QUEEN’S DYKE Primary School in Witney is hoping a final push for tokens will help drive it to the top of the School Build SOS leaderboard.

Headteacher Carol Camping said: “They are still pouring in.

“People tend to bring in a wodge of tokens at a time.

“We’ve got a lot of parents rooting for us and getting their families and friends to buy the paper.”

The school wants to use the £7,500 of construction work to create an observation hide in the school’s wildlife area, letting pupils watch animals and birds living on the school site.

A new pond would also be created.

Year Five pupil Daniel Bellenger, nine, said: “In the hide we would learn about things but not in books. We would see things.

“It would be good for children who don’t have gardens, and we could buy infra-red binoculars so we could watch animals in the dark.”

The children said they wanted to watch chicks hatch from their eggs, and young fledglings take their first flight.

The school’s environment club and Witney Brownies, who use the school after hours, would also be able to use the hide.