A GROUP of Dawlish Community College students has been helping with a geological conservation project at Haldon Forest. The works-related learning group has been clearing a site of specific scientific interest, revealing a bank in an old quarry – that used to be the seabed – full of fossils. They have been removing the undergrowth and debris, establishing an area for both the public and local schools to visit. It was organised through a teacher at the school, Wendy Arscott, who said: 'The work here will take a couple of months, but the students really enjoy it and it's been going really well. 'It gives them a sense of achievement, and the fact that they will be able to bring their family and friends here to show what they've done is fantastic. 'Usually, the students wouldn't even know that this place existed, and this is opening their eyes as to what's out there. 'When they first came up here they weren't very motivated, but only the other day I heard one of the students saying how much fun he'd been having. 'That in itself is great. In working on a project like this they instantly see the effect of what they are doing and if the facility is here they will use it,' she said. Fifteen-year-old student Michaela Hickerman said: 'We've been helping here for the past few weeks and it's been really good fun. It's hard work, though.' Haldon Forest ranger Ian Parson said: 'Once the area has been cleared we will bring in a machine to scrape the face of the quarry, revealing more fossils, and then maintain it as an open space. 'The students have been a real help. Without them we wouldn't have been able to get this moving so quickly.' The pupils work at the site every Friday afternoon.