Creative students turned their artwork into pancakes after winning a competition to come up with an edible design.

Six Pool Academy year seven students were picked as winners of a pancake design competition after cooking up some exciting ideas. The group were then invited to make them for real in the school during break time. They created shapes including a cat, a bear and a penguin.

Sam Strana, DT food teacher, dreamt up the idea after seeing people showing off creative ways to make food on Youtube. Together with art teacher Natalie Ellis she launched a competition to find the student with the most colourful and creative pancake art.

Mrs Strana said: β€œIt was an exciting opportunity to combine art with food. The students had loads of fun but getting the pattern right was tricky.”