Nine youngsters from St Alban's School in Chaddesden were weighed down with gifts, which they had collected for the Catholic Children's Society.

Connor Kelly (six), Abbey Beckwith (nine), Erin Lawlor (five), Amelia Campagna-Sparkes (eight), Ben Robertson (six), Sean Brough (10), Ross Marfurt (six), Callum Pritchard (seven) and Jessica Daykin (seven) delivered gifts including a variety of crayons, colouring books and selection boxes.

The gifts, collected by all the children in the school, are for youngsters who may be adopted, fostered or in need of respite care.

The children collected the gifts as part of a topic about the giving of gifts at Christmas time. This is just one of a number of charities supported by the school, which is in Newstead Avenue, Derby.