Pupils cooked up a feast for their school community from produce they had grown for the official opening of their edible playground project.

Stamford Hill Primary School children created meals from the fruit and vegetable garden they have cultivated themselves.

Leader of Haringey council, Cllr Claire Kober, was also on hand to officially open the space.

Stamford Hill head teacher, Kathy O’Sullivan, said: “Our families live in overcrowded conditions with shared kitchens and bathrooms- levels of deprivation are high.

“We have been working hard to help our students become more active, eat healthy school meals and learn to cook.

“Our Edible Playground is already helping us engage parents in these activities moving us further towards our goal of achieving both a Leading Parent Partnership Award and our Food for Life Award.”

The school is also in line to be awarded a bronze Food for Life Schools Award for work done in promoting food education through the use of the new outdoor ‘food growing classroom’ with lessons of literacy, science and maths.

Delia Foster, development manager at School Food Matters, said: “Working towards a Food For Life Award has really helped Stamford Hill improve their school meals, particularly in terms of fresh food.

“For instance, tinned fruit has been replaced with fresh fruit on the daily menu and more dishes are cooked from fresh ingredients.”

The Edible Playground project was achieved thanks to the £250,000 Dream Funding grant made possible from players of the People’s Postcode Lottery over the past two years and Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme.

Stamford Hill is a flagship school for the Edible Playground programme national charity Trees for Cities initiated.

The charity want more schools to grow food on their grounds to help tackle food poverty, childhood obesity and educate about food origins.

It has worked their programme partners Chefs Adopt a School and School Food Matters with 10 schools in London, Liverpool, Reading and Manchester.