BLACKPOOL schoolchildren found themselves as future television stars when they helped make a film for the BBC.

Pictured are: (back, left to right): Sigourney Davies, Holy Family School and Emily Wildon,Claremont School. Front (left to right): Amy Butcher, Langdale School and Steven Baron, Warbreck School

They were being filmed by New Media Television about a mosaic in Flagstaff Gardens, North Shore, which they had helped the Regeneration of North Shore Area (RONSA) to put together.

Pupils from one of the schools taking part, Holy Family, shared their experiences with the Citizen.

Kate Sloman, aged eight, says: The presenter kept getting it wrong, she called us Holy Field School instead of Holy Family.

"When the presenter kept getting it wrong she swore twice.

"We took one of our designs with us, a piece of Blackpool rock.

"Mr Cairoli (Charles, a volunteer helper at the school) put his hands in cement so that everyone would know he was there.

"If you go down to Flagstaff Gardens now you will see a pond as well as the hand prints and the mosaic.

"The mosaic has the Big One as the border with Blackpool Tower in the middle and a curly stick of rock around it.

"It will be there for years and years."

Rebecca Watson, aged nine: We went to Flagstaff Gardens to be filmed because we had done a mosaic.

"I liked being filmed because I was going to be on TV.

"The director kept getting it wrong, which I thought was funny."

Danny O'Keefe, aged nine: We didn't go straight on to camera because the film crew was late, so we went to Gynn Gardens to look at the bulbs we planted last autumn.

"When we went on camera my friend Jacob spoke.

"I stood next to him and my other friend Charles."

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