Name of the School: Tampines North Primary School

Address : 30, Tampines Avenue 9, Singapore 529565

School Leader: Mrs Low Bee Huay ( Principal )

Story Title: Litter-Free Begins with You & Me

Tel.: 67854329 Email:

Mentor Teacher : Ms Rafizah Kader

STUDENT INFORMATION

1) Name: Siti Nadhrah Bte Aziz

Age: 11 Grade: 5

2) Name: Siti Salihah Bte Mohd Yusoff

Age: 11 Grade: 5

3) Name: Michelle Tan Wei Ru

Age: 11 Grade: 5

4) Name: Lau Chung Yan, Caslin

Age:11 Grade: 5

5) Name: Jonathan Ng

Age: 11 Grade: 5

Majority of the students in our school

depend heavily on the canteen vendors

and the school cleaners to help keep the

school clean.

We felt that the school cleanliness does

not lie solely on the responsibility of the

cleaners but everyone. We want to change

especially the students’ attitude towards

this.

1 ) We wanted to collaborate with the

vendors/cleaners by staging a “protest or

strike”. However, pests like rats, birds and

cockroaches would be roaming around if

we were to do it.

2) Catch pupils picking up litter and reward

them with their efforts with tokens.

3) Increase the amount of bins put around

the school and change the rubbish bins to

a more brightly coloured ones.

In the end, after several brainstorming sessions, our group decided we need to bring awareness of the

situation to the students first. We surveyed the school ground to find out which area and when usually

littering takes place. We found out through our 3-day observation and interviews with the vendors

and the cleaners that the canteen is most dirtied with wrappers and food leftovers during recess time

and dismissal time.

As Jonathan is part of the Infocomm club member in the school, we are able to create a video

depicting the students’ perspective on littering and also interviewed the cleaners and the vendors on

the difficulties they were facing with the littering done by the pupils.

During one of the morning assembly period, with the Eco-club members, we present the video and did

a show presentation on the implication of littering to the environment. In addition, we also reminded

pupils on the their respective responsibilities while doing the adopted area duty in the school

compound, we also introduced a new programme entitled S.E.L.F ( Students Embrace Litter Free).

Primary 5 pupils will take turns picking up litter outside the school compound after school for the rest

of the school year.

At the moment, we are still working closely with the school green monitors to ensure that the

objective of this programme is met.

Week 4 Term 3