Sixth Form News

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.