Energy education

Meaningful science and sustainability, learning from the solar on the roof

- Our expert education team provides assemblies and workshops for Key Stages 1 to 4

- Engaging experience which is both motivational and relevant, using our Solar Explorer Kit and live energy data feeds

- We help build green skills, enhance science, sustainability or any other bespoke aspect of curricular lessons

We start with the students

Young people are custodians of the future.

By integrating sustainability into student-centred education, we're not just teaching facts; we're cultivating a mindset.

Inspiring future scientists, engineers and encouraging young people to think outside of the box to solve the planet’s environmental issues, our workshops and assemblies leave children asking questions, thirsty for more knowledge.

We support students to recognise the impacts of their choices and show how local and global communities are critical in our journey to net-zero.

'The children were engaged in both listening to the presentation and the practical activity. The data you shared on our schools solar energy produced and cost, was really interesting and it was great that you made it relevant for children'
Miss Prawdzik - St Mary's & St Peter's Catholic Primary School

Energy education powered by the sun

Why learn inside your school buildings when you can learn from them too?

Our hands-on, interactive energy education plugs directly into the curriculum. Using real-time data, from each school's solar system, we link the curriculum in the classroom with the solar on the roof. This means the learning is extremely relevant and tailored to each school.

Inspiring students to learn about energy and decarbonisation with teaching linked directly to the panels, means schools can take a very positive step towards reaching net-zero.

Typically, the education visits take place alongside the annual visual inspection of your school’s system.

Improving educational outcomes

By educating young people in sustainability in their formative years, we believe green habits are embedded for a lifetime. This mindset is then passed from pupil to pupil, pupil to parent, rippling through the school and community generation to generation.

Sustainability is relevant across all subjects in the curriculum. Our educators will help teachers find creative and innovative ways to embed this across the school community. These simple methods are cost effective and reduce the schools’ carbon footprint further.

'The education work helps to deliver a lasting legacy in the school and community. These pupils will go on to be ambassadors for sustainability, educating their friends and families and leading to further improvements in the school'
James Easter - Deputy Head at Churchfields Junior School

Education is the key

The end goal of sustainability in education is to empower students to become real-world problem-solvers. Here's how our approach works:

Improve educational outcomes: Young people care about climate change. Linking the solar on the roof with the curriculum brings STEM subjects to life, and makes learning more relevant which can improve academic results.

Build capacity: The government has set a target for all education settings to have a sustainability lead and a climate action plan in place by 2025, to help embed sustainability in all they do. We can support the school in all aspects of this new role and can help empower students, as agents of change.

Drive adoption: When students are inspired, they’re more likely to share their learnings with family, friends and the wider community, empowering more individuals to make positive changes or live more sustainably.

Improve policy: Informed students, and those they influence, can then vote for, or even design the right policy reforms needed to decarbonise our society faster.

'Sustainability through education allows young people to understand more concretely the ways that we as individuals, communities and a global population, can collaborate to reduce our overall footprint on the earth, ensuring a more economically viable use of natural resources. In other words, to fully enjoy the gift of today – whatever that may be – we must have methods and practices in place now that ensure future generations will be able to enjoy our tomorrow'
Wendy Litherland - Head of Education, Solar for Schools

"It helped me consider how we could use this in context with the children for their maths when learning about how data can be used."

Claire Findley

Headteacher - Headteacher, Mattishall Primary School

"I really enjoyed finding out about the financial benefits for the school and the environmental impacts"

Charis

Sixth Form Student

"Many of the children were enthused by the career options in the industry. They all loved learning facts about solar energy and especially liked getting their hands on the mini solar powered electronics .”

Hayley Whyatt

Year 6 teacher - St Edmund's RC Primary School

"It was impressive to see, practically, how the relationship between the large kWh numbers were linked to the amount of power generated through the live demonstration of children running.”

Rachel Swindell

Headteacher - St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School