CHILDREN celebrated with eco-friendly Christmas decorations donated by housing developers.

Bocking Primary School students enjoyed Christmas baubles and a wooden Christmas post box donated by Towerlands Park developer Dandara.

The developers chose to donate to reduce the volume of wasted plastic decorations this year.

The baubles were made from wood and decorated by pupils and displayed on the school's tree at St Mary’s Church Christmas tree festival.

Roseanne Bullen, sales and marketing director for Dandara Eastern, said: “We are proud to work with Bocking Primary School to reduce their decorative waste this Christmas.

“The pupils did a fantastic job decorating their baubles, and it was great to see them proudly displayed at the Christmas Tree Festival.

“We also hope they enjoyed using the Christmas post box to post Christmas cards to each other - we wish the pupils and teachers a very Merry Christmas from all of us here at Dandara.”

Hannah Cagney, Headteacher at Bocking Primary School, commented: “We were very happy to receive such a thoughtful sustainable donation from Dandara, and we’d like to thank them for gifting a wooden Christmas post box alongside the baubles, which we made great use of as we sent Christmas cards between different classes – the pupils really enjoyed it!.”