Inform community groups using your school about your energy saving mission

St John's Primary School, Radstock, Sunday, 14 May 2023
20 Communicator KS3, KS4, KS5

What you did

Our school now has a weekly eco-update in our newsletter (the Purple Pages). In this update, the school council (and other children with a passion for eco-work) share their weekly activities towards energy reduction and also make some suggestions for how our community can behave more sustainably out of school. 

This is taking place weekly, however, here is one recent example:

https://www.midsomernortonschoolspartnership.com/uploads/pdf-files/2329-5523.pdf

Activity description

Before you tackle this activity you will want to have a look at how much energy is being consumed when community groups are using your school buildings.

You will need to know:
  • which groups are using your schools out of hours
  • which parts of the school they are using
  • how much electricity or gas they're using
  • whether you want to communicate to them in terms of cost (£) or carbon emissions (kg CO2)
Your office manager or site manager can help with some of these answers.

Your school should have set a target to reduce its energy use over the coming year.  If not, talk to you teacher or headteacher about this.  Be sure to mention this in your communications as you can encourage the community groups to help you achieve these.

How will you get the message across?
You might want to put up posters in the parts of the school that are used.  Or why not write them a letter.
Tell them why you're trying to save energy at school and why it's so important that you need everyone to get on board.  Show them the data and the part they play.  Give some suggestions about what they could be doing to help bring usage down.  And don't forget to be polite!





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