made bread, and even the youngest infants joined in the singing.