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Supporting primary schools' access to an online learning platform that enables children to learn about and take action to reduce their school's impact on the environment. As a result of this, many of the children take their learning home and reduce their families' impacts too.
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Situation
Schools use significant amounts of energy, with the average school's energy bill (in 2020) running to £31,000 per year. With energy costs set to rise in April 2022, bills could reach £80,000 per year in some schools. Children often learn about environmental issues at school, but don't necessarily learn how they can take action to make a difference.
Solution
https://www.betterplanetschools.org.uk provides primary schools in the UK access to 3 online learning modules per year, each of which contains lessons, worksheets and activities designed to be undertaken over the course of a school term. Modules provide the children with the information they need to act more responsibly, together with ideas for child-led behaviour change campaigns. Pilot schools have reduced their energy usage by at least 10% and as much as 15% as a result of behaviour change.
