Bricking up the school entrance, filling the headteacher’s office with balls and pinching a lifeboat are just some of the cheeky antics of a school’s naughty elves.
Since 2019, elf toys have been “making mischief” at Amble Links Primary School in Northumberland, with the help of the local community.
Head Paul Heeley said the school had “quite a following now” on social media, adding: “When the school’s mentioned, people say, ‘oh, is that the school with the elves?'”
He said you could hear the anticipation from students as they came up the hill in the morning, asking: “Where the elves? What the elves doing? What have they done?”