1) This document provides information about a litter reduction program created by 5 students at Tampines North Primary School in Singapore. 2) The students surveyed the school grounds and found the canteen area had the most litter during recess and dismissal. 3) They created a video highlighting the issue from the students' perspective and interviewed cleaners about the difficulties of litter. 4) The video was presented during morning assembly along with a presentation on the environmental impacts of litter. A new program called SELF was introduced where students take turns picking up litter after school.

1. 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

2. Week 4 Term 3
Majority of the students in our school 1 ) We wanted to collaborate with the
vendors/cleaners by staging a “protest or
depend heavily on the canteen vendors
strike”. However, pests like rats, birds and
and the school cleaners to help keep the
school clean. cockroaches would be roaming around if
we were to do it.
We felt that the school cleanliness does
not lie solely on the responsibility of the 2) Catch pupils picking up litter and reward
cleaners but everyone. We want to change them with their efforts with tokens.
especially the students’ attitude towards
3) Increase the amount of bins put around
this.
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.