Gulworthy Primary School is celebrating after scooping the ?Gold Oak? title in West Devon?s Yellow Woods Challenge ? the schools? environmental competition run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust and West Devon Borough Council. Youngsters from Gulworthy School collected 1,354 old Yellow Pages directories for recycling, achieving the best recycling rate of 18.3 directories per pupil in the West Devon area. They have been rewarded for their recycling efforts with a cheque for £300, the Gold Oak certificate and a pack of native tree saplings to plant in the school grounds. As runners-up in the competition, Horrabridge Primary School won £200 and the Silver Birch certificate. St Peter?s Junior School came in third, receiving £100 and the Bronze Beech certificate. All participating schools will join around 1,800 others in the Yellow Woods Challenge 2006 UK finals, where schools can win cash prizes of up to £2,000. For every pound Yellow Pages awards to schools, a matching pound is given to the Woodland Trust?s ?Tree For All? campaign, which aims to plant a tree for every child in the UK. In support of this, native tree saplings have been awarded to the top three winning schools and to Lamerton Primary School, Princetown Primary School and Mary Tavy and Brentor Community School for achieving fourth, fifth and sixth place in the local Yellow Woods Challenge. Jane Savage, recycling officer for West Devon Borough Council, said: ?I?d like to thank all the schoolchildren, teachers and communities that took on the Yellow Woods Challenge and made it such a success. ?Fifteen schools took part and collected a total of 6,363 old Yellow Pages directories which were recycled into new paper by Severnside Recycling in Plymouth. ?This year, for the first time, a prize was to be awarded to the local school that created the best sculpture from the directories. However, the tremendously high quality of the creations meant we couldn?t decide on a single winner. ?Consequently, the borough council has matched the £100 bonus prize from Yellow Pages and two schools have received an additional £100 prize ? Gulworthy and St Peter?s.? Richard Duggleby, head of external relations with Yell, the publisher of Yellow Pages, said it was a tremendous achievement by schools in West Devon. Pictured with Kirk, the Yellow Woods Challenge mascot, are the children from Gulworthy, Horrabridge and St Peter?s Church of England Schools with their certificates.