PUPILS at a Bournemouth school are set to send a message of a different kind to commemorate the end of the First World War.

Geoff Budden, who is a radio enthusiast and volunteer at the Royal Signals Museum, has organised a special station, called GB100RSM, station that will be going live at Hill View Primary School over two days.

The event is part of an interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) day and takes place on November 6 and 7.

Almost 600 children will be given the opportunity to break codes, intercept field telephone messages, find an enemy location, send morse code and semaphore messages.

Adam Forty, business development manager at the Royal Signals Museum, said: “Children are fascinated by talking down a wire and sending messages in morse code and breaking codes.

"We do have a series of laptops with high tech lessons in cyber security, but it is always the hands on simple activities that are the most popular.

"Geoff’s wonderful idea of a commemorative radio station is a real bonus.”