STUDENTS at Manor Park Primary School and Nursery put their map reading and detective skills to the test in a sponsored orienteering event to support Red Nose Day on Friday.

Dressed in colourful outfits and wearing red noses, pupils from reception through to Year 6 worked in teams to search the playground, fields and the school’s unique woodland known as the Spinney to find clues – the answers to which eventually formed a ‘knock knock’ joke.

Year 5 student Jayden said: “What a brilliant day, I loved reading the map and finding the clues.”

Year 6 student Matthew said: “We learned to work together as a team to solve the problems.”

In the classroom before the sponsored event, pupils had been learning about the work Comic Relief does, with the money raised through sponsorship to be split equally between the charity and the Manor Park School Association (MPSA) as it bid to fundraise a new computer facility at the school.

Simon Cotterill, headteacher at Manor Park, said he was delighted with the fundraising efforts on show during the day.

He said: “It was great to see all of our children outside in the sunshine enjoying their learning.

“We could really see all of the Manor Park values in action. What a great day. Thank you to the MPSA for helping us to organise our Comic Relief orienteering event.”

Comic Relief is a UK charity that works all year round to create a world free from poverty.

Red Nose Day is the charity’s flagship fundraising event, and comes around once every other year.

This year’s Red Nose Day on Friday, March 24, raised more than £70 million.