THERE was not one absentee when a class of primary school pupils revelled in their prize for top attenders.

Year six at Shotton Primary School was rewarded with a free trip to Seaham Leisure Centre after notching up the best attendance record in the school.

The prize had been open to all the classes in the village school but, it was year six which achieved the top 96.67 per cent attendance over the year.

Headteacher Mable Heplewhite said: "I feel that this popular incentive which I initiated in order to improve the overall school attendance has proved a winner."

And one young student summed up his classmates' view: "It is excellent-definitely worth coming to school - just to get a day out."