AN OXFORD student is desperately appealing for the return of a school bag filled with crucial A -Level work, after leaving it on a bus.

Kirsten Melville, 17, said the loss of her bright orange drawstring bag had impacted her mock exams on Monday.

The Cherwell School student explained: “It’s everything that we have done in our module on the Catholic reformation so far: notes, booklets and information. It took a very long time to do and that’s basically what was in the bag.

“I went into the exam thinking I was going to fail before I had even done it, which is probably the worst thing.”

Kirsten, from Marston, is appealing for anyone who may have seen the bag to return it to her school in Marston Ferry Road.

Mum Lucy said: “Despite contacting Stagecoach Oxford to report the loss, which happened on November 15, on the S5 bus from Summertown to the city centre at 09.13am, nothing has been handed in.

“She is devastated to have lost the bag, which contains nothing of use or value to anyone else.”

The A-Level philosophy and ethics, history and art student, said that she got on the S5 only to think she had left her bag at the bus stop.

But after getting off the bus she believes that she had in fact left it on the Stagecoach service.

She continued: “It was a three minute or so interval. I was only on the bus for a very short space of time.

“It threw me into a complete panic because there were very important notes there for the whole year.

“It meant that I had to have people send me pictures over the weekend. It’s extremely frustrating and gutting.”

Other items in the Nike bag - which contained ‘nothing of value to anyone else’ - include her school planner and personal notebook.

Kirsten hopes to read philosophy at university and may have more exams to revise for in January.

Karen Coventry, Stagecoach in Oxfordshire’s Business Development Manager, said: “We always endeavour to reunite all lost property with the rightful owner.

“In the last four weeks alone 356 items have been left on our buses, or handed to a driver, and of those we’ve reunited almost a third of the items.

“Unfortunately, in this case, the lost bag was not found on our bus and has not been handed in by a member of public.”