PUPILS at Newbridge Comprehensive School are sending 114 shoeboxes of Christmas gifts to children in Romania and Kosovo.
Youngsters in Years 8, 9 and 10 worked individually and in groups to fill the shoeboxes with toiletries, toys, sweets and hats and gloves.
The boxes are for the Operation Christmas Child scheme, which runs every year.
They will go to children who have been orphaned by war or natural disaster and would otherwise receive no Christmas presents at all.
PE teacher Sarah Llewellyn said that the youngsters had responded excellently to the appeal.
"We have been doing this for the last three or four years and I think this is the most boxes we have ever had," she told the Argus.
"One class in Year 8 filled 17 boxes!"
She added that 114 children would now have a Christmas, thanks to Newbridge Comprehensive pupils.
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