Anti-litter education
Free to all schools in Belfast
Overview
Belfast City Council, Cleansing Services offers a wide range of programmes
to help schools with Anti-Litter Education, including visits and support for
teachers when organising their own anti-litter exercises.
We hold workshops for;
• Nursery and Foundation
• Key Stage 1 and 2
• Post Primary
And provide;
• Cleanup Kits
• Interactive Education Packs
•An Anti-Litter Captain Cleanup CD Game
•A Captain Cleanup Litter bin for the school playground
•Anti-litter posters and gum wraps
We deliver extra projects such as puppet shows, drama workshops
and competitions – watch out for advertisements in City Matters!
Nursery and Foundation
All of our workshops aim to be fully interactive. At this stage the
programme is short, simple, very visual and most importantly, informative.
Arrange a ‘Sammy the Squirrel’
visit!
We will call out to your school or
nursery and read an anti-litter
story with the help of puppets
and storyboards.
Click on the video to
hear the story
We also have seasonal workshops such as the
Christmas ELF, who comes out to read a
Christmas anti-litter story. We recently held
the ‘Captain Cleanup and General Grime Puppet
Show’ to great acclaim. These are advertised
through City Matters magazine so keep a close
eye out for them and;
book early as demand is high!
Key Stage 1 and 2
During a 45minute/1 hour session, our officers will hold the relevant
workshop that is engaging, interactive and fun.
The key features of these workshops are
that they;
• are linked to the NI Syllabus and
especially to ‘The World Around Us’
and ‘PDMU’,
• are packed with fun activities and
video clips,
• focus on group work; and
• can be tailored to your school’s
needs, for example, an after schools
eco-club.
Post Primary
Feeding into syllabus areas such as Environment & Society,
Citizenship and Mutual Understanding, our workshops are perfect
in passing the anti-litter message to young people at post primary.
Workshops take the form of
electronic quizzes, with ‘fastest
fingers first’ questions dotted
throughout the session. The
students answer litter-based
questions using Qwizdom
interactive handsets, the results
of which are then electronically
analysed.
We can tailor all of our workshops to suit your needs
– just let us know when booking a visit
Post Primary – continued
We also run special projects throughout the year for Key Stages 3
and 4 – keep an eye out for these in City Matters and on our website.
‘Rubbish Acting’ involved an
acting workshop led by a
professional actress to
examine littering behaviour
through acting out.
‘Litterflicks’ had an expert in
motion animation visit school to
hold workshops. The students
were then encouraged to make
their own anti-litter animations
and enter them into our
Litterflicks Competition.
Additional Resources
Following the delivery of one of our workshops, we aim to support the
teachers in continuing the promotion of the anti-litter message in the
classroom.
Organising a cleanup
We provide
• Hi-viz jackets
• Litterpicks
• Gloves
• Bags
These can be kept by the school for use in further cleanups.
Additional Resources
Our new Anti-Litter Education Resource Pack for Primary Schools with
interactive CD can help you plan you further anti-litter activities.
Additional Resources
The Education Pack
This 64 page teacher’s book is packed with
fun activities and resources, clear lesson
plans and an interactive CD.
It is linked to the NI Curriculum
incorporating the Arts, Literacy, TSPC,
PDMU, The World Around Us and Cross
Curricular Skills making the Anti-Litter
message the perfect Idea for Connecting
Learning.
A pack can be delivered for each Key
Stage at your school and is the ideal
resource for keeping the anti-litter
message fresh following a visit from our
officers and help your school work
towards gaining/maintaining your Ecoschools Flag.
See the following slide for an example of
Unit 8 (Key Stage 1)
Additional Resources
We have further resources to help you maintain the anti-litter
message in your schools, including posters and gum wraps.
Additional Resources
And always watch our for City Matters and our website as there are
different projects throughout the year.
For example the ‘School Bin
Giveaway’ is still open. To get a
brand new Captain Cleanup bin
for your playground, get in
touch to book one of our
workshops
All of our workshops, resources and competitions are open to
all schools in Belfast and are completely free.
Contact us at;
Belfast City Council, Cleansing Services
5th Floor, 9 Lanyon Place
Belfast
BT1 3LP
Tel: 9032 0202 ext 5421
Or
Email: catcleansing@belfastcity.gov.uk