Yellow Woods Challenge Winners

St. Philip Howard Primary School is celebrating after scooping the ‘Gold Oak’ title and top prize of £300 in the Yellow Woods Challenge run by Yellow Pages and the Woodland Trust. The local schools environmental competition is operated by Serco, working in partnership with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council.

Youngsters from St. Philip Howard School collected 2,021 old Yellow Pages directories for recycling, achieving the best recycling rate of 6.74 per pupil in the borough. They have been rewarded for their efforts with a cheque for £300, the Gold Oak certificate and a pack of native tree saplings to plant in the school grounds.

As runners-up in the local competition, Harwood Hill Primary School won £200 and the Silver Birch certificate. St. Michaels Primary School came in third, receiving £100, the Bronze Beech certificate and a further £100 as most improved school in this year’s Challenge.

All participating schools will now join around 1,800 others in the Yellow Woods Challenge 2006 UK Finals, where schools can win cash prizes of up to £2,000.

For every pound awarded to schools, Yellow Pages gives a matching pound to the Woodland Trust’s ‘Tree For All’ campaign, which aims to plant a tree for every child in the UK. In support of this, native tree saplings have been awarded to the top three recycling schools and to Oaklands Primary School, Templewood School and Watchlytes School for achieving 4^th, 5^th and 6^th place in the local Yellow Woods Challenge.

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