COLCHESTER MP Will Quince officially opened Colchester’s first Play Pod.

The project, in St Thomas More’s Catholic Primary School, off Priory Street, gives children the chance to get creative with safe scrap during break and lunch times.

The scheme is led by Cambridge City Council’s Children and Young People’s Partnership, which will restock the pod from time to time.

School staff have been given training by the partnership to make sure little ones get the most from the new addition.

Mr Quince said: “It was a great morning spent with the children finding out exactly what we could do with the scrap.

“I hope they all enjoy it.

“It’s great for the school to have the only one in Colchester.”