Pupils are on the right track thanks to work of volunteers

Pupils at a Kinross school and residential care complex are riding high after volunteers created a cycle track for them in their school grounds.

Seamab is a residential primary school in Rumbling Bridge which cares for and educates vulnerable children aged between five and 13 who have experienced trauma or loss in their lives.

Pupils live in three bungalows, each with five single bedrooms and separate staff facilities, set in woodland five minutes from the school.

Over the course of a week, 32 employees from the Dunfermline depot of gas network company SGN spent time creating a cycle trail in the woodland area.

After marking out the route they used a mini digger to excavate the top layer of soil and replaced it with tarmac. They also created features as part of the track, including a bridge and some small jumps.

SGN’s contractors donated equipment and supplies free of charge, GAP Hire gave the team the use of a one-tonne dumper truck for the week, Purvis Group donated 25 tonnes of tarmac planings and Travis Perkins donated the wooden posts needed to construct the track features.

Driving the project were SGN employees Mark Bell and Scott Henderson, both keen cyclists.

Mark said: “Knowing the difficult start these children have had in life and, with my keen interest in mountain biking, I saw this as the perfect opportunity to give something back to them. The school gave us a rough idea of the route they wanted the cycle track to take, and we built on that, adding in a couple of small jumps, a bridge and some other features of our own.”