SCHOOLCHILDREN designed and built their ideal ‘city’ after studying their homes in Rose Hill and Iffley.

Pupils from Rose Hill Primary School got to grips with printing using polystyrene for the three-week project with Modern Art Oxford and Danish artist Birgitte Haahr Lund.

The seven by three metre model will be on show at Rose Hill Community Centre on Monday, February 22.

Charlotte Gretton, school partnerships co-ordinator for Modern Art Oxford, said: “First they looked around the Rose Hill estate and Iffley village and compared the two. Then they did some poly-cut printing using polystyrene tiles.

“They drew houses into them and cut out the tops of the roof so they were left with the shape of a house.”

The children, aged nine and 10, placed the houses on a giant map and worked together making roads, roundabouts and trees.

Amber Proffitt, nine, said: “My favourite bit was the inking. We made a big map, it looked like a bit city with roads and everything.”