BUDDING entrepreneurs have come up with plans to create Olympic merchandise to sell internationally and learn about the business world.

Students from All Saints' Academy were given the task of designing and marketing ideas centring around this year's sporting championship.

The Dragons' Den- style competition saw 135 students aged 13 and 14 grouped into 23 teams representing different countries.

Taking the top prize was the German team, who won first place with their iPhone cover. Other ideas put forward by pupils included Olympic ring-shaped chocolate and Olympic Monopoly.

Kerri Skelding, communications manager for the school, said the project helped the students develop teamwork, creativity, enterprise and communication skills.

She said: "The teamwork was amazing and all the students responded really well to the pressure when pitching the ideas in front of their peers. They showed real character in presenting and there were some really confident speakers. Some of them seemed really interested in business and so we might have some budding entrepreneurs."