Mosaic for cancer story teacher

Emma Moulding died after battling cancer for two-and-a-half years

Pupils have created a mosaic as a permanent memorial to a primary school teacher who died of cancer.

Emma Moulding, 32, died of breast cancer in August after battling the condition for two-and-a-half years.

Before she died she wrote a story to help her Year 4 pupils at St Thomas a Beckett Catholic Junior School in Eastbourne understand her illness.

The colourful mosaic that depicts four children playing will be placed near the school entrance.

'Permanent and beautiful'

Ms Moulding's mother, Gina, said: "With the mosaic on the outside wall she'll never be forgotten.

The mosaic will be placed near the entrance of the school

"We will never forget her but other people move on, it's normal. [The mosaic] is just so permanent and beautiful."

Ms Moulding wrote a story about a gardener whose sunflower is being choked by weeds to explain her illness.

She explained to the eight and nine-year-olds in her class about her chemotherapy, how the cancer had spread and why she had lost her hair.

In the final weeks of her life she travelled to Paris for the Rugby World Cup, visited Ireland with her mother and made a pilgrimage to Lourdes.