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Fact
Improve the way you manage your energy and
you could cut your fuel bills by 20
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Fact
If all UK schools did so, they could save
around 20 million and 300,000 tonnes of carbon
dioxide emissions a year.  Just one tonne of
carbon dioxide would fill six double-decker
buses!
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And thats not a one off saving - it can be
maintained year after year.
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What do I need to do?
Step 1 Get the whole school involved from
the head teacher and leadership team, to
teachers, site staff, governors, parents and
students
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Colleagues need convincing?

• The benefits speak for themselves saving energy
  can
• Save your school money
• Educate and inspire your pupils
• Raise your schools profile in the community
• Help meet your Ofsted obligations
• Deliver Every Child Matters
• Help the environment

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What next?
Step 2 Carry out an environmental audit of
your school
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An audit will

• Form the basis of your plan of action
• Set a standard against which to measure progress
• Help identify the most significant and easiest
  areas to start working on

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And finally...
Step 3 Incorporate sustainability into your
school policy or management plan and start
installing sustainable energy measures
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Top Valley School, Nottinghamshire

• Environmental Coordinator works to secure funding
  to improve the physical environment of the school
  and its grounds
• Resulted in
• A wildlife corridor of trees and wildflower
  meadows
• A community garden designed and planted by
  students
• Energy audits with meter readings analysed by
  students
• A range of worksheets, lesson plans and other
  resources now available on www.enviroaction.co.uk

A pupil carrying out an energy audit
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St Katherines School, North Somerset

• One of twelve schools signed up to a Performance
  Partnership contract
• Tender managed by North Somerset Council

• For a fixed annual fee the school gets
• An energy supply
• A full energy audit
• A programme of work e.g. the replacement and
  upgrade
• of boilers, lighting, insulation and a
  computerised energy
• management system
• A series of interactive workshops for pupils
• Achieved 35 savings as a result - thats
  35,000 per year!

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Notre Dame High School, Sheffield

• Awarded a full Eco-Schools Green Flag
• Undertook an audit that fed into an Eco-Schools
  Action Plan
• Launched a range of resources for both the school
  and local community including an Environmental
  Learning Centre

Pupils at Notre Dame High School
Notre Dame has taken practical steps to both
preserve and improve the environment. Recent
developments such as the allotment garden,
weather station and Environmental Learning Centre
have both brought the students closer to nature
and provided a fantastic learning resource.''
Luke Williamson, Eco-Management
Advisor Sheffield City Council
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Feel inspired?

• For more detailed information visit
  http//tinyurl.com/tacklingclimatechange
• and download Tackling Climate Change
• Guidance for Secondary Schools
• For contact details of national,
• regional and local schemes, call
• 08700 622 882
• Or email energychallenge_at_se-2.co.uk