A THEATRE company is touring 18 Cheshire high schools - including Neston High - performing a play about pupils who behave badly on a school bus.

The play is being performed by Cragrats Theatre Company to groups of Year 7 pupils to help them consider how their own behaviour can affect others around them.

Arranged and funded by Cheshire County Council’s School Travel Team, the theatre performances are part of a number of initiatives by the county to improve behaviour and safety on school buses.

After the play there is an interactive workshop where pupils discuss the impact of each character’s behaviour and the negative consequences they can create.

Cheshire’s Executive Member for Highways and Transportation Eveleigh Moore-Dutton said: “The play gives the audience an insight into how the driver’s life is affected by the choices that other people make.

“A workshop after the production involving the three actors reinforces to pupils how making positive choices in the ways they behave, can have a far reaching impact.

“Feedback from schools in previous years about the play has been very positive because pupils enjoy this style of learning and therefore the messages get across.”