Spring Clean Week 2026
Spring Clean Week 2026
Join us for our interactive Live Lessons and associated resources, inspiring you and your pupils to take part in our annual Spring Clean Scotland Campaign and join the fight against litter and waste!
This year's Spring Clean Week Live Lessons focus on the impacts of litter, textile waste and what we can do to move away from fast fashion.
All lessons are curricular linked with follow up resources to take learning further.
Challenge for the week: Collective Litter Pick
This year we invite schools and nurseries from across the country to work together to spring clean our beautiful Scotland. Organise as many litter picks as you can in March and April, and submit how much litter you collect to contribute to citizen science and enter our prize draw.
Prize draw for this challenge has now closed and the winners have been announced. You can still submit your litter pick data via our online entry form.
Only by working together can we have the biggest impact!
Early Years - P3
Join our story time lesson with author Georgina Stevens who will be reading her amazing book 'Stella and the Seagull' and helping us to learn all about reusing and recycling with a fun quiz.
Following the lesson, children are invited to take part in our litter picking challenge (see above for details) as well as our follow on resources:
Activity 1: Let's get swapping: we invite children to plan a swap event in their school or nursery. Download Resource.
Activity 2: Let's recycle together: Find out what you can recycle in your school or nursery and then create signs and posters to make sure everyone get's involved. Download Resource.
P4 - S2
In this year's Live Lesson we look at the issue of textile waste in Scotland and around the world. We explore some of the reasons that so much textile waste is produced and look at some of the solutions, including how we can value our clothes more and take better care of them.
Following the lesson, pupils are invited to take part in our litter picking challenge (see above for details) as well as our follow on resources:
Activity 1: Let's get swapping: we invite pupils to plan a swap event in their school. Download Resource.
Activity 2: Upcycling project: this is a series of activities designed by the Futures Institute at Dollar Academy, helping pupils to understand more about the environmental impacts of the clothing industry and to create their own upcycling project, with opportunities to learn skills in enterprise, mending and creativity. Visit resource page (please note that you will need to create a login to use this resource so that a certificate can be issued once it is completed - follow the instructions on the resource page to create your login).
Assembly
Assembly revisiting what we learned this week, a quiz on litter and waste and we reveal the winners of our Collective Litter Picking Challenge!
Live Lessons and Eco-Schools
Don't forget that taking part in any of our Live Lessons and the associated activities can be counted towards an Eco-Schools Scotland Green Flag Award.
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This week of Live Lessons accompanies our annual Spring Clean Campaign. Find out how you can help us keep Scotland looking beautiful by organising a Clean Up in your school or community.
Related Lessons
Leasan Gàidhlig mu sgudal, air a chur air dòigh aig an aon àm ris an Iomairt Glanadh an Earraich.
Gaelic lesson on litter and waste timed with our Spring Clean campaign.
Lessons on litter and waste timed with our Spring Clean campaign, including poetry from Joseph Coelho, digital spring cleaning, becoming a materials scientist by following the journey of a crisp packet and how to connect with your community.
Leasan Gàidhlig air sgudal a tha aig an aon àm ris an Iomairt Glanadh an Earraich.
Gaelic lesson on litter and waste timed with our Spring Clean campaign.
A series of lessons including a story from author Tracey Corderoy, a discussion of school canteen waste, suggestions on how can we reduce waste with Ostrero and a demonstration of a binbag autopsy!
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