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Students from London’s Langdon Park School helped Barclays invite business, schools and government to work together to remove the barriers young people face moving from school to work with the launch of a new programme called LifeSkills. Pictured with LifeSkills Ambassadors Jameela Jamil and Karren Brady, and Ashok Vaswani, CEO Barclays Retail and Business Banking
Chipping Norton School receives top energy marks
CHIPPING NORTON SCHOOL
Chipping Norton School, an institution with over 1,100 students aged 11-18, has reduced its water usage by over a quarter of a million litres and seen a significant drop in its energy consumption, thanks to installing a new monitoring system. After being involved in Oxford County
Council’s pilot of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme for energy-saving in schools, which was using a carbon management platform, Chipping Norton took full control of the web-based programme early last year in order to broaden its usage across all utilities. In doing so, Chipping Norton School has been able to identify the key areas of water usage, devise a strategic solution to reduce consumption, monitor the effects of these actions, and implement similar programmes to tackle energy consumption.
Specifically, Chipping Norton School
has installed sensor taps on sink basins and waterless urinals in student and staff toilets in order to mitigate against excessive water use. These measures alone have reduced water consumption from 1,490,741 litres in 2011 to 1,224,856 litres in 2012. Gary Kelly, bursar and site manager,
said the new system, Optimal Monitoring Carbon Management Platform, provided her team with a view of the school’s gas and water usage, so they “can spot inconsistent, unnecessary or unexpected peaks in use and then react quickly”. He continued: “For example in our
staff and student restrooms, we believed that the existing conventional plumbing set-up was inefficient so we changed it, and were able to monitor the effects of the new fittings. In the end, we have saved over a quarter of a million litres of water over a 12 month period.”
Primary SATs results provide little useful information to secondary schools on student
achievement and ability as they are so narrow. This is just another piece
of bureaucracy Russell Hobby of the NAHT responding to Ofsted’s changes to school targets. The union says moving goal posts undermines schools already raising standards
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www.edexec.co.uk / april 2013 OFSTED FOCUSES ON PORTSMOUTH
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of secondary school children in Portsmouth attend a good or better school. This figure was released as part of a week of coordinated inspections in Portsmouth by Ofsted to find out why the city has a disproportionate number of underperforming schools – and whether the picture is improving
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