North Pickenham school gets powered up
GREEN-MINDED pupils at St Andrew's Primary School in North Pickenham celebrated the official handover of their new wind turbine, which provides electricity to the school, on Friday.
David Linley, manager of projects with Enertrag UK, which largely funded the six-kilowatt turbine, did the honours and opened a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the occasion.
The handover took place during an open afternoon to give villagers the chance to also see round the school, which has tripled in size under the Norfolk Schools Project over the past two years.
The turbine was put up near the school's eastern boundary last September. It has a nine-metre tower, three rotor arms stretching five-and-a-half metres in diameter, and the school gets credits for any excess power it produces for the National Grid.
Headteacher Jeni Barnacle said more than 30 people took advantage of the open afternoon to watch the turbine handover and look round the school, following recent completion of the second phase of the improvement works.
She said: "Enertrag have supported us all the way through. They part-funded the wind turbine and we also had help from the Energy Saving Trust's Low Carbon Building Programme.
"Friday was a big green day at the school and we had conservation and recycling activities going on with the children."
Miss Barnacle said the visitors had teas and cakes in the school hall after Friday's handover ceremony.
The first and major phase of the school's expansion, completed last spring, provided a new classroom, hall, library, reception office, head's room, staff room, toilets and kitchen servery.
The second phase has brought an enclosed corridor linking the existing building with the new extension, a revamp of the older building and upgrade of its toilets, a remodelling of the library office into a multi-purpose space and double-glazed windows in the classrooms.
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Sunday 27 May 2012
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