The Traitors: Primary school hosts its own game

A primary school in East Yorkshire hosted its own version of hit TV game show The Traitors.

Teachers at Wilberfoss Primary School took part in traitor-style challenges over ten days.

Twenty-one members of staff got involved and two traitors took home the prize which, instead of £94,600, was a bag of treats.

Jo Dyer, who organised the game, said: "It was great team-building. It was all played in good spirits."

The TV show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, sees contestants attempt to identify who among them are "faithfuls" and which are "traitors".

Players compete in challenges to build the prize pot and contestants are either banished because they are believed to be a traitor or murdered by the traitors.

Finalists have a chance of winning up to £120,000 but, if a traitor survives until the very end, they will take home all of the money.

Ms Dyer - who called herself Claudyer throughout - said: "I just had this brain wave at home that I could do Claudia's role. I basically became Claudia Winkleman for two weeks.

"I was thinking of challenges for the team to do and missions for the traitors to do. We had a roundtable in the evening and I introduced shields in case anyone got banished."

Ms Dyer became so obsessed with the game, she even went to bed with a piece of paper and a pen in case she woke up with ideas for missions.

Challenges included collecting glue sticks, swapping chairs and leaving notes in classrooms.

"We do have some competitive members of staff which is good. However, the ones that got murdered or banished first were the competitive ones," Ms Dyer said.

Kirsten Cooper was randomly chosen as a traitor at the beginning of the game. She then recruited Mel Cartmail and they both ended up winning in the final against two faithfuls.

Faithfuls Jake Brown and Leanne Quigley triumphed on this year's television show and shared a prize pot of £94,600.

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