Fishkeeper Fry School of the Year 2025 Marlpool Primary School
We are thrilled to announce that the Fishkeeper Fry 2025 School of the Year 2025 winner is Marlpool Primary School
Figure 1: The pupils of Marlpool Junior School holding up their worksheets
We have had a lot of great pictures and work sent to us this year from our participating schools. This year, we had 45 schools participate in the programme, with 44 of our stores. Stores work alongside the schools to provide the equipment and the livestock, not only that, they work hard to offer any help and advice that the schools may need throughout the programme.
Well done to all of the schools that have taken part; students, teachers, and some parents have helped. We hope that the programme has inspired the students who weren’t already fishkeepers to become the next generation of fishkeepers for years to come.
Figure 2: Students cutting out different fish and colouring them as they wish their fish to look.
Like every year, it has been difficult to choose just one school to be this year's winner, but we can only have one winner and this year it is Marlpool Junior School. We have received continuous updates every week on what their class was up to, how they were getting on with the programme. Each week, we were sent an image of the Fishkeeper of the Week and why they got that reward. At the end of the programme, all of the students were tasked with creating their aquariums using a variety of materials.
Figure 3: Student of Marlpool Junior School and the cardboard aquarium she has created
Tappers, Andy, our videographer and Nat, Trowell store assistant, took a trip to the school to award the students of Marlpool Junior School their medals and trophy on Monday, 16th June, 2025. Each pupil who took part in taking care of the fish received their medal. We then presented the teacher, Miss Bishop, with the trophy.
Figure 4: Students lined up to receive their medals
Figure 5: The teacher receiving and celebrating after receiving the School of the Year trophy.
This year it wasn’t only the year 3 students that was inspired by the programme. One year 5 student used to come into the class during break times to watch the fish, and this inspired them to go home and create their own aquarium in Minecraft.
Figures 6, 7, and 8: Screenshots of the year 5 student's Minecraft aquarium.
Check out the video of our visit to the school here:
School of the Year 2025 visitIf you are interested in Fishkeeper Fry and would like to take part in 2026, visit our Fishkeeper Fry page to find out how. You can also find further information on the programme and check out the work that the schools have completed.
