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Saltergate School
That's enough to buy 200 school dinners.
That's enough energy to run a modern television continuously for 253 years.
That's enough energy to drive an electric car 11,000 km.
That's the same amount of carbon dioxide generated when you drive a petrol car 1,300 km.
That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 4 weeks
It will take 13 trees, each living 40 years, to absorb the carbon dioxide released when this electricity was generated.
That's the energy generated by 330 solar panels in a year.
That's enough energy to play 14 months of computer games.
That's enough energy to boil 14,000 kettles.
That's the electricity used by 33 average homes in a year.
That's enough to buy 360 books for the school library.
That's enough energy to charge 100,000 smartphones.
That's the energy needed to drive a petrol car 9,700 km.
That's the energy generated by a UK onshore wind turbine in 2 days.
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Reminders
Measure classroom temperatures to find out whether you should turn down the heating to save energy
Start a transport survey so that you can find out how much carbon your school community generates by travelling to school
You have completed 2/8 of the tasks in the Get Energised! programme
Complete the final 6 tasks now to score 130 points and 30 bonus points for completing the programme
Recent alerts
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You need to score more than 225 points to overtake the next school!
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You are in 37th place on the Yorkshire and the Humber scoreboard and 102nd place nationally.
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Recent activity on your scoreboard
Schools score points by recording their activities to investigate their energy use, learning about energy, and taking energy saving actions around their school.
What's been going on?
A list of recent adult and pupil-led activities at this school
| Date | Points | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | 30 | Participate in an Introduction to Energy Sparks workshop |
| 10 Dec 2025 | 30 | Investigate heat loss in your school with a thermal imaging camera |
| 10 Dec 2025 | 30 | Analyse your school energy use - when is your school occupied? |
| 29 Sep 2025 | 30 | Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school |
| 01 Sep 2025 | 50 | Created a climate action plan |
| 01 Sep 2025 | 50 | Wrote an energy action plan for your school |
| 07 May 2025 | 20 | Set up an Energy or Eco team to lead on energy efficiency at your school |
| 07 May 2025 | 10 | Introduce a new staff member to Energy Sparks |
| 02 May 2025 | 30 | Started a whole school switch-off campaign |
| 02 May 2025 | 30 | Switched off heating at weekends |