Turn It Off
What is turn it off?
As part of "TMS GOES GREEN” we held a turn it off week between 3rd July – 7th July 2023. We measured the school’s total energy for the whole week including trending how much we are using overnight.
The plan was to compare how much power we use during the day as well as power wastage overnight compared to previous energy usage.
What are we doing to support going green?
As part of going GREEN as a collective group all members of staff are thinking about energy and how we can optimise our carbon footprint. Large projects are on the horizon as well as the small things that shouldn't be forgotten. Whether we need to switch off a device in standby mode or power off our electrical items such as Laptops, Projectors, Monitors, TV's every little will help. Our computer suites and many other devices are now configured to automatically switch off every afternoon after the school day to save on power consumption.
Turn if Off - July 2023
In conjunction with our Sixth Form and Eco Teams, we are delighted to share with you the results of Turn It Off Week.
We managed to save circa £223 which equates to £11,596 over a full year. This is amazing and we would like to thank you all for your support with this. We would like to thank the Sixth Formers and Eco teams for their work on this.
This is an ongoing project and so our teams will be holding another week in the new school year as well as encouraging us all to ‘Turn It Off’ during the rest of the year.
Turn if Off - 2024 - Going Forward
Going forward we will be running the turn it off campaign without end. The success of the upper schools pilot campaign has meant this will be rolled out to other schools in the local authority. Students will provide spot checks on random classrooms and provide reminders to support the campaign.
Rooms chosen at random
29p per KWh
55 watts x 2 (each ceiling unit) = 110 watts
Reflection room = 660 watts when the light are on = 19p per hour
B11 = 990 watts = 29p per hour
B3 = 1320 watts = 38p per hour
Lets add 3 projectors across the school at 300 watts = 26p per hour
Total = £1.12 per hour
£1.12 x 6 hours x 5 days x 6 weeks = £201.60 per term!!!!
Carbon dioxide saved = 700KWh x 392 g/KWh = 275kg of Carbon dioxide
4 x Fully grown trees would deal with this for us but unfortunately they are dealling with our essential use, this is waste and does not include other energy drains which we are using essentially.