Young people work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and win prizes

Pupils from primary schools across Scotland have won prizes by working together to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as part of their contribution to 2025 Scotland's Climate Week.

We invited schools and nurseries from across Scotland to work together with pupils, their families, and the wider school community to choose from a range of actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and track emissions savings in the form of ‘Climate Action Points’.

Actions to attain points included reducing energy waste, swapping to meat free meals, reducing food waste, engaging in active travel, using public transport, and swapping or repairing rather than buying new.

The aim was to achieve 2,030 Climate Action Points to match the year when we should be achieving the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and all Scottish schools should be sustainable settings (Target 2030). In fact, the pupils and their teachers more than doubled that achieving almost 5,000 points.

The winners of the challenge were:

Early years – Primary 3

• Dalry Primary School, City of Edinburgh
• Troqueer Primary School, Dumfries and Galloway
• Lasswade Primary School, Midlothian

Primary 4 – S2

• Bonnybridge Primary School, Falkirk
• Houston Primary School, Renfrewshire
• Duncan Forbes Primary School, Highland

The winners of the Early years – Primary 3 category have received £200 to spend online at Muddy Faces and the winners in the Primary 4 – S2 category have received £200 worth of renewable energy science education kits. The prizes for this year were sponsored by ScottishPower.

Our Education Manager Andrea, said: “We've had another fantastic Climate Action Week of Live Lessons culminating in an all-ages assembly where we announced the winners of this year’s challenge.

“We're delighted to have had more than 8,000 young people from across Scotland take part in the Live Lessons, a huge number which shows the enthusiasm of pupils and educators for Climate Action Schools.

“I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has taken part this year, and congratulations to all our winners for their excellent efforts.”

Climate Action Schools is our framework of education initiatives to support Scotland’s educators, young people and children to progress Learning for Sustainability and climate change education. It is funded by the Scottish Government.

You can rewatch all of our 2025 Live Lessons.