PUPILS at a York primary school have signed up to a new healthy eating

challenge.

At Clifton Green they have set up The Snack Shack; a place where children can come to pick up a healthy snack to eat on the way home from school.

NYBEP, the North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership, have joined forces with The York Merchant Adventurers and invited young people from across York to sign up for one of this year’s enterprise challenges.

The Adventurers Challenge, funded by York Merchant Adventurers, was open to primary schools only, and they were invited to submit their business ideas on creating and selling a product that celebrates Yorkshire.

The best business ideas will then have access to a £100 start-up fund to bring their ideas to life and try to make a profit.

The challenge will culminate this year with students presenting their ideas and final products at a grand final to be held in July – prizes will be awarded to the best idea, as well as most creative and profitable.

At Clifton Green Lisa Green, the school’s food development

manager, said: “We have set up The Snack Shack; a place where children can come to pick up a healthy snack to eat on the way home from school.

“Year 6 children have set up a ‘pay- as-you-feel’ stall where parents can offer what they feel the snack is worth. It might be 50p or it might be an hour of reading with children in school.

The “shack” opens on Tuesdays between 3pm and 3.45pm and the stall is run by children.

Additionally, the children have made contact with local supermarkets Morrisons and Marks & Spencer to intercept their fresh produce which may be destined for landfill as it reaches its ‘display until’ date.

After this, a recipe is devised and cooked with the aim to teach the children where their food comes from and how to use ingredients that may be close to the end of their life.

Visitors from the Merchant Adventurers came in to the school last week to see the stall in action in preparation for judging the final in July.