Elementary school Chmelnice, K Lučinám 18, Praha 3 – they didn’t like the mess on the school playground and decided to change it. But they also wanted to clean the area around the river. They helped highlight the campaign in an inventive manner by having participants spell it out across the football pitch using their bodies to form the letters. They also cooperated with another school.

The Eco-Committee discovered that they needed to focus on the school playground where there was often mess around the trash bins and trash on the ground. During the campaign they organized activities focusing on not throwing the waste on the ground (for example disseminating the Eco-song to all classes, putting notes on the noticeboards, web or in broadcasts, making presentations on the eco-conference, conducting eco-audits, brigades to collect garbage, etc.). Also their Community Action Day was devoted to the same topic. They informed students, parents and the public about the campaign through school broadcasts, noticeboard posts and the school website. Younger pupils learned about the topic during elementary science. Older students learned about it during biology and planting classes. Students also cleaned areas out of school, they collected waste around the Rokytka River and learned that the amount of waste there is decreasing because of their regular cleanings.

Due to this campaign they radically decreased the amount of waste in the school garden: in the beginning they collected 19.8 kg of waste and in the end just 4.9 kg of waste. Students themselves evaluated their campaign progress very positively: “We also had the opportunity to learn more about each other and bond because of regular meetings. We cooperated, consulted, sang and evaluated together. We hope that it wasn’t just our personal progress but that we also influenced other students, teachers and parents that were introduced to the campaign and participated mainly through the Action Day.”

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