Volunteers from Chiswick Business Park planted an interactive sensory garden in the playground of Grove Park School to surprise students and staff when they returned after the half-term break.

The newly created zone provides a place to enjoy their surroundings and relax away from the hectic environment of the main playground.

The garden incorporates elements to stimulate the children's senses, including herbs to taste and honeysuckle to delight their sense of smell. The volunteers, who are expert landscape gardeners, had to cut back and completely redesign the area, known as the quiet zone, before making space for the variety of plants donated.

Grove Park school's caretaker, Brian Hardman said: "We were talking about the quiet area recently, so we were so excited when we got the phone call from Chiswick Business Park offering to come and help us."