TUDHOE Colliery Primary School, near Spennymoor, has been awarded the Sedgefield Borough Clean School Award prize for having the tidiest primary school.
Organised by Sedgefield Borough Council's Local Agenda 21 team, the award aims to support education in schools about litter and the environment and the social and economic problems associated with it.
As a reward for keeping their school and surrounding environment litter free, it has won a trip for 30 pupils to Nature's World, in Middlesborough.
Karin Johnson, Local Agenda 21 officer at Sedgefield council, said: "We realise that litter is not just a problem in schools. There is a need to change attitudes to dropping litter across society and the children have set a shining example to us all."
Greenfield Comprehensive School and Community Arts College, in Newton Aycliffe, scooped the award as the borough's cleanest secondary school, winning a trip to the International Centre for Life in Newcastle.
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