Boosting School Funds With Salad Dish Fruity Fiesta For M&S
Last updated 10/06/2009 12:07:28
Boosting School Funds With Salad Dish Fruity Fiesta For Marks and Spencer
Scottish pupils have shown a head for business after coming up with a salad, which is to be sold by Marks and Spencer - and raise money for their school.
Pupils from Bo'ness Academy devised Fruity Fiesta Salad, which contains rice, mango, carrot, peppers and sweet chilli sauce. It will now appear on the shelves of the supermarket chain's stores across Scotland.
Marks and Spencer said 10% of revenues from the salad would go to the school - following the pupils' success in a competition. The pupils created the snack as part of a project involving one of the retailer's suppliers, Bo'ness-based Caledonian Produce.
They polled their classmates and chose those ingredients that proved most popular.
Isabella Jean-Pierre, deputy head at Bo'ness Academy, said: "The pupils are absolutely delighted and very excited about it all. It really has been great for the pupils and given them a chance to develop skills for work and learning life-based lessons."
The project is part of the Determined to Succeed scheme - the Scottish Government's strategy to encourage enterprise in education and involved the pupils flying to London to meet the M&S food development team.
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