PUPILS from Ulverston Victoria High School were getting experience of the building trade by visiting Furness College’s technology centre in 1993.

College lecturer Pete Sadler was holding open ‘taster’ sessions where pupils could go down to the Channelside campus to try things like bricklaying.

In July 1994 Ulverston Victoria High School fundraisers cleaned up £700 in a pram-pushing charity stunt to raise cash for a new minibus fitted with safety belts for pupils.

The group of good-hearted school cleaners, helped out by a few friends, donned fancy dress to push their prams around a route which included along part of Ulverston Canal towpath.

The event was organised by Pauline Jackson, of Kingsway.

The energetic clean-up squad rounded off the day by swelling the appeal fund coffers with a hot pot supper and raffle, with prizes donated by Ulverston Victoria High School.

In 1996 pupils from the school were cooking up a treat as they competed against the clock and each other in a catering contest.

The children were challenged to come up with tasty dishes to tempt the palates of judges from Ulverston Rotary Club.

The competition was part of an awards evening for the school’s design and technology faculty.

The Rotary Club awarded a £10 prize for the best work produced in different categories - food technology, graphics, textiles and manufacturing wood, metal or plastic.

But the pressure was really on the food technology students, who had to produce their cordon bleu efforts on the evening itself.

The top honour in the senior years (years ten and 11) went to 14-year-old Rebecca Proctor, whose tasty tuna pasta had the judges wanting a second helping.

But the judges also had to find room for a feast of food, which included spicy vegetarian sausage and pasta cooked by Emma White, orange turkey courtesy of Virginia Webb and, for dessert, Ralph Whitehead's sweet bread with lemon and raisins.

All three were highly commended.

The junior (years seven to nine) food technology winner was Helen Birkett.