CHILDREN at Lanesend Primary School were full of beans after a busy few weeks.

Last week, pupils at Lanesend were thrilled to meet real archaeologists and take part in various themed activities.

The Time Taxi team guided the children as they made string using stone-age methods, dug for stones and bones in the soil, and even built their own dens out of sticks and rope.

One pupil said: "We got to decorate the hut with flowers and fake fires. It was the best."

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On Monday, the children also organised a cake sale to raise money for Mountbatten and Motor Neurone Disease.

The school received cake donations from parents, children and staff, raising more than £120 for both charities.

Lanesend have also been as successful on the pitch as they have in their charity work, with both the boy's and the girl's cricket teams playing matches in the week.

The under-eleven girls of Lanesend beat Carisbrooke to reach the quarter-finals, while the under-eleven boys demonstrated some improving cricket skills against Carisbrooke and Wootton, loosing their first game but bouncing back to win the second game comfortably.

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