Pupils of three classes at Grange Church of England Primary School were set to become television stars when they appeared on Granada Television's programme 'This Morning' in November 1989.

CREATE: Head Colin Milner with some of the pupils of Grange C of E Primary School who created a version of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1991 (from left): Maeve Atkinson, Jessica Robson, Claire Webster, Wendy Saunders, Chris Leahy and David Cowperthwaite

CREATE: Head Colin Milner with some of the pupils of Grange C of E Primary School who created a version of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1991 (from left): Maeve Atkinson, Jessica Robson, Claire Webster, Wendy Saunders, Chris Leahy and David Cowperthwaite

A Border Television crew was at the school in October that year making the film for Granada.

It filmed classes 3, 5 and 6 producing handicrafts using traditional skills

In the background was the Grange wall hanging, which had recently been completed by the pupils, which was a series of patchwork pictures showing life in the seaside town.

Marie MacIver, of Border Television, interviewed headmaster Collin Milner, who spoke of the value of teaching traditional skills.

LEARNING: Pupils from Class 5 at Grange C of E School whose patchwork hanging won a prize in a national magazine competition in 1992. With them are supply teacher Dorothy Milner (rear right) and non-teaching assistant Dorothy Goslin

LEARNING: Pupils from Class 5 at Grange C of E School whose patchwork hanging won a prize in a national magazine competition in 1992. With them are supply teacher Dorothy Milner (rear right) and non-teaching assistant Dorothy Goslin

Mike Dodd, of TV Times, took photographs as the children worked and Border Television donated £30 to the Friends of Grange School.

Pupils of Grange C of E Primary School received a cheque for £750 from Pilkington Commercial Properties in 1990.

The money was presented during a break in rehearsals for the pupils' performance of the musical Jack Frost.

It was given to the school as a gesture of goodwill by the company, which was redeveloping the former Crown Hotel in Grange-over-Sands. It would be used to buy a new gymnastic climbing frame.

In 1991 pupils from the school had been making their own version of the Bayeux Tapestry and it was on display in the town's library.

OPEN: Michelle Charles, from BBC TV’s Byker Grove, opened the Grange-over-Sands Junior School’s summer fair in 1993. She is pictured at the duck apple stall run by Marion Turner with some of the pupils who attended

OPEN: Michelle Charles, from BBC TV’s Byker Grove, opened the Grange-over-Sands Junior School’s summer fair in 1993. She is pictured at the duck apple stall run by Marion Turner with some of the pupils who attended

Around 15 youngsters from Miss Bottomley's class had made the artwork as part of their national curriculum work, combining technology and design with history an geography.

In 1992 when class five at the primary school entered a patchwork hanging in a national magazine competition they had it all stitched up.

The pupils were delighted to win first prize in the under-16 group in the contest.

The stunning handiwork depicted the 500th anniversary of explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus' discovery of America.