RHYDDINGS Business and Enterprise College last week launched its first stationery business -- selling pens, notebooks and all the student essentials. Kelly Whittle, 14, of Roe Greeve Road, is taking part in the entrepreneurial endeavour and hopes to learn more real-life skills. She spoke to CLARE COOK about school life.

What have you enjoyed most about the stationery business?

It has been so much fun.

We get to go on exciting trips and learn all about the different roles that go to making a business run properly.

It is going to make a profit, we hope.

People will want to buy from us, we hope, because it will be more convenient.

And when they are due to sit an exam, for example, and have forgotten a protractor or their pen has run out, we will be able to help out.

What do you want to be when you are older?

I want to be a nursery nurse but there are still lots of skills that you learn at school that will help.

Who is your favourite teacher?

Mrs Brewerton in Business. She is really helpful and when I am stuck she helps me out.

She is a strong teacher and always manages to keep lessons interesting. She is funny and puts loads of energy in to her teaching.

Even if she is just reading, she will put lots of expression in to her voice.

What do you do in your spare time?

Hang round with my friends.

What do you think of adults?

Most of them are annoying because they make you do things that you don't want to do. But I do like my parents.

They give me a lot of spending money, around £25 a week.

Where do you want to live when you are older?

I want to live here. It is where I have been brought up. I don't like foreign countries.