Isobel Mair School blog

In our school currently, we have some energy saving measures in place. We have light sensors that turn on the lights when they pick up movement and turn off the lights after a period of inactivity. We have “switch off the lights when you leave” signs up around the building as you leave the rooms to remind staff to turn off the lights when they are not needed. We plan on Tweeting/ posting on our school website and making posters and maybe a video to encourage people to “Switch off” when they are not using lights, computers, technology. We will encourage ALL classes to spend at least 1 hour of their normal classroom time each day, outside/using less technology/ turning off the lights. We will have a monitor in each class who will be responsible for making sure the lights and computers / monitors are switched off when they are not in use- they will keep a note of times when things have been left on / switched off. We will ask staff to talk about it within the classroom and within their daily routine, have a points system for the classes to gain points each day when they have been “energy efficient” and there will be a prize for the class who have the most points at the end of the fortnight. Before switch off fortnight begins, we will carry out an energy audit to find out how many people are leaving things on standby and then each week the pupils will carry out the same audit to see if there has been an improvement. There will be spot checks on classes, carried out by chosen monitors and SLT to keep everyone on their toes. We will keep the monitors for each class in place after the fortnight ends and encourage them to remind the staff and pupils to keep them thinking about “switching off”.