Pupils turned into teachers as part of a school’s version of TV programme, The Apprentice.

Contestants from Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey took part in the second task of this year’s competition which was to plan and deliver a lesson about Blue Town at St Edward’s Catholic Primary School.

They were divided into two teams – The Achievers, led by Oliver Cooksey, of Year 10, who had to teach about the area’s geography, and Learn, Believe, Achieve, led by Year 10’s Katie Titus, who had to give a talk on its history.

Both groups went to Blue Town Heritage Centre after school last Monday to take part in workshops and research their lessons.

Each team was given half an hour with Year 6 pupils at St Edward’s on Thursday and they were observed closely by geography teacher Ben Woodhead and history teacher Gareth Hall.

Judges Ken Pugh, a Swale councillor, and Michelle Gobbi, owner of You Women in Sheerness, were there and stayed behind to question the schoolchildren in the audience about which lesson they thought was better.

On Friday, an elimination was held at the academy’s Minster Road, Minster, site in front of Year 8 students.

Former entrant Natalie Tanner, of Year 7, who was let go last week, will now be taking up a supporting role in running the rest of the competition.

Cllr Pugh, Mrs Gobbi, Mr Woodhead, Mr Hall and Mike Brown, of Sheppey Matters, formed the judging panel and it emerged The Achievers received the best feedback so its members were safe for another week.

Shannon Dewey, of Year 10, and Rosemary Coulstock, of Year 7, on the losing team were “fired”.

Organiser Sharon Wood, the school’s head of business IT and enterprise, said: “The judges felt that they weren’t dynamic enough when it came to the actual teaching and Rosemary hasn’t been as much of a team player as the others.”

This week’s challenge saw the two teams, led by Jack Edgett, of Year 9, and Dane Blackstock, of Year 7, make and sell baked goods at Sheerness Market, Rose Street, Sheerness, yesterday (Tuesday) ahead of the next elimination on Friday.