Analyse your school energy use - when pupils are at school
Eton Park Junior, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 10AnalystKS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5
What you did
Our School Parliament invited our Eco Warrior lead (Miss Spencer) to speak at their meeting between the House of Commons and the House of Lords to bring forward the need to reduce electricity during the day time at school- Our MPs discussed this in class and brought forward the idea of turning off devices at break and lunchtime. It was suggested that pupils start to take responsibility for this and a Red Amber Green sticker system was voted in for the school to identify devices pupils can turn off, or ask to turn off throughout school. This is being taken back to the Eco Warriors to action. A whole school assembly is scheduled for Monday.
Activity description
Use your knowledge of the school day and your school data to analyse when electricity is being used by pupils.
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This chart shows a typical school's days electricity use at your school.
What time do pupils arrive? Is there an increase in electricity use when pupils arrive? Have all lights, appliances and technology already be switched on by staff? If electricity use drops, why might that be?
What's happening at break times? Is there a decrease in electricity consumption or does it increase? Why might that be? Are appliances switched off? Might more appliances be switched on during that time?
When do you have whole school assemblies? Do you see a difference in electricity use at this time?
What time does the official school day end and the majority of pupils go home? Is this reflected in the data?
How long does it take your school to drop down to its baseload level? (The electricity baseload is the electricity needed to run all the appliances that can't be switched off overnight; ideally the blue bars showing overnight use on the chart should all be around the same height.)
Do you have an after school clubs? Can you see these reflected in the data? When do school staff go home? Is this clear from looking at the data?
Compare different days of the same week in the Explore data section of the Pupil dashboard to see if there is a difference in behaviour patterns.
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