Youngsters from Maryport, Aspatria and Dearham have started a World War One project that will last until November.

The project, to mark the centenary of the war, has been funded by a £9,000 Lottery grant and is being run by Maryport Extended Schools Partnership.

Jules Wooding, the outreach and learning officer with the Cumbria Museum of Military Life, visited local school telling them something about the museum and about the importance of the artefacts being shown there.

Nicola Woolley, the partnership’s co-ordinator, said the project will include creative workshops with storyteller Ian Douglas and local poet Natalie Burns. 

Trips to the Cumbria Museum of Military Life in Carlisle, cookery sessions and a poppy-themed tea party are planned.

A group of children will film a documentary about the project and have started working with professional filmmaker Tom Lloyd.