VANDALS destroyed a school's mud kitchen in a “wanton and senseless” attack.

Staffs and pupils discovered their forest school area had been obliterated when they arrived at the start of a new day at Kempsey Primary School.

It left many of children confused, unable to understand why this was done to their special place.

Forest School leader Lisa Williams said: “The children play with the mud kitchen every time we go to forest school. They were really upset at the thought that someone they didn’t know would be so unkind to them.

“At first they thought T-T, the class dinosaur, might have seen something but they knew he would have told them if he had.”

The kitchen is used by the children to make mud pies and was built by Nicholas Pugh whose daughter, Tia, is a pupil at the school.

Headteacher Bryony Baynes, said: “We had some issues with intruders in the forest school area in the evenings and at weekends. Last Wednesday we spotted people and went to speak to them but they ran off before we could talk to them. This damage doesn’t just hurt the staff but the pupils as well.

“The wanton and senseless destruction of something that the children loved so much was just unfathomable.

“We don’t want to turn our site into a prison with huge fences but will if we have to. Hopefully the “naughty people” who did this will read this article and feel ashamed of themselves, both for the damage and for upsetting so many children."

Pupil Alex said: “We love the mud kitchen so it made us feel grumpy when the naughty people smashed it.”

Tia told her teachers that she had a mud kitchen at home and the next day she donated hers to the school so there was little disruption in the production of mud pies.

The vandalism happened on the evening of Wednesday July 3 and anyone with information can call 101 quoting incident number: 0488S030719.