CHILDREN, teachers and staff at Mary Tavy and Brentor Community Primary School rolled up their sleeves to bake an impressive 150 scones for a virtual cream tea party in memory of ‘school mum’ Lizzie Locke.

With Covid-19 restrictions ruling out gathering for the annual fundraiser in the school playground as usual, a team of volunteer bakers and delivery drivers ensured people could enjoy a virtual cream tea at home.

The event on National Cream Tea Day last Friday (June 26) raised just shy of £500 for Lizzie’s favourite charity, the Devon Air Ambulance Trust.

The school have held the event in Lizzie’s memory each year since her tragic death from flu in February 2018. She lived in Peter Tavy with her husband and daughter Jess, now nine, who is a pupil at the school Lizzie herself attended as a child.

‘Lizzie loved cream teas and she loved baking and she did a lot of volunteering at the school and was really well-known by the children,’ said headteacher Barbara Earnshaw. ‘We have held a cream tea in the playground in her memory ever since.

‘This year that wasn’t possible but we decided to go ahead, just doing it slightly differently. We thought it was important for Jess as part of remembering her mum and we also realised that DAA must be struggling with fundraising.

‘We sent a message out to the parents and Jess’s Auntie Sandra, myself, class teachers and the school cook baked dozens of scones and delivered them with pots of jam and cream to people in the Tavistock area.

‘We made just under £500 profit for Devon Air Ambulance. We’d like to say a huge thank you to the bakers and delivery drivers who supported our cream tea afternoon and made it so successful.’