Review and reflect/ Follow up check

Belvedere Academy, Thursday, 07 March 2024
5 Analyst KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

What you did

We analysed the gas used during February 2023 and February 2024 to see if there were any differences after our reduce energy campaign. 

Our electricity use did decrease.

See below

The Eco Team would like the site manager and site supervisors to turn it off, on Friday 9th February!

We have been measuring the amount of energy we use within the school and we want to see if we can reduce our carbon footprint over half term by having a big turn off! 

We would like to turn all unneeded electrical and gas appliances off over half term.  

  1. Gas and electric room heating off over the week in all rooms not being used. 
  2. Hot water heating - this could be a central heating system, electric immersion heaters in tanks in roofs and cupboards, and point of use electric hot water heaters. To mitigate any Legionella concerns make sure any tanks or pipe runs are flushed and heated to 60°C before pupils return after a long break
  3. Hot drink boilers
  4. Water chillers
  5. Photocopiers and printers
  6. Computer monitors, ipad and laptop chargers, smart boards, and projectors
  7. Any IT servers which are not needed during the holidays
  8. Music technology equipment
  9. Design technology equipment
  10. Extraction fans and fume cupboards
  11. Air purifiers introduced as Covid mitigation
  12. Air conditioning units 

We will measure the effectiveness of doing this and let you know after half term!!! 
We are aiming to reduce our electrical use by 5% compared to last year, please help us to do this.  

Thank you for your support, The Eco Team 

, however the gas usage appears to have increased.





Task 2 Complete table below
 


Activity description

You've made some changes to your school's energy consumption.  Now's the time to see the impact you've made. 

There are several ways of doing this.

First if you carried out a spot check (e.g. lights and equipment at break times, lunchtime or after school, temperatures, whether people are wearing warm clothes or if doors and windows are open in cold weather), repeat this.  What do you find?  Is there an improvement overall?  Are there some places where the energy saving message hasn't got through, or are there other reasons for those areas not to comply?

Next check the data. 

Compare the chart for the week before your intervention with the chart for the week after.  Is there a difference? 

Finally, if you set a target to reduce your energy consumption, review your progress.  You can find a link to this on the Adult Dashboard. 

Don't worry if you don't see any behavioural or data changes yet.  Remind everyone about the energy saving message - you might want to do this through posters, displays, or assemblies.  Then check again. 

If you did see changes - then let everybody know about it too!  Celebrate your hard work!

This is a good chance to review your action.  What went well?  What wasn't successful?  Did you face any challenges?  How did you overcome them?  What would you do the same next time and what will you change?

Make checking a regular part of your Energy Team work so you can see straight away the impact you're making on your school's energy use and carbon emissions. Record this each time to gain points!

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