Oakwood Primary School is among the first schools to bag a Bin it to Win it title from Southampton City Council.

The scheme was launched this year to encourage children in schools to recycle correctly with the incentive of winning prizes for themselves and friends.

The challenge was created by the council in partnership with Ikea and the Saints Foundation and invited children to send in a pledge from their school to say they had been recycling correctly.

Then the pledges were put in a hat and the winner chosen.

Oakwood has been given a £300 IKEA gift card and one-off prize of a recycle for Southampton t-shirt signed by the city's footballers.

It's a scheme which will continue to run every half term, offering hundreds of Southampton students the chance to take part.

Mark Heath from the city council said: “We're asking our residents to continue the good work of recycling at home but also to consider recycling in their places of work, schools or whilst out and about.

“We are also actively encouraging schoolchildren in our city to get in the habit of recycling correctly and each half-term there are rewards up for grabs for recycling the correct items.”