November 5, 2007

Wind powered school gets award

A small village primary school in Durham which is the first in the country to have its own wind turbine has won an award for its efforts. The Cassop Primary School is officially the greenest school in the country, which is great for a school which has had a bit of a helter skelter history as the village was once a mining village, but when the mine closed down there were fears that the village would die.

Yet over twenty years later the school is still there and doing very well. With the mine now a nature reserve and the school being oversubscribed, things could not be better for the little school where green values are of major importance to the pupils and staff alike.

In recent studies it has been found that children aged between seven and eleven are very worried about the future and in particular how the environment is being treated, which is only right as they are going to have live with all of the decisions that we make now.

Source [The Independent]