At the beginning we were joined by a guest: Mr Archer. He is the academy's financial director. Last year we had a report written by Carbon Trust and this report outlined areas we could improve the academy to make it more environmentally friendly and therefore save money. Mr Archer had a meeting with the Governors, the night before, and has spoken to them about the areas we could improve.
There are 3 main areas: electricity, gas and site voltage production. Small things that can help this are;
- asking the academies supplier to lower the voltage in which it comes to the academy
- getting some sensor lights that only come on when light is needed and depending on how much light needed only give so much. We have some of these in the sports hall and the mall area however these do need changing.
Our council treasures James and Sam are to speak with Mr Archer about their research into grants and how we can make out school more eco-friendly.
For the majority of the meeting, everyone split off into groups and began planning and drafting ideas or collecting research.
Ravneet, Ammarah, Jessica and Anjali began looking at how they would present the Eco-councils findings to year 7 and 8's and how we can re-introduce this blog. They have thought of some ideas on making a video and small things that can be done by each individual. These ideas will be shown in assemblies at the beginning of next term.
Adil and Mohammad began looking at how we could add a page into the front of out academic planners to let other students and new year 7 students about the eco-council, the blog and how they can help the environment. They began collecting facts and figures which could be used as part of this page.
Next Week: Mrs Barreth, one of the academies governor are to join us to find out first hand information about what our plans are.
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