Last updated at 14:06, Tuesday, 05 March 2013

STUDENTS staged their own version of TV’s The Great British Bake Off during half-term.

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The Victoria sponge creations made during “The Great Furness Academy Bake Off” included cakes shaped and iced to replicate the Barrow school’s £22.5m new building, and even an iPad.

There was also a purple cake featuring the Furness Academy logo and a Union Jack cake made for the house competition.

The house leaders came into school during the break to win points for their respective teams.

Greg Rogerson, 14, of Ramsden house at the school, was in charge of rolling out the icing for the cake based on a new school building, a design chosen by the team as the building is being completed for September.

He said: “The new building is an exciting project, it should be very good.”

Alison Currie, a house manager at Furness Academy, said incredible effort was put in by all the students who took part in the challenge.

The cakes were judged on taste and design by the principal, Douglas Blackledge, and Peter Docker, the ICT learning and support manager at school.

The winning team was Tomlinson house with the Furness Academy purple cake. The cake had the “wow factor” – when the judges cut into it, they found it featured the colours of the four houses in its layers.

First published at 16:46, Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk