Students, parents and teachers - past and present - turned out to celebrate Blackbrook Primary School's 25th birthday.

The school, in Ashbourne Crescent, Taunton, opened its doors to the first intake of pupils for the 1989/90 academic year and the day had an air of jubilation around it.

Headteacher Barney Rycroft led an assembly before the school's fledgling choir regaled the audience with their take on a selection of modern hits, including Clean Bandit's Rather Be and Brit musician James Bay's Hold Back The River.

He explained that a time capsule full of memories and keepsakes would be buried in the school grounds to be dug up by future generations.

A time capsule had also been buried to mark the opening of the new site in 1998, but a classroom has since been built over it.

Mr Rycroft assured the children that the 2015 version would not suffer the same fate

Mr Rycroft - Blackbrook's seventh headteacher - said: "I want to thank everyone for coming along to this momentous occasion.

"The school has gone from strength to strength and I've really enjoyed my year here, hopefully it will be the first of many.

I'm very proud of you all."

The school saw a brilliant response to an advert for old pupils and teachers to get in touch with their own personal recollections of Blackbrook.

The school has swelled from 115 children to 240 since Blackbrook first swung its doors open.

Many of these memories were recorded in a commemorative edition of the school newspaper, the Blackbrook Buzz, which was produced by the school media team and given to all guests.

Val Simmons, school business manager, who has been there since day one, was thrilled and a little surprised to be the only remaining member of staff since it opened.

She said: "This is such a special day, I didn't know if I'd still be here 25 years later but the school takes hold of your heart."

There was then a lavish tea party for the pupils, families and teachers with food and drink very kindly provided by Tesco, courtesy of a parent of one of the pupils.