YEAR 2 pupils from Wool CE First School have been getting involved in some monkey business for their latest class project.

The children spent the day at nearby Monkey World as part of a project to help feed the primates at the centre.

The pupils brought with them giant papier maché nuts' they had made themselves in class, which staff at the centre then filled with food for the monkeys.

The children got a close-up view as keeper Mike Colbourne and section head Lee Butler gave the nuts to the centre's capuchin monkeys, which had recently been rescued from a laboratory in Chile.

They looked on as the monkeys ripped the nuts open to get at the treats inside, replicating skills that they would use to find food in the wild.

Mr Colbourne said: "This has been a fantastic idea. Everything we can do to introduce activities that encourage natural behaviour like foraging for food helps the monkeys in our care to behave as naturally as possible, and to rediscover what it is to be a monkey.

"The nuts' made by the children obviously provide entertainment for the capuchins, and will help them to learn natural foraging skills."

Class teacher Sally Warburton said: "Not only has this work been beneficial to the capuchins, but it has further developed the children's understanding of creatures in the wild."