Schools across York and North Yorkshire competed head to head to reuse as many reusable items as they could by donating to charity shops and reuse organisations participating in the challenge. In return for donations of toys, books, music, clothes, furniture and other household items children, parents and teachers collected challenge tokens. The school with the most tokens won the challenge prize of £1,000 book vouchers.

Which school won the challenge?

Pupils at West Heslerton Primary School won the Green Santa Schools Challenge and Green Santa himself delivered the prize. Fairburn Community Primary School near Selby and Otley Street Nursery School in Skipton came second and third as runners up and will receive educational wormery each. Well done to the winning schools and all the schools that took part. Rachel Wells, Head teacher at West Heslerton said ' We are delighted to have been the leading school in this challenge. We're delighted so many items were donated to charity, to save from landfill and also to raise funds for good causes'

What were the main achievements of the challenge?

More than 70 schools signed up to take part in the challenge engaging with almost 14,000 pupils parents and teachers to think about reusing. The campiagn resulted in 2228 donations to participating chariies and kept 13,416 Kg of reusable goods out of landfill.