We want to hear all about what your school is doing to celebrate Earth Hour. Please send us your stories along with any photos and we will publish your stories on this page.
ACS Hillingdon International School, Middlesex
We celebrated Earth Hour in our school on Friday, the day before the actual day. Our eco club members had put fliers around the school. They had gone to every homeroom to show the Earth Hour 2012 film and students wrote their plan on how they are going to contribute to Earth Hour. Posters were displayed in the hallway and were appreciated by staff and parents. Every teacher contributed by having at least two lessons without use of electric energy. It was a great success.
Bewsey Lodge Primary School, Warrington
The whole school will be taking part in wearing bright clothes and will be hosting a poster, t-shirt and energy saving competition judged by the borough eco leader. Cup cake bake-o-thon, raffle fund raising. Press releases completed for the local newspapers. We have planned a whole week of activities for rasing children’s awareness.
Bovington First School, Dorset
We will all be taking part in a ‘Wear it Bright’ day on Friday 30 March 2012. We have also dared our friends and family to turn off their lights on Saturday 31 March. We are continuing to hold a monthly competition to see which class have ‘switched off’ and saved the most electricity! Our web site will share the dare with others!
Burlish Park Primary, Stouport
Staff needed sunglasses for the day when youngsters arrived at school dressed in bright coloured clothes to try and raise awareness of Earth Hour. Members of the school’s Eco Council led the morning assembly and explained to the whole school about the importance of climate change and saving energy. To get the message across all year groups were asked to participate in a school based Earth Hour where lights and electric appliances were all switched off for an hour. Other activities included tree planting, making Earth Hour lanterns, writing pledges and designing posters and leaflets to promote the event that takes place on Saturday 31 March 2012.
Eco schools co-ordinator, Lynda Williams, said: ”This is the Fourth year running that we have supported the Earth Hour campaign and our children really enjoyed participating in the activities as well as learning about the impact individuals can have on the environment.
“Many children pledged to do one small thing to make a difference to our world including planting a tree in the garden, recycling rubbish better at home, playing less on computers and PlayStations, walking to school more and switching to stand by and turning off bedroom lights.
Camelsdale Primary School, Haslemere
We are attending the WWF Earth Hour Conference at Bohunt School with the year 5 and year 6 eco-reps. We plan to have an afternoon of no electricity after our Easter lunch on Friday 30 March.
Community School of Auchterarder, Perthshire
We have planned a fortnight of activities for P5-S2 which will address human impact on the environment, sustainability and conservation. This programme will involve pupils planting trees, non uniform day and participating in excursions (e.g. zoo). Our link school in Malawi has also planted 400 trees in our partnership project.
Eigg Primary School, Isle of Eigg
On Friday 30 March will be holding a “Wear it Bright” instead of school uniform day. We will start with a sustainability assembly and later enjoy an hour of no electricity.
Elmlea Infants’ School, Bristol
Our class put together a poster of promises for Earth Hour.
Farnborough Grange Nursery/Infant Community School, Farnborough
Our Earth Hour is being held during our family learning afternoon where there will be an assembly for parents and children to learn about the how our actions affect our planet. We will look at our energy monitor together and then send our parents and children back to the their classes to turn off any electrical equipment. We will then look at our energy monitor again to see if we have made a difference! The rest of the afternoon will be dedicated to working within our school grounds possibly planting, litter picking, spring watch etc. We’re really looking forward to making a difference and sharing it with our families.
Folly Hill Infant School, Farnham
We will stage our own Earth Hour on the 30 March. No electricity to be used by anyone and bright clothes to be worn- we are brightening our planet by using less electricity!
Fulham Cross Girls’ School, London
We’re going to have no power used throughout the whole school from 2pm until 3.10pm! We’re hoping the students will learn plenty from the experience.
Glastry College, Newtownards
We will turn off all the lights for the last hour of school on Friday 30 March. All the students will wear a pink or yellow accessory for a charity collection.
Juniper Green Primary School, Edinburgh
We are holding a school assembly and everyone is coming dressed in their pjs. That includes the headteacher too!
Mandeville Primary School, Hertfordshire
An Earth Hour is being arranged by our Energy Champs to take place during normal class time, when all non-critical electrical equipment will be switched off.
MeridianPrimary School, Cambridge
Every year we celebrate Earth Hour with our ‘wear something bright, turn off the light!’ campaign. The children have a non-uniform day where they are asked to wear something bright (lots of neon pink and green in evidence!). Then we turn off all the electricity for an hour in the afternoon. Several of the classes choose to have an outdoor lesson during that time. Looking forward to taking part again next year.
Millfields Primary, Colchester
We are switching off power for 1 hour every day for a week, holding a fashion show from recycled items, writing poems about climate change and holding a ‘Dragons Den’ for designs to reduce energy usage.
Penair School, Cornwall
We will be turning everything off in the last lesson of the day on Friday 30 March in preparation for the end of term.
St Bartholomews Primary School, Surrey
We will be holding a ‘historical figures’ dress-up day as part of WWF’s Earth Hour. We plan to turn off all electrical appliances and experience how people may have lived without electricity.
St Michael’s CofE Primary School, Bolton
We will be having a non-uniform day with the theme ‘Wear something bright, turn off the light’ day on Friday 30 March. Children and staff will donate £1.00 each and the money raised will be used to adopt endangered animals. Throughout school we will be turning off the lights, computers etc for one hour in the afternoon.
St. Peter’s First School, Williton
© St Peter's Primary School
We are holding a competition to design a poster on the theme “Our World is Brilliant” using any medium they like. Subject matter can be anything from wildlife, scenery to family! Housepoints for the winning entries and photograph in the local press!
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Walsall
Our Eco-Warriors are presenting a PowerPoint that they have made in a WWF’s Earth Hour assembly on Monday 19 March and on Thursday 29 March we are having a non uniform day so pupils can come to school in very brightly colored clothes, and we will be switching our electric off for an hour that day.
Stag Lane Junior School, Edgware
The 360 pupils and 45 staff at Stag Lane Junior School will be supporting Earth Hour by ‘Turning it Off and Wearing it Bright’.
Whyteleafe School, Surrey
We are running competitions to see who did the most interesting thing when the lights went out and also the class with the largest number of students who take part in Earth Hour. In School, in KS2 we are getting our children to research Earth Hour and what it is all about and how they can go beyond the hour. They are preparing PowerPoint presentations to show the younger children. In KS 1 the younger children are preparing posters or artwork to show why our world is brilliant. This is the fourth year we have taken part in Earth Hour. It is one of the most popular Eco activities we do in School and one which is also carried through to the whole School community including parents and careers.
Ysgol Babanod Llanfairfechan, LLANFAIRFECHAN
Staff and pupils dressed up in their most colourful clothes for the day. A special service was held to celebrate the school’s Eco work and during the week, pupils discussed how they help the environment at school and at home.
The school council are responsible on a daily basis, of ensuring that all lights are turned off and of noting the culprits who leave lights on. They then inform those concerned of the importance of ‘switching off’!
