We have been working hard to improve sustainability across our family of schools.

All of our schools use a lot of energy and we realise the importance of educating our children, staff and the wider community on the benefits of reducing our carbon footprint. Current initiatives include:

• Solar panels are currently being used within our schools, as well as energy-efficient LED lighting, PIR sensors, energy-efficient boilers, urinal sensors, eco taps and showers. The Estates Manager is also working with a company to produce a carbon footprint report that will give us, the PET, a baseline to work to and improve year on year.
• Our IT team have an automatic PC shutdown each evening, as well having introduced recycling of old electronic equipment, digital-only teaching days and a plan to move to heat-free technology photocopiers across our sites.
• To reduce waste our schools have moved to paperless meetings, introduced e-letters sent home, installed recycling bins around school, as well as having branded water bottles to reduce the amount of single use plastic.
• Staff have a cycle-to-work scheme that allows them to purchase a bike to get to and from work. This scheme not only supports staff with health and wellbeing, but is better for the environment with fewer employees driving to work each day. The school grounds have purpose-built bike sheds for staff and students to use to help support the cycle-to-work scheme.

For further information or if you have any greats to help improve sustainability, please contact jevetts@pendleeducationtrust.co.uk