Schoolgen

Schoogen Greenhithe School

Schoolgen is a cool organisation run by Genesis Energy. Genesis Energy is a company that is trying to get all the buildings in New- Zealand with solar panels on the roofs. Schoolgen was created to teach children the power of solar. It is a New Zealand owned company, and I'm sure they're proud to be NZ owned, for 80% of New Zealand is solar power! In Australia, they're 80% not solar power. So all the Kiwis can be proud!

If you would like to learn more about Genesis Energy, click HERE

So anyway, a lady called Maggie came in to talk to the School Leaders about solar energy, and I learnt a lot! Our school has a successful solar panel on the roof of our school library and staff room. We have almost a directly north facing roof, where the sun shines most during the day in New Zealand.

In the holidays when only the Principal and the care taker are here, our school pretty much runs on solar power!

Apparently, our school power bill is well over $20,000 a year, and we're trying to get that down by $500 a month, so our yearly power bill would be a bit less than twenty grand. That would just be ace.

At our school, the School Leaders have organised a group  that go round all the classes in the school checking if the classrooms are saving power. We are called the Power Rangers! Lights, heaters, computers, projectors and other things such as laptops etc are all things we check for every two weeks. On assembly weeks.

At assembly, we announce the best class from junior, middle and senior syndicate. The winning class from each syndicate gets to play with three solar cars until the next assembly. 

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By the Red Prince with the help of Monkey Man

(If you would like to learn more about our school, click on the hyperlink) GREENHITHE SCHOOL