The children at St Johns Primary School in Dartmouth collected goodies, toiletries, sweets, notebooks, pencils, hats and gloves over the half term to create and fill special shoeboxes for the charity Operation Christmas Child.

The charity collects the boxes and distributes them to children outside of the UK who are affected by war, poverty, natural disaster, famine and disease.

One of the hardest things is actually wrapping the shoebox itself. The school collected 32 boxes in total.

The head, Liz Hamilton said: “Our children always try their hardest to make a Christmas shoebox, they should all be very proud of themselves.”