students at Teign School, Kingsteignton, watched teachers compete in their own version of the I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here bush tucker trials.

Five teachers swallowed delicacies including fish eyes, dung beetles, chocolate coated tarantulas and something called vomit drink, finished off with four cream crackers.

Katie Price ducked out of the latest celebrity reality show claiming victimisation but the teachers had no such luxury.

Students paid to decide which teachers should have the dubious honour of devouring things that should not be on any Christmas menu.

Winner Paul Fidler, who described himself as competitive, said the experience was horrendous.

'The fish eye was the worst. It was quite a large eye from a cod or haddock and all the optic nerves were still attached – it was the whole shebang. We weren't allowed to swallow it whole, we had to crunch it up, it was really quite revolting.'

The crickets, considered a delicacy in Thailand, were not so bad though, they reminded him of Hula Hoops.

'There was lots of baying and laughing. People didn't believe they were genuine insects at first so we passed them around. Many were in hysterics, they were screaming.

'They couldn't believe we were eating them. We couldn't believe we were eating them either.'

The idea was dreamt up last year by two Year 8 students Florence Daulton and Sinead O'Toole and the money raised will go towards an inclusion mini-bus.

Mr Fidler, who has been covering for a teacher on paternity leave, is leaving in a week's time but has promised to return next year to defend his title.