CHILDREN from a North-East junior school hope a prize-winning song will help their garden grow.

For pupils at Bowburn Junior School have been asked to perform their composition We Are One at an educational conference at Sunderland's Stadium of Light.

They hope delegates will be impressed enough to buy the school's specially recorded cassette - the proceeds of which will help fund its planned millennium Eurogarden.

The song has already been voted Durham County Council's Song for Europe and was inspired by Bowburn's links with schools abroad.

The World Class conference is being staged on July 7 and will highlight international link opportunities for local schools