SEVEN savvy youngsters at a local primary school are doing their bit for the community while learning valuable life skills at the same time - and they’ve been invited to the University of Oxford to showcase their work.

The student leadership team at Hunningley Primary Academy consists of seven youngsters - Seth Malkin-Ormston, Celine Vladislav, Beau Silcock, McCorley Jackson, Xenia Carcea, Poppy Henstock and Isabella Smith - and they’ve been working on their new project called ‘Warm Hands Warm Hearts’.

Over the past couple of weeks, the children have created a range of homemade soups to share with parents, carers, and members of our local community, raising money for a homeless charity.

They are now set to extend the project by working with ButterBeanz Cafe, located close to the school, where the children will be serving soup to the wider community.

Vice principal Jack Parker told the Chronicle: “We take part in something that’s called the Student Leadership Project every year and this year we’ve decided to focus on a community based initiative called Warm Hands Warm Hearts.

“The purpose behind it is to develop our children’s leadership and they have come up with this project themselves and the name for their project.

“Their aim is to raise money for a local homeless charity which we’re yet to decide.

“The children have each completed a food hygiene qualification to ensure they’re handling food safely.

“They’ve met with our executive business manager for the trust to learn about money and financing.

“They’ve done a budget pitch to myself and our executive principal Catherine Horton Hale to ask for a budget to start up their project.

“We’ve been down to the Aldi each week to make sure we’re budgeting properly.

“We share with parents the night before what the children are making, where they’re going to be.

“We would not charge for the soup in terms of it being a set price - it’s just a donation.”

And the scheme’s going incredibly well - helping the children in a number of ways.

“We went up on Tuesday afternoon to ButterBeanz Cafe just up the road to serve,” he added.

“They’ve sold out completely.

“They’ve raised over £100 just in 45 minutes so it’s been a real success.

“They’ve chosen this themselves - they kind of have the free scope of what they wanted their project to be each year, whereas they’ve really chosen and focused on a community-based one this year.

“It’s been really good for the children.

“We’ve also been invited on March 12 to the University of Oxford to present our findings.”