A BLACKPOOL school has won a Barclays New Futures Award for its pioneering music project.

Students at Greenlands High School will work with five local primary schools, a special school and neighbouring high school to stage a Schools' Orchestra Primary Proms concert in 1999.

Barclays awarded the school £7,000 after looking through more than 400 applications.

The awards are for original ideas for school and community partnership projects.

A spokesman for the awards said: "The ideas have to come from secondary schools, sixth form colleges or special schools.

"The awards are for projects that will service a need in the community, but that can also mean a need in the school community itself.

"Barclays has put the equivalent of £5 million into the awards over the past five years and 83 projects were winners this year."

Ian Holdsworth, head of the expressive arts faculty at Greenlands, said: "The project is special because it will benefit students by enriching their musical education and giving them an opportunity to perform as a member of an orchestral team.

"It will also foster a sense of local identity and raise the profile of what youngsters can achieve, both individually and as a team."

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