Litter picking equipment presented to Ladygrove Park Primary School in Didcot

There’ll be no missing the students of Ladygrove Park Primary School in Didcot when they go litter picking. After the school were presented with 30 children’s hi-vis jackets and other litter picking equipment by South Oxfordshire District Council.

The top prize was given as part of the council’s successful Litter Bug Detectives Trail where the council’s waste team worked with local parish and town councils to run children’s activity trails in the school summer holiday.

The trails were created by the councils’ waste team and were aimed at primary school children, who had to answer questions on recycling and reuse messages which were posted around parks and village spaces. The trails followed on from a successful pilot of the scheme run by the councils in four parks at May half term.

Participants in the Litter Bug Detectives Trail could choose to be entered into a draw for their school to win litter picking equipment – enough for a class.

Alyssa from Didcot, completed the trail and put her school, Ladygrove Park Primary School into the draw for the litter picking equipment. There were 35 schools entered but Ladygrove Park was drawn as the winner for South Oxfordshire.

Last week Alyssa, her head teacher, Andrew Markham, and the school were presented with the equipment by the council’s waste and recycling officers and councillors David Rouane, the cabinet member for housing and the environment and also council ward member Cllr Victoria Haval.

Cllr Rouane said: “The trails were designed to promote recycling and reuse and explain the damage that litter does to the environment. With their new litter picking equipment Ladygrove Park Primary School should have the cleanest playground in the district.”