A MEMORIAL garden in memory of Logan Wood is being created at Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School in Accrington.

The 12-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle, was a student at the school before he died falling from a motorbike last October.

The Wordsworth Road school said it was now planning a 'garden of reflection' after the youngsters friends asked for somewhere they could remember Logan.

Fundraising co-ordinator Mrs Lowe said: "Logan will always be a part of the school community and his memory will follow all the way through school with the current Year Eight pupils.

"The garden of reflection will be a place where his memory and those of all other family and friends can be focused."

A seated area will be placed around a central, colourful focal point, which will be a freestanding parasol that shines colours onto the ground.

The garden will also feature a willow arbour at the far end of the garden, with an area of trees, shrubs and perennials wrapped about it.

Bird boxes, bird baths, and bug hotels will be installed, while a large sycamore tree will be planted along with herbs and other edible plants.

Pupils have been drafted in to help with the project, and will be expected to continue to nurture and maintain it when it is completed, at the far end of the main playground.

It will also be used as an outdoor classroom throughout the day.

Logan's friends have already given presentations in school about the garden, and every class has been tasked with raising enough money to buy a picnic table each.

Youngsters Paddy Dean, Jayson Wilcock, Nathan Parkinson, Sebastian Goodyear, Joe Allen, and Antonio Lo-Guidice have all been praised by the school for their hard work, which has already seen £1,000 raised out of a target of £8,500 by the summer.

Logan was on a half-day's holiday from Mount Carmel in October when he went to Cowm Leisure, in Whitworth, where he regularly practised motocross racing.

He fell from the track at the motorsport venue's quarry, off High Barn Lane and was taken to Fairfield Hospital in Bury with serious injuries but died a short time later.