This year we have focused our attention on improving our environment at school. The Green Team is now well established and making great strides with recycling and reducing energy use. The major development so far has been the installation of 86 solar panels on the roof of the main school building. These have been paid for jointly by grants from London Borough of Havering and the Low Carbon Buildings Programme amounting to £80,000. They have already started to reduce the amount of electricity the school has used from the national grid. So, not only are we reducing our carbon footprint but saving money on energy bills too! (See graphs below).
Not all environmental measures need to be so big and it is important that we all do our bit:

• If you haven’t already signed up for ParentMail please do so as it saves paper and the other resources used by sending printed letters home.
• Encourage your family to take re-usable plastic bottles to school and work to cut down on the plastic that is being sent to landfill.
• Make plans with other families to share lifts to school and get ready for “Walk to School Week” when we return after the summer.