PUPILS from a Port school showed off their cooking skills as they staged a harvest festival featuring food grown on the grounds.

Craigmarloch kids organised a celebration which included a mountain of potato-based meals and home-grown foods.

The event was the culmination of a Keep Scotland Beautiful-backed initiative the pupils have been working on, which saw the school receive enough potatoes for every child to grow.

Science teacher Mary Griffin and outdoor learning teacher Ruth Bennett helped run the project, with classes across the school growing ingredients and making meals from the produce.

Mary told the Telegraph she was thrilled to see the project pay off.

She said: "We were given potatoes as part of an initiative called 'totally tatties'.

"Keep Scotland Beautiful gave us enough for every child in the school to grow.

"The children were involved with the whole process of growing the potatoes, they did things like weighing them before planting and checking the weight of their crop.

"Our harvest festival is part of the project too and the children had a great time growing everything.

"Ms Bennett has been out literally every day of the year with the children helping them do activities outside.

"It's lovely to have a wee celebration and let everyone see what we've been working on.

The youngsters also prepared batches of rhubarb, strawberry and ginger jam and the school held a scarecrow-making competition as part of its festival, which was judged by Inverclyde's Provost Drew McKenzie.

He added: "I enjoyed my visit to Craigmarloch School a great deal.

"It was inspiring to see the work being done with these young people, many with challenges.

"The school is such a happy place.

"All credit goes to the staff who inspire these young and talented pupils every day.

"The young people at Craigmarloch School are an integral part of our Inverclyde education community which continues to impress me time and time again."