TEACHERS and students from a Transylvanian school have been visiting Sedgefield as part of a project to study historical buildings.

A group from Sedgefield Community College has already visited their counterparts in the town of Sibia, in Romania, and this was the return visit.

The three-way project, which also includes a school in Seville, will enable information to be swapped between them.

Helen Tregoning, head of modern foreign languages at Sedgefield, said: "We have had three Romanian girls and two teachers with us.

"They were in school all morning and then we took them to Durham because a lot of the buildings we looked at are there. They had a tour of the school and took part in a geography lesson to see what a typical English school looks like."

Sedgefield has formed a close relationship with the schools, especially with the Romanians, and is to take part in the project next year.

Mrs Tregoning said: "The Romanians have been really well received by everybody and we've formed a really good link with them."