East Morton Primary School's innovative solar and sustainability learning

"As part of this [Year 5] topic, we looked at renewable and non-renewable energy sources. We've looked at lots of different power stations from non-renewable energy around the country and then as part of our renewable energy we have gone and looked at the data from our solar panels on our roof. The children were given lots of different data and they were to analyse that to find out how much carbon we have saved from going into our atmosphere. We've also done a field study which we've walked around East Morton and we've asked the residents of East Morton what sources of energy they use, whether its renewable or non-renewable.

Go on and put the [Solar for Schools] website on and with the children we just had it on the board and they were asking me to cklick on different things and we were basically just exploring the website together - it's a really user-friendly website. And then from that I took graphs that showed the whole year since we had [solar panels] and then the last week and then I think we did a month and they wanted to compare sunnier months of July to now in December."

Kate Borrill, Year 5 Teacher and Assistant Headteacher at East Morton Primary School in Keighley