PUPILS combined their fundraising talents to collect money for Children in Need.

Girls in the junior and senior departments at Teesside Prep and High School, in Eaglescliffe, raised more than £400 for the national charity to help disadvantaged youngsters.

They came up with a number of ways to raise money to support the Children in Need appeal last Friday.

The younger girls paid to attend school dressed as their career role models, which led to students going to classes dressed as a vet, doctor, circus ringmaster, policewoman, archaeologist and a journalist, along with a sprinkling of would-be models and pop singers.

And ten-year-old Asanti Das carried out a 24-hour sponsored silence to boost the funds.

Meanwhile, the High School organised a Name the Teddy competition, along with a cake stall and sponge-the-teacher event, in which six teachers were repeatedly drenched with wet sponges.