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Eco Schools Silver Award

13 January 2010

Bedford High School for Girls was recently awarded the highly prized Eco School Silver Award.    

Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.

To achieve the Silver Award, BHSG had to meet a tough set of criteria and the school's achievements included:

  • Using less gas: Saving about £9,000 and 90 tonnes of CO2 by using 442,031 kWh less gas between January and September 2009 compared with the same period in 2008.
  • Changing behavior to use less electricity: Saving over £12,000 and 62 tonnes of CO2 by switching off lights, computers etc and installing a new pool cover to reduce electricity consumption by an annual saving of 194,679 kWh - enough electricity to supply 48 homes.

1 tonne of CO2 equates to:

  • 1 giraffe
  • 1000 bags (kg) of flour or sugar
  • 14 women (about 11 stone)
  • 12 men (about 13 stone)
  • Or it could fill our swimming pool.

GCSE Results

Girls have once again achieved some truly excellent results in their GCSE examinations this summer. 29% of all results were at A* grade, 57% A*-A and 80% A*-B.

 Carla Barberio, Rebecca Murray, Hannah Short and Surina Taneja all achieved 10A* grades, Tessa Forbes and Chloe Scott 9A* grades, Connie Fan, Yasmin Jamil and Frances Whittaker-Wood 8A* and Emily Myrtle, Lauren Roberts and Georgia Austin Greenall 7 A* grades.

Eighteen girls were sitting their examinations having spent, in most cases, only 3 years studying in English, and yet between them they amassed results which closely mirrored the overall percentages: 21% A*, 54% A*-A and 76% A*-B.

Although I am sad that our boarders are unable to progress to Bedford Girls' School for their Sixth Form studies, I am delighted that most of our very top achievers will be going on to take A level or IB courses there.

I wish every girl who left Bedford High School at the end of Upper 5 the very best of luck for their future studies.                       

Julie Eldridge 

 
Dahs Bedford High School for Girls
Bromham Road, Bedford MK40 2BS UK
Tel: +44(0)1234 360221
Fax:+44(0)1234 353552
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