Eco-Schools award

We have just been awarded the Eco-Schools Bronze Award for our work over the last 12 months.

Well done and many thanks to all Team members and staff who have supported us in this worthy venture. We are now working towards our silver award!

Energy Audit

Most of the school was surveyed in January 2009.  The audit confirmed informal observations that we are wasting large amounts of energy by unnecessarily leaving electrical equipment turned on.

In "good practice" areas, all lights were off, windows closed, computers and projectors shut down.  Green thumbs-up to these!  In the worst areas, large numbers of lights and computers were left on.  Generally, Mendip building was worse than Lansdown building, particularly for leaving on computers!

We will continue to monitor areas from time to time and to put up posters and stickers as soon as they arrive from the Carbon Trust.

Team Meeting

On Thursday 26th March, the Eco-Schools Team met with guest speaker Jane Talbot, from "Resources Future". She talked about the increasingly important need to save energy in schools. Jane was impressed with our audit and with the utilities bills spreadsheet I recently received from the Business Manager, which we can use a baseline to judge any future improvements and savings in our energy use. She suggested some ways forward including posters and stickers, more audits and a "PowerDown" day. She also urged us to once again take part in the inspiring B&NES Climate Change Conference in June, at Bath University.