POLICE have vowed to catch vandals who attacked a primary school, damaging a pond and breaking 26 windows.

Norton County Primary School has suffered £1,500 of damage after two attacks in less than a fortnight.

Children from the school's year four class were devastated when they returned from their half-term break to discover that the irises they had planted around the wildlife pond had been thrown in the water.

School caretaker Michael Arnold said: "They wrecked it completely. All the plants were smashed up. The children had worked hard to clean the pond up and make it pretty with border plants."

The damage was done during the past two weekends, with vandals using vases, kerbing and pieces of gravestone from a nearby cemetery to break windows in the nursery and canteen.

Headteacher Maureen Benson said: "It has been awful. The cleaning staff have had to work hard to get all the glass up and out of the boxes of Lego and equipment - it has gone everywhere."

She appealed for people to watch out for youths in the school grounds or cemetery.

Community safety ser-geant Cliff Edens, of Malton Police, said: "Someone will know the offender because it will have been done for bravado. We will find who has done this."