The week-long enterprise initiative saw the budding entrepreneurs involved with everything from designing logos and tickets to accountancy and costing.

Each of the six classes at Harthill Primary school on Union Street, started a business from scratch.

And the project culminated with a 'going green' event on Friday, where the school's 163 pupils staged a fashion show and sold their wares.

"The classes each had a loan of £20 to get them started," said Amy Crane, Year 2 teacher and enterprise champion.

"Some painted plant pots and decorated them after buying them at about 15 or 20p each and doing some market research into designs and how much they needed to charge to make a profit."

"Enterprise isn't something that's part of our curriculum, so this was about making the children aware of business."

"My class did wonderfully well as the Cool Clothes Company," added Mrs Crane. "Rather than selling goods, they sold a service."

"They did all the costing in working out how much people would pay to see the fashion show, and designed the tickets."

The children's tailor-made creations involved them customising old t-shirts with sequins and other items. Their accompanying programme included profile pictures of each other, and the class as a whole, and made more than £184.

"I've been teaching them for two years now," said Mrs Crane. "I saw some things in them last week that I have never seen before, in terms of their confidence and ability."

"I mean, how often do they get a chance to show off these skills and perform on a catwalk in front of so many people cheering them on?"

Visits from young entrepreneurs earlier in the week inspired the pupils. And the week's lessons focused on the business objectives of teamwork, organisation, creativity, initiative, financial literacy and problem-solving

"We did a phenomenal amount of work on it, and had a great week," said Mrs Crane. "They all prepared presentations to give to the whole school. They made their own slogans and jingles for their products, looked at advertising, and did applications for the roles in the business that they wanted."

Headteacher Jackie Williams agreed it had been a highly successful exercise.

"The children were really excited about creating and presenting their own businesses," she said. "And the parents were very, very positive about the learning that was taking place as part of the enterprise week."