ART students got creative during a trip to a Hampshire museum.

Fifty Year 9 pupils from Harrow Way Community School in Andover visited the Army Air Museum, which is home to dozens of helicopters and aeroplanes, as part of their ‘mechanimals’ project.

It will see the youngsters fuse animals with mechanical components and silhouettes as part of a newly introduced entry level GCSE.

And they took advantage of the trip by sketching and photographing the scores of engineering objects on display from the past 100 years of Army aviation, with prizes handed out to students who created the best sketchbook content.

Chrissy Collins, the school’s curriculum leader for art, said: “The Museum of Army Flying was the perfect venue for this trip because the range of engineering objects on display is so vast.

“There is nothing better than being able to illustrate a lesson in the context of a real-life environment which the students get so much more from.”