LES petits enfants at Holy Trinity School, Marlow, have left their opponents in tongue-tied knots by winning every single prize in a French competition.

The ten and 11-year-olds are among the few schoolchildren learning French in the county's primary schools.

The competition was organised by David Hood, Buckinghamshire County Council's foreign languages adviser, and the languages department of the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe.

Headmaster of Holy Trinity Primary School, David Cousins, said: "We were given a brief that we had to put together a pack of the children's writing.

"We hoped to get maybe one prize but we got the lot it was very surprising. The children wrote about who they were, what they did, and their likes and dislikes.

Mr Cousins added that French was a school strength.

"The competition was designed to raise the profile of French in primary schools and here it is a strength

"I have got a member of staff who is very skilled and the subject is well resourced and we look at Britain and Europe and the variety of languages in the world as well as Europe.

"The children look at where you can go if you speak French and things like that.

"It is a particularly strong suit for us as we have an enthusiastic member of staff and it was recognised as a strength in our Ofsted inspection," he said.

The competition winners were named as: Maxine Simpson, Tom Bowers, Rebecca Austin, Dominic Graul, Kate Garmon-Jones, Alison Maliss, Bonnie Savin, Edward Godfrey, Sophie Colborne, Victoria Gibson-Robinson.