Complex sentence: During the early years of the school's life there were two donkeys, Pebble and Dash, and the school backed onto the local Talbot Village farm, although this area is all housing now, though the school still has a large field and playgrounds.
Split into simpler sentences: During the early years of the school's life there were two donkeys, Pebble and Dash, and the school backed onto the local Talbot Village farm. Although this area is all housing now, the school still has a large field and playgrounds.