STUDENTS from Stockton have been selling jam after setting up their own business.

The 13 to 16-year-olds, who are all from Redhill Education Centre, celebrated Global Entrepreneurship Week by selling preserves, which they have been making since July, in the Enterprise Arcade on Wednesday afternoon.

They created their business, called Nannie Nora's, earlier in the year after they reinvested profit they had made from a craft market stall.

Joy Barlow, a teacher at the school, helped the teenagers develop the self-funded project and gave them the opportunity to create, package and launch the business.

She said: “We are so proud of how our pupils have embraced the Nannie Nora enterprise project. It has grown into a professional business and allows every child to take part and contribute to planning and making the goods.

“Not only is it self-funded but it has also developed their interpersonal skills, work experience and has boosted their self-esteem."

Leanne Chilton, headteacher, said that the project "has provided pupils the opportunity to experience the world of work, helping them prepare for the next stage of their education and employment".

Councillor Mike Smith, Stockton Council's executive member for transport, said: “What better place to test their idea than in the new Enterprise Arcade which has seen 35-37 High Street transformed into a purpose built facility for fledgling businesses?”

The jams will be sold again later in the year at the Education Centre's Art Deco Christmas Tea Party.