Students who do good deeds and play nicely with their peers may win prizes in a citizenship scheme.

Pupils at Amy Johnson Primary School in Wallington who are kind and polite and take care of the environment will receive good citizenship cards under the scheme.

The pupils with the most cards at the end of the summer term will be congratulated in a prize and reward assembly.

The initiative has already seen Tyler Dennis, 7, retrieve a kitchen knife from a thorn bush and hand it in to a local shopkeeper.

He said: “My hand got prickled when I got the knife.”

The scheme was set up by teachers, pupils and officers from the local Beddington South Safer Neighbourhoods police team.

Sergeant John Withersby, of Beddington South SNT, said: “This is a great initiative for the youngsters and supports the work of our PCSOs who regularly take part in citizenship lessons at the school.

“It gives the pupils an opportunity to think about being responsible and how their good behaviour can make a positive impact on those people around them – both inside and outside the school.”

Head teacher Mel Elsey said the scheme was a practical way of bringing to life the citizenship element of the national curriculum.

He said: “It’s about the children making good choices and aspiring to do things that support their friends and the local community.”