School's chocolate ice-cream wins favour among all the flavours

Pupils at Belmont Grosvenor School, Harrogate, enjoy a weekly "Friday chill zone" in which students can buy ice-cream after school to raise money for charity.

This year, the school's Parent Teacher Association and a local dairy, Nidderdale-based Birchfield Family Dairies, asked pupils to come up with new flavours – one of which went into production – with the first tubs being sold at the showground.

Chocolate Forest came out on top from a few entries after winning favour with the pupils.

Martin Whitley, who runs Birchfield Family Dairies at Summerbridge near Pateley Bridge, said: "I have been very impressed by the ideas the pupils at Belmont Grosvenor have come up with. They have obviously put a great deal of thought and work into devising them, and it was really difficult to chose the top three. Chocolate Forest was a really good flavour and a good combination – everyone who tried it loved it."

Other flavours produced by pupils at Belmont Grosvenor included Mix of Mess, a combination of strawberries, raspberries and meringue; Peachy Pie, made up of peaches, cream and marshmallows and Ice Ice Baby, comprising vanilla ice-cream and jelly babies.

Headteacher Jane Merriman said: "The children have been very creative coming up with the different ideas for flavours and it is great to be working closely with such a successful local family business."

The ice-cream is being sold at the Birchfield Family Dairies stand in the food hall at the show.